This catalogue of works by Jörn Stoya provides insight into the development of the artist’s work over the past few years. With carefully arranged and spaciously laid out image sequences, the catalogue not only sheds light on the most important aspects in the work of this fascinating artist, but also provides information on the essential and distinctive elements of his pictorial language. His drawings, photographs and film stills, pieced together according to the principle of the collage, are extraordinarily open and, in some cases, consciously contradictory. In addition to some of the fundamental aspects which contemporary painting continues to address time and again, including the question of the stability of an approach, its anchoring in the „now“ of (pop) culture and the integration of time-honoured knowledge, a kind of “alchemy of action” is also formulated here.