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WES 21 / REMO LIENHARD / SCHWARZMALER
1989 Born in Biel/Bienne, BE, Switzerland
2007 – 2010 School of Art & Design / SfGB-B, CH
since 2008 Independent artist / SCHWARZMALER
BIO
I am WES 21 / Remo Lienhard, an independent artist and figurative painter from Biel, Switzerland, born in 1989. From my artistic roots as a spray painting rebel becoming an international muralist, I've always been most fascinated about the delighting superpowers an artwork can unfold. Mindfully channeling the creative force by the mastery of crafts is how I like to give meaning to my world.
My original artworks are hand painted in an unconventional mixed media technique using acrylics, oil paints, pastels with touches of spray paint. By expressing intuitive ideas with bold brushstrokes and much love for details, i'm transforming them into unique artworks of remarkable symbolic message and visual identity. In solid compositions and a distinctive painting style, the impressionistic color palettes are harmonized into moody light situations. Each work is developed and executed through direct physical engagement with real materials, special techniques and studio-based experimentation.
Inspired by motives of nature and the quest of our place within it, my art is a statement of human origin.* By systemic thinking outside the box, I’m capturing the zeitgeist with empowering insights behind the facades of a synthetic mono-culture. Being of value to society as a contemporary artist means to seek for excellency and challenge the prevailing illogic of our times by resiliently responding with stimulating ideas and creative solutions. In form of surreal landscapes and figures, my work embodies inherit truths and visions connecting to a mysterious realm on the edge of possibility. Portals to a dreamlike parallel universe, where connections and contextual contrasts become reinvented in a significant way. Raw, vivid and just realistic enough to feel true and signal the message.
Since the foundation of the artist collective SCHWARZMALER in 2008, my artworks recognition grew from the thriving environment of the mural and urban art movement's worldly expansion, that made it from the streets into the established art institutions. Over the past decades, my work has been internationally exhibited in prestigious galleries, renowned art fairs and showcases in New York, Miami, London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Zurich and many other metropoles. WES pieces are held in the permanent collections of museums, cultural institutions and private collectors worldwide.
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STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY
100% HUMAN ART WITHOUT AI
I explicitly guarantee to create my art completely without the use of generative AI systems at any stage of my creative process. 100% human art is my fundamental strategic and artistic choice to stay true, innovative and sovereign in order to remain in power of my creative agency and free mind. This position reflects my commitment to the continuity of independent culture and human artistic practice. Honoring the intellectual property and copyrights of all my fellow creators, friends and heroes in the art world. Past, present and future.
CONTACT
LINKS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 _ PERMANENT EXHIBITION / WES Studio / Biel CH
2022 _ PARALLEL UNIVERSE / Soon Gallery / Zurich CH
2019 _ THE MISSING LINK / Soon Gallery / Bern CH
2017 _ WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE / Soon Gallery / Zurich CH
2016 _ METAPHYSICS / Whitewalls Galler / San Francisco USA
2015 _ OUTSIDE THE BOX / Soon Gallery / Zurich CH
2013 _ HUNGRY EYES / Soon Gallery / Bern CH
2012 _ APPETITE / Soon Gallery / Zurich CH
2008 _ INTERMEZZO / Gallerie Quellgasse / Biel CH
Group Exhibitions
2023 _ COIN OF THE YEAR / Award nomination / Pittsburg USA
2022 _ COUPOLE BLEIBT / Coupole AJZ / Biel CH
2021 _ FLAIR / Outdoor exhibition / Biel CH
2019 _ SCHWARZMALER EXPO / Schule für Gestaltung / Bern CH
2019 _ PEACE OF MIND / Next Street Gallery / Paris FR
2018 _ ON THE MOVE / Kirk Gallery / Aalborg DK
2017 _ UN MUSEUM / Permanent collection exhibition / Berlin DE
2017 _ UN MUSEUM / Pre-opening exhibition / Berlin DE
2016 _ ARTMOSSPHERE BIENNALE / Urban Nation / Moscow RU
2016 _ POW! WOW! / Thinkspace Gallery / Hawai’i USA
2015 _ BROTHERHOOD / Jonathan Levine Gallery / NYC USA
2015 _ IMPACT / 1975 Gallery x Urban Nation / Rochester NY USA
2015 _ URBAN SPACE / Kirk Gallery / Aalborg DK
2015 _ JUNGKUNST CONTAINER MUSEUM / Winterthur CH
2015 _ NEW LANDSCAPES / SOON Gallery / Bern CH
2014 _ GROUP SHOW / Art Whino Gallery / Washington DC USA
2013 _ OPENING EXHIBITION / SOON Galler / Bern CH
2012 _ VERYCONTEMPORARAY 12 / PROGR / Bern CH
2012 _ RENAISSANCE NOW! / Chimera-Project / Budapest HU
2011 _ SCHWARZWEISS / Samy Deluxe LP Artwork / Hamburg DE
2011 _ ARTYOU / Artstübli / Basel CH
2011 _ VERYCONTEMPORARY 11 / PROGR / Bern CH
2010 _ SWISS URBAN SALON / Budapest HU
2010 _ JUNGKUNST / Winterthur CH
2010 _ SCHWARZMALER IN BUDAPEST / TeleP / Budapest HU
2008 _ ARTIG / Artstübli / Basel CH
MuralS
2024 _ POWER PLANT / Nuklearinspektorat, SVTI / Zurich CH
2022 _ UNITY IS KEY / Exomusée / Le Locle CH
2020 _ AARE / Kursaal / Bern CH
2019 _ OFF / Primarschule Orpund / Biel CH
2019 _ METROPOLESHIFT / Schwarzmaler x Herakut / Berlin DE
2018 _ BERLIN MURAL FEST / Urban Nation / Berlin DE
2016 _ ICELAND AIRWAVES / Urban Nation / Reykjavîk IS
2016 _ DEPTHS / The Trace Gallery / Zürich CH
2015 _ ART BASEL MIAMI / Pangea Seed x UN / Miami USA
2015 _ ONE WALL PROJECT / Urban Nation / Berlin DE
2015 _ WALLTHERAPY / Urban Nation / Rochester NY USA
2015 _ OUT IN THE OPEN / Kirk Gallery / Aalborg DK
2015 _ AARHUS ART CONVENTION / Arhuus DK
2014 _ RICHMOND MURAL PROJECT / Richmond USA
2014 _ URBAN NATION GALLERY / Berlin DE
2013 _ ELEMENTI SOTTERRANEI / Gemona del Friuli IT
2013 _ LAC / Laboratorio Actividades Criativas / Lagos PT
2013 _ SAVE 5 POINTZ / 5 Pointz / NYC USA
2007 _ AARGAUER KUNSTHAUS / Haus am Gern / Aarau CH
