Johannes Ehemann
WORKS
Johannes Ehemann | 2025 | Acryl auf Leinwand | 150 x 150 cm
Johannes Ehemann | Paperplane | 2026 | Edelstahl auf Marmor | 60 cm
Johannes Ehemann | Trapped | 2026 | Acryl auf Leinwand | 50 cm x 50 cm
Johannes Ehemann | Unteach | 2026 | Acryl auf Leinwand | 140 cm x 125 cm
Johannes Ehemann | Spread Your Wings | 2026 | Edelstahl auf Marmor | 60 cm
Johannes Ehemann | Friends of the House | 2026 | Acryl auf Leinwand | 140 cm x 140 cm
ARTIST Info
Johannes
Ehemann
Before turning to the visual arts, Johannes Ehemann – born in 1996 and now based in Wiesbaden – was active as a professional ice hockey player. This athletic background continues to shape his understanding of discipline, momentum, and personal growth. At the same time, his intense experience in team sports led him to recognize how essential individual forms of expression are to one’s overall well-being.
Ehemann’s artistic practice makes clear that traditional pictorial formats are insufficient for his creative ambitions. In a deliberate departure from conventional constraints, he has developed his own supports and techniques, allowing for a greater degree of expressive freedom. His works do not adhere to fixed rules; rather, they are defined by an ongoing process of questioning, discarding, and reinvention.
Influences from fashion, photography, and design run throughout his work, merging with a reflective engagement with broader societal issues. Both conceptually and formally, Ehemann operates between the poles of destruction and reconfiguration. Many of his works begin with seemingly incidental gestures—crumpled sketches or fleeting moments captured on Polaroid. What might ordinarily be dismissed as waste becomes the foundation for carefully rendered, often highly enlarged compositions on wood or folded Plexiglas, which are subsequently reworked through painting.
In his sculptural practice, Ehemann likewise draws on transformed structures. Folded paper models, often inspired by origami, serve as templates for works that impress through their technical precision and formal complexity. The translation of fragile paper forms into durable materials imbues his work with a distinctive tension between ephemerality and permanence.
With numerous exhibitions both in Germany and abroad – including in Dallas and Tokyo – Ehemann has established himself on the international stage in a remarkably short period of time. His works appeal to a broad base of collectors and resonate with the zeitgeist of a generation searching for identity and orientation.
At the core of his practice are fundamental questions of self-conception and one’s place within society: Who are we? What shapes our perception? And how can we cultivate a more conscious relationship with the world around us? This thematic depth is paired with a pronounced curiosity and a persistent drive for insight – qualities that continue to define Ehemann’s artistic work.
EXHIBITIONS
GROUP AND SOLO SHOWS
2020er
2026
ArtKarlsruhe Groupshow Better Go South
Groupshow „Face2Face“, Creative Debuts, London, March
Duoshow Ulstrup Gallery, Copenhagen „April Fools“
Groupshow Galerie Barbara Von Stechow, June
Groupshow Monica Ruppert Galerie, September
Soloshow Better Go South, Stuttgart, November
2025
Groupshow „New Horizons“ – Better Go South, Baden-Baden
Soloshow „Irreversible“ – Better Go South, Feb 2025, Berlin
Groupshow „The Space Between Walls“ at Ulstrup Gallery, Aarhus
Jubiläums Groupshow at AllYOuCanArt Gallery, Munich
Affordable Artfair Berlin with AllYouCanArt Gallery
2024
Groupshow Better Go South – „Liaison“
Soloshow Stadtgalerie Wetzlar – „In Bewegung“
Groupshow 0010 Exhibitions- Berlin
Groupshow Galerie von Wegen, Hamburg
Duo Show with Steffen Mumm- Patrick Jones Gallery, Dallas
2023
Solo Exhibition Christel Wagner Galerie – Frankfurt
Group Exhibition Notagallery – Berlin
Group Exhibition „Altered Emotions“ – Artco Gallery Berlin
Group Exhibition Galerie Meinlschmidt – Ulm
Collective Exhibition – Plattform 11 – Metzingen
BAODT Group Show – Munich
Adidas Show – Push to Open (August) – Nuremberg
Group Exhibition – MeetPablo Gallery – Dusseldorf
Collection Burkhardt Show – Ulm
Speaking & Showcasing CreativeHive -Dusseldorf
The Other Art Fair – New York
Adidas Groupshow at Adidas Headquarters, August 2023
Duo Exhibiton with HokerOne – Berlin
ARD Documentation – From Hockey Player to Artist.
Beyond Tellerrand Conference – Berlin, Kreuzberg
2022
The Other Art Fair – Los Angeles
Solo Exhitbion at Gallery SLP – Bikini Berlin – April
BAODT Group Show – Kitzbühel
DiscoveryArtFair Cologne
Superfine ArtFair – New York City – September 2022
The Other Art Fair – London
BAODT Group Show – Frankfurt am Main
2021
Solo Exhibition Galerie Meinlschmidt
Contemporary ArtStation Hong Kong Group Exhibition
Shibuya, Tokyo
StrokeArtFair
DiscoveryArtFair Frankfurt
Stabilo Commercial shoot (release Oct.)
MarcelKatzArt, Miami, Nov.
BAODT member
2020
Entry Platform11 Collective Space Design Weinmeister
Hotel
Entry MeetPablo (Magazine,Management)
2010er
Art42Kunsthandel, Karlsruhe
Group Exhibition KulturSpäti, Berlin
Conceptional Room Installation Artbase Festival
Nachbrötchen Düsseldorf Group exhibition
ArtWeek Karlsruhe with Art42
2018
Solo Exhibition Bikini Berlin
LNFA Shop
ArtMuc Art Fair – Munich
2017
Kunsthaus Berlin