JAN SEBASTIAN KOCH

Jan Sebastian Koch might just be the art-world’s best kept secret: his ethereal, dreamlike landscape and fantastical still life paintings evoke the otherworldliness of Chagall or Matisse, handled with a masterful approach to contemporary painting rarely matched by an artist his age. The works are at once poetic, powerful, and deceptively simple: cerulean hues and pastel planes delineate a mountain, a body of water, or a rocky outreach.

Through a style that is simultaneously ‘landscape’ painting and completely abstract, the artist recalls contemporary peers Andreas Eriksson or Harold Ancart, but with a greater poetic sensitivity that suggests an emotional understanding or even through his literary imbued titles, even a sense of developing narrative. In 2019 we proudly presented Jan Sebastian in his first major solo outing, which nearly sold out in its first 5 days. We have great aspirations for this incredibly talented painter.

JAN SEBASTIAN KOCH (b.1978 Monchengladbach, Germany) currently lives and works in Berlin. Koch graduated with an MA from the University of Art in Berlin in 2005.

Solo exhibitions include: The Golden Age, Galleriet Agnes, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024); Midsummer in Yves’ Garden, BEERS London (2023); If Mountains Could Sing, BEERS London (2020); Shelter from the Storm, BEERS London (2019); New Paintings, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen (2013).

Group exhibitions include: Landscape, Reimagined, Saatchi Gallery, London (2024); Family & Friends, BEERS London, London (2023); J+1, Jarmuschek+Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2023); paper., BEERS London, London (2022); Lee Mingwei: Li, Gifts and Rituals, Gropius Bau, Berlin (2020); Roter Hirsch, codex-berlin, Berlin (2018); Black Box Kunsthalle, Luneburg (2018); No More Heroes Anymore, Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (2016).