Tony Weiss

FIGURATIVE PAINTING · MEMORY · IDENTITY · TRANSFORMATION

My paintings explore memory, identity, transformation, and the traces that social change leaves behind.

Born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1985 and now living and working in Bern, Switzerland, I draw on personal memories of growing up in East Germany and on the profound social changes of the 1990s. Rather than documenting this history, I translate it into fragmented figurative worlds where memory, imagination, and contemporary life overlap.

Figures, faces, architectural structures, and small human characters appear within spaces that are partly familiar and partly imagined. They can become observers, workers, builders, or storytellers. Their actions suggest questions of belonging, loss, resistance, transformation, and the possibility of creating something new from what remains.

I work with expressive lines, layered color, and deliberately visible traces of the painting process. Wood and other found or reused materials can become part of the work itself, carrying their own physical history into the image.

My paintings move between reality and imagination, personal experience and collective memory.

At the center of my practice is a simple question:


What remains of the past when...

2005–2010
Design and Architecture
Leipzig, Germany

Further artistic training through workshops and specialized art courses, with a focus on drawing, painting and experimental materials.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Museum Franz Gertsch
Burgdorf, Switzerland

Kunsthaus Steffisburg
Steffisburg, Switzerland

Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany

Streetart Galerie
Paris, France

Art Room Basel
Basel, Switzerland


SELECTED ART FAIRS

Munich · Vienna · Frankfurt · Karlsruhe

PUBLIC ART

Switzerland · Germany