Sebastian Maas: Seduce me

In his works, Sebastian Maas explores the relationship between painterly tradition and contemporary visual concepts.

– Sebastian Maas, Besties, 2026

Kornfeld Galerie presents a solo exhibition featuring new works by German artist Sebastian Maas. Titled “Seduce me,” the exhibition brings together new paintings by Maas (*1984, Aachen). In his works, the artist explores the relationship between painterly tradition and contemporary visual perception. Maas applies paint in swift yet deliberate gestures. The resulting surfaces oscillate between control and spontaneity, forming compositions in which painterly precision coexists with moments of dissolution and fragmentation.

At the center of Maas’s practice lies an ongoing dialogue with the history of European painting. Motifs and compositional fragments from works by the Old Masters appear in his paintings as partial echoes, not as direct quotations. Detached from their original iconographic context, these references are transformed into open, contemporary pictorial structures in which recognition remains deliberately fleeting.

“Seduce me” offers a focused look at Maas’s current practice. The exhibition highlights a group of works that continues his exploration of the conditions of contemporary painting, in which the painterly gesture becomes a site of memory and transformation.

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Runtime: Fri, 01/05/2026 to Sat, 20/06/2026

Takes place here:

• Kornfeld Galerie