Thomas Scheibitz

Why this artist matters now

Thomas Scheibitz works in painting and sculpture, building compositions that compress recognizable imagery, signage, and architectural motifs into flattened, densely layered surfaces. His pictorial logic carries directly into three-dimensional work, where wood, aluminium, and synthetic materials take on the same semi-abstract, sign-like quality as his painted forms. The result is a body of work that operates between legibility and abstraction, never fully resolving into either. Scheibitz represented Germany at the 2005 Venice Biennale alongside Tino Sehgal.

Source: Tanya Bonakdar · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago