Imke Rust

is a Namibian-German interdisciplinary artist – working with existential fields of tension through minimal, often body-based and site-specific interventions that shift perception and open new ways of relating.

Recent Work:

Interdisciplinary Project & Exhibition:
2025
Dialog:Linien #1 Residenz und Ausstellung
Residency & Drawing Exhibition:
Dialog:Linien #1, DE 2025
Video/Interdisciplinary Memorial Work:
“Die Wirklichkeit war viel tragischer”
 überLEBENSWEGE, DE 2023/4
Residency & Exhibition:
Temporär Verbunden
Schloss Wiepersdorf 2024
Project & Exhibition:
Listening to Mountains – An Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Art, Myth, & Ecology NA/DE 2023
Wolkenadoptionsstation
Eco-poetic, participatory performance:
Adopt-a-Cloud
KunstTREFFpunkt,
DE 2023

More Highlights:

einFluss / inFlow Aquamediale15
Spreewald, Germany 2023
Drawing Turbulences in Gold
(Namibia, 2023)
Residenza Insecta, ZAC project for RespirArt, Italy 2022
Drawing Certainty from the Spring of Doubt
Hälsingland, Sweden 2021
NamensTropfen Memorial Waldbau KZ Neubrandenburg 2021
Dialog with Clouds – ZAC
Villoslada de Cameros Spain 2022
Pause (It is the pause that brings thought to life), Int. Forest Art Path, Germany 2022
Wechsel:Fluss
St.Corona am Wechsel, Austria 2022
Frauen-Kamm Silhouetten Memorial, Waldbau – KZ Neubrandenburg 2020

Alongside my site-specific interventions, I explore the shifting of tensions and relationships through painting and drawing – intuitive, experimental, and media-mixed, these works allow me to play, respond, and discover. You can find a selection of these works HERE.

Imke Rust (Photo S.Holzkamp ©)

Imke Rust is a Namibian-German
interdisciplinary, visual artist,
working from her studios just
north of Berlin and in Namibia.

Contact: imke (at) imkerust.de

Latest Instagram posts:

International Women’s Day Stepping up the challenge: special stones with special lines and markings need special backgrounds. Especially happy to have found a suitable background for the last one... Stone Alignments from the Holding the Line Series. This time beside the road. Happy start into the Fire Horse! Beach Trash - Abstract Photography Stone Alignments on @omandumba_namibia Feeling immensely grateful for the amazing tranquillity and inspiring atmosphere of this amazing place, and for the splendid hospitality of Harald, Deike and Anne! Thank you! Trash Abstracts - When our car broke down and we had to wait to be towed for two hours besides the road, it was a good opportunity to walk around in the bracing heat noticing stones and trash. And continuing my (Beach) Trash Series... This series started when I realised I cannot take every interesting stone which I find on the beach home... So I decided to take photos of them instead. In 2022 I found a stone with a wave-like white line and held it up so that the lines align with the white foam line of the waves in the background.