Heidi Hahn’s painting combines elements of gestural abstraction with the figurative aspects of expressive painting, thereby offering a unique perspective on contemporary themes such as the relationship between identity, gender, and society. The human body, with its “manifestations” and underlying conditions, has always been at the center of Heidi Hahn’s artistic interests. Over the past three years, Heidi Hahn has combined this depiction of the “conditio humana” with the concept of pure painting. Impressions from everyday situations and her personal surroundings trigger Hahn’s intuitive, dynamic painting process. Layer by layer, motifs of “bodily spaces” emerge. The boundaries between environment and body, surface and background are fluid. Hahn speaks of a “narrative formalism”. In this sense, the autonomy of painting is fused with the autonomy of the figures. Hahn never begins with sketches but develops her compositions in the process of painting. This method of “abstract metamorphoses” directs the viewer’s gaze beyond the surface of the painted illusion to a nonverbal expression of a wide variety of identity and gender constructions.