Joeggu Hossmann

Joeggu Hossmann, Swiss painter, merges motives from contemporary life in the digital era and travel moods into meticulously composed canvases.

Hossmann‘s content is radically contemporary. His motifs are collected, compressed impressions of everyday life, reflected and frozen with an intensity that captivates the audience. His protagonists and their environments merge together with the glowing, muted colors of his fore and backgrounds. Pixelated abstractions of color help to blur these boundaries. The narrative in his work, is painted in an untamed, changing rhythm. through the shifting mood of the texts which move from calm, almost pensive, to loud, even shrill, Hossmann shows his view of the world. Travel impressions and the digital age serve as an inexhaustible inspiration. Impressions from afar, like the strange smells and sounds that he absorbed during his travels across the USA, Australia, Mexico, Vietnam and beyond, are brought back home get to be painted like an endless film. For Hossmann content is valued above aesthetic composition.

In documenting the current zeitgeist, Hossmann is combining traditional oil painting with our digital age. Despite the advances in technology, painting has not been superseded yet and still provides new stimuli and impulses. The main focus of his practice is to reflect and criticize the absurdities and contradictions of our everyday life and social coexistence in the light of the effects of global networks, the ‘24/7‘ availability of information and new digital technological innovation on the people and their identity. He transcribes imagery found on the internet into traditional paintings and in doing so presents a collective visual memory of the virtual world.

Joeggu Hossmann was born in 1978 in Thun, Switzerland, where he lives and works today.

Luzerner Zeitung: “Er verewigt Musikstars und Internetwelten”

Overstandart: “Joeggu Hossmann and His Interesting Approach to Contemporary Art”

Actuart by Eric Simon: “Joeggu Hossmann <<Existence Has No Format>>”

OPUS Kulturmagazin: ”Galerie Grandel zeigt: joeggu hossmann, influence yourself”

Thuner Tagblatt: ”Ein Hauch von Welt in Thun”

Aargauer Zeitung: “Überlagerung der Erscheinungen”

Widewalls: “Joeggu Hossmann Art Exhibition at Galerie Rigassi by SOON”

Zürichsee Zeitung: “Eindrücke zwischen Fiktion und Realität”