Creative Visual Art
Esther Gronenborn’s portfolio features vibrant photocollages and video installations.
Artistic journey
After her successful career as a storyteller and filmmaker, Esther Gronenborn turned to landscape photography, which gradually evolved into complex photographic collages. Starting from her own photographs of animals, plants, and traces of nature, she digitally transforms and recomposes them into hybrid image spaces where it often remains unclear whether one is still looking at photography or something entirely different. This element of estrangement, poetic yet unsettling, has become central to her practice.
Her work resonates with contemporary para-pastoral discourse: while classical pastoral imagery idealized nature as an untouched idyll, her collages expose its constructedness, turning nature into a site of projection, disturbance, and uncertainty.
In parallel, her practice has expanded into AI-generated films and large-scale video installations. Here she blends cinematic sensibilities with digital experimentation to explore themes of perception, memory, and transformation. Across media, her work investigates the fragile boundary between presence and disappearance, between the real and the imagined, creating images and spaces that disorient as much as they invite reflection.
Paradise Ahead, Photo Collage, 2024
Photos
IInspired by cinematic thinking and digital experimentation, Esther’s work focuses on layered photographic collages and atmospheric image-making. Her practice merges documentary fragments with painterly interventions and digital filters, creating para-pastoral, poetic visual spaces.
AI Works
AI has become a significant part of her creative journey as a medium of inquiry. In her video works and installations, she explores the aesthetics, glitches, and narrative ambiguities that emerge from generative AI systems—treating them as a mirror to human imagination.
Themes
Her work explores longing, loss, perception and the fragile bond between humans and nature. With the eye of a filmmaker, she composes symbolic landscapes that evoke memory, uncertainty, and transformation. Her work embraces ambiguity, using poetic imagery to tell stories that unfold between presence and absence.
Portfolio
Esther Gronenborn’s portfolio combines cinematic intuition with visual art, presenting photocollages and video installations that explore fragility, transformation, and the emotional resonance of landscape. Her work blurs the line between observation and imagination, inviting viewers into spaces where photography becomes a tool for reflection and poetic disruption
Night Falls, Photo Collage, 2023
Technological approach
Using a hybrid of analog and digital techniques, Esther Gronenborn constructs layered visual worlds that shift between photography, collage, and AI-generated video. Her multimedia practice invites viewers to move beyond the surface of the image and engage with its symbolic and emotional undercurrents.
Esther Gronenborn: The Art of Egronista 