Tobias Wyrzykowski was born in 1987 in Würzburg and studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. He has presented numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany.
His awards and prizes include the “Auf geht’s!” grant from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the debut grant from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and the Arts, the annual award from the Hugo and Elly Goetz Foundation, a scholarship from the Cusanuswerk, and the Art Promotion Prize of the City of Lauf; he also participated in the Positions Berlin Art Fair.
The artist lives and works in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt. In February 2023, Wyrzykowski was featured as Artist of the Month in the German edition of LE MONDE diplomatique.
Since he began making art, Wyrzykowski has been fascinated by painting. He considers himself a highly productive artist. Since his studies in 2008, he has created a wide range of works in both large and small formats. His focus lies in experimenting with the subject of landscape and its intersection with abstraction, employing alchemical and unconventional painting techniques. It is important to him to approach color and format in his compositions without taboos.
His visual worlds are often intangible, ambiguous, or attempt to capture dream images. They emerge intuitively and quickly, depending on mood, at times absent-mindedly or inspired by dream fragments. Recurring motifs include the four elements, the cosmos, seascapes and horizons, as well as snow and ice, forests and meadows—sometimes interwoven with references to figures from art history.
Traces of human presence are almost entirely absent from his oil paintings, which may contribute to the sense of calm conveyed by strong colors and gestural brushwork. In his most recent works, Tobias Wyrzykowski uses gouache on black-primed canvas, creating multi-dimensional pictorial spaces through a slow, layered process involving long drying times, revisions, reworking, and the deliberate re-pouring of paint. The paintings do not depict a concrete scene but instead offer a vague, washed-out, fragmented impression of landscape, into which horizons, stones, walls, and layers of earth appear to “drift.” This results in a controlled oscillation between mastery and release, between precision and chance, until each painting settles into its own rhythm. At the heart of his practice is the act of painting itself—color on canvas, inspired by nature but not bound to it.
Size: 200 x 200 cm
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