Nico Sawatzki

Nico Sawatzki was born in 1984 in Regensburg, Germany.
He lives and works in Regensburg, Germany.

Nico Sawatzki’s artistic roots lie in street art. In 2012, he began to apply his artistic signature to canvas and paper using spray paint as his most important tool. In his works, Sawatzki creates imaginary spatial constructions that generate an enormous depth effect through compression and dissolution – construction and simultaneous deconstruction – using spray paint and acrylic within individual sections of the picture. For a long time, the artist worked with a very reduced color palette, using only the “non-colors” black and white. Over the past three years, these have been supplemented by soft pastel shades of blue, pink, green and yellow. His latest works are characterized by strong and intensely bright colors and a play of horizontal and vertical changes in perspective.

In his “Schattenfuge” series, Sawatzki extends his technique to an almost architectural detail by inserting a temporal shadow gap that seems to focus on a single moment in time. The color palette of this series alternates between dark blues and bright oranges, evoking memories of sunrise or sunset. Like the Romantics, Nico Sawatzki wants to give expression to a deeply felt reality. To this end, he takes up memories as moods, striking images from childhood and the near past, and brings them to the canvas in vibrant colors.

Exhibitons (selection)

2024

KIAF SEOUL with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Solo Show, Seoul, South Korea

Kunsttage Winningen 2024 | Weingut Reinhard und Beate Knebel, Winningen, Germany

Von oben kommt der Regen, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

art KARLSRUHE One-Artist-Show with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany

2023

art KARLSRUHE One-Artist-Show with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany

KIAF SEOUL with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Seoul, South Korea

Art Toronto with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada

Zwischen wahr und werden, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

2022

Mind Maps, with Ashwan, Kera, Alexander Rosol, Tomislav Topic, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister | Lesmeister Projects, Regensburg, Germany

Art Toronto with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada

art KARLSRUHE with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany

Unerwartete Wende, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

Filter, Schön, Paul Roosen Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany

Knotenpunkt22, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

2021

KIAF SEOUL with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Seoul, South Korea

Interruption, with Ashwan, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Berlin, Germany

2020

Sprayed, with Katharina Grosse and Ashwan, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

Same same but different, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

Alles Anders, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany

2019

Art Toronto, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada

Solo, Galerie Freitag 18:30, Aachen, Germany

#9, Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2018

Raumimpulse, Kunst- und Gewerbeverein, Regensburg, Germany

Solo, Kunsthaus Klüber, Weinheim, Germany

Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany

Urbex, Kunstverein Passau, Passau, Germany

2017

Abstractealism, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany

Kölner Liste, Cologne, Germany

Trias, Jahn Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

2016

Roots, Jahn Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

#6, Millertorngallery, Hamburg, Germany

2015

Gwax, Kunstverein Graz, Regensburg, Germany

Juxtaposition, Städt. Galerie Harderbastei, Ingoldstadt, Germany

2014

Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst in der Oberpfalz, Städt. Galerie Cordonhaus, Cham, Germany

Grazifikation VII, Kunstverein Graz, Regensburg, Germany


Prizes & Collections

2022

Regensburger Kulturförderpreis 2022, Regensburg, Germany

2020

Kunstsammlung des Bezirks Oberpfalz, Germany

2016

Thomas JC & Angelika Matzen Stiftung, Frauenfeld, Switzerland

2014

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Germany

2024

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