About the artist
Born 1989 in Tönisvorst, Germany
Lisa Breyer is a German artist living and working in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Erwin Bohatsch and completed her diploma under Michaela Eichwald and Thomas Winkler, receiving an award of recognition for her diploma project.
Her practice is rooted in painting and drawing and develops through a sustained engagement with process, observation and decision-making.
Contact
Lisa Breyer
email: post@lisabreyer.com
instagram: lisa__breyer
Foto: © Sandra Birkner 2023
About the work
I work with painting and drawing as a processes that begins in uncertainty. My images develop through observing, hesitating, deciding and often revising these decisions again.
Lines, shapes and figures appear, dissolve and return in altered form. Through overpainting, erasure and rebuilding, pictorial spaces emerge that are never fixed but remain in a state of becoming. I am interested in moments of in-between: states in which figures neither act nor rest, but remain suspended. These moments are zones of potential, of waiting, searching and reorientation.
Drawing often forms the starting point of my work. It is a searching movement that suggests spaces and figures without fixing them. In the painting process, these initial structures are tested, disrupted and reconfigured. Decisions are not understood as final statements, but as movements within an open process. Figures, spaces and landscapes merge and shift into one another. Boundaries remain fluid; lines that define one element may simultaneously dissolve another. In this interplay, hybrid spaces emerge — spaces in which perception, memory and projection overlap.
Painting, for me, is a way of working through how we look at the world, and how we position ourselves within it. It is a practice of attention: staying with uncertainty, allowing transformation, and letting meaning emerge through the act of painting itself.
Exhibitions
2026 – In the Garden, solo show at Hochhaus, Vienna Collectors Club, Vienna AT
2025 – Esperando la Lluvia, solo show residency Genalguacil, Andalucía, ES
2025 – fwp Kunstakt, group show. Wien, AT
2025 – Fiktive Kammer, Kleingarten 4, Gruppenausstellung. Wien, AT
2025 – How to walk on muddy ground while looking at the open sky, group show, Süßwasser, Vienna, AT
2024 – IHS, Lines of Inqiry, group show. Vienna, Austria
2024 – Malerei für alle, group show, Stadtraum Mitte 15. Vienna, AT
2024 – Closing Time, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, AT
2024 – You say Witch like it’s a bad thing, group show, Verein Fortuna. Vienna, AT
2024 – diploma group show, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2024 – rot in hell, group show, Zink Kunstraum. Vienna, AT
2024 – Abstraktion, group show, Exhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2024 – Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2023 – bodies & spaces, Einzelausstellung, Studio Castell. Bonn, DE
2023 – Krawallmische Zeichnungen, Gruppenausstellung, spce Muthesius. Kiel, DE
2023 – Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, AT
2023 – Modern Alchemy, group show, District4art. Vienna, AT
2022 – Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, AT
2021 – a room to live in, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, AT
2021 – Art-Austria mit Kunst ab Hinterhof, art fair. Vienna, AT
2021 – TSCHAU, BABA, Ausstellung der Malerei- und Grafikateliers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2020 – Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
2019 – Exhibition Lisa Breyer (Wien) & Matthias Dettmann (Rostock) duo show, studio 36, Rostock, DE
2019 – Neue Wiener Ernsthaftigkeit, group show, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT
Education
2024 – Diplom, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
2021 – 2024 Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Michaela Eichwald und Thomas Winkler
2018 – 2021 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Erwin Bohatsch
Prizes / Grants / Residencies
2025 Academy lmpact Residency in Genalguacil, Andalicía/Spain
2024 Würdigungspreis, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
2019 Abstraktion und Fiktion, Workshop with Bernd Ribbeck St. Moritz Art Academy, St. Moritz/Suisse