• Janus Hochgesand

    Untitled
    2023, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
  • Untitled
    2023, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
  • Ohne Titel
    2024, Oil and pigments on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
  • Ohne Titel
    2024, Oil and pigments on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
  • Wandmalerei
    440 x 240 cm, in Kombination mit einer Malerei, 180 x 140 cm
  • Wandmalerei
    440 x 240 cm, in Kombination mit einer Malerei, 180 x 140 cm
  • Untitled
    2022, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm

  • Untitled
    2022, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
  • Untitled
    2022, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm
  • Untitled
    2022, oil and pigment on canvas, 180 x 140 cm

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.

Janus Hochgesand ©Photo, Janus Hochgesand

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