31.1. – 11.5.2025

For Ull Hohn painting was more than just an artistic medium – it was a space where discourse, technique, and personal reflections intertwined. At a time when painting was often seen as an exhausted medium, Hohn initiated a renewal that emerged from the practice itself. In his works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hohn explored the intersection of formal and political questions, exploring sexuality and the body. He experimented with painterly forms that navigated between mass media appropriation and the tension between virtuosity and amateurism, opening painting up for self-reflection.  

A recurring theme in Hohn’s work, which spans from figurative painting to abstract compositions, is the critical examination of traditional painterly concerns – especially those related to landscape painting. Notions of nature and naturalness were constantly redefined and consciously tied to current debates. For instance, Hohn explicitly addressed his own homosexuality, fueled by the discourses of the culture wars raging in New York in the 1990s and the activism surrounding the AIDS epidemic.  

In the final years of his life, Ull Hohn concentrated on the series of works entitled Revisions, which lends this exhibition its title. Hohn revisited earlier works from his youth and re-examined classic motifs such as interiors, everyday objects, and still lifes from the perspective of a mature artist. The series can be understood as an artistic reflection on his personal development and life as an artist, at a time already overshadowed by his illness. Hohn died in 1995 from complications related to AIDS at the age of thirty-five. For Hohn, returning to his artistic beginnings was a deliberate act of creating a biographical narrative and extending his earlier stylistic appropriations to his works.

The exhibition is supported by:
Haus am Waldsee – Friends and Supporters
Between Bridges
Stark Foundation