Silke Sturm is a German painter whose large-format oil paintings combine art-historical references, pop-cultural imagery and personal visual impressions in enigmatic, expressive compositions. Her work draws on a broad visual archive that ranges from nineteenth-century painting and 1950s advertising to graffiti, cartoons, photography and contemporary media culture.

Sturm received sustained artistic training and mentorship from the painter Redzep Memisevic. During the 2000s, she began to develop a distinctive expressionist visual language in which historical and contemporary sources are layered, transformed and placed into unexpected relationships.

Her work gained wider visibility through gallery presentations in Berlin and subsequently through international art fairs and exhibitions in Germany, Spain, Switzerland, China and Canada. Her paintings have been shown at Art Beijing, Art Cologne, Art Barcelona, Art Berlin, Art Position Switzerland and ARTMUC Munich, among other venues.

Sturm has collaborated with galleries including Art Salon Berlin, Villa Greve, Galerie Best, Galerie LDX Berlin and Galerie EhrenArt in Cologne. Since 2023, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions with Galerie Greve. In 2024, she became a member of the Detmold artists’ association Kunstpunkt.

Alongside her international exhibition activity, Sturm regularly participates in the Open Studio Days in Lippe and in regional cultural formats including Art Night Bielefeld. Her artistic practice is characterised by a continuous dialogue between painterly tradition, contemporary visual culture and the psychological ambiguity of the image.