"Charcoal is one of humanity's oldest painting and drawing media, but for a long time it served only as an inexpensive tool for preparing paintings, because the material is easy to correct. What Nora Mona Bach does, I have never seen before. With each work she expands her technical repertoire, each work encompasses a sum of possibilities. The artist has developed and perfected this technique over the years. She thinks in large dimensions, taking on old men with feminine force. Who doesn't think of William Turner, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock or Anselm Kiefer when looking at her works? Not because she adopted anything from them, but it is her fearlessness with which she creates never-before-seen things from this "poor" and "dirty" material and developed her own technique for it." (Kristina Bake)

About the author and other contributors:

• Kristina Bake (born 1967 in Jena) is an art historian, lecturer, and author.
• Ines Janet Engelmann (born 1970, Leipzig) is an art historian, author, and curator (including HEIMATSTIPENDIUM).
• Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge (born 1968, Berlin) is an art historian, lecturer, and curator specializing in drawing.