About the artist
Playing with the forms and structures of nature and their effect on the viewer is the focus of my work.
The works, mainly modelled in plaster, appear like sensual beings caught in a frozen movement whose imagined continuation is left to the interpretation of the viewer.
The sculptures seem familiar and strange at the same time and thus invite us to reconsider our own patterns of perception.
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Pe Hagen, Working as a visual artist in Düsseldorf since 2013.
Even during his training as a gilder in the Black Forest, he experimented with organic and biomorphic forms, which are now an essential stylistic element of his sculptures.
Playing with the forms and structures of nature and their effect on the viewer is the focus of my work. In the process, they are interpreted, alienated and placed in new contexts. It is not the copy but the transformation in the artistic process that makes my work.
The titles of the sculptures, partly mysterious, partly seemingly taken from everyday life and the banal, reinforce the feeling of taking part in a game whose rules the viewer still has to fathom...
since 2020 Artist of the City of Düsseldorf
Since 2017 Own studio 'Pe Hagen' in Düsseldorf
since 2013 Freelance artist
1993-2013 Employment as gilder in Berlin and Düsseldorf
1989-1992 Apprenticeship as gilder in a gilding and restoration companyBorn 22.01.1971 Offenburg/ Black Forest
Pe Hagen, working as a visual artist in Düsseldorf since 2013.
Works | Series
References
Solo exhibitions
2016 | Düsseldorf, Germany Cinema
2015| Cologne, Germany Solo in the Corridor
2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany TADAHH!
Art Fairs
2022 | Cologne, Germany
Discovery Art Fair Cologne, Cologne (Germany)
2021 | Frankfurt am Main, germany
Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
2021 | Hamburg, Germany
INCorporating Art Fair, Hamburg (Germany)
2020 | Frankfurt, Germany Discovery Art Fair
2019| Zurich, Switzerland Swiss Art Expo
2019 | Cologne, Germany Discovery Art Fair
Group exhibitions
2022 | Magdeburg, Germany
Kunst Mitte / dieHO Gallery
2022 | Hamburg, Germany
Senses / Gallery 040 at the Kaisergalerie
2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
NACHTBRÖTCHEN / NIGHT ROLLS / NDSM LOODS