Christoph Lohmann

Christoph Lohmann (born 1967 in Remscheid) began his career in the 1990s at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. His watercolours, paintings, drawings, and sculptures combine both abstract and figurative elements and are known for their childlike aesthetic and emotional power. Often strongly atmospherically charged, they oscillate in their effect between joy and seriousness, usually paired with a momentum of the absurd – because, in Lohmann’s works, nothing and yet everything happens.

Are the circular forms static or moving bodies, spinning as it were like a whirlwind across the picture’s surface? Or are they perhaps eyes that fix their counterpart out of a bright, undefined surface? With simple painterly means, Lohmann creates a strong focus here, which is particularly directed at the viewer’s gaze, with the viewer being virtually drawn into the work. The flowing application of paint, which becomes more and more colour-intensive from the outside to the inside, while leaving out a circle in the middle, creates a special spatial depth effect. The meaning remains open and leaves room for own interpretations.