Andreas Wolf

Abstract painter living in Berlin.

The object of my non-representational work is developing complexly structured pictorial spaces. Every painting starts from a blank canvas; there is no preconceived idea, concept or strategy and there are no titles for the finished paintings. The starting point is the first colour patch, point or line, to which I then react with corresponding or contrasting patches, lines or points.

In painting I try to find that moment, in which openness and the definitive are balanced. Each and every single element of the picture should interact with all of the others. I try to set focal points or emphases, but these should never overpower the equilibrium of ambiguity. The painting is finished, if and when it resists an immediate comprehension, but offers at least one or a few different ways of perception or interpretation. For me it is interesting to note how I myself react to the picture’s visual structures; somehow on a physical level, like intuition, and it’s interesting to notice how paintings sometimes ‘work’ and sometimes don’t.

The finished picture is a kind of chronicle of its own creation – an ongoing process which continues in the next painting, with the experience gained during development o...

NI versus AI (Natural Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence)
Bas CS Gallery, 23.2.–22.3.2024, 13359 Berlin, Group

A B² C – konkret abstrakt 1 (group)
Galerie Wolf & Galentz, 17.3.–14.4. 2024, Berlin, Germany

The Spring Salon Kuiperdomingos Projects
May 2024, (Group)
Amstelveld, Amsterdam, Holland

Bruises
Haa Galerie 11.7.–4.8. 2024, Helsinki, Suomenlinna, Finnland

2023
Myopia (Group)
Galeria Nowa Scena UAP/ Poznan, Polen

Fragile
Group | Glasfactory Riihimäki, Finland, 2022

B-LA Connect
Group | Los Angeles, USA
July 2022

Hinderung von Abrundungen
Solo | Artist Association Viernheim, Germany, August 2021

B-LA Connect
30 May–21 June 2020, Los Angeles, USA
Group Show

Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Serbia
"Nicht hinauslehnen"
Group Show11–25 October 2019

Kulturpalast Wedding International
Helter Skelter
22. Juni 2019 (Festival-group show)

Toolbox – Finnish German Art Space Berlin
Sometimes I think I could paint
1–22 June 2019

HLP Galerie | Grüner Weg 10, 50389 Wesseling, Germany
ENERGIES & luminEscences
5. May – 2. June 2019

Projektraum Prima Center Berlin
Born to be alive
group show
Opening: Fr. 18. 01.2018
adress: Biesentalerstr. 24, 13359 Berlin
January 18 – February 1, 2019

Showtime 2.0
Weinheim, Germany (G...