THE PERSONAL EFFECT OF COLOR

Jan Baumgartner is a German visual artist based in Bielefeld, Germany. For more than a decade, Jan has explored the effects of colour and space by creating works digitally.
 

As a child with epilepsy, his world was marked by sudden seizures and unpredictable emotional outbursts. In the midst of this chaos, he found refuge in colour — a constant, a safe surface to hold on to. Early on, he learned that colours can have an immediate impact on emotional well-being. Artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, David Hockney and Josef Albers revealed to him the power of colour, and that its tension lies in the subjectivity of each individual shade.
 

Alongside this, Jan developed a deep connection to techno. In its strict repetition and relentless monotony, he discovered a form of liberation — a space where structure becomes freedom. Just as pure, unbroken colours can transform a room into an alternate reality, the pulse of techno offers him an escape beyond the everyday.
 

The field of tension in his art moves between abstraction and reality, dealing with moments, feelings, memories and longings — and the desire to create places where sound and colour become shelter.