Dürst Britt & Mayhew is proud to present a dedicated solo exhibition showcasing the deeply compelling oeuvre of the late Dutch artist Hans Klein Hofmeijer (1957 – 2025). Occupying the gallery’s Main space the exhibition offers an absorbing look into an artistic practice that beautifully defies categorisation.

Neither abstract nor figurative: an inner world formed

Hans Klein Hofmeijer’s drawings and paintings are best understood by what they are not. They occupy a unique space that is neither purely figurative nor entirely abstract. While his compositions spark an immediate sense of recognition, they stubbornly resist being tied to specific objects, people, or settings.

Instead of copying what he observed in the external environment, Klein Hofmeijer drew from an inner world shaped entirely by experience. His creative process was intuitive and unplanned; he described his methodology as simply putting pencil to paper and allowing it to move, letting the work organically generate out of…