Michael Moesslang

Are you always acting right, disciplined and logical?

As human beings we do things differently than the best way possible because of emotions, subconscious thoughts, early experiences or even imprints, fears, short-term wins and for many, many other reasons. This is what I am interested in my art.

When I became interested in arts and started painting (at the age of 9) Surrealism, Pop Art and Photorealism were popular and shown in big exhibitions in Germany: Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Ralph Goings. They shaped my early understanding of art.

In addition to being an artist, I am also a coach and business trainer. For me, the connection between that and my art is the thinking, communicating, acting and behaving of men and women. The subconscious mind—already an important source in Surrealism—is what leads us. Or as Artur Shopenhauer said: “Man can do what he wants but not want what he wants.”

Most of my works deal with the question of why people do what they do. Even if it is not the best for them. Why do they not act right, disciplined and logical?

To his ninth birthday Michael Moesslang got a set of oil colors. From that moment on, art never let go of him. But when it came to deciding what to study, he took graphic design. So he left his hometown Prien at the lake Chiemsee in Bavaria, Germany, and moved to Munich, which remained his base for decades.

During his studies, the roots were already laid for his current topic, of course without him being aware of it at the time: Design is about guiding the eye of the viewer and thereby “seducing” him to buy (or whatever he should do). It was already about why people do something they are not even aware of.

At the same time—this was in the 1980s—he became increasingly interested in American photo-realistic painters such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings or Don Eddy. He tried to combine this with the ideas of surrealism. Because René Magritte and Salvador Dalí have also strongly influenced him.

At the beginning of the new millennium, Michael Moesslang trained as a business trainer and coach and dealt a lot with NLP, hypnosis and the subconscious. How do we use our beliefs, how do memories shape our decisions, how do we really make small and important decisions? We are not as rational as we think.

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11/26–28/2021 Represented at International Contemporary Art Fair Brussels 2020–>2021, Belgium by VAN GOGH Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
09/24–26/2021 ArtMUC re:start Art Fair 2021, Munich
09/18—10/17/2021 95. Jahresschau 2021 (Anual exhibition), Kunst- und Gewerbeverein Regensburg
07/29—10/12/2021 Solo exhibition “Menschen – Oil Portraits from Michael Moesslang” FDP Abgeordneten-Büro Christoph Skutella, Weiden in der Oberpfalz
04/30–06/20/2021 Great East Bavarian Art Exhibition, BBK Lower Bavaria/Upper Palatinate, Germany
11/04/2020–01/20/2021 Art and Culture on Screen – BBK exhibition at Degginger, Regensburg
10/11/2020 Open Studios Regensburg by BBK Berufsverband bildender Künstler e. V.
10/01—04/2021 Workshop Chiaroscuro at Akademie der Bildenden Künste Kolbermoor with Blanca Amorós
11/22/2019 Admission to the Professional Association of Fine Artists BBK e. V.
January–October 2019 One year class free figuration at Freie Kunst Akademie Augsburg
September–November 2019 Solo exhibition Government of Upper Palatinate Regensburg
February–April 2017 Solo exhibition HypoVereinsbank Flagship Regensburg
From April 2016 Presented on online gallery ARTvergnuegen.de
2015 Masterclass with Gabriele Musebrink
September/October 2015...