Pius Fox was born in Berlin (Germany) in 1983. He completed his master’s degree from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2010. During his time as a student, he studied under Frank Badur and Pia Fries (who studied under Gerhard Richter) and has inherited the main line of abstract expressionism in German contemporary art. Fox’s paintings are created from simple compositional elements, handled through methods that are both traditional and fundamental. However, it would be difficult for anyone else to reproduce his style. Fox uses what he has seen with his own eyes as material for his practice, and the images that he visualizes, as mediated by his eyes, will always set him apart. His work brings a keen awareness of this obvious fact. Fox sometimes uses stories such as folktales and myths as the basis for his inspiration or directly references Renaissance paintings. The treatment of the more concrete motifs may result in a greater degree of tangibility in the subjects of his work. Indeed, the artist does sometimes exhibit figurative work, and this is no mere flight of fancy. Quite to the contrary, it shows what abstraction means to Fox. Perhaps abstraction is a byproduct that emerges from the process of connecting one thing to another. Fox’s works frequently feature layered colors and intricately drawn lines, but one can often recognize the characteristics within a single painting as standing in broadly dichotomous relationships. As the artist stated in the “Them magazine” interview, “When I paint, my focus is less on the details of the subject than on what connects that subject to the world in which it exists.” Thus, antagonistic elements are superimposed within a single painting to abstract both the immediate subject matter of the painting and the world that surrounds it. Fox’s works are held in collections including those of the Albers Foundation (US), Frac Auvergne (France), SØR Rusche Collection (Germany), Von der Heydt – Museum Wuppertal (Germany), and Museum Kunstpalast (Germany). He has exhibited widely at museums and galleries both in Germany and around the world.