Martin Hümmecke

Martin Hümmecke discovered his passion for artistic work when he was about 14 years old. Comics, pop art, surrealism and fantasy art fascinated him and led him to focus intensively on graphics and painting. After his first years of self-taught work, he expanded his skills in the field of graphics and illustration by studying at the Design University of Münster. Since his studies, he has continued his artistic work alongside his full-time job as an art director. The subject of his work is his subjective intellectual and emotional reality, which merges into the inner world as the sum of his own memories and experiences. A key element of his work is the concentration on the line, which in its powerful simplicity gives him access to his surprising image constellations.
enabled. In search of his own archaic symbols, he finds himself reflected in the spaces of his unconscious personality. His way of working shows many parallels to surrealism, symbolism, and urban art. We live in a time where one can believe that everything has already been said and every artistic stylistic device has been used. In the search for new forms of expression, it is sometimes forgotten that artistic expression is not just the work of art as such, but rather the process of its creation. The images are created in a concentrated process without any preliminary drawing within a maximum of 60 minutes (can be seen as a time-lapse video on my Instagram account). They are a time frame in which a high level of self-efficacy is experienced through maximum concentration, and unconscious decisions are given priority over cognitive detours.
Exhibitions:
2012: Lebensgarten Soest, solo exhibition
2014: Bem Adam Kaserne Soest, group exhibition
2016: Lebensgarten Soest, solo exhibition
2017: Lebensgarten Soest, joint exhibition
2018: Art in the Bunker, Kunstverein Soest, group exhibition
2019: Kunst direkt, Tagungscenter Soest, joint exhibition
2019: The Heirs of Morgner, Morgner Museum Soest, group exhibition
2022: Kunst direkt, Tagungscenter Soest, joint exhibition
2022: Cheapart Bonn, group exhibition
2023: K15 Gallery Lippstadt, solo exhibition
2023: Works 21 Artist Group,
Ruhrholz Manufaktur Soest, joint exhibition
2023: Cheapart Bonn, group exhibition