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  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Hubert Becker
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Sandro Chia
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Christian Flora
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Andy Holtin
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Tina Lechner
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Constantin Luser
  • Klaus Merkel
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Olga Pedan
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Damir Radović
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Ina Weber
© Klaus Merkel © Klaus Merkel Klaus Merkel, 15.08.01 stairs, 2015
, Oil on canvas, 220 x 190 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf
© Klaus Merkel © Klaus Merkel Klaus Merkel, 15.08.02 stage, 2015
, Oil on canvas, 130 x 100 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf

Klaus Merkel’s oeuvre is marked by an independent and discursive approach which he developed in the 1990s and which has continued to be the essence of his artistic approach until the present day. At this time Klaus Merkel also created his Catalogue Pictures, in which he reduced his works up until that point (about 500 paintings) on a scale of 1:10 and displayed them on seven panels. In fact he still uses these panels today, with many of its elements forming the basis for new works. By continually quoting from his own previous paintings, Klaus Merkel breaks with the chronological aspect of his entire oeuvre. This method of “painting pictures with pictures” means that each work is part of a wider system in which all his works are connected, and the artist highlights the role of the individual image in painting.

— Magdalena Koschat 

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