THOMAS GEYER

If Thomas Geyer could preserve the moment of beauty, of wonder, in a jar, he would. Instead, he rummages through his memories of aesthetic gazes and moments of longing and transforms them into atmospheric paintings.

As a symbiosis between subjective perception and artistic post- correction, Geyer himself is the yardstick, the interface between real experience and momentary sensation. On his excursions into nature, he settles where he himself feels most at home. Usually, this is at harmonious meeting points of human life and scenic wilderness that reflect Geyer's personal habitat between city and country: an overgrown backyard, a lake with a boarding ladder, peaked houses jutting out from behind dunes.

With natural colours that glow from within themselves, such as night blue, forest green and evening red-pink, the artist directs all his attention to the narrative potential that he has discovered for himself in this moment.

Combined with matte nuances and light reflections, the result is a seemingly random interplay of shadows, occasionally mirroring in the blue-green lake water, and other times settling as a moonlit glimmer on the white sandy beach.

When Thomas Geyer longs back to those balmy summer evenings, sea breezes or springtime feelings in the studio, he brings out the preserved impressions, the light, the smells and sounds and spreads them out on the canvases. Light spot by light spot, canopy by canopy, he digs back into their narrative atmospheres and begins to unfold their stories anew.

In his narratives, he reveals just enough to make us feel at home in his settings - and yet leaves room for individual secrets. In this way, the artist not only grants us entry into his refuges, but opens them up as settings in which our own memories may take place.

It is the intensity of the moment, the absolute beauty and emotion that made Geyer a painter. But there is also a seriousness in the artist's longing, an impending doom that accompanies us all - the loss of a habitat of which we ourselves are a component.

And it is important to feel the gaps, says Thomas Geyer. Without them, there would be no desire, no sense of transience, no appreciation for wonder, for all the fleeting things he wants to preserve as a painter.

And when the artist sets off again from his studio to be found by his motifs with a wandering eye, he always has a jar with him to later share his intense experience with us.

- Sonja Gatterwe

BIOGRAPHY / CV

1980
2003 – 2010

born in Leipzig, I am living and working in Leipzig

studies of painting/fine arts in the classes of Sighard Gille and Annette Schröter at the Acadamy of Fine Arts Leipzig

2010
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

diploma in painting/fine arts of the Acadamy of Fine Arts Leipzig

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 In der Stille der Natur, PRINCEHOUSE GALLERY, Mannheim, Germany 2023 CATCH A GLIMPSE, LA GALERIE SABINE BAYASLI, Paris, France

VACATION SOUVENIRS, GALLERY FABRAR ARS, Magdeburg, Germany 2019 NATURE IS MY ITEM, GALLERY POTEMKA, Leipzig, Germany
2017 ALBA, GALLERY POTEMKA, Leipzig, Germany
2016 SPECULATE, GERA ART ASSOCIATION., Gera, Germany

BREAKING-SITES, The BOX ART SPACE, Leipzig, Germany GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

2024
AAF Hamburg, art fair, Uhlig Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Breaking Boundaries, group show, Redbud Arts Center/Uhlig Gallery, Houston/TX, USA ART KARLSRUHE, art fair participation, Uhlig Gallery, KARLSRUHE, GERMANY
Breeze, duo-show, ENARI GALLERY, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023
ART KARLSRUHE, art fair participation, GALLERY STEVE UHLIG, Karlsruhe, Germany VOLTA ART FAIR, art fair participation, GALLERY FLOX, Basel, Switzerland DURCHSTREIFEN UND VERWEILEN, duo show, GALLERY BRENNWALD, Kiel, Germany KNOTENPUNKT ART FESTIVAL, group show, AFFENFAUST GALLERY, Hamburg, Germany

2022
DAF FRANKFURT/MAIN, art fair with GALLERY FLOX, Frankfurt/Main, Germany AAF HAMBURG, art fair with GALLERY STEVE UHLIG, Hamburg, Germany THROUGH THE EYES OF..., duo show, GALLERY FLOX, Dresden, Germany RURAL//CITY, group show, GALLERY STEVE UHLIG, Leipzig, Germany

2021
SALON DER GEGENWART, group show, SALON D. GEGENWART SOCIETY, Hamburg Related Landscapes, duo show, GALLERY BRENNWALD, Kiel, Germany

LAND//SCAPES, group show, PRINCE HOUSE GALLERY, Mannheim, Germany

2020
3X3, art from Leipzig, group show, GALLERY OBEN, Chemnitz, Germany

WINTERSALON, group show, GALLERY KRISTINE HAMANN, Wismar, Germany

2019
DAF FRANKFURT/MAIN, art fair with GALLERY FLOX, Frankfurt/Main, DE NUWAYHID AND FRIENDS, exhibition of the private collection of Dr.Nuwayhid, Werkschauhalle, Spinnerei Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
UNDER CONSTRUCTION , duo show, GALLERY FLOX, Dresden, Germany
DAF COLOGNE, art fair participation with GALLERY FLOX, Cologne, Germany

2018
WORKS, duo show, GALLERY OBEN, Chemnitz, Germany
AAF HAMBURG, art fair participation, GALLERY FLOX, Hamburg, Germany

2017
BEST OF POTEMKA, group show, GALLERY POTEMKA, Leipzig, Germany DE.STABIL, 24.annual leipzig exhibition, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2016
KONFORM_COMPLIANT, group show, KRUDEBUDE-ART-SPACE, Leipzig

2015
Auf der Suche nach Licht - nie aufhören anzufangen, group show,,
ART ASSOCIATION WESSELING, Wesseling/Bonn, Germany
INSIGHT OUT, group show, HOLE OF FAME ART SPACE, Dresden, Germany

2009-2013
OUVERTÜRE, group show, OFFSPACE, Berlin, Germany
Machen oder Tod! / do or die!, group show, OFFSPACE, Leipzig, Gemany
SonderfART, group show, GALLERY FILSER & GRÄF, Munich, Germany
DIPLOMA EXHIBITION, group show, ACADAMY OF FINE ARTS, Leipzig
HEIMAT, group show, GALLERY WERFT 11, Cologne, Germany
NEUE LEIPZIGER SCHULE, group show, COLLECTIE-HARMS, Rolde, Netherland „KUNSTSTUDENTINNEN UND KUNSTSTUDENTEN STELLEN AUS “, 19th federal competition, Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany, group show, BUNDESKUNSTHALLE DEUTSCHLAND, Bonn, Germany
PAN AMSTERDAM, art fair participation, COLLECTIE-HARMS, Amsterdam, NL
UTRECHT ART FAIR, art fair participation, COLLECTIE-HARMS, Utrecht, NL