simon
pasieka
Simon Pasieka is a German painter born on June 30, 1967, in Kleve. He lives and works in Paris.
The son of an art and religion teacher and a painter, he spent his childhood in Cologne before attending a Rudolf Steiner boarding school in Westphalia. He later studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste (HBK) in Braunschweig, where he was awarded the title of Meisterschüler in 1995, along with a diploma with honors.
From the late 1990s onward, his painted and drawn works have staged rituals on the margins of a disenchanted civilization. He explores possible worlds in which figures interact within landscapes traversed by forgotten remnants of the contemporary world.
Since his studies, Pasieka has developed his practice in parallel with, and in dialogue with,contemporary trends in figurative painting. His style is characterized both by the constant evolution of his subjects and by a tension between realism and formalization.
His friend, painter Thomas Lévy-Lasne, describes his paintings as composed of lake shores, wild grasses, androgynous nude bodies, and rusted metal structures, all bathed in the light of early morning. Pasieka works from imagination while adhering to strict realism, creating works imbued with a quiet, grave, and delicate poetry.
Pasieka has received numerous distinctions, including an annual grant from the Lower Saxony Department of Culture, a grant from the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, support from the Kunstfonds, and a DAAD annual grant for Paris in 1998. For the past 25 years, he has primarily developed his work in his studio in Paris’s 20th arrondissement.
He has exhibited widely in institutions and galleries in Germany, France, and internationally, including Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Galerie Anita Beckers, the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Taxispalais Innsbruck, the Frissiras Museum (Athens), the Kasuya Museum (Yokosuka, Japan), Galerie Eric Mircher, and Guido Romero Pierini. Since its founding, he has been represented by Galerie Romero Paprocki in Paris.
Chladni Figure, 2025
Oil on canvas
130 x 89 cm
Baptême musical, 2025
Oil on canvas
225 x 200 cm
Tas mental, 2023
Oil on canvas
200 x 260 cm
Portrait of Simon Pasieka © Photo : Kazuko Pasieka
View of the exhibition "Tas mental", Galerie Romero Paprocki Paris, 2024
© Photo : Allison Borgo
Marionettentheater, 2025
Oil on canvas
162 x 130 cm
Echo Boys, dyptique, 2024
Oil on canvas
2 x 195 x 130 cm
collective exhibitions
2023
Immortelle, curated by Numa Hambursin, MOCO Montpellier, France
Crosswalk, curated by Pat Andrea, Strouk Gallery, Paris, France
2022
Le monde clair des bienheureux.s.e.x.s, Quartier Général, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France
2020
Anderswelten, Malerei heute, curated by Marco Hommes, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
2019
Geheimnis der Dinge – Malstücke, curated by Hartmut Neumann, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Germany
Nous qui désirons sans fin, Galerie Jeune Création, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville
Jardinons les possibles, curated by Isabelle de Maison Rouge, Les Grandes Serres de Pantin
Geheimnis der Dinge – Malstücke, curated by Hartmut Neumann, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen; Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
2018
Vendange tardive 2018, with Nazanin Pouyandeh, CAC de Meymac
Léopold Rabus, Stéphane Zaech, Simon Pasieka / David Moses, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2017
Auf unbekanntem Terrain / Landscape in Art after 1945, Sammlung Hurrle, Durbach, Germany
Drawing Room 017, La Panacée / Galerie Boisanté, Montpellier
Dessins Perturbateurs, Galerie Metropolis, Paris
To Paint is to Love Again, Galerie Boisanté, Montpellier
2016
Cabinet, Galerie Da-End, Paris
2015
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie Da-End, Paris
Het nieuwe verhaal, À cent mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan, France
Who is Afraid of Picture(s), École des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble and Centre d’Art Contemporain À cent mètres du Centre du Monde, Perpignan
L’arbre, le bois, la forêt: lieux du mythe, du fantasme, de la peur, supports de l’imaginaire, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Meymac
2014
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie C, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
2013
Wahlverwandtschaften, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, La Lune en Parachute, Épinal
2012
Künstlerkinder. Von Runge bis Richter, von Dix bis Picasso, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Leopold Rabus & Guests, Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Ach. Auf Papier, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Voir en peinture III, Galerie La Box, Bourges
10 Years After, Galerie IUFM Confluence, Lyon, France
Under Realism / Sous Réalisme, Galerie PROGRES, Belgrade, Serbia
2011
Thrill, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Ancienne Douane, Strasbourg
Arc-en-ciel, Galerie vom Zufall und vom Glück, Städtische Galerie KUBUS, Germany
2010
Es werde Dunkel – Nocturnal Representations in Contemporary Art, Stadtgalerie Kiel / Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
New Narrative, Heskin Contemporary, New York City, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Annual Grant, Kunstfonds, Germany
1998
Annual Grant, DAAD
Annual Grant, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung
1996
Annual Grant, Land Niedersachsen
1995
Annual Grant, Brauerei Wolters Förderpreis, Volkswagen Fellowship, Artist Residency at Künstlerhaus Meinersen
Chapeau doré, 2025
Oil on canvas
33 x 22 cm
public collections
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Baden-Württembergische Landesbank, Stuttgart
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt a.M.
Frieder Burda Collection, Baden-Baden
Frissiras Museum, Athens
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
Sammlung Hurrle, Durbach
Kunsthalle Göppingen
Land Niedersachsen, Hanover
Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
Sammlung Oehmen, Hilden & Kunstsaele Berlin
artists residencies
2018
Artist Residency, Chamalot, Corrèze, France
1999
Cité des Arts, Paris, France
solo exhibitions
2024
Tas mental, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris, France
2022
Grave, curated by Marie Lepetit, Le Carré Noir, Amiens, France
2020
Un Nu, Galerie Guido Romero Pierini, Paris
2019
La promesse des Saisons, curated by Amélie Adamo, Espace Chamalot, Paris
Révolution à Barbizon, RDV Galerie, Nantes (duo with Anne-Sophie Yacono)
Malerei, Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Germany
2018
Zwiegespräch bei Mondschein, Centre d’Art Contemporain Gera (duo with Wieland Payer)
Peintures, Chapelle Saint-Libéral, Brive
2017
Peintures, À cent mètres du Centre du Monde (duo with Nazanin Pouyandeh), Perpignan
Fenestration Sauvage, Le Pavillon, Département Arts Plastiques du CRD de Pantin
2016
Paintings, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
2015
Je suis bosquet, lac et glaise, Galerie Municipale Julio Gonzalez, Arcueil
Paintings and Drawings, Frissiras Museum, Athens
2014
Draussen im Freien, Städtisches Museum Engen
À l’air libre, La Lune en Parachute, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Épinal
2013
Utopoly, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
Drawings, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka, Japan
17th Contemporary Art Meeting, Villa Saint-Cyr, Bourg-la-Reine
2011
Idylles Apocalyptiques, Galerie Eric Mircher, Paris
2010
Fortunas Hütte, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany
Green Horn, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
2009
Green Horn, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst
2008
8, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M.
Christina Doll, Sculpture – Simon Pasieka, Paintings and Drawings, Kunsthalle Lingen
2007
Gelandet, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen; Forum Kunst Rottweil; Rudolf Scharpf Galerie, Ludwigshafen
2006
BY-BY, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt a.M.
Scheinbildung, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart