Volker Lehnert Photo: Martin Lutz

1956	born in Saarbrücken
1976-81	Studied fine arts, art history and German language and literature at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Academy of Fine Arts
1981	Scholarship of the University of Mainz; Award of the International Senefelder Foundation for Lithography, Offenbach a. M.
1982	Graphic Art Prize of the Wilhelm Dröscher Foundation
1988	Sickingen Prize for Painting; Ramboux Prize for Painting
1991	Mainz Art Prize Iron Tower
1996-2000	Professorship for drawing at the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences in Krefeld
2000 ff.	Professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, since 2007 Prorector
2016	Graphic prize in the competition "Linocut today" of the city of Bietigheim-Bissingen
	Lives and works in Stuttgart and Witten/Ruhr
	Solo exhibitions (selection)
2020	Lithographs, Gallery at the Kulturbahnhof, Saarbrücken
2018	Geläufiges Gelände. Scribble Baroque, Emschertal Museum Herne
	Back to the places, Museum Voswinckelshof, Dinslaken
2017	Common terrain. Kritzelbarock, Richard Haizmann Museum, Niebüll
	Back to the places, Böblingen Art Association
2016	Geläufiges Gelände. Kritzelbarock, Museum St.Wendel
	Large Enclosure. Printed works, Kunstverein Haus 8, Kiel, Germany
2014	A little suspicion in forest pieces, Galerie Schlichtenmaier, Stuttgart/Grafenau
2013	Suspicion and hill, Kronacher Kunstverein
2012	Landscape with remnant of embrace, Lindau City Museum
2011	Sloping Rabbits.Italy Journeys, Eislingen Art Association
	Excursion into the mountains, Villa Goecke Ralph Kleinsimlinghaus Krefeld
2010	The Rubble, Städt. Gallery Waiblingen
	Sloping Rabbits.Italy Journeys, Dortmunder Kunstverein
2009	Scaffolding.Rubble. Painting 1989-2009, Richard-Haizmann-Museum, Niebüll,
	Märkisches Museum Witten
	Unpredictable Places, Sparkasse Gallery at the Rossmarkt, Schweinfurt
2008	Also a conspiracy in the terrain. Prints
	Works 2005-2008, Gallery of the City of Tuttlingen
2007	Works on paper 1987-2007, Villa Goecke, Krefeld
	Jungle, Städt. Gallery Neunkirchen
2006	Jungle, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin
2005	Wegelager, Reutlingen Art Association
	Automatenlauf, Artforum, Offenburg
2004	Grosse Parkstücke, Saarland House of Artists, Saarbrücken
2003	Such bouncers and their entourage Printed works 1996-2002,
	Kunstverein Radolfzell, Kunstverein Mainz, City Museum Beckum
2001	Strange Places, Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
	Municipal. Gallery Albstadt
1999	Holding the line, Kunstverein Speyer (with Bettina van Haaren)
	Kunstverein Krefeld (with Bettina van Haaren)
1998	The sources of Neptune, Museum Goch
	Maximilianpark, Hamm
	Nettuno.Eine Folge, Foundation for Democracy, Saarbrücken
1995	Tuscania, Museum St.Wendel
1994	Etchings, Art Association Emmerich
1993	Etchings, Art Association Bretten
1991	Styrofoam cuttings, Museum Xylon, Schwetzingen
	Group exhibitions (selection)
2020	Dialogue with Yinchzuan, Yinchuan Interenational Printmaking Center
	in pairs, Städt. Museums Gera
	On Paper, Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Stuttgart
	Partner choice, Kunstforum Offenburg
	The Etching, Bad Salzdetfurth Art Association
	Artist couples, Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Stuttgart
	Barcode, Association for Original Etching Munich
2019	What's up, Gallery Schlichtenmaier Grafenau, Stuttgart
	Linocut today XI, Städt. Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen
	Elementar, Albstadt Art Museum
	Blasenflieger, Municipal Gallery. Gallery Kirchheim/Teck
2018	hot off the press, Verein für Originalradierung Munich and Neue Galerie Landshut
	Eigenwege, Städt. Gallery Kirchheim/Teck
	Woodcut Now!, Reutlingen Art Museum and Art Association
	Fontane 2000, Brandenburg State Parliament, Potsdam
2017	sharply cut - linocuts from expressionism to the present, Museum Kulturspeicher Würzburg
	fabulous, Albstadt Art Museum
	Stand der Dinge, Singen Art Museum
	Paarweise, Art Association Ellwangen
	fat and water, AKKU Stuttgart
2016	Linocut today X, Städt. Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen
	On the road, 125th anniversary of the Verein für Originalradierung Munich
	Saarart11, 11th State Art Exhibition of Saarland
2015	Neuland, Albstadt Art Museum
	Die Schärfe der Bilder, Städt. Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen
	Made in Germany - prints by Nine Contemporary Artists, Highpont Printmaking Center,Minneapolis, USA
	Druckreif, Städt. Art Museum Reutlingen
	Complex Relationships- Contemporary Positions, Schlichtenmaier Gallery, Dätzingen Castle
2014	Praised and Forgotten, German Landscape Prints, Husum Castle
	Letterpress prints, Kunstverein Schorndorf
2013	SaarArt, regional art exhibition, Museum St. Wendel
	decidedly indirect, Städt. Gallery Offenburg / City Museum Borken
	Linocut today, Städt. Gallery Bietigheim-Bissingen
2012	decidedly indirect, Städt. Art Museum Reutlingen, Richard-Haizmann-Museum Niebüll
	From the grounding, Städt. Gallery Geislingen
2011	Stone-Print-Art, Gallery Stihl Waiblingen
	Voilà - Aka guest performance, State Gallery Stuttgart
	Monotype, Association for Original Etching, Munich
2010	Blossoms only when I come, Kunstverein Ellwangen
2009	XYLON, art museum and art association Reutlingen
	Mach' keine Oper, Museum of the City of Ratingen
	references, city gallery Saarbrück
	inventory, Pablo Picasso Museum of Graphics, Münster
2008	inventory- etching in Germany, Kunstverein Reutlingen
	State Art Exhibition of Saarland, City Gallery Saarbrücken
	Museum Ulm
2007	XYLON, City Museum and Art Association Reutlingen
	Augenweite, Bruchsal Art Association
	Saarland Artists' Association, City Gallery Saarbrücken
	Free Hand 2, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin and Fukumitsu Art Museum, Horinji, Japan
2006	Jamboree, Museum Goch
	2nd Biennial of Drawing Kunstverein Eislingen, Germany
2005	XYLON, Städt. Art Museum Reutlingen/Museum Winterthur/ Niederrösterr.
	Center for Visual Arts St.Pölten
	From A to Z, Städt. Gallery Karlsruhe
2004	Relay, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum Krefeld
	In the Moment, Museum Merzig
	Painting, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
2003	kunst los, City Gallery Saarbrücken
	strokes against nothingness, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt
	In Hand Thoughts, Museum Xylon, Schwetzingen
2002	Interfaces - Woodcuts from Germany, Städt. Museum Reutlingen
	Woodcut today, Karlskaserne Ludwigsburg
	Interfaces, Musée Perre Noel, St.Dié-des-Vosges
2001	Zeitschnitt, Städt. Gallery Karlsruhe
	Before Nature, City Gallery Saarbrücken
	Off Cuts, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery,London
2000	Vom Holz, Städt. Museum Reutlingen
	Letterpresses, Art Association CH-Zofingen
	Positions of Drawing in Saarland, Democracy Foundation, Saarbrücken
	Art Scene Saar, Artist House Saarbrücken
1999	German woodcuts, Museo Olevano Romano
	50 Artists from NRW, Yan Huang Art Museum Beijing
	Correspondences, Kunsthalle Darmstadt
	12th Triennial of Prints and Drawings, Frechen
	PRENT 99, graphic fair NL- Nijmwegen
	New Ways in Woodcut, Städt. Museum Reutlingen
1998	Printed from stone - aspects of lithography today, Städt. Gallery Moers
	pro viele, City Gallery Saarbrücken
1997	Augenweite, Museum St.Wendel
	State art exhibition, Museum St.Ingbert
	Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
	National of Drawing, Zeughaus Augsburg
1996	The adornment of books, Museum Goch
1995	National art exhibition, Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
	Colors, City Gallery Saarbrücken
1994	show signs - drawings of the 90s, Kunstverein Speyer
	Xylon, Erfurt Art Association and Museum Reutlingen
1993	Hochdruckgrafik der Gegenwart", Städt. Gallery Moers
	Museum Haus Ludwig, Saarlouis
1992	black and white, City Gallery Saarbrücken
1991	Similitudes et Différences, Saarland Museum Saarbrücken
	Villa Massimo, Wilhelm Hack Museum Ludwigshafen
	Art Scene Saarland, Mainau Castle
1990	Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
	Mainz Art Association

Volker Lehnert, professor and prorector at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, plays as an apparently uninvolved observer with various fields of perception or patterns of memory: Figure, landscape, architecture, which mix enigmatically as drawn internal structures with sometimes garishly iridescent, sometimes somber veils of color made of glazed pigmented egg tempera. In broadly conceived series, he seeks "the point where what is known, felt, and seen are brought together in the picture to form a unity." The scenic, surreal-looking depictions contain comic and Western motifs as well as military operations, which stand out in jungle-like or boulder-strewn surroundings in a stencil-like manner and thus in a partly ironic, partly critical refraction. Lehnert's formal interest can be seen in palimpsest-like or children's drawings imitating traces. In his more recent works, however, the figurative moments recede in favor of a more vegetative-abstract density.

Link to the artist's homepage: www.volker-lehnert.de