Galerie Born’s annual winter group show, which runs from December 26, 2020 – January 3, 2021 and is available for private viewing by appointment, presents two paintings from Lucas Reiner’s Los Angeles Trees series. Taking a retrospective look over the past year and ahead to the new one, this exhibition features works by a select group of painters (including BieneFeld, Uwe Kowski, and Thomas Müller) in an intimate gallery space located in Darss, in Western Pomerania on a forested peninsula in northeastern Germany near the southern Baltic Sea coast.
Reiner’s two featured oil paintings—On Catalina St. and On Washington Blvd. #7—are included in the artist’s monograph Los Angeles Trees 2001-2008 Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills, published by Prestel with essays by curator/critic Petra Giloy Hirtz and writer Fred Dewey.
Galerie Born holds exhibitions at three German locations: Berlin, New Kaliss (southeast of Hamburg, near the Elbe River) and Darss, situated in a unique landscape where deer graze amidst powdery soft sand beaches and thousands of cranes take flight across wide open seas as wind and waves reshape an ever-changing coastline. Now designated as a national preserve, this Baltic coastal region is renowned for its extraordinary light that distinctively changes seasonally—bluish in spring, golden yellow in summer, glowing red in autumn—an unspoiled natural setting where generations of German artists have found creative inspiration for over a century.