Janus Hochgesand
Biography
Janus Hochgesand, born in Dierdorf in 1981, studied sculpture at the Städelschule and was a master student of Tobias Rehberger. He describes his paintings as “high intensity paintings” – images whose form and content are condensed and have a high concentration of material layers. The paintings are created when the artist uses a broom or vacuum cleaner to remove pigments generously poured onto the canvas and then repeatedly processes them by pouring them on and removing them. In the overlays of color layers, the artist takes up the aesthetics of Abstract Expressionism and Informel, but condenses these influences into paintings in his own performative way. Hochgesand lives and works in Hamburg.
His high intensity paintings - as he himself puts it - are conceived from their own materiality, their apparent fleetingness and at the same time emotional compression.

Museum and single exhibitions (selection)
2022
Performance High Intensity Painting, Schloß Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany
2021
Janus Hochgesand - Muy mucho, Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
2022
Nichiteanu Trio & Janus Hochgesand: Livepainting feat Kammermusik, Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf, Hamburg, Germany
2019
High intensity painting, Emsdettener Kunstverein e.V., Emsdetten, Germany
Interaction of color, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany
2016
Hold your own, Künstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf, Hamburg, Germany
2015
Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster
2014
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2013
Kunsthaus Hamburg
2012
Kunsthalle Mainz
2010
Frankfurter Kunstverein
2009
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main