About

 

Exhibitions

  • 2024 Convergence, Galerie SLP, Berlin

  • 2023 Affordable Art Fair Battersea (UK), Turner Art Perspective Gallery

  • 2023 Group Show, Kurfürstendamm 210, Berlin

  • 2023 Group Show, Nature’s Canvas, Turner Art Perspective, UK

  • 2022 BAODT Pop Up Hamburg Hindenburghaus

  • 2022 Misa Edition

  • 2022 Galerie Allyoucanart, Munich (Germany)

  • 2022 BAODT Pop Up Gallery, Frankfurt (Germany)

  • 2022 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, Noon Powell Fine Art Gallery

  • 2022 MEAJET BAODT Pop Up Gallery, St. Moritz (Switzerland)

  • 2021 Sublime Stages BAODT Pop Up Gallery, Kitzbühel (Austria)

  • 2021 Kunstring/SÉVIGNÉ BAODT Pop Up Gallery, Munich

  • 2021 Kastenmeyers Restaurant Kempinski Hotel Dresden

  • 2021 Steigenberger Grandhotel & Spa Heringsdorf

  • 2021 BAODT Pop Up Gallery, super+Ateliers, Munich

  • 2021 Affordable Art Fair London (Online), Noon Powell Fine Art Gallery

  • 2021 Online Exhibition, “The Era of Change”, Visionary Projects

  • 2020 Art Fair, Arte Wiesbaden

  • 2019 Group Exhibition, “Lass ma Cornern”, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Hamburg

  • 2019 Group Exhibition, “Timeless Impact”, Grace Denker Gallery, Hamburg

  • 2019 Group Exhibition, “Frühlingserwachen”, Kun:st Quartier Leonberg

PUBLICATIONS

2022 Misa Magazine
2020 Singulart Magazine 

ARTWORKS WORLDWIDE

  • France

  • Belgium

  • Portugal

  • United Arab Emirates

  • Ireland

  • England

  • Germany

  • Czech Republic

  • USA

  • Hong Kong

  • Italy

  • Austria

  • Finland

  • Switzerland

 
 

Artist Statement

"Colors, contrast, and movement merge to create a world that captivates the viewer. I would describe my work as emotional landscapes. I want to create places that draw the viewer out of the current moment. Memories tend to lose details and develop into vague, blurred assemblages of pictures and emotions, like our dreams. I often try to re-experience moments of the past. My work shows exactly this phenomenon. An assemblage of feelings and thoughts, with their interrelated dynamics, melts together into a world that you can move in. Often inspired by an emotional memory, a dream, or a paradise I wish to visit." – Sebastian Merk

 

“Sebastian Merk was born 1996 in Bad Homburg, Germany and currently lives and works in Göttingen.

Like a musician or composer, Sebastian’s work is concerned primarily with the expression of intense emotion. Composing with an explosive use of colour, his dynamic abstract canvases are both contemplations on the idea of freedom and a fervent response to life’s stories and experiences.

Sebastian works primarily in acrylic, acrylic-inks and blacklight UV-reactive paints, using palette knives, brushes and his own hands. Switching between visible and UV light, his work reveals unseen worlds beyond the realm of everyday perception. Combining the Impressionists’ concern for light, the Surrealists’ fascination for dream worlds and the Abstract Expressionists’ exploration of emotion, he describes his paintings as worlds in and of themselves. Each “painting world” is constructed over time from layer upon layer of abstracted gestural marks, taking particular care to preserve contrast and luminosity. He is interested in the connections and correspondences within these worlds and how the formal characteristics of each work – the fissures and passages that form within the paintings and the experience of looking itself – might allow a momentary retreat from daily life.

 

Sebastians work has been included in numerous group shows and art fairs including the Affordable Art Fair Hampstead (2022); Arte Wiesbaden (2020); Lass Ma Cornern, Heliumcowboy Artspace, Hamburg (2019); Galerie Allyoucanart Munich (2022); BAODT Pop Up Exhibition Frankfurt (2022); and Frühlingserwachen, Kun:st Quartier, Leonberg (2019). His work is represented in private collections in the USA, England, Hong Kong, France, Dubai, Finland, Germany and Italy.”

NoonPowell Fine Art Gallery London