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Starting in autumn 2026, artist Chunqing Huang (born in Heze, China in 1974) will be taking a contemporary look at August Macke and Expressionism. Huang’s art is known for its expressive, individual gesture, and for her free treatment of color and form. She prefers working in series, where she can take close looks at various topics, each with its own specific imagery. In Painter’s Portrait, she focuses her attention, for example, on a hundred Modernist works that she compresses from memory and molds into an own unique artistic form. In the photo series City Life she captures – not unlike the way August Macke did in his day – urban happenings in what seem to be random depictions of people on the street.

The exhibition brings together some 70 works, among which are paintings and photographs. In the focus are selected series done during the past ten years, such as Painter‘s Portrait (2016–2023), City Life (2016), and En Vogue (since 2024), along with more recent works produced especially for our show.

Chunqing Huang studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Peking from 1994 to 1998 and beginning in the year 2000 at Städel Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main with Peter Angermann and Wolfgang Tillmans. In 2004 she became master-class student with Hermann Nitsch for free painting and interdisciplinary art. Her works may may be found in numerous national and international collections and have been shown at institutions such as the Kunsthalle Mannheim, the Museum Wiesbaden, and most recently at the Kirchnerhaus Museum Aschaffenburg. Huang lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.