Natalia Hug

Köln, Germany

Jülicher Straße 14
50674 Köln, Germany
www.nataliahug.com

Jana Schroder

Jana Schröder (B. 1983, Brilon, Germany) proceeds nonchalantly through a strongly performative pictorial practice. Her large canvases appear like monuments of automatic writings- notes and doodles of the type one might imagine psychoanalysts encouraging patients to make in order to gain access to repressed memories. Schröder's activity is a tribute of sorts to the paintings of Albert Oehlen, the artist’s Professor at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, who combined abstract and figurative elements in response to the neo-expressionist aesthetic that reigned in the 1980s. Schröder’s paintings are in a state of constant evolution, which offers the viewer a form that is never definitive. Spontaneity versus control, surface versus depth, and apparent speed versus slowness of gesture are the ingredients of an investigation that is more complex than it appears.

-Artforum


Jana Schröder studied with Albert Oelen at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf from 2005 to 2009. Schroder has been included in numerous Group Exhibitions including: Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, DE; Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim, DE; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles; and Natalia Hug, Cologne. Most recently Schröder was the subject of Solo Exhibitions at Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, and Natalia Hug, Cologne. Her work included in prominent Public and Private Collections throughout the US and Europe. Schröder lives and works in Düsseldof, Germany. 

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