Oliver Stäudlin completed his studies in 2005 as a master student with Professor Erwin Gross at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. Before that, he studied art history and Romance studies at the University of Stuttgart. Stäudlin has lived and worked in Leipzig since 2011.

He works with combinations of woodblock printing, painting and watercolour. He sometimes works on ungrounded canvases from the reverse side and creates shimmering surfaces by means of pours of paint, which usually form the ground of his works. In the fluid transition between the different techniques, edges, surfaces and patterns form abstract pictorial contents or, for example, monumental modern architectures.
With deliberate breaks in perspective and spatial dissolution, Stäudlin creates deep pictorial levels and exciting intermediate worlds. In doing so, I am constantly moving in the field of tension between object and abstraction.

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