Martin Collmann

In his paintings, Collmann focuses almost exclusively on the human figure as his central thematic motif, portraying it in an abstract manner and creating a process-driven interplay of colours and forms that combines a dynamic brushstroke with graphic elements – the result is a compelling symbiosis in which gestural freedom and compositional rigour interpenetrate.

Thematically, he operates on the borderline between abstraction and figuration, exploring the fragile balance between closeness and distance in human interaction. The works thus serve as surfaces onto which emotional ambivalences are projected, reflecting both the longing for intimacy and the need for individuality.

Awards/Nominations:

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• awarded the Art Prize of the City of Georgsmarienhütte (Art and Culture Foundation) 2024; nominated
• for the Art Promotion Prize of the Federal Association of Visual Artists (2019)
• Nominated for the Osnabrück Art Prize 2024

Grants :

• Grant holder of the Ingeborg Sieber Foundation

• 2024–2026

Exhibitions :

• Artlab Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich (2025)
• SKM Community Exhibition, Leipzig (2025)
• HardArt, solo exhibition, Kleine Freiheit, Osnabrück (2024)
• Georgsmarienhütte Art Prize 2024, Art and Culture Foundation, awarded 1st
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• 2024, exhibition at the Osnabrück Museumsquartier, Felix-Nussbaum-Haus; Exhibition
• of selected works at the Leisen Speicher, Osnabrück (2022);
• Exhibition of selected works at the Galerie Junge Kunst, Osnabrück (2021)
• ‘Neuanfang’, Osnabrück University Hospital (2021)
• Exhibition of selected works at the Vitrinengallerie
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• Osnabrück (2020)
• ‘vormorgen’, Gütersloh Art Association (2020)
• ‘Contra’, Lutherhaus, Osnabrück (2019)
• ‘Schauräume’, Kesselbrink, Bielefeld (2019), awarded the BBK Art
• Promotion Prize ‘Gedankensplitter’, Kunstverein Dissen (2019)