Studio la Città presents the group exhibition “Today I would like to be a Tree” featuring works by Lucas Reiner. Studio la Città is an art gallery that was opened in Verona in 1969 by Hélène de Franchis, who is still its proprietor. The gallery’s early shows were typified by such artists as Lucio Fontana, Piero Dorazio, Mario Schifano, and Gianni Colombo, flanked by foreign artists linked to European and American analytical and minimalist art.
Among the works presented in an exhibition titled “A Perfect Rhythm” at the Telluride Gallery in Colorado, which runs from February 9 through April 16, 2021, are selections from Reiner’s two series on paper and linen: Five Views of La Cienega (2010) and Czernowitz (2018).
Galerie Born’s annual winter group show, which 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.
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, a contemporary art museum in Magdeburg, Germany, has featured five paintings by Lucas Reiner in a group exhibition titled “NAH & FERN – Steine, Fische, Wege, Blumen, Wolken” (“NEAR & FAR – Stones, fish, paths, flowers, clouds”), which opened September 15 and runs through November 15, 2020. This exhibition also includes works in various mediums by four other contemporary artists: Inken Hemsen, Dietrich Oltmanns, Carl Vetter, and Jeffrey Yang.
Often depicting trees in atmospheric settings, Lucas Reiner’s paintings and prints drift between representational work and more abstract, symbolic images. It’s an ambiguity that emerges both from his traditional printmaking methods and also the artist’s ongoing dialogue with religious art of the past and an obsessive search for a new visual language that might translate it into the present. The artist will discuss Stations, a series based on the ancient Catholic prayer practice known as the Stations of the Cross, as well as other works.
Drive-By-Art is an attempt to bring back a sense of solidarity to the artistic and cultural community in Los Angeles during these dark times. Drive-By-Art offers a novel presentation and art viewing approach by taking advantage of the city’s pre-existing car culture and the intimacy and safety of the automobile. This public art experience is a call to action in a moment of economic, social, political, and spiritual catatonia, and an attempt to envision a different kind of cultural institution.
Lucas Reiner’s 15 Stations of The Cross etchings are a part of this group exhibition exploring the intersection of Trees within artistic practices; historically and spiritually.
The series was installed February 2020 in the nave of the church for Lenten services.
Under the guidance of Lucas Reiner an international group of artists will converge on Gdańsk, a Polish city torn apart by history and one of the largest cultural centers in the Baltics, to explore the theme of freedom from March 22 through April 1, 2020 in a residency open to international artists from all disciplines and backgrounds.
An exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake from January 19 through February 23, 2019 in Berlin, Germany, brought together two artists working in different media: Paintings by Lucas Reiner and sculptures by Johannes Esper. Informed by a profound engagement with their specific material, both artists rely on a subdued palette to create raw yet delicately structured works that are striking in the poetic subtlety.