ANSELM REYLE
The Strongest Ideas Are the Simplest Ones

19 June 2023

»My parents tried to educate me in a more tasteful way, but I was always
interested in the other side and I kind of kept this.«

»My parents tried to educate me in a more tasteful way, but I was always interested in the other side and I kind of kept this.«

In the lead-up to his current solo exhibition, PARADISE, we visited Anselm Reyle in his Berlin studio where the artist discussed his unique trajectory through the history of both abstract painting and underground music in the 1980s. The mixture of the two has provided fertile ground for Reyle’s use of discarded materials, found objects, and neon light sources, all of which take new shape in the exhibition, which features entirely new workgroups – large mirrored sculptures, photo-based images, and neon sculptures that look as if they had been written in space.

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ANSELM REYLE
Anselm Reyle (b. 1970 in Tübingen, Germany) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Since 2009 the artist has held a position as a professor of Painting/Drawing at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg.

Anselm Reyle’s best-known works include his foil and stripe paintings as well as his sculptures. The characteristic of his artistic work is the use of various found objects that have been removed from their original function, altered visually, and recontextualized. Remnants of consumer society, discarded materials, symbols of urbanity, and industrial change play a centra...
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