Sebastian Maas
Exhibition views
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*1984 | Aachen |
2013–2020 | Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Meisterschüler Prof. Karin Kneffel |
Lives and works in Berlin |
Solo exhibitions
2023 | Distant Belongings (Duo), 68projects, Berlin |
2022 | Signals, Galloire Art Gallery, Dubai, VAE |
Urban Picnic, Evelyn Drewes | Galerie, Hamburg | |
About a Horse and a Bird, Galerie Heldenreizer, Munich | |
2021 | Lab, Evelyn Drewes | Galerie, Hamburg |
2020 | Zeitzeugen, Galerie Heldenreizer, Munich |
Group exhibitions
2023 | Cherries On Top, Galerie Judith Andreae, Bonn |
2022 | Untitled Art Miami Beach, Galerie Kornfeld, Miami, USA |
Art Dubai, Galerie Heldenreizer, Dubai, VAE | |
2021 | Cling Together Swing Together, Galerie Noah, Augsburg |
2020 | Diplomausstellung AdbK, Munich |
Must See, Galerie Filter & Gräf, Munich | |
Münchner Meisterklasse, Kunstforum Münchner Bank | |
2019 | Nachts Allein Im Atelier #6, Evelyn Drewes | Galerie, Hamburg |
Mnemosyne, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich | |
Angst, Galerie Heldenreizer, Munich | |
Moment, Kunstverein St. Sebastianskapelle Ulm | |
L'artiste Devant Sa Toile, Kunstverein Marburg | |
Open End, Katholische Akademie Munich | |
2018 | Unklassisch, Galerie Heldenreizer, Munich |
Four Edge Circle, Klasse Kneffel, Munich | |
Touchpoint Digi, H&Z Munich | |
Auktionshaus Neumeister, Munich | |
2017 | Boxenstop 1, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Graphische Sammlung Munich |
Frei-Sing-Sing, Kunstverein Altes Gefängnis, Freising | |
2016 | Pop-Up Galerie Maximillianstraße "Max33" mit Versteigerung von Sotheby's |
2015 | Mit Leib Und Seele, Kunsthalle Munich |
Faces, Galerie Braun Falco, Munich | |
Rundgang AdbK, Munich |
Sebastian Maas reflects on the question of the "classical" at the level of materiality, subject matter, and formal language. Instead of traditional canvas, Maas often works with his own color mixtures on loose truck tarpaulins, which he nobilizes, as it were, as an everyday object through the act of painting or the applied painting. In doing so, he deliberately draws on works by recognized masters that are significant in terms of material and motif history, which he transfers into a completely new formal language with a brushstroke characterized by spontaneity and lightness. The masterpiece, previously surrounded by the aura of the unapproachable, is thus transformed into an intimate, very personal art object that seems to shed its classicism in favor of an open dialogue with the viewer.