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Christian Hellmich is a Berlin-based painter whose work unfolds between intuition and control. Beginning from abstract, gestural structures, his paintings slowly build toward representation without fixed narration, leaving space for ambiguity and personal interpretation. Architectural fragments, ornaments, and everyday details drawn from a broad image archive serve as material rather than motifs, activated through painterly logic.

The deliberate absence of human figures shifts attention to the viewer, who becomes an active participant in making sense of the image. Through layered surfaces and repeated reworking, Hellmich explores temporality, atmosphere, and a sense of quiet anticipation. A painting is finished when it can withstand the gaze and respond in kind. Looking ahead, his practice follows no predetermined path, but continues to trace the movements of paint and process itself.