Hello?

Portrait von Victoria Schumacher

Is it me you’re looking for?

Veins, arteries, capillaries. Everything in me works with me and for me. I don’t strain to filter one final truth out of what I see. As a photographer I swim with the current. I give in to intuition, experience and knowledge. I swim around the situation of being human from the outside and capture what touches me at the core. I want to understand more, or even less.

I die every second and am reborn. And in that lies seriousness and silliness. Again and again I change my composition, my unity, and with it the now changes, reality. I am ready to make new mistakes.

I have killed the Buddha and no longer look at photographs. I am my own event and my own teacher. I believe that perfection and definition exclude each other.

I also wonder what will be left of my strange traces.

This is all very confusing.

What the f*ck is WUERGSAMKEITEN?

WUERGSAMKEITEN is my expression for what emerges when intuition, emotion and design work together. An alias for everything that is not easy to say, yet wants to be seen.

I work as a communication designer with a focus on illustration, photography and visual storytelling.

Whether personal projects or commissions, I develop individual visual concepts with attitude, intuition and a high standard of design. I believe in the power of images that touch something. In design that doesn’t just communicate, but above all moves.

I look forward to encounters, exchange and shared processes.

“Art is the freedom to express yourself without having to explain yourself.”
Ai Weiwei

Life so far

so far, anyway …

Education

  • 2018 to 2022Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Design, ecosign/Academy of Design, Cologne. Focus: illustration, animation, photography
  • 2023 to 2026Bachelor of Science in Naturopathy & Complementary Therapies, DIPLOMA University of Applied Sciences

Exhibitions

  • 2020, 2022Exhibitor at the “Teranga” events in Cologne
  • August 2022Exhibitor at Berlin Photo Week

Experience

  • April to July 2022Social media internship at “Vegan mit Leo”
  • June to December 2022Graphic design internship at SCHEE GmbH (focus: photography and communication design)
  • 2023 to 2024Marketing & content creation assistant at “The Oater”
  • Since 2023Freelance designer (focus: illustration, photography and communication design)