Axel Jung

My art springs from a simple question: Who am I, really? As a teenager I fell afoul of the law, and in that dark phase a spiritual search gripped me and changed everything. Since then, the search for origin, creation, and the meaning of it all has not let me go — and that is precisely what flows into my paintings.

I paint quietly and clearly, often outdoors. My subjects may appear simple, but they hold something that runs deeper. Take the Garden of Gethsemane — a place full of loneliness, fear, and choice, yet one that can be entered with calm. Or the moment a Tibetan monk looked into my eyes for minutes instead of simply posing for a photograph. Moments like these are sources from which my work arises.

I see myself as a kind of artistic monk. For me, art and spirituality belong together. I do not pretend to have understood anything — far from it. I comb through religions, ask questions, and keep searching. My paintings are not answers; they are traces of that search.

What I hope for is that my works invite the viewer to ask some of these big questions themselves — not in a heavy, over-intellectual way, but with openness and curiosity.

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Born: 1976
Medium / Focus: Realist painting in oil
Early training: Self-taught in realist techniques
Recent mentorship & inspiration: Julia Belot, Brigitte Guhle, Felix Eckardt
Ongoing training: Regular life-drawing classes and painting seminars

12.2025 „Die Kunst zu Schenken“ in der Walkmühle Wiesbaden
10.2025 Zwischen Himmel und Erde, KunsTraum44 Kelkeim
08.2025 Kunstmarkt Aurofer Mühle bei Idstein
03.2025: Caroline & Axel im Justizzentrum Wiesbaden
04.2025: Kunstmarkt „Kunst findet Stadt“ in Oberursel
10.2024: LOOK CLOSELY Gruppenausstellung artroom
07.2024: Ausstellung im Hospiz St. Ferrutius – Taunusstein
05.2024: Ausstellung im Tillys Café Walz
04.2024: Gruppenausstellung Stadtgalerie Bad Soden am Taunus
03.2024: Gruppenausstellung Amthof Galerie Bad Camberg
12.2023: Taunus Sparkasse Bad Soden
12.2023: „Die Kunst zu Schenken“ in der Walkmühle Wiesbaden
10.2023: Gruppenausstellung Amthof Galerie Bad Camberg
09.2023: „Seelenheimat“ – Rheingauer Kunstverein
09.2023: ARTe Wiesbaden (Messeteilnahme)
07.2023: Gruppenausstellung Wilhelm Kempf Haus
04.2023: Ausstellung „Glaube“, Badehaus Bad Soden
10.2022: Gruppenausstellung im DRK Kriftel
10.2022: Kunst im Schaufenster Idstein
07.2022: Mitgliederausstellung in der Stadtgalerie Bad Soden am Taunus
10.2021: Ausstellung im Café Fari in Wiesbaden