3 x Color

Florian Fausch was born in Switzerland, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, and
currently lives and works in Düsseldorf. His painting emerges as a condensation of
impressions into a sub-visual architecture. Open pictorial fields, layering, scraping, and
superimpositions create spaces with temporal depth, where memory and new beginnings
intertwine. Fausch’s works invite a multifaceted perception and unfold a pictorial order that
deliberately remains in flux. Light functions not merely as illumination, but as a resonance
between surface and depth, and between urban energy and inner experience.

Till Franzen has worked for many years as a director, screenwriter, and visual artist. His debut
feature film, *The Blue Border*, was screened and awarded at international film festivals.
Numerous film and television productions followed, as well as works in serial storytelling.
Alongside his film practice, Franzen develops a distinctive visual practice in which digital
image thinking, algorithmic structures, and painterly decisions intertwine. In juxtaposition with
abstract and figurative painting, the digital becomes tangible as a contemporary extension of
the painterly.

Martin Stommel was born in 1969 and his artistic development was shaped by, among others,
the Russian painter Boris Birger, as well as by studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and
the Berlin University of the Arts. His painting is informed by art history and simultaneously
grounded in contemporary issues. Archaic-looking and timeless figures are central to his work
and are imbued with an inner tension between movement and stillness. Stommel understands
the painting as a self-contained world in which forms and colors enter into a harmonious
relationship. His works emphasize presence and expression within the context of a digitally
shaped visual present.