Amely Deiss in Vivian Greven, Apple, catalogue, Kunstpalais Erlangen, 2021

›Vivian Greven’s paintings affect you physically. They make you shiver and, at the same time, feel hot. Slight dizziness takes hold of you; you squint your eyes, feel dazzled. Your fingertips start to twitch because you want to touch these canvases so much. Instead, it’s not the canvas you want to touch at all, but the figures, bodies, and surfaces painted by Greven. So smooth and perfect, so glistening and delicate, so frightening and flattering and floating they are.‹ (translated) Amely Deiss in Vivian Greven, Apple, catalogue, Kunstpalais Erlangen, 2021

Image: Vivian Greven, ›Qulla III‹, 2020, oil and acrylic, 80 x 63 cm, courtesy the artist and private collection, Paris, Foto: Ivo Faber