Herbert Nauderer's oeuvre is a coherent, constantly growing universe with many characters and subjects, shaped by a deliberately dark, morbid and elegant aesthetic. Large-format drawings, gloomy, romantic landscapes, deserted beaches, mysterious architectures. Manuscripts, photographs, filmic recordings, "artefacts" that awaken a detective-like curiosity.
His filmic works are to be understood as a continuation of his graphic worlds. Intense, often imbued with elements of the surreal, they reflect the uncertainties, brutality and fragility of the world. Their spectacular images are memorably uncanny, although they avoid direct violence. What is special is that the artist manages to let the depicted scenes live on in the imagination - which exposes some of the abysses of human nature.