Painting is normally understood as a process in which colour is applied to a surface. The artist Stefan Vogel shows how much more painting can be. He was involved in the exhibition “Jetzt! Young Painting in Germany”, which was shown at the Kunstmuseen Bonn and Wiesbaden and the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz in 2019 and at the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg the following year, and had his first solo museum exhibition “Relax, it’s only Paranoia” at the Kunstsammlung Chemnitz in 2021.

Both his paintings and his spatial installations are the product of a process in which Stefan Vogel transcends the usual boundaries of the medium of painting in terms of materials and installations, but does not completely abandon it. His work is characterised by a special material aesthetic, subtle poetry and a reduced formal language borrowed from minimal art.

Vogel’s works serve to examine sociological issues, some of them very personal, which are at the centre of his work: Modes of behaviour and communication, or generally mechanisms of living together in today’s society.