Text by Sophie Doelz
Tine Günther alias Mylasher brings art back to its origins – to an archaic, transformative act of creation. In her work, intuition and experience, art and ritual, the material and the transcendent merge. This holistic approach defines her entire body of work – from ceramics and sculpture to painting and immersive spatial concepts. Tine Günther’s art transforms spaces into symbolic and transcendent realms, opening portals to other worlds. Her works evoke sensations that defy definition, asserting that not everything needs to be explained. Some truths, her art suggests, are better left concealed. Drawing inspiration from shamanic practices, where music, dance, images, and spaces converge into transcendent experiences, she creates intimate moments that blur the line between reality and illusion.
Her creative process is both process-oriented and dialogical: she allows the material to guide her, engaging in a reciprocal exchange with it. The shimmering surfaces of her works evoke the gold leaf details of medieval manuscripts, connecting Günther’s pieces to a sacred tradition. At the same time, her references to mythology, witchcraft, and shamanism imbue her art with a mystical resonance. Through three intricate firing processes, her ceramics unite delicate fragility with timeless vitality, while using precious materials such as gold and platinum lends her work an aura of elegance and transcendent rarity.
At the Galerie Laetitia Gorsy, Tine Günther presents a space specifically conceived around the figure of the Greek god Pan. Pan, who has appeared in many of her previous works, takes center stage here, receiving his own temple. As the god of nature, fertility, and wild vitality, he becomes a symbol of our primal connection to the environment and to one another. A ritual experience unfolds in which the distinction between the material and the transcendent fades, while nature becomes palpably present. Günther’s art transcends the aesthetic moment and transforms into a physical and emotional experience, inviting us to transcend the visible, explore the unspeakable, and surrender to the mysterious.
The artist name Mylasher translates to «the shadow inside you.» With the guiding principle «See the unseen,» she invites us to embrace the hidden and uncover the concealed facets of our perception. Mysterious like an incantation, this name reflects her artistic philosophy, where transformation serves as the overarching theme of her work.
Tine Günther, born in East Berlin in 1979, moved with her family to West Berlin in 1987. She studied fine arts at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle and has been working as both an artist and, since 2021, as an art therapist and alternative practitioner for psychotherapy. Her works, characterized by a balance between abstraction and intuitive expressiveness, have been featured nationally and internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including in Moscow, Brighton, Copenhagen, Rotterdam, and Leipzig.