The work of Johannes Kahrs frequently mixes cinema and life in order to
generate a subversive critique against images and against our perception of a world that can be too easily altered by the manipulation of a few moments and frames. In Kahrs’ paintings, photographs, drawings, and video projections,
cinema is returned to life, and it’s placed on the border between representation and private memory, transgressing both contexts through an intense
experience of violence or a subtle form of skepticism towards the rhetoric of fiction. On the façades of the cinemas of our childhood, we found huge hand- painted posters, inviting us to enter the theater by using seductive
images of innocence. In the works of Johannes Kahrs, instead, cinema leaps into life, onto the street and the city: there is no more seduction in his world, but rather a sense of confrontation.
— João Fernandes

Selected solo exhibitions: 2002: Almine Rech, Paris; 2001: Kunstverein, Munich; FRAC, Carquefou, France; S.M.A.K., Gent; 2000: Signal, Malmö; Franck+Schulte, Berlin; Zeno x, Antwerpen, Belgium; Almine Rech, Paris.
Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Without Consent, Centre d’art, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Questions, Massimo De Carlo, Milan; Cardinales, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain; 2001: Squatters, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Screen, Psychiatrisch Centrum, Sleidinge, Holland; Moving Pictures, Fototriennale, Esslinger, Germany; Double-Trouble, Borusian Kültür ve Sanat, Istanbul; 2000: Children of Berlin, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.