Andrea Halm has been carving sculptures with a chainsaw for over a decade, developing a distinctive technique and personal visual language. Her work is a sensory challenge — bold in color, monumental in scale, and irresistibly engaging from afar. Each piece exists in a state of transformation, where human-like figures seem to dissolve, rebuild, and merge, creating a captivating tension between form and resolution.

Halm’s creative process begins not with the wood itself — apple, poplar, or lime — but with sketches on paper. “The wood has to follow me,” she says. The envisioned figure evolves as it is carved, shaped through a dialogue between artist and emerging form. Her sculptures inhabit a borderland between plant, animal, and human, with exaggerated sensory features — bulging mouths, tentacle-like eyes — and dynamic, curving lines that lend them a striking vitality.

Vibrantly coated in pop-inspired colors and framed by black, these figures blur the line between primitive ritual objects and contemporary pop culture, evoking both the spirit of classical modernism and the playful energy of comics and advertising. Numerous perforations transform solid volumes into lattices of intertwined lines, allowing light and space to become part of the work itself.

Halm’s sculptures are ultimately animated by collaboration: her brother, Jochen Maier, names each figure, enhancing their individuality and poetic presence. What begins as artistic inspiration becomes, in turn, a source of new imaginings — fantasy figures that awaken fantasy in others.