Arthur Metz

Born in 1988, Lyon, France

Lives and works in Alsace, France

Metz is a passionate admirer of the painters, subjects and techniques of 19th-century German Romanticism. But he is also intensely moved and fascinated by today's young generation's search for orientation in a threatening world, and by the way young people yearn for safety and retreat in an idyllic wholesome nature constantly and massively threatened in today's world. The contradiction between youthful, unrestrained hedonism, thoughtless littering and political activism which we experience now everywhere, finds expression in his works, in depictions of party night life, with its ectases and abysses.

EDUCATION

2022 Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Prof. Cordula Güdemann)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2025 ‘Marc Desgrandchamps et ses amis’, Eigen + Art, Leipzig, DE (Group)

2024 ‘Apocalypse Slow. Troisième Édition’, Galerie Kashagan, Lyon, FR (Group)

2024 ‘Le jeune européen’, Galerie der Stadt, Backnang, DE (Solo)

2023 ‘Bilder der dämmernden Welt,’ Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, DE (Solo)

2023 ‘Summer Break. Behind Closed Doors’, Galerie Elisabeth & Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart (Group)

2022 ‘Quallenstiche’, Kunstwerkstatt, Weinheim, DE (Solo)

2022 ‘For Real!?!’, Kunstverein, Reutlingen, DE (Group)

2022 ‘Der Neue Mensch. Anbruch einer neuen Zeit?’, Große Kunstschau, Worpswede, DE (Group)

2022 ‘Das Eigene im Fremden – Einblicke in die Sammlung Detlev Blenk’, Museum, Bensheim, DE (Group)

2022 ‘This Time Is Different. Diplomausstellung ABK Stuttgart’, Kunstbezirk. Galerie im Gustav-Siegle-Haus, Stuttgart (Group)