Our Booth at Art Düsseldorf 2026 💥
@artduesseldorf
Luis Zimmermann
16 - 19 April 2026
Booth H21
SUPPAN is pleased to present a solo presentation of new works by Düsseldorf-based artist Luis Zimmermann. Born in 1998, Zimmermann explores memory, dreams, and disappearance. Using personal and archival photographs, he recomposes fragments through layered processes, combining textile, photographic, and painterly elements into fragile, dreamlike scenes.
Photos: @johannesbendzulla
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We are pleased to announce our inaugural participation at Art Düsseldorf 2026. From April 16 to 19, we will present a solo show of new works by Düsseldorf-based artist Luis Zimmermann.
Luis Zimmermann
@artduesseldorf
Booth H21
Areal Böhler
The German artist Luis Zimmermann (b. 1998) moves in his work between memory, dream, and disappearance. The artist draws from his personal archive of material - family photographs and his own, extracting fragments from its original context and arranging them anew. His motifs arise from intimate surroundings, yet at times take on broader sociopolitical resonance. He first reassembles fragments digitally and then transfers translucent textile layer by layer onto the canvas. The fabric acts as a veil, concealing and revealing at once, so that figures, objects, and landscapes seem familiar yet remain elusive.
Zimmermann’s artistic process resembles collage and follows an interdisciplinary approach, where diverse materials and perspectives overlap, fracture, and come together again. The interplay between photography, painting, and textile creates illusionistic spaces that resist fixed interpretation. What emerges are images that echo the uncertainty of memory, where a color, a texture, or a fleeting sensation can outlast a concrete face or event.
Contact us for inquiries
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Please join us this Saturday, 4 April, from 5–7 PM for the opening of our Group Show featuring Ricardo Passaporte, Kaspar Dejong, Christian Thomsen “fjorsk”, Umut Yasat and Luis Zimmermann
On view until 16 May
Luis Zimmermann, n.t., 2025. Photoprint on acrylic gauze, oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas, 170 × 140 cm
Luis Zimmermann
„VORGARTEN”
170 X 140 CM FOTOGRAFIE AUF ACRYLGAZE, LEINWANDSTOFF; ÖLFARBE, ACRYLFARBE
2025
Winterrundgang 2026, Raum 123
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🖌️ Heute stellen wir euch einen an der Bergischen Kunstausstellung teilnehmenden Künstler näher vor: Luis Zimmermann.
Luis Zimmermann (1998, lebt und arbeitet in Düsseldorf) studiert seit 2025 in der Klasse von Prof. Peter Piller an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Zuvor studierte er in der Klasse von Prof. Daniel Richter an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (2023) sowie als Meisterschüler bei Prof. Thomas Grünfeld (2022).
Der Künstler beschäftigt sich mit dem Bild als fragile, offene Form. Seine Arbeiten entstehen aus Schichtungen, Brüchen und Überlagerungen – aus Momenten, in denen das Sichtbare kippt und das Fehlende Bedeutung gewinnt.
Er versteht Malerei, Druck, digitale Verfahren und Fotografie als Sprachen, die einander widersprechen und zugleich bedingen. Fehler, Verschiebungen und Materialwiderstände bleiben – als Spuren eines Prozesses, der nie ganz stillsteht.
In Stoffen, Flächen und digitalen Fragmenten sucht Zimmermann nach einem Raum des Dazwischen: nach Übergängen, die atmen, nach Bildern, die sich ihrer eigenen Vollständigkeit entziehen. Das Fragmentarische wird zur Wahrheit des Bildes – offen, verletzlich, unabschließbar.
Zimmermanns Arbeiten waren zuletzt u. a. in der Gruppenausstellung Pareidolia im Vienna Schaulager (Suppan × Kali Gallery, 2025), bei Vienna Contemporary (Suppan × Kali Gallery, 2025), in Kooperation mit Ruttkowski68 × AFFA im Weißhaus Köln (2025) sowie in der Ausstellung sartorial senses von Les Nouveaux Riches im Plateau Vienna (2024) zu sehen. Seine erste Einzelausstellung faint traces zeigte 2025 die Galerie Nouveaux Deuxdeux in München.
📍Noch bis zum 02.11. im Kunstmuseum Solingen
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The exhibition Pareidolia by Judith Grassl and Luis Zimmermann, in collaboration with KALI Gallery and SUPPAN, is on view until October 11th in Vienna. Viewings by appointment.
Pareidolia
Judith Grassl, Luis Zimmermann
- 11.10.25
SUPPAN SCHAULAGER
Doblhoffgasse 7, 1010 Vienna
only by appointment
Strangely Familiar Paradises
Delicate fabrics or translucent layers of paint drift across the canvas, like colored shadows of what once was. Distant memories or forgotten dreams slip all too easily from the grasp of the mind seeking clarity—seemingly within reach, yet impossible to hold. They dissolve the moment thought tries to outline them more precisely. Contours that were once sharp blur, the image loses its certainty. Other memories press in, overlapping, merging and separating at once.
Sometimes all that remains in this mental twilight is a single color, a shape, a taste, or a
feeling—something clear, solid, unmistakable. It insists on itself, lingers, and returns when least expected. Often, it is the smallest, most inconspicuous details that remain tangible in memory: the bite of an apple, the smell of saltwater, saffron yellow—remembrances that cast green, gray, and red shadows upon the image beneath.
Luis Zimmermann
n.t.
photoprint on acrylic gauze, canvas
fabric, oil paint, acrylic paint
180 x 230 cm
2025
Judith Grassl
Hidden
Acrylic on wood
30 x 20 cm
2025
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Photos by Kunstdokumentation
Text excerpt by Julia Stellmann
Courtesy of the artists, SUPPAN and KALI Gallery
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Installation shots of my exhibition "Faint Traces"
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Frau S.
2025
photoprint on acrylic fabric,
furniture fabric, oil paint
60 x 50 cm
2 halbe Soros
2025
photoprint on acrylic fabric,
furniture fabric, oil paint
30 x 35 cm
📸Dirk Tacke
We are delighted to share the documentation of Luis Zimmermann’s solo show 'Faint Traces' on our website. Link in Bio.
The website features installation views and the exhibition text.
For more information on the exhibited works, just send us a DM.
@luislzimmermann current works emerge through layered transfer prints on screen-printed gauze, combined with painting and a mix of personal and found photographs, all overlaid like translucent layers. The textile element, rooted in traditional canvas painting, is enhanced by a fabric edge, allowing the material’s permeability to reveal the underlying layers. Strategic cuts and cut-outs incorporate printed fabric fragments, akin to a 'shaped canvas,' exposing lower layers while creating new reference points reminiscent of photo collages. These extensions of lines, surfaces, body parts, or traces of color do not follow a uniform theme, preserving the unique structure of each layer and fostering moments of irritation and surprise within the composition.
The exhibition is on view through 3rd May.
Our regular hours are:
Wed – Fri 12–6 pm
Saturday 12–4 pm
📷 Dirk Tacke
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