Anselm Reyle, infinite longing | Munich - Walter Storms Galerie GmbH

Born in 1970, Reyle studied at the academies of fine arts in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe. Since 2009, he has been a professor at the HFBK Hamburg. He lives and works on a former shipyard site along the River Spree in Berlin.

Reyle’s practice moves between painting, sculpture, and installation. Natural materials encounter vivid colours and reflective surfaces; spontaneous gestures stand in deliberate contrast to controlled interventions. His works challenge conventions of aesthetic perception and treat surface not as decoration, but as an autonomous pictorial space.

The exhibition brings together three groups of works: folded aluminum works encased behind acrylic glass, striped paintings, and a new series on burlap. In these recent works, Reyle applies luminous, bold swaths of color to coarse jute canvas in gestural movements, embedding massive chrome-like reliefs cast from synthetic resin that create a strikingly glittering pictorial landscape of surreal beauty. He reconnects with his painterly beginnings while integrating the technical processes developed over the past decades.

Reyle’s works have been exhibited internationally and are held in major public and private collections, including the Centre Pompidou, the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Pinault Collection, and the Rubell Family Collection.