Alexander Voigt

Alexander Ernst Voigt (*1981 in Berlin) lives and works in Düsseldorf. From 2003 to 2012, he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the classes of Jörg Immendorff, Herbert Brandl, and Eberhard Havekost, becoming a master student of the latter. In his painting, Voigt combines figurative motifs with an open, atmospheric visual language that moves between observation and imagination. His works draw elements from nature, landscape, and urban space, transforming them into multi-layered visual worlds where memory, perception, and painterly setting merge.

Characteristic of Voigt's work is the balance between precision and dissolution. Recurring motifs such as plants, architectural fragments, or landscape structures serve less to depict than to explore mood, space, and visual rhythm. His painting develops from layers, densities, and deliberate shifts between reality and fiction. This results in images that evoke familiarity without committing to clear narratives, and which place viewers in a state between recognition and discovery.

His works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions both in Germany and abroad, including in Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Enschede. Exhibitions in institutions such as the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, the Kunsthalle Osnabrück, the Haus für Musik at Raketenstation Hombroich, as well as regular participation in ART Cologne, mark important milestones in his artistic career. Voigt has been awarded the Rundstedt Art Sponsorship Prize and the Lovells Art Sponsorship Prize, among others, for his work.

Alexander Voigt

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The exhibition ARTIFICIAL? Traces of the Present brings together works that question our perception. Reality appears not as a given, but as something that is constantly being appropriated. ARTIFICIAL? questions whether what we see and experience is not always already made, constructed, and mediated.