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.