ALEXANDER SCHULZ | Wer hat den Hut auf?

opening February 27: Who is wearing the hat? asks Alexander Schulz in his first solo presentation at the Judith Andreae Gallery. The painter does not provide an answer to the question. Instead, he opens up a space for interpretation that seems to quietly dissolve the hierarchy between artist and viewer – and denies any unambiguousness in his works.

Born in West Berlin and raised in East Berlin, Alexander Schulz has moved between different, sometimes contradictory visual spaces from the very beginning. This biographical experience of simultaneity and transition may explain something of the matter-of-factness with which opposites are allowed to coexist or merge in his painting without being dissolved. His painterly process is based on empathy and abstraction from the things that surround him every day. He keeps a material diary in which he collects fragmentary references to architecture, landscape, everyday objects and media images. From these visual notes, he develops a multi-layered web of colours and forms in which personal experience and painterly composition overlap.

Alexander Schulz (born in 1987 in West Berlin) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig from 2012 to 2021, where he received his diploma in 2018 and graduated in 2021 as a master student under Prof. Christoph Ruckhäberle. In addition, he completed a year of study at the Art Academy of Latvia in Riga in 2015/16.

Alongside Alexander Schulz's solo exhibition, Galerie Judith Andreae is showing sculptural works by Hyejin Park (HYEPAK) in the SALON.

Vernissage: February 27, 2026, 6–9 pm
The artist is present.

Alexander Schulz
Wer hat den Hut auf?
February 28 – April 25, 2026