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 by Aslan Kudrnofsky 2026

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.

Prizes / Grants / Residencies

2025 nominated for the Miriam Cahn Prize 2026

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

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

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

2026 – upcoming: Artist Statement at Parallel, Vienna, AT

2026 – In the Garden, solo show at Vienna Collectors Club, Hochhaus Herrengasse, Vienna AT

2025 – Esperando la Lluvia, solo show residency Genalguacil, Andalucía, ES

2024 – Closing Time, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, AT

2024 – diploma show, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT

2023 – bodies & spaces, Einzelausstellung, Studio Castell. Bonn, DE

2021 – a room to live in, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, AT

2019 – Exhibition Lisa Breyer (Wien) & Matthias Dettmann (Rostock) duo show, studio 36, Rostock, DE

Group Exhibitions

2026 – „Gruppe 0“, Group show at BaseAT4, 1070 Wien, AT

2026 – Hidden Spaces, group show, Amtshaus Margareten, Wien, AT

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 – You say Witch like it’s a bad thing, group show, Verein Fortuna. 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 – 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 – 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 – Neue Wiener Ernsthaftigkeit, group show, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, AT