Lutz Driessen

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Lutz Driessen is a German artist born in Kleve in 1976, who currently lives and works in Cologne. His training includes studies at the HK-Arnhem in the Netherlands and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied under the renowned artist Albert Oehlen.

Driessen’s work, primarily focused on painting and drawing, engages deeply with the potential of the pictorial space. His style recalibrates modernism with a humanist-cartoonesque touch, often featuring fragmented or contorted human or Animal figures in Romanesque settings and Mannerist postures.

He is fascinated by the tension between sacred and profane imagery, drawing inspiration from historical painters like Matthias Grünewald and combining this with bold colourful gestures one finds in the works of the Chicago Imagists. Driessen’s paintings explore existential and ethical questions, often examining the precarity of the body and the forces it withstands. He employs a reduced vocabulary of simple shapes, strong colors, and emphasized lines, using techniques like palimpsest (layering and partially erasing) to suggest movement and potential within the image.

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Education

2001 – 2004

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1999 – 2001

HK-Arnhem

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Dying, Galerie JUBG, Cologne

2022

Living, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne

2020

Somerleyton, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN, Hamburg

2018

Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

2015

Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Jahn, Munich

2014

Hidde van Seggelen gallery, London

2012

PERSPEKTIVEN DER GEGENWART, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Frau, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam

2011

Jesses, Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich, Germany

Skulptur, Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich, Germany

2010

Dok25a, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

wrong pipe, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne, Germany

2007

l ´Arg”, FYW, Cologne, Germany

2006

Frucht, Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany

2005

Bar Ornella, Cologne, Germany

U2, Galerie Klinkhammer und Metzner, Düsseldorf, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions

2019

Geheimnis der Dinge. Malstücke (curated by Hartmut Neumann), Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

The Unstrung Harp, Parrotta Contemporary Art, Cologne and Bonn

2018

Geheimnis der Dinge. Malstücke (curated by Hartmut Neumann), Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Duesseldorf

2015

followup: Stipediaten Ausstellung Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln

2014

O.N.P.A.P.E.R., Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

Nie Pastille and Lutz Driessen, Sightfenster, Cologne

Bienvenue. Galerie Jahn, Munich

2012

Haschisch lesen, (with Matthias Lehrberger), Parkhaus im Malkastenpark, Düsseldorf

Frau, Willem Baars Projects, Amsterdam, Holland

2010

SEX (with Simon Hemmer und Seb Koberstädt), Aschenbach & Hofland Galleries, Amsterdam, NL

Motif Motif (with Willem Weismann), FOLD, London, GB

2009

Pfff…, Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich, Germany

FYW 573 (WTF), Montgomery, Berlin, Germany

2008

Nova Swing, Anna Klinkhammer, (mit Morgan Betz), Düsseldorf, Germany

2007

Bar International, Mittwochsbar, Vienna, A

Contented Heart, W139, Amsterdam, NL

Institut für zeitgenössische Beobachtungen, Vienna, A

Regarding Düsseldorf2, 701 e.V. Düsseldorf, Germany

Normal Desires, rm 103, Auckland, NZ

2006

Teller und Unterschiebung, Acapulco, Düsseldorf , Germany

Denkt Allen, 85 Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium

Terrain Vague, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany

2005

unitdéd, de Player, Rotterdam, NL

HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN 2020 dav

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