Matthias Weischer
Magazin
2026
Oil on canvas
165 × 205 cm
Absatz
2025
Egg tempera on canvas
50 × 60 cm
Blaues Zimmer
2025
Egg tempera on canvas
166 × 208 cm
Wandler
2025
Egg tempera on canvas
208 × 168 cm
Krieger
2023
Oil on canvas
40 × 50 cm
Fundus
2022
Oil on canvas
120 × 120 cm
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Katze und Koralle
2021
Oil on canvas
185 × 205 cm
Nasszelle
2021
Oil on canvas
53 × 42 cm
Desk
2019
Oil on canvas
131 × 121 cm
Alcove
2019
Oil on canvas
235 × 193 cm
Cube
2015
Oil on canvas
570 × 530 cm
Carré 1
2015
Oil on canvas
420 × 500 cm
Carré 2
2015
Oil on canvas
420 × 500 cm
Koje
2011
Oil on canvas
219 × 350 cm
Die Blaue Wand
2009
Oil on canvas
200 × 300 cm
Kartenhaus II
2006
Oil on canvas
400 × 400 cm
Figur-Selbst
2004
Oil on canvas
150 × 200 cm
Erfundener Mann
2003
Oil on canvas
200 × 160 cm
Waschraum
2001
Oil on canvas
175 × 155 cm
Magazin 2026 Oil on canvas 165 × 205 cm
Absatz 2025 Egg tempera on canvas 50 × 60 cm
Blaues Zimmer 2025 Egg tempera on canvas 166 × 208 cm
Wandler 2025 Egg tempera on canvas 208 × 168 cm
Krieger 2023 Oil on canvas 40 × 50 cm
Fundus 2022 Oil on canvas 120 × 120 cm
Katze und Koralle 2021 Oil on canvas 185 × 205 cm
Nasszelle 2021 Oil on canvas 53 × 42 cm
Desk 2019 Oil on canvas 131 × 121 cm
Alcove 2019 Oil on canvas 235 × 193 cm
Cube 2015 Oil on canvas 570 × 530 cm
Carré 1 2015 Oil on canvas 420 × 500 cm
Carré 2 2015 Oil on canvas 420 × 500 cm
Koje 2011 Oil on canvas 219 × 350 cm
Die Blaue Wand 2009 Oil on canvas 200 × 300 cm
Kartenhaus II 2006 Oil on canvas 400 × 400 cm
Figur-Selbst 2004 Oil on canvas 150 × 200 cm
Erfundener Mann 2003 Oil on canvas 200 × 160 cm
Waschraum 2001 Oil on canvas 175 × 155 cm
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Born in 1973 in Elte (Westphalia) and based in Leipzig since 1995, Matthias Weischer ranks among the most significant German painters of his generation. Best known for his psychologically resonant interiors, he has developed a body of work that continuously probes the unstable terrain between perception, memory, and pictorial construction.
Though frequently associated with the New Leipzig School, Weischer’s practice extends well beyond the parameters of that designation. Having studied under Sighard Gille at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, he inherited the technical rigor and compositional discipline traditionally associated with Leipzig painting, while developing a visual language that increasingly privileges atmosphere, spatial ambiguity, and the material intelligence of paint itself.
Interior spaces lie at the heart of his work. Studios, domestic rooms, stage-like settings, and model architectures emerge as sites of projection, shaped as much by memory and imagination as by observation. Human figures are largely absent; instead, furniture, textiles, ornamental structures, and shifting sources of light assume an almost theatrical agency. Familiar environments become subtly estranged. The ordinary turns uncanny, and spaces that initially suggest comfort and intimacy gradually reveal an unexpected psychological depth und discomfort.
Central to Weischer’s paintings is a sustained tension between representation and abstraction. Patterns, surfaces, and chromatic structures increasingly detach themselves from descriptive functions, developing an internal logic that follows the demands of painting itself. This dynamic is inseparable from his distinctive working process, in which layers of paint are repeatedly applied, revised, concealed, and exposed. The resulting images preserve the traces of their own formation. Rather than presenting a fixed reality, they remain open constructions – records of decisions, revisions, and alternative possibilities.
Memory operates not only as a subject but as a structural principle throughout Weischer’s oeuvre. Motifs reappear across decades, compositions echo one another, and personal references intersect with quotations of art history in ever-changing constellations. Through this continuous process of return and transformation – one that might be understand as a form of visual sampling – the work acquires remarkable density, revealing the ways images generate, preserve, and reshape experience.
In recent years, Weischer has increasingly extended these investigations beyond the canvas. Installations and spatial interventions translate painterly concerns into three-dimensional environments, expanding the experiential and architectural dimensions of his practice.
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Weischer’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 51st Venice Biennale, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, and Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Aachen. In 2007, he was awarded a residency at Villa Massimo in Rome. His works are held in major public and private collections, including the Pinault Collection, MOCA Los Angeles, MMK Frankfurt, Sammlung Goetz, the Rubell Museum, and G2 Kunsthalle Leipzig.
During Berlin Art Week 2027, Galerie Judin will present Matthias Weischer’s first solo exhibition at Die Tankstelle.
Exhibitions
Chronology
Biography
1973
Born in Elte, Germany
2000
BA Painting, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig
2003
MA, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, studied under Sighard Gille
Lives and works in Leipzig.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Matthias Weischer: Off Target, GRIMM, London
2023
Matthias Weischer: Sequence, GRIMM, New York, NY
2022
Matthias Weischer: Mirrors and Things, König Seoul
2021
Matthias Weischer: Spiegels, GRIMM, Amsterdam
2020
Matthias Weischer, König Tokyo
Matthias Weischer: Bühne, Drents Museum, Assen
Matthias Weischer: Stage, GRIMM, New York, NY
2019
Matthias Weischer: Nave, König Galerie, Berlin
Matthias Weischer: Wege, Museum Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
2017
Matthias Weischer: Bankett, GRIMM, Amsterdam
2016
Matthias Weischer: In und auf Papier, Museum Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
2015
Matthias Weischer, König Galerie, Berlin
Matthias Weischer: Traces To Nowhere, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Matthias Weischer: The Vincent Award Room, Kunstmuseum, The Hague
2013
Matthias Weischer: Thicket, GRIMM, Amsterdam
2011
Matthias Weischer: Obra nueva, Museo Arte de Ponce, Ponce
Matthias Weischer: Alice, Armin und all die anderen. Auf Papier, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, and Kunstverein Bremerhaven
2010
Matthias Weischer: In Monte Carlo, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig
Matthias Weischer: Was ihr wollt, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Theater Marl in cooperation with the Renaissance-Theater Berlin and Grand Theatre de Luxembourg
2009
Matthias Weischer: Room with a View, Kunsthalle, Mainz
2008
Matthias Weischer: Malerei, Kunstmuseum, The Hague
Matthias Weischer: In the Space Between, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Málaga
Matthias Weischer: Der Garten. Arbeiten auf Papier, Museum Kloster Bentlage, Rheine
2007
Matthias Weischer: Malerei, Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, and Kunsthalle, Mannheim
Matthias Weischer: Der Garten. Arbeiten auf Papier, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2006
Matthias Weischer: Arbeiten auf Papier, Kunstverein Konstanz, and Kunstverein, Ulm
Matthias Weischer, Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin
Matthias Weischer: Malerei, Ludwig Forum Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2005
Matthias Weischer, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
2004
Matthias Weischer: Simultan, Künstlerhaus, Bremen
2003
Matthias Weischer: 3 Zimmer, Diele, Bad, Galerie LIGA, Berlin
Matthias Weischer, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
2002
Matthias Weischer: Räumen, Kunsthaus, Essen
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Picture Universe #3, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
In Celebration of Shadows, GRIMM, New York, NY
2025
Hotspot Leipzig: Highlights from the collection, Drents Museum, Assen
Home, Vila Catena, Bucharest
How To Look At…, HALLE 14, Leipzig
10 Years G2 Kunsthalle, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
2024
Licked by the Waves: New Bathers in Art, Museum MORE, Gorssel
True Colors, AkzoNobel Art Foundation at the Kunstmuseum den Haag. The Hague
Self-Portraits, GRIMM, Amsterdam
Matthias Weischer with Wolfram Ebersbach, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
2023
Celebrating 20 years of mentoring, EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Stanze, Fondazione Coppola, Vicenza
2021
German Painting Now, Telegraph, Olomouc
Someone said that the world’s a stage, GRIMM, New York, NY
Inaugural exhibition, GRIMM, New York, NY
2019
Away in the Hill, GRIMM, New York, NY
2018
MDBK meets G2: Malerei aus Leipzig nach 2000, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Landscapes after Ruskin: redefining the sublime, Grey Art Gallery at NYU, New York, NY
2017
Jetzt Druck Machen: Druckgrafik Aus Leipzig, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim bei Welsz
Künstlerräume II, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2016
G2 #5: Hildebrand collection, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Landscapes after Ruskin: redefining the sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
A Question of Perspective, GRIMM, Amsterdam
2015
All The World’s A Stage: Works from the Goetz Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
Made in Germany, Highpoint Printmaking Center, Minneapolis, MN
2013
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Schöne Landschaft: Bedrohte Natur. Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst, Kunsthalle, Osnabrück
The inevitable figuration, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
Nightfall, Rudolfinum, Prague
2012
Paintings/Pinturas: The Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the Senses, Marta Herford, Herford
Sidetracks: Painting in the paramodern continuum, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger
2011
Rom sehen und sterben, Kunsthalle, Erfurt
2010
„Die Bilder tun was mit mir…”: Einblicke in die Sammlung Frieder Burda, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden
Lubok, Lyonel Feininger Galerie, Quedlinburg
Parallelen: Junge zeitgenössische Kunst aus Norwegen und Leipzig, Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker
The Library of Babel: In and out of Place, The Zabludowicz Collection, London
2009
Memorabilia: Sächsische Künstler in Rom, Galerie des Neuen/Sächsischer Kunstverein, Dresden
60-40-20, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Lubok: Originalgrafische Bilderbücher, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
2008
Interieur/Exterieur: Wohnen in der Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg
New Leipzig School, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
The Leipzig Phenomena, Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest
Germania contemporanea: Dipingere è narrare, Museo di arte moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2007
SpaziAperti 5, Accademia di Romania, Rome
Mad Love, Museum of Modern Art, Arken
Part V. Fantasy and Fiction, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe
Weischer meets Beckmann, Kunsthalle, Mannheim
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen
2006
Full House: Gesichter einer Sammlung, Kunsthalle, Mannheim
Netherlands v. Germany: Painting / Malerei, GEM Museum of contemporary art, The Hague
Deutsche Wandstücke / Sette scene di nuova pittura germanica, Museion, Bozen
Made in Leipzig: Bilder aus einer Stadt, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Archipeinture: artists build architecture, Le Plateau, Paris, and Camden Arts Center, London
Neue Malerei: Erwerbungen 2002–2005, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
2005
Life After Death: New Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, travelled to SITE, Santa Fe, NM; Katzen Arts Center Museum, Washington D.C.; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Expanded Painting: Painting and around, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
La nouvelle peinture Allemande, Carré d’Art – musée d’art contemporain, Nîmes
The Experience of Art: Always a little further, Italian Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
David, Matthias und ich, Kunstverein, Bielefeld, and Kunstverein, Nuremberg
2004
Northern Light: Leipzig in Miami, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Direkte Malerei, Kunsthalle, Mannheim
2003
Sieben mal Malerei, Neuer Leipziger Kunstverein at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Awards and Scholarships
2017
Eduard-Arnhold-Scholarship
2007
Scholarship of the Deutsche Akademie Rom, Villa Massimo, Rome
Art award of Helmut-Kraft-Foundation
2005
Art award of Leipziger Volkszeitung
Laureate of the August-Macke-Prize of the City Meschede
2004
Laureate of the Rolex Mentor and Masterstudent Initiative with David Hockney
2002
Scholarship Foundation Kunstfonds Bonn e. V.
2001
Scholarship Junge Kunst in Essen at Kunsthaus Essen
Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
AmC Collezione Coppola, Vicenza
Arken Museum of Modern Art, Arken
Drents Museum, Assen
The Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg
Fundació Sorigué, Lleida
G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig
The Goetz Collection, Munich
K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
Kunstmuseum, The Hague
MdbK | Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main
Pinault Collection, Paris
Rubell Museum, Miami, FL and Washington, DC
Scharpff Collection, Bonn
Telegraph Foundation, Olomouc
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Zabludowicz Collection, London