Pascal Möhlmann

Pascal Möhlmann (b. 1969, Hilversum, the Netherlands) works from a studio in Zurich. He calls his style New Beauty with Punk Rock Attitude, a deliberate turn away from the cynicism and irony of much contemporary painting: he learned the language of the old masters and uses it on the present. The paintings are technically classical and entirely contemporary in subject, people caught mid stumble, walking into each other or into a tree, falling on their faces, and they are populated by friends and friends of friends who pose for him wearing their own clothes. Memento mori and crosses are scattered through the work as reminders of how briefly any of it lasts. The humour is real and so is the question underneath it, which is whether the big moments and the silly ones amount to anything at all.

His work was included in Online: The Artist is Online. Painting and Sculpture in the Digital Age at König Berlin, and has been covered by i-D and Coeval. His work has appeared at auction at Phillips in London.

Möhlmann has been represented by Plan X since 2022, beginning with the two person exhibition Cemento in Milan, followed by the solo exhibitions Hic et Nunc in 2023 and The Importance of Importance in 2026, the group exhibitions Lacrimae Rerum at Plan X Capri in 2024 and The Demons Are Us in Milan in 2025, and presentations at Contemporary Art Now Ibiza in 2023 and Art Dubai in 2024.