"On Stage features a series of new paintings created especially for both shows, in which the grand dazzling world of entertainment meets everyday life, revolving around the idea of staging. Through portal-like doors and windows, passing by designer lamps and kitchen cabinets, the viewers catch glimpses of spotlights and smoky dance floors, while slender spider legs slowly stride down a show staircase heading towards them. [...] Andreas Schulze is one of the great individualists of German painting. Since the beginning of his career in the heady Cologne art scene of the 80s, Schulze’s work deliberately situates itself outside of painterly trends, attitudes, and affiliations. His unique painterly style defamiliarises basic design and architectural forms. With a cryptic pictorial repertoire, he exposes the blind spots of middle-class life and ironises the pretensions of contemporary art. Yet his works lack the aggressiveness of his artist colleagues from the ‘bad painting’ movement, who work against the traditional understanding of painting with mockery and sarcasm. Schulze chooses a different path. He does not destroy but simply shows. That’s what makes him who he is: a silent admonisher and at the same time a cheerful celebrator, a master of presentation. Or as Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery says: “Schulze’s paintings offer not simply a view of the world so much as a fresh perspective on the ways in which we are implicated in its construction.” - Galleries Now, "Andreas Schulze: On Stage"

Sitography: GALLERIES NOW, "Andreas Schulze: On Stage", www.galleriesnow.net, 2023
www.galleriesnow.net/shows/andreas-schulze-on-stage/

HEISER, Jörg, "Andreas Schulze", www.frieze.com, 01/10/2010
www.frieze.com/article/andreas-schulze