Paul Günther Köstner’s artworks are currently shown at our Summer Show 2023 | Young International Positions from 30th June - 18th August.

PAUL GÜNTHER KÖSTNER

Paul Günther Köstner is best known for his abstract paintings which are inspired by the increasingly digitalized and urbanized world of images and forms. Köstner's creative work starts with computer-aided processes through which he manipulates visual input into abstraction. Shapes, composition, and colors become the subject of his paintings and transform the images into concrete and flat versions of themselves. His style of painting, in which gestural and random elements are reduced to a minimum, prioritizes intuitive associations over explicit references — resulting in artworks that activate the viewer's mind in trying to understand what is depicted or, rather, if something is depicted. In a way, Köstner's paintings present the viewer with a play of deception. Through the flatness of the colors, the geometric shapes are emphasized. The compositions of sharp lines appear dynamic and expressive, concealing the calculated creational process that eliminates spontaneity.

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