Shortcut Jochen Pankrath – The City as Pictorial Idea

In our current ShortCut, we present recent works by Jochen Pankrath on view in our Cabinet. These new works engage with the city as an artistic concept and open up a fresh perspective on Nuremberg.

The cityscape is among the classical motifs of European art history and, over the centuries, has evolved from a functional form of representation into an autonomous artistic genre. With his images of Nuremberg, Jochen Pankrath consciously draws on this tradition and translates it into a contemporary, distinctive visual language.

Jochen Pankrath’s Nuremberg cityscapes are not intended as documentary vedute. Rather, rooftops, towers, bridges, and waterways are transformed into rhythmic structures of color, form, and surface. The city appears both familiar and new—as a poetically condensed space of experience in which history, memory, and the present converge.