Annegret Hoch (she/her) is interested in “painting as subject matter.” Her work spans an arc from the traditional panel painting to the question of how far the playing field of painting can be extended. Bold colors and a sophisticated handling of the respective space are constants in her oeuvre. New in her recent work are colors derived directly from nature. The artist now uses beet and elderberry juice as well as sepia to extend the vocabulary of color theory.

Collages play an important role in Hoch’s work. Here, materials undergo a process of transformation, losing their original meaning. In 2019, the artist began extending the collage concept into three-dimensional space. Mundane office materials, in this case standard A4 and A3 sheets of paper, form a kind of “background noise” running through the various cycles. The key aspect of these room collages is that they are created directly on site, formally incorporating and continuing distinctive architectural elements or features such as exposed pipe systems.

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