Johannes Kahrs presents his tenth solo exhibition at Zeno X Gallery. In this exhibition, the artist presents a striking number of portraits. Both unknown figures and famous figures appear on the canvas. However, it is not the person portrayed that is the subject of the work, but rather the way the character is publicly portrayed. It is the facial expression, body posture or way of moving that intrigues Kahrs: as if they were part of a theatre play. In recent years, Kahrs has experimented more with the materiality of paint. He still starts out either from a photographic reality or a drawing but questions the narrative by approaching his source material in a new way. In doing so he combines work methods: body parts are enlarged, imaginary details are added, parts of the canvas are blurred, or the paint is stripped off. He allows more imagination into his working process and makes the materiality of the paint part of the subject.