‘Surface and space are the two central themes of Hella Berent’s “extended drawings,” and they are closely related to the concepts of delimitation and the dissolution of “matter”, of material form. The wall as part of a space is matter, demarcating the interior and exterior, delimiting, defining. Dissolving the wall, surmounting its material limitations, enables her to advance into space. She regards this drawn space as emotional space, as contemplative and existential space. Repeatedly, she has striven to embed herself, to find her place – although she is freer now than she was at the beginning of her artistic career, when her own body was the recognizable starting point of her drawings and installations.'

- Susanne Wedewer-Pampus