We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 7 p.m.
The artist will be present.
An introduction will be given by gallery owner and art historian Dr. Isabelle Lesmeister.
With Wie es ist kann es sein (How it is it can be), Nico Sawatzki presents his third solo exhibition at Galerie Isabelle Lesmeister—an invitation to explore paintings that reject clarity and instead pose questions in a quiet, multi-layered way: questions about perception, memory, and the relationship between the present and the image.
Sawatzki’s works arise in a field of tension between visibility and dissolution. His paintings seem like snapshots of a fleeting state—sometimes they appear to suggest landscapes, sometimes only an impression of atmosphere remains. Glazed layers, broken color spaces, and subtle textures form pictorial spaces in which what is seen does not reveal itself immediately, but unfolds slowly, tentatively. What becomes visible in them is less a motif than a state: a visual pause that challenges us to look more closely—and in doing so, to reflect on our own perception.
The exhibition title Wie es ist kann es sein (How it is, it can be) opens up a poetic space of possibility. It shifts the focus from the fixed to the potential: to the indeterminate, the fragile, the open. Nothing is clear-cut – and it is precisely in this liminality that the power of the works lies. They elude quick readability and instead open up a different temporality: that of viewing, remembering, feeling.
In a world full of visual overload, Sawatzki’s painting offers a quiet counterbalance. It does not formulate clear answers, but creates spaces of resonance in which sensation, memory, and imagination meet. His works are not images—they are mirrors, spaces of possibility, tentative movements in the medium of color.
With Wie es ist kann es sein (How it is, it can be), Nico Sawatzki consistently continues his painterly practice while sharpening its poetic-conceptual core. It is a form of painting that does not assert, but rather suggests—and thus invites us to become part of the picture ourselves.
A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.
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