• Overview
    View works. Lennart Rieder, Untitled (tranquil outdoor scene), 2025
    Untitled (tranquil outdoor scene), 2025
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    Lennart Rieder’s work engages deeply with the mechanics of perception, using painting as a means to explore how we see and interpret the world. His work invites viewers to reflect on the ways in which vision shapes our understanding. His approach goes beyond examining painterly tradition; it investigates the fundamental dynamics of perception, exposing the ease with which we trust our eyes.

     

    In his work, Rieder doesn’t just play with paint; he uses it to stage a full-on interrogation of how we see. His paintings are like finely tuned traps for the eye, loaded with tricks, optical illusions, and technical wizardry. But he’s not flexing his artistic muscles to show off. Instead, Rieder is pulling us into a deeper conversation about the act of looking itself. Think magnified details, the illusion of three-dimensionality, and the strange allure of thin, translucent surfaces. He’s not rehashing the old debates about painterly craft; he’s ripping open the very idea of how our eyes construct the world. His sleights of hand aren’t just gimmicks; they reveal the blind trust we place in our vision, whether standing in front of a canvas or scrolling through a screen.

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  • Biography
    Portrait of Lennart Rieder
    Portrait of Lennart Rieder

     

     

    EDUCATION

     

    2013-2014              

    • Master student KHS Kassel under Johannes Spehr

    2011-2012               

    • Sint-Lucas Beeldende Kunst Gent, Belgium

    2007-2014

    • Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany (class of Kerstin Drechsel, now Johannes Spehr)

      

     

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

     

    2025                      

    • BKV Potsdam e.V., Potsdam, Germany, “ill communication”

     

     

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

     

    2026

    • Enari Gallery, Amsterdam, NL, “Material Girl”

    2025                       

    • Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, duo show with Sascha Brylla, “Weberwiese
    • 532 Gallery Jaeckel, Basel Switzerland, “In Bloom”
    • SCHAU FENSTER, Berlin, Germany, 15-year SCHAU FENSTER group Exhibition
    2024                       
    • Haus am Feenteich, Hamburg, Germany, “Tribute to Bambi”
    • Mars Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, “Friends with Benefiz”

    2023                         

    • Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany, “echt jetzt”
    • Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, “Blur”
    • Exhibition Space Schulstraße Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, “Ausleben”

    2022                         

    • Salon der Gegenwart 2022, Hamburg, Germany
    2021                          
    • Strzelski Gallery. Stuttgart, Germany, duo exhibition with Manuel Kirsch, “PUFF PUFF KNACK”
    2020                       
    • Josef Filipp Galerie, Leipzig, Germany, “No hesitation No delay”
    • 532 Galerie Thomas Jaeckel, New York, USA, “Fall Breeze”

    • WARP, Coup de Ville, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, “Chasing Flowers”

    • 532 Galerie Thomas Jaeckel, New York, “Summer Loving
    • Emmanuel Walderdorf Gallery, Molsberg, Germany, “Auf den Schultern von Riesen 2”
    • Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, “Auf den Schultern von Riesen 1”
    • Galerie Oellfrüh, Hamburg, Germany, “Minibar”
    2019                        

    • 532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, USA, “On The Edge Of The Wilds”

    •   Strzelski Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany, “Playing with dinosaurs”
    • BKV Potsdam, Germany, “Der Schrein der Freundschaft”

    2018                         

    • Kunstraum XXY, Berlin, “It's alright mama"
    • Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, “Same Same but different"

    2017 

    • Strzelski Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany, “Nerdcore”

     

     

    AWARDS

     

    2014

    • Advancement Award from the CDW Foundation, graduated in 2014                      
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