Michael Luther

"For all its diversity, the program of my painting is a very personal one. Whether it is the sensual materiality of color or a photorealistic representation of my studio, the themes feed from the artistic search for the possibilities of the medium of painting and the motifs come from my life and work environment.
My work revolves around the process of painting itself, the materials, the techniques and the meditative time spent alone with the painting.
I paint my work material or the exhibition spaces, I explore the various possibilities of overlaying paint, recycle paint residues or work playfully with the simplest painterly gesture, the brush stroke itself.
Each work begins with the pictorial idea. It dictates the painterly form of expression and there is in this sense no external theme and no overriding idea that must be met. The image idea and the energetic effect of its execution are the subject.“

1992-97 art studies at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
painting class Prof. K.-H. Herrfurth
1997 degree in arts, master student

SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
2021 "Vermisste Landschaften" | Schloss Tambach
2019 PRIVATE VIEWING | Michael Luther | Florian Rexroth | Painting and photo art
2015 "Farblandschaften, Raumatmosphären und Zitate – Werke von 2001 – 2014", Kunstverein Haus 8 im Atelierhaus im Anscharpark, Kiel
2014 "MICHAEL LUTHER – Chaos & Construction", Lisa Norris Gallery, London
2012 BERLINER LISTE
2010 "heimsuche" Städtische Galerie Fähre, Altes Kloster Bad Saulgau
2009 "Augenweiden – Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst", Vattenfall Lobby, Berlin
2008 "INSIDE", Wilde Gallery, Berlin
2007 "Michael Luther – im Bilde", Museum Stadt Engen
2005–06 "Colourado", Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
2003 "Fenster zum Hof", project room op45, Berlin
2001–02 "Michael Luther – Traces/Spuren", Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Berlin


GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)

2021 "Vermisste Landschaften" | Schloss Tambach | Coburg
2019-20 WEIHNACHTSFEIER @ SALON VILLA ERXLEBEN | Berlin
2019 "PEACE - DONT MAKE ME LAUGH // YOU A TWO MINUTE BROTHER" – One Night Group Show | Spor Klübü | Berlin
2019 AD ASTRA | Universität der Künste | Berlin
2018 CHROMOTOPIA | artists of the gallery | Lisa Norris Gallery | London
2017 Summer Group Exhibition | Lisa Norris Galler...