Doris Mumhofer is a visual artist based between Berlin and Munich, Germany.

Her work explores the relationship between material transformation and perception. Through painting and experimental material processes, she investigates how liquids, pigments, and surfaces interact, dissolve, accumulate, and reorganize over time.

Working with alcohol ink, acrylic paint, spray paint, water, and chemical solvents, Mumhofer develops paintings that emerge through a dialogue between deliberate intervention and the inherent dynamics of the materials. Layers are displaced, dissolved, and reformed, creating atmospheric image spaces that oscillate between clarity and ambiguity, structure and fluidity.

A central aspect of her practice is the translation of intimate material phenomena into larger visual and spatial experiences. By enlarging processes that are often only visible at close range, her work explores moments in which visual certainty begins to dissolve and perception becomes more open, slower, and less fixed.

The foundation of this approach can be traced back to early experiments in the photographic darkroom during her studies at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, where she began investigating chemical reactions and material processes beyond photographic representation. These explorations continue to inform her work today.

The continuous exploration of materials, surfaces, and scale remains a central aspect of her artistic practice.