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Johanna Bath, polished, 2025, oil on linen, 60 x 50 x 4.5 cm

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"I am madly in love with life, with the wonder it holds, the blissful moments, even the heartbreak, the hurt, the loss. Because I am so aware that every moment is a singular sensation and won’t come back. I am pushing myself to be aware of every second passing, paying attention to even the most insignificant things that add up to be my life."

Born in Warendorf, Germany (1980), Bath moved to Hamburg after her highschool diploma in 1999 to get a professional training in Illustration Design at Bildkunst Akademie, Hamburg. She finished with a degree in 2002 but felt the need to deepen and expand her artistic skills and applied for Design Studies at the Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft, Hamburg (HAW). She graduated with a diploma in Design in 2007 with a strong focus on painting.

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ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice involves switching between different formats, moving from large work to medium to small, and then back to large again, exploring various motifs and allowing me to switch between diﬀerent approaches to the theme of “time”. My motifs (plants, hands and figuratives in general) are mostly based on a mixed source of imagery – my own and collected photographs and/or images sourced from the media. The moment they become subject to a painting, they are placed in another context and transformed into a vehicle for my own thoughts. I am not particularly interested in depicting something perfectly; for example, I am not making a painting to show the viewer how a hand or palm tree looks. It is much more about transporting a certain atmosphere. I often feel that as I am making the painting, my consciousness switches oﬀ entirely. These can also include graphic elements such as dots, lines and marks, sharply stencilled on top, as opposed to the mostly blurred image beneath, to create tension and to keep a certain playfulness within the piece. All of my energy and thoughts that circle around themes such as transience, the present / the past, memories, etc., become part of the painting and the object gets charged with that.

To emphasise the melancholic feel of my work even more, I am drawn towards a washed-out colour palette. Whilst I would consider my pieces to be colourful, they are still muted and look faded, like a photograph stained by light. This also refers to the idea of “loss of the present”. As I move forward in time and further away from a moment, I have diﬃculties recalling it entirely.

Forms blur, colours lose their punch, and time washes over my memory. When trying to recall a special occasion, or any occasion really, in my mind, I can remember, but never entirely. The entire experience never comes back. I am constantly on the edge of my brain, trying to focus on it, trying to get a sharp image, but I can’t. What I remember mostly is a feeling and, with it, if I am lucky, a small detail: the way his hands folded in front of me, how a mouth looked before a kiss, how the branches of a tree shaded me from the sun when taking a walk. Another focus of mine is to emphasise aspects of life that seem mundane and are often overlooked. The random arrangement of branches, the mere appearance of plants that stun me with their colouring, sunlight that shines through leaves, and the fold of the fabric.

Sometimes, I think I am choosing to paint something not only to emphasise the beauty that surrounds us and make it visible to the viewer, but also to embed the world's beauty into my own memory by taking the time to paint it. Even though my work is about loss and has a melancholic feel to it, it is important to me to make work that holds positive energy. That does not drown in sadness as certain times are over and gone, but that turns towards life and always focuses on the beauty that comes with evanescence. My work should also evoke a longing for the next moment that potentially has the power to become my next favourite memory - a moment I want to revisit and cherish forever. I aim to create work that captivates the viewer with its quietness. Engaging in dialogue should be a calming, meditative experience and a paradox: While the work addresses the passage of time and its movement, in contemplation, it should resemble looking at a vacuum without time, a moment entirely detached from it.

“To understand the point in life we must first understand what it is to be human. It seems to me that the common agent that binds us all together is loss, and so the point in life must be measured in relation to that loss. Our individual losses can be small or large. Loss is absorbed into our bodies from the moment we are cast from the womb until we end our days, subsumed by it to become the essence of loss itself. We ultimately become the grief of the world, having collected countless losses through our lifetime. These losses are many-faceted and chronic, both monstrous and trivial. They are losses of dignity, losses of agency, losses of trust, losses of spirit, losses of direction or faith, and, of course, losses of the ones we love. (...) We are capable of the greatest atrocities and the deepest suﬀerings, all culminating in a vast, collective grief. This is our shared condition.“ - Nick Cave
Works
- collar, 2025
- Exotic (butter yellow), 2025
- Guava II, 2025
- idyll, 2025
- Innocence, 2025
- knotted II, 2025
- motion, 2025
- nostalgia II (Grace), 2025
- Persimmon, 2025
- Point, 2025
- purple, 2025
- Red Robin, 2025
- sheen, 2025
- Slow paced, 2025
- vibe, 2025
- Clasped, 2024
- crossed, 2024
- lift, 2024
- bow, 2023
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, "Only love will save us"

Scroll NYC, New York, NY, USA, “burning edge”

2024

BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China, "Flesh, and the mirror",

2023

Pipeline Contemporay, London, “Shivers”

2019

Neue Arbeiten, Part2Gallery Düsseldorf

2018

Maxipark Hamm, “hold your breath - count to ten”

2017

Aktuelle Arbeiten, BTZ Bielefeld

2016

Stadtmuseum/ Historisches Rathaus Warendorf, “nexus”

Hotel Traube Tonbach, Baiersbronn

Schloßhotel Monrepos, Ludwigsburg

2013

Stadthausgalerie, Hamm, ”Hello Stranger“

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

PIERMARQ, Sydney, Australia, “The Looking Hour”

Make Room, Los Angeles, CA, USA, “Into the Woods”

Enari Gallery x DMW Gallery, Antwerp, BE, “Jumeler”

Enosis, Apsara Studio/von Goetz, London, UK

Being without being is blue, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK

2024

TERRA II, Burgundy, France

Stems Gallery, Paris, France, “Beyond Ecstasy”

MINT Gallery, Munich, Germany, “Gentle Glow”

Alzueta Gallery Turó, Barcelona, Spain, “New Portraits”

2023

Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “Moons”

Everyday Mooonday, Seoul, South Korea, “Feminity, art as a self-reproduction”

Scroll NY, New York, United States,

Coulisse Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, “Lacuna”

YOD Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, “Appearance”

Pictorum Gallery, London, UK, “Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended”

Roman Road, London, UK, “A Gothic Midsummer”

PhillipsX, Seoul, Korea, “Briefly Gorgeous”

C1760, New York City, United States, “Femme F®iction”

Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, “Teach Me To Remember”

Roman Road, London, UK, “Bury a Friend”

Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK, “Eve presents Number 3”

BLANKgallery, Shanghai, China, “Sweet Spot”

The Split Gallery, London, “A path with heart”

2022

VAN DER PLAS Gallery, New York City, “At a crossroads”

2021

Raum 55, Essen, “2021”

Haze Gallery, Berlin, “The concept of authenticity”

2020

Heinrich Lübke Museum, Hamm, “the best of”

2019

März Manufaktur Paderborn, “vanish into thin air”

2018-2017

Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst/ Alte Spedition/ Gladbeck

2017

PicNic Art Convention Ruhr

2016

UFAM Ruhr Rathausgalerie Essen

UFAM Ruhr, Mural/ Herten

Kunstroute - Le Tour Belgique/ Cologne

ART RESIDENCIES

2024

Fores Project Residency, London, UK

2023

Zuecca Projects Art Residency, Venice, Italy

PARTICIPATION IN ART FAIRS

2025

Art Rotterdam’25 (with Enari Gallery), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2024

PAN Amsterdam (with Enari Gallery), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

KIAF Art Fair (with EM Gallery), Seoul, South Korea

Art Rotterdam’24 (with Enari Gallery), Rotterdam, The Netherlands

CAN Art Fair (with Enari Gallery), Ibiza, Spain

2023

Art Athina ’23 (with Enari Gallery), Athens, Greece

CAN Art Fair ’23 (with Cob Gallery), Ibiza, Spain

2022

The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition

2021

The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition

2019

The Other Art Fair, Virtual Edition
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