Dieter Jung's solo exhibition ‘Life of Colors’ at the KORNFELD Gallery in Berlin opens up spaces in which rhythm can be experienced as a universal principle – as the vibration of light, colour and perception. On display are works from four decades that reveal the significance of colour in Jung's multifaceted oeuvre.
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Dieter Jung, Elements 1, 2004, Matrixhologramm, verspiegelt
Dieter Jung, Solar Wind, 1985, 184 x 167 cm, Acryl auf Leinwand
In ‘Life of Colours,’ colour takes centre stage as living light. Jung uses optical interference, spectral refraction and subtle impulses of movement to create immaterial pictorial spaces that oscillate between surface and depth. The works respond to the presence of the viewer and invite active, almost meditative viewing. Light is not understood as a means of illumination, but as an energetic continuum that leads to the immediate experience of resonances.
Since the 1970s, Dieter Jung has been one of the most important pioneers of artistic holography. In his work, he explores the interactions of light, movement, space and time. He develops visual systems in which colour becomes an immaterial, vibrating form of energy. His holokinetic and colour-based works make a rhythm visible – not as a musical structure, but as a pulsating frequency that unfolds in space and in the viewer's gaze.
In addition to his holographic investigations, painting forms an essential foundation of his oeuvre. Jung's colour spaces arise from precise, serial structures in which colour acts as an energetic continuum. The canvases follow inner fields of movement in which light and colour bundle, overlap and drift apart in vibrant transitions.
His holography in particular shapes the exploratory impulse of his work: the motifs arise from deliberately employed overlays, refractions and experiments – the results of an examination of perception and visual energies between art, science and technology. Painting and holography, hand drawing, printmaking and object art do not stand alone in isolation in Jung's work. They merge into an expanded understanding of seeing. Taken as a whole, they explore the invisible in the visible and paint with photons.
Dieter Jung's art is embedded in a network of diverse international relationships. His works and installations have been exhibited in over forty countries, but especially in Brazil, where his works were shown in the 1970s to 1990s at the MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), the Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM) and the Goethe Institutes, among others. This led to inspiring encounters with artists from the fields of concrete art and concrete poetry, music, film and holography, including personalities such as Moises Baumstein, Israel Pedrosa, Glauber Rocha, Turibio Santos and Jorge Amado.
Exhibition details:
Duration: 15 January – 28 February 2026Location: KORNFELD Galerie, Fasanenstr. 26, 10719 Berlin
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
