About

• Andreas Schulze belongs to a generation of German painters who emerged in the 1980s. Translating experimental attitudes of Punk and Welle music into painting, the artists of this generation are known collectively as Neue Wilde.
• Schulze's paintings feature a familiar repertoire of mundane objects, including cards, lamps, sofas, and sausages. On the canvas these objects are inflated into cartoonish, amorphous figures arranged into shallow scenes and theatrical stages.
• While his paintings reference an aesthetic of coza German bourgeois Gemütlichkeit (Homeliness), Schulze's cosmos is perplexing and odd. The familiar is humorously debased. What's recognizable is also mischieveously subverted.
• Schulze's work exposes the blind spot of middle-class comforts and the trappings of a lifestyle that fetishizes symbols of status and progress with equal measures of humor and sympathy.
• His critique also extends to art history itself. By ironizing the pretentious of superiority of the intellectual avant-garde, Schulze's presents a humorously distorted mirror that exposes the insecurities of German post-war society.