Andreas Kocks | Keep Your Eyes Open

Andreas Kocks | Keep Your Eyes Open

February 26th - April 11th, 2026

Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present Keep Your Eyes Open, an exhibition featuring a series of new sculptural works by Andreas Kocks. In his sixth solo exhibition with the gallery, Kocks carefully chooses materials and forms that reflect a balance of elements and activate space in relation to the viewer.

Kocks’ practice involves cutting, layering and shaping metals and paper to form structured lines that activate light and shadow. Fascinated by the intersection of drawing and sculpture, the line is a crucial part of Kocks’ work. More than a mere mark, Kocks wields his materials to turn a drawn line into a physical gesture, transforming the solid form to create cutouts, hollowed spaces, and warped three dimensional structures. This equality of positive and negative, convex and concave, is essential to Kocks’ practice, reflecting the tension that is inherent to creating works of metal and paper structures.

Through this use of metal, Kocks’ expands the possibility of a traditional wall hanging, allowing the works to merge with the environment and for the wall to become a part of the composition of each piece. For example, some of his pieces have polished, mirrorlike surfaces, allowing the surrounding space to be reflected in the sculpture. His use of watercolor paper offers a similar opportunity. Kocks delicately builds up layers of paper that rest upon one another, carving lines and shapes that create pockets of shadow, warping as the location and surrounding light changes. In some works, Kocks even places parts of the piece detached from the main structure, with single elements literally jumping out of the constraints of the frame.

ARTIST NAME

e In Keep Your Eyes Open, Kocks creates a dialogue between the artwork, the viewer, and the space that they are in. Each material is carefully chosen to engage negative spaces and surrounding frameworks, thus drawing the viewer in closer, creating a deep relationship to locality that is present in each piece.

Deb Achak is a visual artist and storyteller whose large-scale photographs explore the metaphysical and emotional link between the human and natural world. After stepping away from a 15-year career as a mental health social worker, Achak began her photography practice, employing a visual medium to continue her exploration of the interior lives of herself and others. Curious to examine the notion of our internal selves, she leans into the elasticity of photography by employing several genres within the medium. Achak’s practice includes swimming with her camera throughout the world, personal narratives created near her home, and painterly abstract florals inspired by baroque paintings. Each body of work is made with the singular ideal, to wrestle with what is under the surface in each of us.

Born in Oberhausen, Germany, Andreas Kocks received his MFA in sculpture from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His work has been featured in museum exhibitions worldwide including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, Manchester Art Museum, England, the Museum August-Macke-Haus in Bonn, Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany, and the Kerawa Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland. In 2006 Kocks was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation fellowship. In 2010 and 2011 he was a lecturing artist at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Lacoste, France, and in Atlanta and Savannah, GA. He has received numerous commissions from private and public clients, and his work has been written about in numerous publications, including Art in America, Architectural Digest, Kunstforum, Time Out, Platinum Magazine and the Financial Times. After living in New York for over a decade, Andreas is currently living and working in Munich, Germany.

Deb Achak’s work has been exhibited widely national and internationally, in institutions such as The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico, The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui, China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sophia, Bulgaria, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, the Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville SC, among many others. Her work has been featured in publications including Fraction, All About Photo, Lenscratch, Destig, Luxe Interiors, Dodho, and Domino.

83 x 23 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Three Graces (#2451P/SG/AU), 2024

Palladium leaf, steel and graphite, gold leaf

27.5 x 41.5 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Reading the Air (#2471V), 2024

Stainless steel, polished

33 x 38 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Reading the Air (#2472V), 2024

Stainless Steel, polished

35 x 32 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Reading the Air (#2473V), 2024

Stainless steel, polished

32 x 32 x 1 inches

Crosswinds (#2507ac), 2025

Acrylic on galvanized Steel

29 x 14 x 9 inches

Andreas Kocks

Same, same, but different (#2513st), 2025

Steel, oxidized

32 x 29 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Sundance (#2501au), 2025

Gold Leaf on galvanized steel

13 x 15 x 10 inches

26 x 64 x 1 inches

Andreas Kocks

Keep your eyes open (#2514au), 2025

Gold leaf on watercolor paper

26 x 20 x 2 1/2 inches (framed)

Andreas Kocks

Keep Your Eyes Open (#2513b), 2025

Brass leaf on watercolor paper

103 x 78 x 2 inches

Elegant People (#2512st), 2025

20 x 14 x 10 inches

Andreas Kocks

Schwarzes Gold (#2307fg), 2023

Graphite and brass leaf on watercolor paper

20 x 40 x 2 inches (framed)

70 x 66 x 2 inches

State of Mind, 2021

Edition of 3

36¾ x 11¾ x 13 inches

Keep Your Eyes Open (#2521g), 2025

on watercolor paper

60 x 45 inches

ANDREAS KOCKS

1960 Born in Oberhausen, Germany

EDUCATION

1989

MFA in Sculpture, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1987

BFA in Integration of Fine Art and Architecture, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

MA in Education, University of Düsseldorf

1980

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Norbert Kricke, Ulrich Rückriem and Erich Reusch

2022

Real Ghosts, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

2021

Heavy Metal, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

Untitled ART, Art Miami Beach, Miami, FL

2020

We were talking about the space between us all…., Galerie Martin Kudlek, Cologne, Germany

Carved (digital exhibition), Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2019

Solid Ether, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

Untitled, Art Miami Beach, Miami, FL

2017

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Reading The Air, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

2024

Carved: Part Two, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, N.Y. (Online Exhibition)

2023

Der Schaum dieser Tage, Galerie FENNA WEHLAU, München

In the Thicket of Places, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

Places, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2015

Here and Now, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

The First Round, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS

2025

Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Galerie Fenna Wehlau

2024

Symphonie der Farben und Formen, Galerie Fenna Wehlau, München

VIELSCHICHTIG, Galerie Fenna Wehlau, München, mit Christine Brunella und Stephan Wurmer

Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Galerie Fenna Wehlau

2022

A Big Announcement, Bernd Kuchenbeiser zeigt Bücher und Schallplatten, Villa Stuck, München

Art On Paper Art Fair, New York, Winston Wachter Fine

Art

Accrochage, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim

2023

Bending the Line, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2021

Black-and-white. Contemporary paper cuts, Neue Galerie Dachau, Germany

UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach, Winston Wächter Fine Art

25th Anniversary Exhibition, Part One, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY

2020

Cut Up: works by Rogan Brown, Susan Dory, Andreas Kocks, Tiffanie Turner, and Dustin Yellin, Winston Wächter

Fine Art, Seattle, WA

2019

UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach, Winston Wächter Fine Art

Silhouettes and Shadows, Kerava Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

Monochrome II, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

Joachim Bandau and Andreas Kocks, Paper Positions Frankfurt, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

2018

WHITE, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

SCHNITTSTELLE, Cut-out meets silhouee, Museum August Macke Haus, Bonn

SCHWARZ / BLACK, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim, Germany

kunstBUCHaktion, Modo Verlag, Freiburg, Germany

Andreas Kocks | Keep Your Eyes Open

February 26th - April 11th, 2026

Winston Wächter Fine Art

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Catalog Design by Nóra Reynolds

Cover: Three Graces (#2451P/SG/AU), 2024