Portfolio — Nelli Wilhelm

Acrylic painting13 works

Vertical painting in olive, white and grey: streaks of paint running downward above a dark lower area where many small figures gather on pale ground.

Bindung

Acrylic, 40 × 80 cm2019

Deep blue painting with white and turquoise brushstrokes rising out of a dark ground, suggesting ascending figures.

Seelenflucht

Acrylic

A large yellow moon against a near-black ground; its yellow and turquoise reflection breaks across dark water, with a pale upright form at the left.

Brocken Spirit

Acrylic, 50 × 70 cm2020

Narrow vertical format: blue-grey water with yellow and turquoise reflections, small brightly marked figures along the banks.

Open-Air

Acrylic, 50 × 100 cm2019

A bright grey-white expanse with scattered tiny figures, patches of yellow-green, and a dark vertical form in the upper middle.

Beyond our reality

Acrylic, 50 × 80 cm2021

A yellow moon at the upper right above dark blue and green verticals; below, pale water in which small figures are discernible.

Hoffnungsquelle

Acrylic, 50 × 100 cm2020

A light painting flecked in green, blue and white with a white moon at the upper right; in the lower third a crowd of small figures picked out in colour.

Unsterbliche

Acrylic, 50 × 100 cm2020

A narrow dark blue-black vertical canvas with a white and turquoise cascade running down its centre.

Ascent

Acrylic, 30 × 60 cm2021

A grey and yellow expanse with a pale moon at the upper right; a procession of small figures crosses the lower part of the picture.

Moses Wanderung

Acrylic, 50 × 70 cm2018

White, grey and yellow reflections over dark water, with small figures between them and red accents at the right edge.

Afterlife

Acrylic, 50 × 70 cm2017

A vertical abstract painting in copper, rust and white. A pale, thickly applied band runs diagonally through the middle, recalling a riverbed or a gorge seen from above. A root-like structure fans out at the upper right; in places the paint is laid on thickly and breaks into crusts.

Something Passed Through There

A large head-like form emerges from vertical brushstrokes in grey, blue, yellow and white. A yellow-rimmed eye looks out from the right half of the picture. The paint runs downward in streaks, so that the figure seems at once to be forming and dissolving again.

The Eye That Remembers

A luminous picture in yellows, greens and browns whose short vertical strokes suggest reeds and reflected water. A darker, shore-like or rocky zone stands at the left; at the right a few slender stems rise with cone-shaped heads. The lower half of the picture reads as a reflection of the upper.

The Place No One Knows

AI art24 works

A figure sits painting at an easel in a studio; behind it an open window onto the cosmos with moon and forest, glowing pictures on the walls.

Selbstschöpfung

The soul sits in the studio of the unconscious.2025

A translucent being shapes itself out of its own light within a cosmic ocean of stars and luminous currents.

Self-Creation – Cycle of Life

A visual meditation on the origin of consciousness. · KI-gestützte digitale Kunst, Animation2025

An all-seeing eye at the centre, surrounded by a multi-faced clock, candles and butterflies.

Chronos of Consciousness

From the Chronos series: time as a living field rather than a straight line.2025

A road leads out of a dark, fearful realm into bright, clear light.

Chronos V – The Threshold of Light

The transition from shadow to the clarity of awareness.2025

A galleon with pink sails aground on rocks at sea; a woman in white glows inside its hull. Pretzels, cogs and shackled hands float above, while sunken rooftops and a bus lie beneath the surface.

The Ship of Memory

A tram carriage full of passengers drifts on the water, a great steamship behind it in the moonlight. A woman stands on a jetty at the right; the roofs of a sunken city show beneath the surface.

The Last Stop

An old woman in a dark shawl holds a glowing peacock-feather wand over a table where a luminous young woman sits. A man in a suit and a black shadow figure stand at the right, masks hang on the walls, a spiral galaxy turns above.

The Keeper of Hidden Worlds

A long ECG strip winds through the picture; a startled woman in a suit walks along it with two men behind her. A doctor stands at the left, a market stall of vegetables and jars at the right, a melting clock and a sailing ship above.

Heartbeat 777

A woman formed of water and light rises from a counter; an elderly figure in a red-brown robe reaches towards her from the right. Fruit and vegetables pile up in the foreground, a half-timbered house stands behind.

Born of Water

A girl and a boy stand in a stream running down a street — modern houses on the left, wooden shacks on the right. A blue-white plant bursts open between them while fish and jellyfish drift through the sky.

Children Between Two Worlds

A crowded restaurant full of guests on the left; on the right the scene opens into a barren landscape of rock formations where a woman in red hovers.

Beyond the Crowded Room

A dim, earthen room like a tunnel: a figure lies in a bed at the centre, an open book radiates light from a table, small figures work below it. A doorway glows green at the back.

The Book Beneath the Earth

A girl in a red dress pours a cascade of fruit and vegetables into a bowl; an elderly figure in a violet coat stands at a counter of dishes on the right. A half-timbered house with a clock rises behind.

The Alchemy of Abundance

A surreal alley: a blonde woman in a dark blue blazer holds a glowing golden origami pyramid while translucent figures reach out around her. At the centre a tree has become a clock tower with several faces, a spiral galaxy turning above it. Red cinema seats with eyes on their backs stand at the left and paper boats hang from a line; at the right an octopus fills a window, ammonites rest on a bench, and there is a goldfish bowl, a bird and nesting dolls holding globes.

The Architecture of Dreams

An interior where several scenes run at once: two skeletons and a startled man in a dark suit at the left; at the centre a green, screaming giant rising from a stove among gears and melting clocks. At the right a woman works at a computer while a man in a suit sits with a coffee cup in a pink armchair. Below, a girl in a wizard's hat with a crystal ball and a black cat sits on a bed beside an old witch reading; in the middle a woman in a green dress dances with a mop through glowing swirls of water. Open books radiate light from the floor.

The House of Many Realities

A luminous scene among clouds: at the left a wizard in a pointed hat holds a staff ending in a clock, beside him elf-like girls and a figure grown from plants. A boy in silver robes walks a path of pearls through the middle; at the right stand a dark-robed woman with glowing eyes and a cloaked figure whose sleeve gives way to a golden skeletal hand. Mushrooms and flowers glow below, and an aircraft window at the upper left looks out on floating islands.

The Boy Between the Worlds

An interior opening onto a night-time city: at the left a vast aircraft fuselage of glowing bubble windows fills the wall, propeller planes and airliners circling around it. Through a door two young people start back from a hooded figure holding a luminous sheet of paper. At the right a pale, white-haired woman sits at a laid table lifting a slice of pizza. Papers, slippers and cloths lie scattered across the floor. Painted thickly and luminously in oils.

Departure from Reality

A night-blue town square full of wonders: melting clocks, clowns and winged dolls at the upper left, a steam locomotive on rails below them. At the centre stands a house whose open storey holds a tightrope walker in a red dress beneath a circus canopy. At the right a violinist flies over the roofs, a couple embraces in mid-air, and three girls in red and blue stand on the cobbles. A rose grows out of the water in the foreground.

The City That Dreams

Two worlds stacked on one another: above, a wintry street with a tower of melting clocks, a giant ear on a wall, loudspeakers with mouths inside them, an eye on a lift door, and luminous figures drifting through a glass stairwell. Below, a snowy shopping street at dusk where one woman's head has become an open book and another's dress a starry sky, a spiral galaxy opens in a wall, and at the right a wooden puppet sits on a heap of gold coins.

Voices of the Unconscious

A woman in a green jumper kneels on a floor of pastel tiles, feeding a cat whose body is set with gears and which trails sparks behind it. Her own face rises behind her, translucent and full of stars, while laughing children come running in from the upper left. At the right a stack of suitcases pours out a ribbon of road leading into a sky of clouds and softly glowing windows. Glowing mushrooms and bubbles holding galaxies lie in the foreground.

The Way Inward

A twilight scene where an old town meets a vast marble building: at the upper left a vaulted hall with a melting clock and tall windows, a family with suitcases standing inside it. A winged grand piano and a house on spider legs drift through the sky. A lane of gabled houses, a ticket booth and clocks runs through the middle. At the right a glass door opens onto an underwater world of fish and floating pocket watches, and a lion fountain pours water beside it. In the foreground a woman leads a girl in a pink dress towards the door.

The Door Beneath Time

A night-blue dream city: at the left a steam locomotive with glass display cases, melting clocks and clowns. At the centre a house whose red frame holds a blindfolded figure, from whom luminous threads stream down into glass cubes full of gears. At the upper right a violinist flies over the roofs trailing staves of music; at the right two girls in red and blue, a goat's head and a rose growing out of the water.

The Invisible Threads

A cracked golden clock face spans the picture, crossed by silver and gold chains. Before it stand figures in pink whose faces are made of crystal shards and spirals; at the centre a display case holds a lotus flower and a child's face. At the right a veiled figure of starlight with a single eye, below a large amethyst geode, at the left a desert with a praying mantis at a harp. Winged insects and snow crystals fill the foreground.

The Archive of Memory

A narrow road runs out across the sea towards a glowing sailing ship on the horizon. At the left a gaunt, ancient figure points towards it from a cliff made of buildings; below it a glass car carries passengers. At the right a couple in historical dress dances before a baroque hall, and beside them a man holds an empty gown. The foreground is strewn with abandoned suitcases, fabrics and objects.

The Ship at the End of the Road

Mixed2 works

A night-blue mixed-media picture: at the upper left a large, realistically painted eye lies in a pale field from which the paint runs down like tears; white paint hangs from the forms like icicles. At the right several flights of stairs climb through grey rock, with clock faces and cogs floating among them. Origami birds rise from the lower left, along with small white animals and a figure with butterfly wings. Dark water with glowing green plants lies below.

Untitled

A portrait-format picture in night blue, grey and yellow with thick, smeared brushstrokes. At its centre is a large, fragmented face beneath a yellow cap; cogs sit in the left eye and a swirl of stars in the right. A green stairway with arched arcades zigzags up from the bottom edge through the face, with a clock tower along it. Translucent white figures with glowing yellow hearts drift upward at the left, while pale strands of hair and yellow blossoms sweep across the right. A small moon with a triangle in it hangs at the upper right.

The Stairway Inward