Lutz Braun (*1976 in Schleswig) studied from 1998 - 2003 at the Städelschule in Frankfurt a.M. with Thomas Bayrle, Ayşe Erkmen and Per Kirkeby. He paints and draws on various surfaces, in addition to canvas and other textiles, wood, carpets, upholstery, plastics, metal and on paper, often in A4 format, used when traveling, during conversations, meetings, in everyday mobility and under the influence of music, films, literature, interviews, lectures or discussions. Many graphic and painterly techniques are used in his work. An attitude characterized by an awareness of crisis and history becomes apparent. It is conveyed in the Stream of Consciousness through hopeful or ironic, yet always disturbingly overshadowed moods and narratives.
He has been on residencies, scholarships and exhibitions in Sweden, New Orleans, Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Mexico City, Beijing, Athens, Paris, Zurich, Vienna, Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt and Andratx/Mallorca.
In 2021, a comprehensive catalog “Lutz Braun. Works on Paper” was published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. In 2023/24, a second publication “Lutz Braun. Abstract Realism. Painting 1998 - 2023”.
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En octubre brota el amarillo
Curated by Eduardo Luque & Christian Barragán February 1 - March 22, 2025As part of Mexico City's Art Week 2025, Saenger Gallery presents the group exhibition on landscape, En octubre brota el amarillo [In October, Yellow Blossoms], the first contemporary art project hosted by Casa Limantour, curated by Eduardo Luque with assistance from Christian Barragán. With this new exhibition, Saenger Gallery reaffirms its program of showcasing works in architecturally significant spaces of historical and cultural relevance. This time, twenty artists from Mexico, North America, Spain, Germany, and Japan have been gathered to create a temporal arc of over thirty years of artistic production, allowing for an exploration of the multiple singularities in approaches, processes, materialities, and questions employed by the invited artists, all centered around a classic theme in art history: landscape.Read more -
errare ab origine by Lutz Braun
at Main Room September 12 - November 9, 2024“Errare ab origine” is the first solo exhibition in Mexico by the German artist Lutz Braun (Schleswig, 1976). Translated from Latin as “to go astray from the origin”, but also “to go wrong from the start”, this debut show brings together some thirty paintings in various formats which combine realist and abstract elements to form scenes in which landscapes, animals and people co-exist in a way that is both familiar and intriguing.Read more
