Thomas Wachholz (Cologne, 1984) develops paintings that distil personal memories and formal traces into a grammar of opaque fields, iconic symbols and geometric networks. Drawing inspiration from everyday objects such as matchboxes or postcards, he reduces their forms and colours to essential structures charged with memory and disappearance. Many works incorporate red phosphorus, which traces almost hidden surfaces and grids that are activated through the viewer’s associations. Trained at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Katharina Grosse and Marcel Odenbach, he has exhibited at Wentrup (Berlin), Nino Mier (Los Angeles, Brussels), Ruttkowski;68, RaebervonStenglin and Roberts & Tilton, and his work is included in collections such as the Marciano Art Foundation and the Deji Art Museum.