Robert Lanz

Exploring the Interactions between Matter and Light: Robert Lanz’s Multimedia Practice

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Robert Lanz studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and now lives and works in Berlin.

Robert Lanz’s work draws on a broad spectrum of painting media and mixing ratios of raw substances, exploring the linear and fractal nature of matter and questioning our notions of continuity. The works emerge from the everyday flow of information, experiences, ideas and memories, which Robert Lanz translates directly and experimentally at the same time. Like a link to the place, the space, that exists only in oneself through the power of imagination.

His way of working is part of an ongoing experiment that emerges in the course of the production of continuous trials and continues the artist’s many years of research. Robert Lanz also works in series, sometimes comprising several hundred works on paper. The serial character is reinforced by the dynamic painting style and the motifs, whereby materiality and technique, the time factor, each develop their own unique expression. Robert Lanz’s large-format paintings, on the other hand, are not created in series, they are individual works.

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2013 Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) / Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
Postgraduate Meisterschüler Degree (Meisterschülerabschluss) with Distinction, Faculty of Fine Arts
Academic equivalent to Master of Fine Arts (MFA)
Mentored by Professor Leiko Ikemura
Artistic focus on contemporary painting, experimental material processes, and interdisciplinary methodologies, situated within a research-driven and conceptually grounded practice.

2011 Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) / Berlin University of the Arts, Germany
Graduated in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts
Academic equivalent to Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Studied under Professor Leiko Ikemura
Specialisation in research-based, experimental practice within the field of fine arts, grounded in scientific methodology.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 LAB I/2018 – Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
2016 ROBERT LANZ – Braunschweiger Privatbank, Braunschweig


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2021 DOMINO 3 – Salve Berlin, Ortstermin 2, Kunstfestival Moabit – „RESET“, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin

2018 KLEIN, ABER FEIN – From the Kunststiftung Perdita & Hans Peter Kunze scholarship recipients, KunstraumKunze, Gifhorn
2018 OFFBEAT – From the Class of Leiko Ikemura, SCHAU FENSTER, Raum für Kunst, Berlin

2017 WIR MAGIER – Leiko Ikemura und Meisterschüler, Galerie Evelyn Drewes, Hamburg
2017 REBELLION – Berlin Projektraum für zeitgenössische Kunst und experimentelle Medien, (SCOTTY Enterprises e.V.), Berlin

2016 OPENING / EXHIBITION, KUNSTRAUMKUNZE, KunststiftungKunze, Gifhorn

2015 APRIVATE / PUBLICK, Städtische Galerie Schloß Wolfsburg, from the Kunststiftung Perdita & Hans Peter Kunze scholarship recipients as part of the exhibition series RE_VISION, November 17 – February 21, 2016, Wolfsburg

2014 AMPROJECT KUNSTWERKSTÄTTEN, Berlin
2014 LEIKO IKEMURA’S XXVI – From the Class of Leiko Ikemura, Wiensowski & Harbord, Berlin

2013 CONNECTED FOR THE MOMENT, Temporary private startup showroom, Mohrenstr. 11, Berlin
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