Christian Alexander Hoffmann

Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Following this well-known concept, the works of me demand of the recipient a particular form of empathy and a co-creative viewing process.

Mostly, where something vanishes, something new emerges. Visualised, it is a permanent transitional zone that finds its expression in Hoffmann's use of broken colours. This points significantly beyond the momentariness of a single painting and represents a process that can also be understood as a narrative of a system characterized by permanent change. For in the instant between two states such as light and darkness or warmth and cold, concrete forms also become indistinct – horizon lines or water surfaces appear blurred by diffused light and dissolve in hazy air. But it is right here, at the very heart of the perpetual movement, that a special moment of tranquility and deep understanding can be found. Comprehensive seeing and recognition including an inward view are needed here, enabling the beholder to "pause and let time stand still".

1989 - 1995 University of Art, Berlin (HdK), Masterstudent

2018 Homage à Marwan | Galerie Pankow Berlin
2017 SOLUNA | Takt Kunstprojektraum Berlin
2014 C.A.R. - Contemporary Art Ruhr
2013 20/20+ | Galerie Ricarda Fox, Mülheim
2012 Accrochage | Galerie Ricarda Fox, Mülheim
2012 Dikaiosyne in Physis | Fox c/o Kanzlei Richter, Berlin
2011 Accrochage | Galerie Ricarda Fox, Mülheim
2011 Horizonte | Galerie Ricarda Fox, Mülheim
2008 682 Miles | View Two Gallery, Liverpool
2008 Verlorene Geschichten |Galerie Charlier, Berlin
2008 Luft | Kunsthalle - Wiesenburg, Wiesenburg
2004 Contemplationen |Galerie Azul, Berlin
2003 Art Upperground |La Luzz-Osramhöfe, Berlin
2002 Montags |Universität der Künste, Berlin
2002 Offene Ateliers |Perleberger 60, Berlin
2002 Dissipative Strukturen |Cimdata, Berlin
2001 Lichtwelten |Aqua Art, Pinneberg
2001 Offene Ateliers |Perleberger 60, Berlin
2001 Abstrakte Landschaften |Neo Kyma, Berlin
1997 Vier Jahreszeiten | Haus der Kulturen-Bistro, Berlin