Andreas Breunig analytically dissects his material. In distinct settings, he puts calculated gestures, textures, velocities and varying degrees of dissolved representationalism to the test. In constant permutations, the painterly ›codings‹ and relations of the specific elements shift visibly. Breunig moves between flat pictorial spaces and installative »spatial images.« Nonetheless, his painting always includes a focussed examination of the immaterial digitality. In face of post-natural, artificial light (displays, filters etc.), his chromatic scale ranges between a brisk and overdriven palette as well as a manifold and differentiated choice of color. Working with oil, acrylic, graphite and charcoal, instead of reduction, it’s all about the maximization of expressive possibilities. Due to the simultaneity of such surface phenomena, the boundaries of painting / photography / print become just as blurred as the attributions of original / copy / reproduction.

Andreas Breunig, born 1983 in Ebersbach, lives and works in Düsseldorf. 2002–2008 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (class of Albert Oehlen). Selected exhibitions: 2022 & 2021 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/ Main (s); 2022 Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles & Brussels (s); 2022 H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg (g); 2021 Kunsthaus NRW, Aachen-Kornelimünster (g); 2020 Kunstverein Heppenheim (s); 2020 Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt/Main (g); 2020 Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (g); Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich (s); 2019 Kunstmuseum Bonn (g); 2019 Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden (g); 2019 Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz (g); 2019 Sauvage, Bonn (s); 2019 Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles (s); 2018 Aishti Foundation, Beirut (g); 2018 Kunstverein Heppenheim (with Jana Schröder); 2018 Kunstverein Reutlingen (g); 2017 Warhus Rittershaus, Cologne (with Clemens Rathe); 2016 Fondazione Carriero, Milan (g); 2014 Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, CH (g); 2012 Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne (g); 2011 KIT – Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf (g); 2008 Villa de Bank, Eschede (s); 2008 Kunsthaus Sootbörn, Hamburg (g).