I’m a video artist specializing in motion art that transforms how we see and feel spaces. My digital works combine flowing movement, bold color palettes, monochrome aesthetics, and poetic visuals. I work across three main themes: nature, graphic patterns, and pop-inspired visuals.
My creations are designed to be experienced on digital displays – including monitors, Smart TVs, motion picture frames, and projection systems. They range from short, looped VJ visuals for events and performances, to immersive video installations for architectural spaces, and collectible video artworks up to 10 minutes long. With every piece, I aim to open perception, calm the senses, or activate the energy of a room – making my art a unique blend of aesthetic design and emotional resonance.
FROM DANCING TO PAINTING TO DIGITAL ART
The artist Ella Lugin was born in Switzerland, but spent her youth in Stuttgart and Munich. She trained as a dancer (modern dance and ballet) at state dance schools. Afterwards she worked in show business and at the same time she started painting under her artist name 'Maithano'. Despite many exhibitions as a painter and a permanent exhibition at the Muffatwerk culture and concert hall in Munich since the 1980s, she stopped painting after her last exhibition at the well-known gallery Wehrli in Zurich. After 15 years of art painting in the year 2000, Ella changed her artist name to Ella Lugin (which is closer to her name of origin) and began to explore digital photography. Digital photography opened up new worlds for the artist and was more promising for the artist to express herself.
In July 2020 Ella Lugin started in a further creative phase. Inspired by new developments in software for animating videos, the artist succeeds in creating video artworks through which she expresses the philosophical level of her perception.
PHILOSOPHY
"I am fascinated by quantum science because it tries to explore the explicit details of the blueprint of life through the scientific and microscopic view. But what if this view becomes more and more fragmented and we never reach the final answer because we lose sight of the whole by examining only the details?
What holds the world together at its core? What creates the world? Why do we feel separate?
"These questions have accompanied me since childhood. The question is what "the world" really is and whether we will ever understand it, even if we have found the final building block. Pretty sure knowing the creation code would (and already does) completely overwhelm most of us. What would that mean for our lives in this reality? Personally, I assume that this reality and all forms are one likeness and all the answers are already there. We live with it every day and therefore do not recognise it. Scientists are on the trail of the creation code and in a few years nothing will be the same as it once was, on all levels of human existence.
But one thing will always remain the same - the longing to merge with the whole.
Would we endure the act of merging? The energetically oriented, meditative work explores the question of how we can open ourselves to the source energy so that the energy (wave) takes hold of us but does not destroy us.
Through my art, I try to break the habit of seeing to make the interplay of elements visible in a philosophical way. I use digital technology to highlight the hidden elements of matter and artistically break down our linear way of seeing.
My approach to dealing with the fundamentals of life and energy is artistic and not scientific. After all, what good is our cerebration and purely intellectual approach to life if we are no longer able to feel the energy within ourselves?
Nature and energy are the cradle of our existence on this planet. Nature is grandiosely beautiful, energetic and indescribable and so are human beings. The question about the creators of this wonder is probably the oldest question of all and it is only ever answered by what we can imagine asking. Where we direct our attention, there the answer will form
In order not to be alienated from ourselves by technology and our microscopic view of details, we need a poetic, light-filled and refracted view of “matter”. This inner gaze focuses above all on the center of being. Basically, the appearance of creation is a single dance of elementary particles that materializes through our focus, desires and imaginations. I never tire of opening up an enchanted view of the other reality with my art.”