Anselm Reyle (b. 1970, Tübingen) lives and works in Berlin. His practice explores abstraction through the lens of material culture, working across painting, sculpture, and installation. Reyle’s visual language is built from reflective foils, Perspex, neon, ceramics, and industrial debris, often using objets trouvés reconfigured into new formal and conceptual structures. His best-known series, including the foil and stripe paintings, rework the strategies of twentieth-century abstraction through excess, repetition, and artifice. Over time, Reyle has expanded his vocabulary to include large-scale ceramics and neon sculptures, extending his inquiry into the sculptural and architectural presence of painting. Reyle’s work challenges perceptual expectations and cultural references by recasting modernist visual languages within the context of contemporary mass production, display and image circulation. Through the distortion and repetition of abstract codes, he examines how aesthetic value is constructed and perceived today, prompting viewers to reconsider the tension between surface and depth, originality and reproduction, and the porous boundaries between high and low culture. He has held exhibitions at institutions such as XPM Museum, Changsha (2024), MoCA Westport (2023), Kunsthalle Vogelmann (2022), Aranya Art Center (2020), Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2012), Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2012), Arken Museum of Modern Art (2011), Des Moines Art Center (2011), Kunsthalle Tübingen (2009), and Kunsthalle Zürich (2006). His work is held in major collections including the Centre Pompidou and 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 Sammlung Boros in Berlin, among others.