Dieter Jung Germany, b. 1941

KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presents Life of Colors, a focused solo exhibition by artist Dieter Jung (*1941), one of the pioneering figures in artistic holography. The show brings together works from four decades, highlighting Jung’s exploration of color as living light and as an energetic phenomenon.
Since the 1960s, Jung’s practice has investigated the interplay of light, movement, and perception. Using optical interference, spectral refractions, and precisely constructed color fields, he creates immaterial visual spaces that respond to the viewer’s position and invite an active, meditative form of seeing. His holokinetic works and paintings merge into an expanded understanding of vision—one that reveals the invisible within the visible.
International exhibitions have significantly shaped Jung’s career, particularly in Brazil, with presentations at MASP São Paulo and MAM Rio de Janeiro. A key biographical milestone was his Rockefeller Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT (1985/86).
Works by Dieter Jung are held in numerous renowned museums worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the ZKM Karlsruhe, and the Berlinische Galerie. A major museum exhibition at the Vasarely Museum in Budapest is being prepared for his 85th birthday in 2026.

The exhibition "The Light Behind" offers a rare opportunity to see a selection of Dieter Jung’s groundbreaking holographic art in Berlin. The concept of the exhibition centres around the hologram, Dieter Jung’s passion and prowess which earned him his worldwide reputation, particularly his work "Pendulum und sein Schatten" and the holograms, accompanied by paintings, drawings and graphics from the last few decades.