From time to time, I participate in mail art projects. For example, at the Kunstverein Duisburg. This time, I used one of my photographic works for my postcard.
AURA
MailART 2025
07/06/ 2025 – 29/06/2025
Kunstverein Duisburg
ARTloft
Weidenweg 10, 47059 Duisburg, Germany
ManiVesta 2025 Locatie 24:
21/06 – 22/06/2025, 11-17 h
De Lutherse Schuilkerk,
Langendijk 72, Gorinchem, Netherlands
As already mentioned, in this exhibition I present a selection of my works on paper and canvas, as well as my graphic works. Since my work is interdisciplinary and multimedia, the paintings and prints reflect only a small part of my entire oeuvre. The works on paper are a type of collage and mixed media using acrylic paint, chalk pencils, pigments, sometimes sand, and various papers from Nepal and Japan on sturdy Fabriano or Canson paper. Since this year's theme is gold, all works incorporate shades of gold.
One of my photographic work was selected for the open call exhibition “Vil du udstilles”.This is one of the exhibitions that will be held during the :
Copenhagen Photography Festival 2025.
‘Fremkaldelser – Towards the Light’
June 12–18, 11:00–20:00
Royal Danish Theatre – Gamle Scene
Kongens Nytorv 9, Copenhagen, Denmark
With the festival theme ‘Fremkaldelser – Towards the Light’, we focus on everything worth seeing. Memories and moments from peoples past and present are now invited to shine. We encourage everyone to submit a photo that means something special to them. Something hidden, or perhaps newly discovered. A photo that tells a story, captures an emotion, or reflects their sensitivity.
6th International ExLibris Competition Varna 2025
06/06–01/07/2025
Opening 06/06/2025 – 18.30 h
Monday - Friday: 10:00 -18:30 /mSaturday: 11:00 - 15:00
Largo Art Gallery, 8 Han Krum Str., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
The exhibition also shows my Exlibris (bookplate) works. The organizer of the prestigious graphic forum is the Jordan Petkov Art Foundation in partnership with the Largo Gallery. The competition is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the Culture Fund of the Municipality of Varna.
https://johannesgerard-artworks.jimdosite.com/
On this new website, I present a selection of my paintings on canvas and paper, as well as my graphic works. Since I work in an interdisciplinary and multimedia manner as an artist, the paintings and prints reflect only a small part of my entire oeuvre. To provide a better, separate overview of all my works and avoid an overloaded presentation on a single website, I decided to create a separate website dedicated exclusively to these paintings and works on paper. Therefore, this website serves only as a brief summary and additional information about my paintings and works on paper.
Towards the Other
Arts, Ethics and the boundaries of the Self
editor Aldobranti
edizioni Fosco Fornio, Petersfield, Hampshire, UK, 2025
ISBN 978-1-9995847-7-1
Artist of the space between the self and the Other
The question of how the self encounters the other - how it recognizes, resits or transforms in relation to that strangeness-has become ever more pressing. What once may have seen an abstract or philosophical preoccupation now lies exposed across the structures of daily life, where political frontiers grow rigid and conversations falters across lines of differences. The shrinking space for disagreement ,for unfamiliarity, for difference itself, is symptomatic of a broader ethical contraction-a retreat into sameness. at stake is the refusal of encounter, and with it, the foreclosure of relation.
The contribution
The work “You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense” is a self-portrait with autobiographical elements. Autobiographical elements that reflect my inner self and my view of the world and the social environment around me have been prominent in my work since 2023. However, my work reflects these elements in a metaphorical and symbolic style. The work contains more than one interpretation. First, how I see myself if I were sitting in front of myself. A stone, without emotions, without charisma, without giving anything back, immobile ... and yet this stone can be unpredictable, a projectile, a weapon against myself, others or the world. The second interpretation is how I see others or, better, how I am connected to the other in a broader sense. Regardless of social aspects and the connection with other people or dimensions that are spiritual or touch the soul. For many years I have been struggling with my mental and social disorders. In addition to this, there is hearing damage and tinnitus. Since childhood, I have found it difficult to establish or maintain social contacts or to communicate my thoughts and feelings well. Part of the other has become loneliness over time. For me, however, being alone is not always painful, but it can be complex and challenging. I may be in a phase of longing for company and change, but I also have to ask myself if the process of longing and belonging to a social environment has begun or if I end up deliberately avoiding any belonging and attachment to anyone.
A work by me "4xme/4xich" in a completely different technique (scanner/photocopy art) will be shown at
“Unruly Publishing”
M.F.F - The Museum of Photocopying / Museum für Fotokopie
16/05/2025 – 29/06/2025
Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 48, 45468 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany
The M.F.F. Museum of Photocopying is celebrating 40 years of “Unruly Publishing”. The exhibition tells and shows the motivation and stories of the people behind unruly forms of publishing, from copy & video art to zines and pirate radios. Part of the exhibition will show how artists, designers, photographers, and anyone interested in the subject have redefined the concept of the portrait in the context of scanner art.
