Faux Pas, 2023
Jörn Stoya

Jörn Stoya Vita Jörn Stoya (*1957, Lüneburg) lives and works in Düsseldorf. From 1978-84 he studied at the renowned Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Gotthard Graubner, among others. His works are represented in renowned private and public collections, including the Museum Kunstpalast/ Düsseldorf, Museum Morsbroich/ Leverkusen, the EON Collection, Essen and the Bundeskunstsammlung, Bonn. About the art of Jörn Stoya Jörn Stoya does not work with oil or acrylic paint, but with pure pigments without binders. For Stoya, color is the soul of painting, a paradisiacal state, the epitome of freedom and immateriality. Strong colors are at the heart of Jörn Stoya's painting - he uses them to create a clear pictorial structure with tremendous color power. The unicums and serial unique pieces Jörn Stoya's works on paper are always unicums or serial unique pieces. The unicums are one-offs, and the serial unique pieces are works that the artist also creates freely by hand, always with the same colors, the same composition, but with slight differences in each work.