Monika Riethmueller

Neither background nor foreground: the elements of my compositions — abstract shapes that sometimes echo floral or organic forms — exist in relation to one another. They float, they connect; nothing is isolated. Every gesture carries equal weight. Controlled marks and random impulses meet on the same plane, revealing traces of confrontation between the conscious and the unconscious.

When I begin a painting, I never know what will emerge. My process is one of acting, reacting, and reacting to reaction — spontaneous declarations, visual snapshots of the moment.

I seek to evoke a kind of visual poetry, inviting the viewer into my world: a world without a fixed center, sometimes light as a feather, sometimes heavy as lead. A world animated by its own language of color, rough and confrontational at times, yet also delicate, tender, almost caressing.

Monika Riethmueller (b. 1964, Cologne) studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Amsterdam, graduating in 1989. After several years in Ireland, where she taught art and art history in Wicklow, she returned to Amsterdam in 1995 and pursued a career with an international software company until 2020.

Since then, Riethmueller has dedicated herself fully to her artistic practice. She divides her time between Saint-Bauzile, Ardèche (France). Her body of work—paintings, collages, and drawings—is exhibited internationally and held in private and public collections worldwide.

2025
Salon d’Automne 2025 – Paris | France | 29 Oct – 2 Nov 2025

Group exhibition ‘High Five’ at Espace Chabrillan – Montélimar | France | 12 – 27 July 2025

Art MUC 2025 with galerie luzia sassen – München | Germany | 1 – 4 May 2025

Sérézin en couleur – Sérézin | France | 8 – 9 March 2025


2024
Solo show Galerie Ombre & Lumiére, Venterol, France

Solo show La chapelle des Cordeliers – Crest, France

Guest of honour at the Salon des artistes contemporaines, Vienne, France

Solo show Centre culturel André Auclair, Cruas, France

Group show Salle des clercs, Valence, France


2023

Le Salon des Artistes Français 2023, Art Capital, Grand Palais Ephémère – Paris - France
Solo show Maison de Privas, Privas – France
Group show at galerie Luzia Sassen, Hennef – Germany
ST-ART Art Fair 2023 with galerie Luzia Sassen / Strasbourg – France
Group show Institute for Palestinan Studies, Beyrouth - Libanon / New York – USA

2022

LICHT CUBE with galerie Luzia Sassen / solo show Cologne – Germany

Kulturhalle Kabelmetall 2022 with galerie Luzia Sassen - Windeck, Germany

ART'UP LILLE with Galerie Lill'Art / Grand Palais Lille, France

Rêve d'hiver with galerie Luzia Sassen / group show Hennef- Germany

2021

SM'ART AIX Salon d'Art Contemp...