Olivia Vieweg's comics come across as harmless and sometimes cute, yet they still develop a force that can also erupt into violence. For example in her latest comic "Fangirl Fantasy", in which three fans kidnap their favourite celebrity. Little is cut and dry in Olivia Vieweg's comics - another reason why her books are always exciting. The successful zombie comic "Endzeit", for example, captivates with poetic depictions of nature and tells the story of a friendship under extreme conditions. At the same time, Vieweg draws precise observations of everyday life, in which the cities of Weimar and Jena play a recognisable role. East Germany is more than just AfD enthusiasm and the heavy thug years after reunification.

Olivia Vieweg was born in Jena in 1987. She outed herself as a manga fan while studying visual communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar: by combining western comic traditions with manga influences in her works, she was avant-garde in Germany and has since aquired a broad fan base.

Andrea Heinze

An exhibition in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Erlangen