Hans Vinzenz Seidl

2008–2013: Studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe

in the Painting and Printmaking class under Prof. Erwin Gross

2015–2016: Studied Intermedia Design under Prof. Wolfgang Mayer and

Prof. Christina Gomez Barrio (Discoteca Flaming Star) in Stuttgart

Lives and works in Cologne

Member of KunstEtage e.V.

Commitment

Since 2024: curatorial work and organisation of exhibitions at ‘Kabinett West’

Since 2020: KunstEtage e.V., Cologne; member of KunstEtage e.V.; co-organiser of

public events

Artist statement

I explore reverse-glass painting and the various painting techniques and media

suitable for this field of practice. In this process, traditional

traditional painting materials with high-tech substances of the 21st century.

Accordingly, the focus driving my work lies in the ongoing

reinterpretation of various approaches within classical reverse-glass painting (informal

painting, Pop Art, Baroque stylistic tendencies, etc.). Methodologically, I achieve this, amongst other things,

by consciously referencing art-historical pictorial and formal devices, whilst equally

minimalist insertions of representational and figurative elements, which I attempt to translate pictorially into

into a contemporary form. The mere fact of planning the motifs in a mirror-inverted manner

of the motifs – which inevitably leads to a practical inversion of foreground and

background, is part of an ongoing exploration, part of the

endeavour to question the limitations of the available glass and pictorial surface and

ultimately transcend them. Individual areas that cannot be painted over

create a three-dimensional immediacy and, on closer inspection, reveal the

painting process to become visible. Overall, I see myself striving to

to reflect, in an immersive way, the emotional states and trance-like conditions that manifest themselves within the scope of a distinctive,

diverse colour palette,

as it were, testing the extent to which these, through the possibilities of layering and

the positioning within the frame into a moment of aesthetic potentiation.

Exhibitions (selection)

2025 art-hoc, In the Pool, Düsseldorf

2025 Ober Über unter oder aber Überhaupt, Kunstraum Neureut, Karlsruhe

2025 “Atomic Knights”, Basement 16 Gallery, Bensberg, Bergisch Gladbach

2024 Community Exhibition, SKM Gallery, Leipzig; 2024 “Chama”, Fabrikat 89, Cologne

2024 “Never Wash Without Soap”, Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin

2024 “Als es noch Korallen gab” Exhibition by Kunstetage e.V., Lore Deutz, Cologne

2024 “Crooks” Artyfarty Gallery, Cologne

2023 Imagined Freedom: Whispers of Nostalgia, Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona

2023 Kabinett West Kunsthafen at the Rhenania, Cologne

2022/2023 “Untitled. Young Painting from Southern Germany and German-speaking Switzerland”

Singen Art Museum

2022 “Delicious Coincidences” ProjekTraum, Friedrichshafen (solo exhibition)

2021 Incorporation – Artificial Intelligence Devours Painting! Flow Atelier & Offspace, Bonn

2020 ‘Shapes of Memories’ BC-pro arte Foundation Gallery, Biberach an der Riß (solo)

2019 Salem Art Works, NY North Main Gallery (USA)

2018 Salem2Salem, Salem Castle, Lake Constance District (Germany)

2016 “switch to art” Video Art Annual Exhibition, Brückenhaus, Neu-Ulm

2016 “Hotel Europa” at Concordia, Enschede (NL)

2016 ‘Le pain complet, le peintre complet!’ Palermo Gallery, Stuttgart

2015 Salem Art Works NY (USA)

2014 Lichte Schatten, LRA Freudenstadt (solo)

2014 Salem2Salem, Salem Castle, Lake Constance district (Germany)

Funding



May 2022 – October 2022 German Federal Government Arts Fund NEUSTART KULTUR –

Grant for freelance visual artists, 2nd edition

2022 Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Grant for freelance artists as part of the NRW Corona

Aid Programme

2021 Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

Grant for freelance artists as part of the NRW Corona

Support

2018 and 2019 Salem Castle, Lake Constance district and New York, USA Residency grant

for interdisciplinary exchange, first in the Lake Constance district and subsequently in New York,

USA 2014 and 2015 Salem Castle, Lake Constance district and New York, USA

Residency grant for interdisciplinary exchange, first in the Lake Constance district and

subsequently in New York, USA