What is the justification of existence
of a painting?
What does a painting do that no other artform can achieve?, I often wonder.
My answer - thus far - is: The painting connects everything [ALLES] at the same experiential level. It translates everything [ALLES] into the visual (and actually also tangible) language of what our brains, provided we can see, decode as the perception of colour and form, creating a relatively permanent and delineated space-time entity.
Thus, I use this space-time entity to summarise in it what I consider to be the actual reality of human experience:
The intra-action of the conscious and the subconscious, the material and the immaterial, the tangible and the intangible - all at one plane. Thoughts, visions, dreams, memories. Intuitions. Emotions, energies, relationships. Humans, animals, plants, mushrooms, algae, minerals, objects.
Alles ist verbunden.
Once I make this NEUEREALITAET visible, the process of matter-realisation continues with you. Your perspective on the matter-realised shapes NEUEREALITAET further. You are an active part in the continuous co-creation of our actual reality.

Alice Bischof photographed by Stefanos Paikos, 2025. Photo: ©Stefanos Paikos, 2025
NEUEREALITAET (German to English: "NEW REALITY") is both the concept and its creator's artist name.
NEUEREALITAET is the third space uniting spectator and spectated,
experiencer, experience and experienced
- concept and creator.**
Drawing from the subconscious,
NEUEREALITAET matter-realises and unites all levels of consciousness at the same level,
renouncing the modern paradigm of a paradoxical system of categorisations*
that tacitly deny access to our actual reality.
In that sense, NEUEREALITAET is not actually "new". It is as old as existence.
But it is "new" against the backdrop of a modern* worldview.
Referring to:
*Latour, B. (2012). We have never been modern. Harvard University Press.
**Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press.