Jorinde Voigt created her monumental drawing cycle “Song of the Earth” in four multi-part panels and conceived it as a resonant, analytical counterpart to Gustav Mahler’s orchestral composition of the same title. It is one of her most extensive projects to date paralleling seasonal, cyclical, and biographical rhythms, echoing the structural fragmentation of Mahler’s composition, while emphasizing the recursive nature of perception and experience. Within Voigt’s oeuvre, “Song of the Earth” functions as a conceptual fulcrum: a work in which her key artistic strategies—systems of notation, diagrammatic expansion, affective mapping, and the materialization of mental states—appear in their most ambitious form. Here, across two panels, spanning nearly 20 meters combined, the immersive topographies of her vast panoramic sequences can unfold at full scale.
Jorinde Voigt, b. 1977 in Frankfurt/Main, lives and works in Berlin. Combining conceptual rigor with technical sensitivity, her work—primarily on paper—translates complex physical, psychological, and existential processes into visual systems, measuring and tracing algorithms of the analog world.
