Galeria Senda presents Anselm Reyle this January for the first time, one of the most prominent artists of contemporary abstraction. Born in 1970 in Tübingen, Reyle lives and works in Berlin and develops a practice that explores abstraction through the lens of material culture, spanning painting, sculpture, and installation.

Reyle’s visual language is built from industrial materials and highly charged surfaces: reflective foils, acrylic (Perspex), neon, ceramics, and objets trouvés reconfigured into new formal and conceptual structures. Through these elements, the artist questions traditional hierarchies of materials and reinterprets the codes of historical abstraction from a contemporary sensibility.

His best-known series—including the foil and stripe paintings—rework the strategies of twentieth-century abstraction through excess, repetition, and artifice. In recent years, Reyle has expanded his vocabulary by incorporating large-scale ceramics and neon sculptures, extending his investigation toward the sculptural and architectural presence of painting and blurring the boundaries between pictorial work and object.

Reyle’s work challenges perceptual expectations and cultural references by situating modernist languages within the context of mass production, exhibition, and the circulation of contemporary images. Through the distortion and repetition of abstract codes, the artist examines how aesthetic value is constructed and perceived today, inviting viewers to reconsider the tension between surface and depth, originality and reproduction, as well as the porous boundaries between high and low culture.

Anselm Reyle has held exhibitions at institutions such as XPM Museum (Changsha), MoCA Westport, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Aranya Art Center, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Schinkel Pavillon (Berlin), Arken Museum of Modern Art, Des Moines Art Center, Kunsthalle Tübingen, and Kunsthalle Zürich, among others. His work is included in major international collections, including the Centre Pompidou and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, the Pinault Collection in Venice, the Saatchi Gallery in London, the Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Seoul, Museo Jumex in Mexico City, and the Sammlung Boros in Berlin.