Paul Glaw DE, b. 1988

At the invitation of curator Hannah Eckstein, Galerie Philipp Anders took part in the eighteenth edition of Art Verona in October 2023. We were one of four galleries curated into...

We are excited to present the new solo show DOUBLE EXPOSURE by Paul Glaw which opened on June 8, 2023 and is on view until July 22, 2023. In his previous solo show in Leipzig, Glaw spotlighted masculinity and aggression in the 1990s and early 2000s in East Germany. With his new exhibition Paul Glaw presents new paintings, sculptures, and installations to touch the fall, crisis and victimization as a social and cultural phenomenon. Paul Glaw’s artistic work is characterized by a distinctive visual languages of a unique chromatic approach in blue and orange and figurative compositions of both painterly and drawn dimensions. He creates attributes and symbols that form an iconogrophy of its own, for which he fuses symbols and aesthetics from Socialist realism with open, cartoonish and expressive figurative styles. His works explore different forms of collective memory of the years since 1990. They depict the ambivalence of this time and its protagonists as they address anxiety and sorrow, the loss of social institutions, lethargy and violence, structural changes and the rupture in individual as well as collective perspectives towards themselves and the future.