Jochen Mühlenbrink - J'M donc je suis

With J'M donc je suis, Düsseldorf-based painter Jochen Mühlenbrink (b. 1980) takes stock of the productive years2018 to 2023, during which he further developed and sublimated his theme, the ambiguity of the correspondencebetween visual perception and depictive reality. With the Window Paintings, for example, he takes up a very own andold motif of painting, the image detail as a view and window into the world: in Mühlenbrink's work, it is seemingly almostrendered impossible from the outset. Streaks of condensation form the foreground of a hyper-realistic everyday scenein a veiled background, visible only through tiny sections of "painted-out" fi ngerprints in the window. The process ofcognition triggered by this strategy of showing and concealing brings two factual realities before the viewer's eyes, thatof the picture and that in the picture, and puts them to a sophisticated test in this double respect: Je vois donc je suis?With a knowledgeable and exciting essay by the art historian Anna Heinze, further text contributions by SaSa Bogojev andSebastian Schmitt. High-quality design, brilliant printing and climate-neutral production.Jochen Mühlenbrink, *1980 in Freiburg (DE), lives and works in Düsseldorf (DE).