Olaf Kühnemann is a passionate German artist whose works have featured in exhibitions, publications and prizes in Germany, the UK and US. His primary interest is in exploring what it means to make a painting today: how to balance art history, contemporary practices and the current overwhelming visual culture to find a distinctive path amidst it all. With Autobiography as his main subject, he composes versatile paintings that shift from large-format scenes with an illustrative flair, to muted portraits marked by colour and spatial contrast.