Vernissage Lea Schäfer

Exhibition Opening
Lea Schäfer

“DIVER”

Lea Schäfer on her art: “The grid is fascinating and more prevalent today than ever before. Geometric, flat, self-referential, anti-mimetic, and rigid, it has proclaimed the autonomy of art from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. While it established itself as a motivic visual formula at the dawn of abstract painting, today it serves as the organizing foundation for pixels that flood our daily lives with completely immaterial, dematerialized images via digital devices.

I am driven by the desire to rematerialize the grid, to bring it to life, and to expand it through non-representational painting. The process resembles a game played out on a grid-like surface: a gestural, free form enters a graphic, ordered surface. Each colored form is defined by a distinct materiality and color quality and enlivens the picture plane through contrast. The surfaces and patterns made of lacquer, acrylic, wax, or oil paint are applied, stamped, rolled out, sprayed, applied with a palette knife, collaged, or even heated and smoothed within this experimental process. Much of this is unpredictable. Materials repel or attract one another and blend on the canvas. The outcome is open-ended, and yet each work ultimately poses a question that is further explored in the next. My painting thrives on the tension between the contrasts of grid, organic forms, line, and surface. With each new composition, I aim to make them speak: about themselves, about their boundaries, and above all, about what lies beyond those boundaries.”

Lea Schäfer lives and works in Mainz-Kastel and Wiesbaden. In 2016, she first completed her studies as a master’s student under Prof. Anne Berning at the Mainz Academy of Fine Arts; the following year, she also earned her degree in art history from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Lea Schäfer is an artist and works as a curator at the Reinhard Ernst Museum in Wiesbaden.

Here’s what you can expect:

• light snacks
• An introduction to the art of Lea Schäfer

Our wine and gin bar is open starting at 6 p.m.!

The exhibition runs through the end of January 2027. The art exhibitions can be viewed at any time during our opening hours without an appointment. If LOFTWERK is closed on a particular day due to a private event, we appreciate your understanding and hope you’ll visit us on another day.

EVENT INFORMATION

Date:Thursday, October 29, 2026
Doors open:6:00 PM
Time:7:00 p.m.
Free admission