Nico Sawatzki was born in 1984 in Regensburg, Germany.
He lives and works in Regensburg, Germany.
Nico Sawatzki’s recent works move between abstraction and suggestion. With spray paint and acrylic, he creates color fields that evoke horizons or atmospheric light without depicting concrete landscapes. His paintings function as resonance spaces where perception, memory, and emotion intertwine, connecting to Romantic ideas of inner reflection but translating them into a contemporary, abstract language focused on the fleeting moment of seeing.
Blur, gradients, and overlays create a visual tension between clarity and dissolution, turning painting itself into a reflection on perception. Light, mist, and color form atmospheres that evoke the familiar without defining it, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and associations.
Sawatzki’s use of spray paint references post-street-art aesthetics, yet he employs it for delicate color veils that oscillate between presence and fading. His works seek moments of suspension, visual in-between spaces where perception is renegotiated, asserting a precise, poetic position within contemporary painting.
UNTITLED Art Miami Beach with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Miami Beach (FL), USA
Art Toronto with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada
Wie es ist kann es sein, Solo Show, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany
Mural, “Kunst im Uhlen”, Winningen, Germany
Art Karlsruhe with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany
Conjunction, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
KIAF SEOUL with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Solo Show, Seoul, South Korea
NATURA II, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister & Mühlen.Kunst Eichhofen, Eichhofen, Germany
Kunsttage Winningen 2024 | Weingut Reinhard und Beate Knebel, Winningen, Germany
Von oben kommt der Regen, Solo Show, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Regensburg, Germany
art KARLSRUHE One-Artist-Show with Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany
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
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
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
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
Art Toronto, Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister, Toronto, Canada
Solo, Galerie Freitag 18:30, Aachen, Germany
#9, Millerntor Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Raumimpulse, Kunst- und Gewerbeverein, Regensburg, Germany
Solo, Kunsthaus Klüber, Weinheim, Germany
Salon der Gegenwart, Hamburg, Germany
Urbex, Kunstverein Passau, Passau, Germany
Abstractealism, Affenfaust Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Kölner Liste, Cologne, Germany
Trias, Jahn Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Roots, Jahn Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
#6, Millertorngallery, Hamburg, Germany
Gwax, Kunstverein Graz, Regensburg, Germany
Juxtaposition, Städt. Galerie Harderbastei, Ingoldstadt, Germany
Zeitgenössische bildende Kunst in der Oberpfalz, Städt. Galerie Cordonhaus, Cham, Germany
Grazifikation VII, Kunstverein Graz, Regensburg, Germany
Regensburger Kulturförderpreis 2022, Regensburg, Germany
Kunstsammlung des Bezirks Oberpfalz, Germany
Thomas JC & Angelika Matzen Stiftung, Frauenfeld, Switzerland
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Germany