Nico Sawatzki

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.

Exhibitions (selection)

2025

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

2024

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

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

2025

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