Matthias Noggler

Matthias Noggler’s artistic practice reflects the cultural-historical functions and ideological content of images by means of various painterly styles and techniques. These references range from traditional Folk Art to classical Renaissance compositions as well as contemporary digital media and documentary photography. His paintings seamlessly unite these disparate sources, questioning the connections between image and social space (as well as their shaping through gender and class hierarchies) and, not least, addressing the socio-culturally conditioned politics of vision itself. ...

Emerging out of a former project space, Drei has been established as a commercial gallery in 2015 by Dennis Hochköppeler and Jakob Pürling in Cologne, Germany. The gallery features an international and trans-generational program with a focus on cross-disciplinary practices and pushes the cooperation with international galleries and institutions.