Eckhard Wagner

My paintings bear witness to perceptions between reason and intuition, between consciousness and that which eludes it. They arise from explorations of timeless distances and move at the boundaries of the visible - there, where dream and reality pass into one another. I can only express what I myself see, what presents itself to my eyes and senses, and what takes place within me. Every experience of an image is radically subjective. It cannot be generalized, nor fixed to a single, unambiguous meaning.
It is not about content or style.
Painting is not light, form, and color.
Painting is light, form, and color.
Perhaps it is precisely in this contradiction that its true essence lies. The visible points to something that goes beyond the visible.
A picture can show something without explaining it. It can awaken a perception that eludes reason and is nevertheless real.
In terms of my art, I still feel bound to traditional ways of seeing - with all their possibilities and all their limitations. At the same time I seek what lies beyond the immediately conscious: in intuition, in what cannot be grasped by reason, and perhaps also in a spiritual dimension.
My painting moves in this in-between space - between what we see and what we can only ...

University of art Karlsruhe

My work has been featured in various solo and group exhibitions since 1980, with showcases in cities like Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich.