HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN

Lutz Driessen

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Biography

Born in 1976, Kleve, Germany
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany

In his work, Lutz Driessen uses the fragmented human body to examine the tension between in and out, shaking up the body to see what happens when inside and outside meet, the way paint meets the surface of a canvas.

His paintings often feature recognizable body parts, forms that allow us a point of entry to the paintings, shapes we can identify as belonging to bodies so that we can more readily go beyond the surface elements. They provide us with an access point to the process of painting – a way into Driessen’s mode of working and the work itself, which is really about how to apply paint, how to create contour in a painting, how to combine colors on a canvas, and what happens when those colors come into contact with each other. Each painting represents a new process, a new attempt to tackle the problem of how to get ideas onto canvas, how to build up the painting and connect all the parts. Bodies are vessels that contain and confine our insides while simultaneously releasing everything we leave behind, from our waste to our offspring. In these paintings, corporeal forms function as vessels for paint and brushstrokes (Based on a text by Diana Perry-Schnelle, curator/writer).

Lutz Driessen studied in Düsseldorf with Albert Oehlen and in Arnhem and has exhibited in Germany and abroad, including in the group show PERSPEKTIVEN DER GEGENWART at Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2012). A recent exhibition at HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN was titled Somerleyton, accompanied by an essay by Diana Perry. 

CV

Education

2001 – 2004

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

1999 – 2001

HK-Arnhem

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

living, Galerie Khoshbakht, Cologne

2020

Somerleyton, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN, Hamburg

2018

Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

2016

Solo Presentation at Cofa Contemporary, booth Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Cologne

2014

Hidde van Seggelen gallery, London

2015

Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Jahn, Munich

2012

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

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

2014

followup: K, Schloss Ringenberg, Hamminkeln

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

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