Jan Davidoff
It would be too easy to follow one’s first impression and dismiss Jan Davidoff’s paintings as “figurative art”. In fact, his works are to be positioned on a level between concreteness and abstraction, on which real life scenes are confronted with a deeper meaning. Therefore photographs of travel experiences are being adapted on the computer back at the studio and then reduced to silhouettes, exaggerated and layered in various pictorial planes to set them into re-evaluating and significant contexts.
Jan Davidoff was born 1976 in Norden and reached his diploma in painting with Prof. Günther Förg at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, München in 2009. He lives and works in Munich.
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1976 geboren in Norden/Deutschland
2005 – 2009 Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Prof. Anke Doberauer, Prof. Günther Förg)
2009 Diplom für Malerei und Graphik
lebt und arbeitet in München und Utting am Ammersee
2012
Galerie Maurer – Naturalisation – Frankfurt am Main
TS Art projects – Hide’n’Seek – Berlin
Kunstverein Stellwerk – black’n’white Diessen
2011
Kunstclub Hamburg – Ruf der Menge – Hamburg
Galerie Maurer – Neue Bilder – Frankfurt
Galerie Terminus – Davidoff meets Polke – München
2010
Galerie Getreidegasse – Flüchtig – Salzburg/Österreich
2009
Aando Fine Art – Überfüllung – Berlin
Galerie Schöneck – Neue Werke – Basel
Galerie Terminus – Crossing – München
2008
Galerie Maurer – black’n’gold – Frankfurt am Main
mbf Kunstprojekte – black’n’gold – Freiburg
Galerie Maurer- One Artist Show – Art – Karlsruhe
2007
Galerie Maurer – Way in way out – Frankfurt am Main
2012
Hal Bromm Gallery – Abstract Realities- New York
Munich Modern/12 – Principles of Composition – München
Galerie Terminus – First Choice – München
Galerie Maurer – Summertime 3 – Frankfurt am Main
Studios of Key West – Abstract realities – Key West/USA
Stadtgalerie Altötting – Delikatessen – Altötting
2011
Munich Modern/11 – Les Fleurs du Mal – München
2010
Galerie Maurer – Summertime 2 – Frankfurt am Main
Essenheimer Kunstverein – Jahresgaben – Essenheim
2009
Galerie Terminus – Künstler der Galerie – München
Galerie Biedermann – Künstler der Galerie – München
Frankfurter Kunstkabinett – Architekturen – Frankfurt am Main
Galerie Maurer – Summertime 1 – Frankfurt am Main
2008
Galerie ArtMbassy – Künstler der Galerie – Berlin