Henry Walinda

Henry Walinda, who grew up in Mecklenburg, is an artist whose work emerges from an inner and quiet impulse. For him, painting has never been the result of a single event but an expression of a fundamental need to transform perception, emotion, and stimulus into form and color. His works do not follow pre-conceived concepts; they unfold through the open process of creation itself.

For many years, Walinda worked with egg tempera – a medium that taught him the rhythm of layering and the spontaneity of response. Today he paints primarily in oil, where the tension between construction and destruction has become the core of his artistic process. Each layer may disappear, be revised, or re-emerge. This constant dialogue between creation, overpainting, and erasure reflects an inner movement that remains visible in every work.

His paintings exist in a balance between abstraction and reality. Forms dissolve and reform; structures evoke landscapes, architecture, or memory. Roughly three quarters of his visual language are abstract, while a remaining quarter preserves traces of recognisable form – a balance that defines his signature and offers viewers orientation within openness.

Walinda’s work follows no plan. A painting may begin with a ...

• Painting studies with Gero Kuenzel, University of Leipzig (1993–1996)

• Art Station Fulda, Artprice Program (2002)

• University Leipzig, Institute of Art Pedagogy

• Germany: Berlin, Würzburg, Nuremberg, Meiningen, Obernburg, Leipzig, Mecklenburg

• International: Ireland, India (Benares, Baltimore), Poland, France, Sweden, Austria, USA

• Participation in the Landeskunstschau (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) three times