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mongi higgs

twelve - shortly before and shortly after.

Between quantum foam and tangible tangibility – Mongi Higgs’ painted transformations are created in this gray area.
Where or what is reality is the core question of his art.
“The decisive moment for me is the phase of the emergence of being, of consciousness. When reality emerges from nothing, you can recognize the essence and truth of being human in this brief moment. And I want to expose this with the power of art,” says Higgs.

In the spirit of Bertold Brecht: “Reality is not what things really look like, but what they really are.” Higgs’ art condenses the “quantum foam” into “reality”, in which the essence of creation in its original form emerges. The search for the moment between the real existing nothingness and becoming aware/being aware and what remains of it in the course of life – this characterizes his powerfully painted reductions. The 12 is the symbol for this, the materialization point of reality, so to speak, which must be found. Just as the 12 on the clock separates night from day and the 12th month divides the years, 12 stands for Mongi Higgs as the zero point of creation in which everything becomes conscious. Twelve – just before and just after: His works are rooted in this microcosmological chronography. The identification with this period goes so far that Mongi Higgs now only signs his pictures with the number 12 – in the form of 12 beer marks.

Artist mongi higgs


  • Internationally successful
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Exhibition July 2025 Munich, Solo, konsum163 contemporary


Publications “twelve – shortly before and shortly after.”, 2021.
163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print Verlag “alle nackt ausser helga.”, 2022.
163 ONE SIX THREE | art in print Verlag


Mongi Higgs in his studio in the Spreewald; 2021.
Reworking the painting “Typhon Superstar”.
Photo by Liv Lehmann ; © konsum163

twelve - more than just a symbol.

The magical 12 beer lines.
Decisive and perfect.
The 12 is the symbol – the zero point of this transformation – like 12 o’clock as the separator of the day, usually symbolized by 12 beer lines, but also in many other forms of expression.
Because there is not just one reality.

Mongi Higgs in the studio; 2022.
Photo by Conny Gabora; © konsum163

"I paint according to the intention of my picture. Sometimes full of power, sometimes very devout. That's why painting always involves intensive preparation. The mood of the subject must be in you. Otherwise it won't be a painting.

mongi higgs

Mongi Higgs’ art condenses the “quantum foam” into a “reality” in which creation is revealed in its original form.
Luminous, clear and clean, real consciousness is not superimposed here by the garbage of civilization.
The moment – between the actually existing nothingness and the reality that emerges from it – is the decisive factor for art and, above all, for his personal work.

The seventh picture of the solo exhibition of the same name “FIER FREUNDE FLEISCHESSER” in the gallery konsum163 – contemporary.
Photo by Ellen lehmann; © konsum163

Mongi Higgs explains the “twelve” concept; 2022.
Photo by Heike de Fries; © konsum163

Mongi Higgs during the interview in his studio in Munich; 2022.
Photo by Liv Lema; © konsum163

interview munich

2021

Meryth with boots; Hans had already left, 160 x 180 cm, 2020. © konsum163

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Meryth with boots; Hans had already left (detail), © konsum163

what is reality?

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2022

exhibitions and bio

2024

ONE / group exhibition konsum163 – contemporary art gallery; Munich
FIER FREUNDE FLEISCHESSER / solo exhibition konsum163 – contemporary art gallery; Munich
NEUNZWO4 / group exhibition konsum163 – contemporary art gallery; Munich

 

2023

WILDEMISCHUNG EINS / group exhibition konsum163 – contemporary art gallery; Munich
BEYOND PARADIS / solo exhibition konsum163 – contemporary art gallery; Munich Orangerie
LÁRTE TEDESCA E BIONDA / group exhibition gallery Tibaldi & konsum163 – contemporary art gallery ; Rome

 

2022

THIRTEEN– DREIZEHN / group exhibition Galerie konsum163 – contemporary art gallery ; Munich
ACCIDENT OR MUSE / Mongi Higgs & Giulia Mouse Orangerie Munich

 

2021

U-MANBE LONGINGS / solo exhibition Gallery Lithfaß; Munich
BEIM ERSTEN MAL IST ES AM BESTEN / group exhibition gallery konsum163 – contemporary art gallery
ZWÖLF – SHORT BEFORE AND SHORT AFTER / solo exhibition gallery konsum163 – contemporary art gallery

 

2020

SOUS VIDE – IMAGINE VOL 2 / Group exhibition Kunstraum Dreieich

 

2016

THE SWIMDRUNKONAUTS / solo exhibition, Son Bernadinet, Campos, Mallorca

 

2015

THE MELKMAYERS AT HOME / solo exhibition Villa Planck, Cala Murada, Mallorca

 

2009

BLU-NAWELCOME TO NIVEA LAND | solo exhibition Gallery Litfaß, Munich

 

Collections

Traenckner Collection, Munich Clemente Collection, Munich Gruss-Meyer Collection/Mallorca Fernadez-Bonet Collection/Mallorca Graf Collection, Munich

The painter Mongi Higgs was born in Reutlingen/Germany in 1963 and grew up in Upper Bavaria.
Due to his outstanding talent, he was accepted at the Academy for the Graphic Arts in Munich – even without the prerequisite for studying.
The artist Mongi Higgs completes his studies with Professor Abold with great success.
After spending a year abroad in Caracas, Venezuela, he worked successfully as a creative director in renowned German advertising agencies before founding his own communications consultancy.
The reflections and references to reality in his work certainly have their origins here.
From 2009 onwards, he devoted himself increasingly to art again, followed by various solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad.
Painting is generally the most difficult form of art, says Mongi Higgs, quoting Prof. Markus Lüpertz, with whom he now studies.
In painting, there are so many ways to express yourself, to tell stories and to question the subject matter.
People are always at the center of the artist’s figurative work.
Mongi Higgs lives and works in Munich and in his studio in the Spreewald near Berlin.

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