Janus Hochgesand
Biography
2009 academy diploma Städelschule (master student Prof. Tobias Rehberger)
2005 - 2009 Städel School (Prof. Tobias Rehberger), Frankfurt/Main
2005 Esmeralda Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado (Prof. Sofia Taboas), Mexico City
2002 - 2004 State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe (Prof. Andreas Slominski)
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS
2022 Grant, Cultural Foundation Rhineland-Palatinate
2022 Neustart Kultur Scholarship, Foundation Kunstfonds e. V., Bonn
2021 Hamburg Future Fellowship / Hamburg Cultural Foundation
2021 Rhineland-Palatinate Book Grant
2018 Hamburg Travel Grant for the Burkhard-Vernunft-Residence, Torria
2011 Rhineland-Palatinate scholarship for the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
2010 Working scholarship of the Stiftung Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn
2009 Graduate prize of the Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main
2008 Prize of the Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank, Frankfurt/Main
2005 Baden-Württemberg travel grant for Esmeralda, Mexico City
INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2009 Portikus, Frankfurt/Main
2010 Frankfurter Kunstverein
2012 Mainz Art Gallery
2013 Kunsthaus Hamburg
2014 Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2015 Gerisch Foundation, Neumünster
2019 Emsdetten Art Association
2021 Ludwig Museum Koblenz
2022 Agathenburg Castle
FAIRS
2009 ART FORUM BERLIN
2010 ART COLOGNE
2013 ARCO MADRID
2017 POSITIONS Berlin
2022 art KARLSRUHE
2023 art KARLSRUHE
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ludwig Museum Koblenz
State Chancellery Mainz
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Collection House N, Kiel
Peter May, Hamburg
HEPP Ebbers, Münster
FREY & LAU, Hamburg
Datenschutzkanzlei, 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.
