How the seagull flies

Jürgen Hohmann presents a retrospective featuring illustrations, drawings, paintings, and texts. “Good pictures always have good stories behind them,” says Hohmann. The exhibition can be seen until Sunday, November 30, in the entrance area of the pavilions at the Museum of Modern Art. 

The museum's opening hours are Thursday to Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. and by appointment. 

Art historian Dr. Bernd A. Gülker writes about Jürgen Hohmann (excerpt):

"There are only a few artists who are able not only to express themselves in a wide variety of techniques and themes, but also to deliver compelling works that linger in the viewer's memory.

Jürgen Hohmann is undoubtedly one of these artists, who is not confined to one style and therefore always surprises us. Since his student days at the IBKK in Bochum and during his numerous exhibitions at the local art and gallery house, we have been in lively exchange with him.

Jürgen Hohmann works in both photorealistic and abstract styles, uses signs and symbols, and is a painter, draftsman, object artist, illustrator, caricaturist, and minimalist. Above all, however, Jürgen Hohmann is a storyteller who tells his stories through visual means. In doing so, he translates art-historical image themes into the present day with economical means. [...]

Jürgen Hohmann is an artistic border crosser—both stylistically and thematically. Anyone who looks at his work quickly realizes that he does not want to be pigeonholed, either in terms of technique or genre. Whether hyperrealistic airbrush paintings, roughly sketched landscapes with a bristle brush, delicate watercolors, biting caricatures, or objects made from bulky waste and gold – Hohmann's art draws on a broad pool of styles, tools, and stories. And that is precisely what matters to him at its core: stories.