About

Maike Ennen is a German visual artist and photographer, working across interactive installation, lens-based practice, and screen-based work.

Her installations place the viewer inside the thing they were not paying attention to — and ask what it cost them not to notice. PROMPT assigns the viewer the role of the model: they complete tasks, accept revisions, receive no thanks, and are dismissed when the session ends. The piece is not a critique of technology. It is a mirror held up to a habit so embedded it has become invisible. Present // Future is built from her own diagnosed conditions — high myopia, visual snow, Duane syndrome — and renders them with clinical accuracy across two screens. The left screen carries a text that sharpens and slips, grained with a static that never lifts. The right screen is black and still. A viewer who stands in front of it is standing, for the first time, inside a view they have never occupied and will never be able to fully describe.

Her photography works in black and white. Colour is removed so that only what is actually there remains — the weight of a moment, the geometry of attention, the thing the eye lands on when it has nowhere else to go.

Everything unnoticed is still happening.