Liv Olsen

Liv Olsen is a contemporary abstract artist based in Germany. Her paintings are rooted in nature as lived experience — water, light, erosion, change. Large in format and deep in presence, the works move between indigo and navy, warm ochre and raw sienna, charcoal and occasionally aubergine. Colours that come from the natural world and are anchored in it.
The surfaces are built in layers of acrylic on canvas — accumulated, reduced, reworked. What remains was never the first intention. That process is part of what the paintings are about: how things transform, how beauty emerges through letting go rather than through control.
Her art is collected internationally, finding homes in private collections, architect-designed interiors, and creative spaces worldwide. Each painting is an original — hand-painted, signed, and shipped with care from her studio in Germany.

Studies in Economics. Self-taught painter since the age of thirteen.

My work has been shown in curated exhibitions across Europe and North America.
In 2023, I exhibited at the Venice Biennale, curated by the ITSLIQUID Group — a milestone that connected my work with the international contemporary art scene.
Shortly after, I participated in the Urban Traffic exhibition at Galerie CAEL, Milan.
That same year, I received the Art Prize by Artio Gallery, Toronto, and exhibited at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
In 2025, my work was selected for the juried group exhibition Interconnecting Lines at One Art Space, New York, presented by Artio Gallery.