Currently busy in the studio preparing for my solo booth at Art Paris this April with Reuter Bausch. Really excited about expanding my research on heat, touch, emotion and multiplied cinematic imagery.
Thanks for everyone who came to visit the booth at @artparisartfair was wonderful showing my work internationally for the first time in such a glamorous setting
One controlled exhale (155 x 85cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2026)
PIT RIEWER | ART PARIS
9.04 - 12.04
Booth i 19 @artparisartfair
Pit Riewer, a young Luxembourgish artist born in 1999, graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Painting from the
Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp and currently lives and works between Berlin and Luxembourg.
His practice explores how perception, memory, and emotion can take shape in painting. Influenced by the legacy of
Impressionism and Expressionism, he does not aim to represent reality but rather to translate visual and emotional
experiences.
In the creation of his work, he relies on low-resolution thermal images to develop paintings in which heat, touch, and emotion take shape. Ambiguous and almost spectral, these initial images are deconstructed through layers of gestures and pictorial elements until they become sensory distilations rather than faithful reproductions. The body appears as a fleeting trace — an imprint, an aura, or a vibration.
His work, already included in several institutional and private collections, embodies a bold and distinctly contemporary approach to painting today.
#artparis #pitriewer #soloshow
🇫🇷 Nouvelle venue sur Art Paris dans le secteur Promesses 💡, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery (Luxembourg) met l’accent sur l’œuvre du luxembourgeois Pit Riewer dans un solo show 🏆
🇬🇧 Making its debut at Art Paris in the Promises sector 💡, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery (Luxembourg) presents a solo show 🏆 dedicated to the work of Luxembourgish artist Pit Riewer.
🖼️ Pit Riewer, Reuter Bausch Art Gallery
1. Vessels, 2025
2. & 3. Condensation, 2025
4. & 5. Chills, 2025
6. Orbit (détail), 2025
💡 Secteur Promesses / Promises Sector
🏆 Solo Show
Avec le soutien de / With the Support of @wsj
#ArtParis #ArtParis2026 #ArtFair #Promesses #SoloShow @pitriewer@reuter_bausch
Figures, objects and scenes are slowly emerging in the studio as I am preparing for my solo booth at Art Paris in April with Reuter Bausch Art Gallery. The motifs are interwoven with their backgrounds based on the pseudocolour scale of the thermal camera I use to capture my reference photographs. I will be presenting old and new works that deal with the fleeting energy of emotions and touch, questioning how we measure how a moment feels through repetitive and simplified imagery.
Details of: 𝘈 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘯
@reuter_bausch@artparisartfair
With the support of @kulturlx
One of the last paintings created for the exhibition references the nearly ghostly shadow of temperature left by a body after leaving a bed. a nearly romantic and supernatural energy of the body temperature lingering when visually the body has disappeared. Overlayed with a rainbow pseudocolour scale, the radiator in the background hints back at paintings made during my studies, while now the focus is nearly purely somatic and more abstracted.
𝘉𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘛𝘦𝘮𝘱 (35 x 45 cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025)
@reuter_bausch
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
Thinking back at some bath scene paintings from my time at the Royal Academy, it was natural for me to include a shower motif in this exhibition dedicated to skin temperature and how we measure emotion. A cold/ warm shower, a cold plunge. Goosebumps after cold air hits your skin after a warm shower. the painting is broken up by the grey false colour scale (cold) and the rainbow false colour scale (warm). The interaction between the warm "aura" of air around a body and the water from the shower head created these colour fields that are influenced by my favorite abstract expressionists.
𝘗𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘦 (120 x 90cm, gouache, acrylics and oil on canvas, 2025)
@reuter_bausch
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
Last week to see my show RECEPTORS. This painting revisits the motif of a car that has followed me since my studies. This time the thermal image, doubled and overlayed with the greyscale false colour scheme of the thermal camera destroys the actual image. Does an image lose meaning when repeated? The inclusion of the colour spectrum further pushes the fleeting nature of the images I use, as if the painting emerges/glows from the within of the surface of the canvas. Windows down, music blasting.
𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘦, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
50 x 85 cm
@reuter_bausch
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 explores the somatic and temperature based research of RECEPTORS. Touch as well this aura-like cloud of heat around people's bodies take center stage in this painting of a couple. The center spot marker becomes part of the bodies as well as the space it lives within, bridging how we measure things and how we feel.
𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 2025
Acrylic, gouache and oil on canvas
35 x 63 cm
@reuter_bausch
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
One of the first paintings created for the exhibition was made using a combination of various thermal photographs. Revisiting imagery of going out and partying, this motif of someone smoking is part of the nondescript cinematic narrative of the exhibition. The body, as well as the cigarette, radiates a sort of glow, where the edges between the body and its surroundings blur and become one. Referencing different colour spectrums (pseudocolour or false-colour scales), this painting stands between analysis, painting, and emotion—the cinematic nature of painting emphasized by a mechanical horizontal brushstroke.
𝘚𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘦 (120 x 120 cm, gouache, acrylic and oil on canvas, 2025)
@reuter_bausch
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
These two paintings concluded my research on architecture during a residency at Bridderhaus last year. Using architectural motifs linked to the iron industry and how they are now mere ghosts of the industrial past of Esch, these paintings link a sort of nostalgia with a luminous energy created by using iron oxide pigments. The relation between a semi-figuration, metallic light and colour is the basis of RECEPTORS. How hot does a moment feel? Is it cooling down or warming up? These are questions that are central to the exhibition.
𝘔𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 (45 x 30 cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, iron oxide pigments, 2024)
𝘎𝘭𝘰𝘸 (45 x 30 cm, acrylic and oil on canvas, iron oxide pigments, 2024)
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Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
Most of the paintings in the RECEPTORS exhibition are based on thermal images. The impulse to capture these thermal images came from using altered and inverted photographs in the past that looked similar to thermal images. Using multiple different colour modes or pseudocolour scales, the paintings become cinematic analytical snapshots of moments in their specific heat. 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 combines how we use words linked to both temperature and emotion painted using these multiple false colour scales directly taken from the thermal infrared camera. The receptors of the camera, an analytical tool, and I as a painter, an emotional tool, work together to create fleeting, fast and emotive images.
@reuter_bausch
𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴, 2025
acrylic and oil on canvas
50 x 85 cm
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11 am - 6 pm
Until 12th of July
