[5] Deciding from age 15 to become a painter, she developed interest in space landscapes from the Jena Planetarium's cosmic shows of night sky simulations.
[5] Her grandfather encouraged her to draw from a young age and introduced her to western and eastern European influences, as he came from East-Prussian Königsberg, modern-day Kaliningrad.
[8] Wölk's career took a surprising kick-start at the age of 24 when her painting Dog Girl (2006) was purchased by the Elgiz Museum and shown alongside well-established artists such as Cindy Sherman, Tracey Emin and Sarah Morris.
[5] Her most recent series Nebulae, 2020, is inspired by the aesthetic construction of gasses like helium and hydrogen, combined to give birth to interstellar dust.
[11] While her series Starscapes, 2018–2010, pushed for a visual reality of what extraterrestrial colonies could look like: a lifestyle of starry skies, LED lighting and cinematic embrace.
Aert van der Neer's delicate nocturnal landscapes have informed Wölk's use of light in a very traditional sense, as seen in her work The Multiverse, 2018, (50 x 70 cm, acrylic on canvas).
Wölk has been exhibiting in art fairs and private galleries and has been selling on the international market since the early 2000s, including Spain, Korea, Turkey, Austria and others.
[8] Wölk has exhibited alongside other well known contemporary artists such as Robert Rasuchenberg, Johannes Wohnseifer, Azade Köker, and Stephan Balkenhol.