Christoph Roßner

In the borderland between figuration and abstraction, between representation and association, Christoph Roßner captures his motifs in two dimensions. Exaggerations, interstices and empty spaces complete these ambiguous compositions and dissolve the hierarchy between foreground and background, between inside and outside. With his affinity for still lifes and other classical subjects, Roßner’s work tells whimsical stories that transcend all naturalistic representation. In doing so, the artist makes use of a staged inability: figures appear in a childlike reduction to line drawings; proportions and scales are incorrect; the background imposes itself through its colourfulness; objects are abstracted to the level of symbols. Perspective is reduced to diagonals that cannot agree on a common vanishing point. Roßner teases out our expectations and then disappoints them: with a smile on our lips, we must recognise them as irrelevant.

Biographical details
Christoph Roßner was born in Zwickau in 1982. After studying in Ecuador and Cuba, he studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar from 2003 to 2006 and then at the Dresden University of Fine Arts until 2009. in 2011, he completed a masterclass with Prof Ralf Kerbach. Christoph Roßner lives and works in Dresden and Leipzig.