WITH AMBIVALENCE AT A LATE HOUR, we’ve succeeded in bringing the fascinating surrealist Andreas Hinkel from his current home in Thuringia to Dresden for a month.
His works are characterized by their high-quality execution and the subtle concealment of their messages about becoming and passing—along with all the in-between stages. They are rich with cross-references to current topics, classical masterpieces, and his very own motivations. He mainly paints in oil on canvas; his palette is earthy yet splendid, expressing his deep connection to Mother Nature as his greatest teacher and allowing him to convey emotional truths with striking clarity.
Born in 1959 and raised in Saxony, Andreas Hinkel studied under Prof. Gottfried Bammes in Dresden and worked as a theatrical painter in Radebeul before founding his first gallery in Jülich in 1994. Since 2011, he has run the Kunsthaus No7 in Starkenberg / OT Naundorf in Thuringia, located in an old farmhouse, where he regularly hosts exhibitions and passionately devotes himself to painting.