About the artist
Born 1989 in Tönisvorst, Germany
Lisa Breyer is a German artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She completed her diploma under Michaela Eichwald and Thomas Winkler, receiving an award of recognition for her work. Breyer lives and works in Vienna.
For more insight into her work, check out this article in Parnass Magazine, this Interview with LNR Magazine and this article in Kunstbar Magazine.
Contact
Lisa Breyer
mail: post@lisabreyer.com
instagram: lisa__breyer
Foto: © Sandra Birkner 2023
About the work
I work with painting and drawing as processes that begin in uncertainty. Lines, shapes and figures appear, shift, disappear and return in altered form. Through overpainting, washing paint off and rebuilding, pictorial spaces emerge that are never final but always in a state of becoming. I am interested in the in-between – a moment in which figures neither act nor stand still, but remain in a state of transition. This interval is not an empty pause, but a zone of potential: waiting, hesitating, hoping as productive states.
In my recent works I engage with the grammar of religious painting, especially from the Middle Ages: frontality, symbolic charge, iconic clarity. I connect these historical image structures with colour fields, breaks and fragments that relate to modern abstraction. The result are hybrid spaces where past and present, uncertainty and departure flow into one another. My painting understands itself as a site of searching: for new forms, for spaces of agency, for images that are not yet fixed.
Exhibitions
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, Ausstellungsraum Süßwasser, Vienna, AT
2024 // IHS, Lines of Inqiry, group show. Vienna, Austria
2024 // Malerei für alle, group show, Stadtraum Mitte 15. Vienna, Austria
2024 // Closing Time, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, Austria
2024 // You say Witch like it’s a bad thing, group show, Verein Fortuna. Vienna, Austria
2024 // diploma group show, Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2024 // rot in hell, group show, Zink Kunstraum. Vienna Austria
2024 // Abstraktion, group show, Exhibit, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2024 // Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2023 // bodies & spaces, Einzelausstellung, Studio Castell. Bonn, Germany
2023 // Krawallmische Zeichnungen, Gruppenausstellung, spce Muthesius. Kiel, Germany
2023 // Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2023 // Modern Alchemy, group show, District4art. Vienna, Austria
2022 // Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2021 // a room to live in, solo show, wasserwasser in der Alpenmlichzentrale. Vienna, Austria
2021 // Art-Austria mit Kunst ab Hinterhof, art fair. Vienna, Austria
2021 // TSCHAU, BABA, Ausstellung der Malerei- und Grafikateliers, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2020 // Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2019 // Exhibition Lisa Breyer (Wien) & Matthias Dettmann (Rostock) duo show, studio 36, Rostock, Germany
2019 // Neue Wiener Ernsthaftigkeit, group show, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
2019 // Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna, Austria
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
2009 – 2013 University Leipzig, Institute of Art Education. B.A.
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