R O B E R T   L A N Z

Between Substance and Trace – Painting as a State of Matter

Substance as Language – Matter in Transition

The Surface as Event Horizon – Pigment Processes in the Tension Field between Gravitation and Dissolution

Robert Lanz situates his artistic practice at the intersection of materiality, conceptual rigor, and procedural experimentation.


His work unfolds through overlapping layers of the microscopic and the cosmic, the chemical and the poetic. The surface becomes a resonant field – a space where pigments, metals, stones, and light are not mere materials but active agents in a dynamic process.

 

His paintings are not composed in the traditional sense, but emerge through an experimental logic of reaction, transformation, and decay – akin to geological or biological systems under controlled disruption. Lanz is less interested in the final image than in the painting as a site of continuous transition.

 

His series often span hundreds of works on paper, forming visual ecologies that are both meticulous and volatile. In contrast, his large-format paintings appear as concentrated zones – crystallizations of a process that elsewhere remains in flux.

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Pigment as a Cosmic Trace

Color becomes the residual signature of an event – shaped by temporal pressure, gravity, and molecular drift.

The Image Thinks in States of Matter

Between solid, liquid, and evaporated – painting emerges as a transitional form, a visible expression of thermodynamic systems.

The Surface as Resonant Space

Every impulse, every response inscribes itself into the skin of the painting – as an echo of light, touch, and entropy.
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Matter as a Carrier of Memory

What adheres, remains – pigment particles preserve moments like archives, driven by pressure, friction, and time.

Light as a Form-Giving Force

The eye does not merely see – light itself constructs the image: through scattering, reflection, and quantum flow.
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Beyond the image, the field begins.

CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS

KLEIN, ABER FEIN, Résumé n°4, 2019
Hrsg./ed. Kunststiftung Perdita & Hans-Peter Kunze
Published on the occasion of the exhibition with works by the supported artists by the Arts Foundation – KunststiftungKunze.
Exhibition catalogue with: Charlotte Bastian, René Kemp, Aisuke Kondo, Robert Lanz, Nina Poppe und Sirmon Raemann.
With texts by: Hans-Peter Kunze
With photos by: Erik Seth
Exhibition at KunstraumKunze, Gifhorn, 2019

 

ROBERT LANZ, WERKKATALOG, 2016
Hrsg./ed. Robert Lanz
Funded by the grant from the Arts Foundation – KunststiftungKunze, Perdita & Hans-Peter Kunze and by the Braunschweiger Privatbank.
With photos by: Bernd Borchhardt, Jakob Zoche, Monika Hübscher, Anna-Kristina Bauer, Andreas Graf, Helena Petersen
With texts by: Timo Antons, Sascha Köckeritz, Perdita Adrian-Kunze, Hans-Peter Kunze, Prof. Dr. Susanne Pfleger, Laila Kleveman, Prof. Leiko Ikemura
Art Direction: Julia Vukovic
Solo Exhibition: ROBERT LANZ at Braunschweiger Privatbank, Braunschweig, 2016
CATALOGUE

 

THIS IS RED, 2010
Hrsg./ed. Leiko Ikemura
Published on the occasion of the exhibition THIS IS RED, Klasse Leiko Ikemura at HALLE ZEHN / CAP Cologne e.V.
Exhibition catalogue with: Sarah Arriagada, Emmanuel Bornstein, Mariechen Danz, Marija Falker, Elisophie Eulenberg, Linda Franke, Marius Goerner, Lennart W. Grau, Johanna Hochholzer, Andrea Huyoff, Leiko Ikemura, Sako Kojima, Aisuke Kondo, Kevin Kopacka, Robert Lanz, John Allan MacLean, Helena Petersen, Viet Bang Pham, Christian Pilz, Ulrike Prib, Anita Regli, Achim Riethmann, Philipp Rößle, Kerstin Serz, Daigoro Yonekura, Zurab Sheqelashvili, Michael Wutz, Sahar Zuckermann
Detailed bibliographic data available at:
www.dnb.de
DNB catalogue entry
ISBN: 978-3-89462-181-0
Exhibition at HALLE ZEHN / CAP Cologne e.V., Köln, 2010

 

 

SELECTED ARTICLES

Vernissage „Lab I/2018“ – Robert Vellekoop & Robert Lanz
This event was posted in Hamburg by Robert Heidemann, February 1 – February 2
Arttrado – Junge Kunst Online
https://arttrado.de/events/tag/robert-lanz/

Hans Karweik: Den Fall ins Leere auffangen
Wolfsburger Nachrichten, 27 October 2016

Christian Franz: Auf diese Kunst hat Gifhorn nur gewartet
Braunschweiger Zeitung, 26 December 2016

Christian Franz: Die Kunzes stiften Gifhorn Kunst – Das Ehepaar fördert Meisterschüler und öffnet eine neue Galerie
Braunschweiger Zeitung, 7 September 2016

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Foundation, Kunststiftung Perdita & Hans-Peter Kunze
KunstraumKunze, Gifhorn