For Art Düsseldorf 2024, JVDW is thrilled to present a focused solo exhibition booth with Berlin-based painter David Benedikt Wirth.

Born in 1988 in Fulda, Germany, the artist graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he became Meisterschüler of Professor Eberhard Havekost. He was awarded the NRW.Bank Art prize for painting and graphics in 2021 and the graduate grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2022. 

Wirth’s works have been displayed  in various exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including JVDW, Düsseldorf (2022), White Block Art Center, Seoul (2022), Super Super Markt, Berlin (2023) and Galerie Sultana, Paris (2024). 

He has been featured in magazines like 032c and Plaster Magazine. 

David Benedikt Wirth’s works are represented in renowned collections, such as  the White Block Art Center Collection, Seoul, the DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, the Braunsfelder Collection, Cologne and the Ole Faarup Collection, Copenhagen. 

In his artistic practice, Wirth investigates the coexistence of sensual subjectivity and scientific perspectives. He explores themes of natural sciences, society and culture, looking at the relationship between human beings, their environment and mutual origins. Wirth’s naturalistic paintings are powerful, mysterious, empathetic and immediate. Through his art, he liberates his motifs from social bias, as if they were being  freed from a veil.

David Benedikt Wirth’s newest body of work explores the ancient landscape that shapes its subjects. The works of his IR-series such as ‘sensing’ and ‘The Graces’ are based on infrared photographs of leopards and lions in the wild. Here, Wirth deals with the appearance of the predators in the IR-spectrum, which is invisible to humans. In cool blue colors, the works depict the strength as well as the vulnerable and sensual side of the creatures. 

While expanding the sensory ability of  oil painting to convey thermal information the series also asks questions of whether humans are the hunted or the hunters and about the role of technology.  ‘Glow’ shows bioluminescent, green glow in the dark mushrooms. By their appearance alone, they evoke associations with the mystical, ghostly, medicine and sea creatures. 

Using the traditional medium of oil painting, Wirth’s skillful brushwork merges timeless with current subject matter to create a unique powerful yet intimate poetry that is able to recontextualize his pictorial subjects.

By condensing the thematic and representational complexity of his motifs during the painting process, Wirth creates highly charged works that grasp the viewer’s eye with their aura and multi-layered nature. 

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For Art Düsseldorf 2024, JVDW is thrilled to present a focused solo exhibition booth with Berlin-based painter David Benedikt Wirth.

Born in 1988 in Fulda, Germany, the artist graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf where he became Meisterschüler of Professor Eberhard Havekost. He was awarded the NRW.Bank Art prize for painting and graphics in 2021 and the graduate grant by Stiftung Kunstfonds in 2022. 

Wirth’s works have been displayed  in various exhibitions across Europe and Asia, including JVDW, Düsseldorf (2022), White Block Art Center, Seoul (2022), Super Super Markt, Berlin (2023) and Galerie Sultana, Paris (2024). 

He has been featured in magazines like 032c and Plaster Magazine. 

David Benedikt Wirth’s works are represented in renowned collections, such as  the White Block Art Center Collection, Seoul, the DZ BANK Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, the Braunsfelder Collection, Cologne and the Ole Faarup Collection, Copenhagen. 

In his artistic practice, Wirth investigates the coexistence of sensual subjectivity and scientific perspectives. He explores themes of natural sciences, society and culture, looking at the relationship between human beings, their environment and mutual origins. Wirth’s naturalistic paintings are powerful, mysterious, empathetic and immediate. Through his art, he liberates his motifs from social bias, as if they were being  freed from a veil.

David Benedikt Wirth’s newest body of work explores the ancient landscape that shapes its subjects. The works of his IR-series such as ‘sensing’ and ‘The Graces’ are based on infrared photographs of leopards and lions in the wild. Here, Wirth deals with the appearance of the predators in the IR-spectrum, which is invisible to humans. In cool blue colors, the works depict the strength as well as the vulnerable and sensual side of the creatures. 

While expanding the sensory ability of  oil painting to convey thermal information the series also asks questions of whether humans are the hunted or the hunters and about the role of technology.  ‘Glow’ shows bioluminescent, green glow in the dark mushrooms. By their appearance alone, they evoke associations with the mystical, ghostly, medicine and sea creatures. 

Using the traditional medium of oil painting, Wirth’s skillful brushwork merges timeless with current subject matter to create a unique powerful yet intimate poetry that is able to recontextualize his pictorial subjects.

By condensing the thematic and representational complexity of his motifs during the painting process, Wirth creates highly charged works that grasp the viewer’s eye with their aura and multi-layered nature. 

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