3 x COLOR

Florian Fausch, Till Franzen, and Martin Stommel work with diverse visual languages encompassing abstraction, digital image production, and figuration, yet they all share a common question: How can perception, memory, and the present be translated into color today?

3 x COLOR

Opening: January 23, 2026, 6–8 p.m.

Florian Fausch, Till Franzen, and Martin Stommel will be present at the opening.


With the exhibition "Three Times Color," the janinebeangallery presents three artistic perspectives on painting.

Florian Fausch, Till Franzen, and Martin Stommel work with diverse visual languages encompassing abstraction, digital image production, and figuration, yet they all share a common question: How can perception, memory, and the present be translated into color today?


Florian Fausch was born in Switzerland, studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, and currently lives and works in Düsseldorf. His painting emerges as a condensation of impressions into a sub-visual architecture. Open pictorial fields, layering, scraping, and superimpositions create spaces with temporal depth, in which memory and new beginnings intertwine. Fausch's works reject any clear legibility in favor of an unstable pictorial order. Light functions not as illumination, but as a resonance between surface and depth, and between urban energy and inner experience.


Till Franzen has worked for many years as a director, screenwriter, and visual artist. His debut feature film, *The Blue Border*, was screened and awarded at international film festivals. Numerous film and television productions followed, as well as works in serial storytelling. Parallel to his film practice, Franzen develops an independent visual practice in which digital image thinking, algorithmic structures, and painterly decisions intertwine. In juxtaposition with abstract and figurative painting, the digital becomes tangible as a contemporary extension of the painterly.


Martin Stommel was born in 1969 and his artistic development was shaped by, among others, the Russian painter Boris Birger, as well as by studies at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and the Berlin University of the Arts. His painting is informed by art history and simultaneously grounded in contemporary issues. Archaic-looking and timeless figures are central to his work and are imbued with an inner tension between movement and stillness. Stommel understands the painting not as an object, but as a self-contained world in which forms and colors must find their own justification. His works insist on presence and expression in an age of increasing image simulation.

The interplay of these three perspectives creates an exhibition that does not smooth over contrasts, but rather makes them productive. Abstract spatial structures, digital systems, and figurative imagery stand side by side, offering a multifaceted view of painting today.


3 x COLOR presents painting as an open field, a place where perception, memory, and the present are constantly renegotiated.