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Matthias bitzer biography

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Matthias Bitzer’s (born in 1975) works emerge in the play between the media of painting, sculpture, and drawing. The core is the engagement with the formal and thematic contrasts of abstract and figurative representation. Taking a new perspective on classical modernism, the artist combines portraits and geometric constructions and often takes recourse to the formal language, stories, and intellectual historical contexts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His works refer often to historical biographies, somewhat outside history, whose displacements and uniqueness he condenses to form a magically-mystically charged visual cosmos. Interested in the relationship between the invisible and the real, he layers symbolic fragments and formal splittings on top of one another like quotes, and divorces them from their original cultural spatial and temporal context. In this reversal of principles of modernism, at issue for Mathias Bitzer is the existential question of the construction of identity.

Matthias Bitzer was nominated in 2005 for Open Space at Cologne Art Fair. His work

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Matthias Bitzer’s collages, paintings, sculptures, and drawings open the view to “hidden” spaces within a space and thus to the coexistence of the most various truths and identities. Through complex connections between historical personalities, references to modernism and contemporary history, as well as autobiographical elements, Matthias Bitzer raises the concrete exploration of space and the realities hidden in it to a meta-level. While with his art-historical predecessors such as Láslò Moholy Nagy or Oskar Schlemmer new perspectives on time and space were created exclusively on the formal level, Bitzer’s spatial installations translate meaning into abstract, narrative codes and visualize the fragility of the “one” truth.

Matthias Bitzer is born in 1975 in Albstadt, Germany and has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, he lives and works in Berlin. His works are included the „Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany“ and in museum collections such as the LACMA Los Angeles, the Marta Herford Museum or the Kunstsammlung Gera. In 2021 Kunsthalle Göppingen dedi

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Matthias Bitzer

Matthias Bitzer

  • Language

    German/English

  • Format

    23 × 30 cm

  • Features

    496 pages, approx 300 color images, Softcovers in slipcase

  • ISBN

    978-3-95476-159-3

  • Release

    June 2016

  • Price

    €58.00

Magisch-mystisch aufgeladener Bilderkosmos


In a revisionist reassessment of classic modernism, Matthias Bitzer (b. Stuttgart, 1975; lives and works in Berlin) combines portraiture with geometric construction, often drawing on the formal vocabulary, plots, and intellectual history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His work in media such as painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, and site-specific installation art speaks a characteristic symbolic language. Interweaving the lives of prominent figures like Arthur Schnitzler, Emily Dickinson, Fernando Pessoa, Jorge Luis Borges, Anita Berber, and Leopoldo Fregoli with his own biographical experience and contemporary life, Bitzer creates dense narrative fabrics that accommodate the viewer’s abstract-figurative associations.

The book documents the evolution of Bitzer’s conceptions of

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