Galerie Leu

Galerie Leu Established 1981, specialized in post-war and contemporary art

Ylva CarlgrenTense lines, 2025watercolor on paper112 x 112 cmYlva Carlgren’s works operate at the threshold between appe...
18/06/2026

Ylva Carlgren

Tense lines, 2025
watercolor on paper
112 x 112 cm

Ylva Carlgren’s works operate at the threshold between appearance and withdrawal. Her watercolors are composed of innumerable transparent layers of pigment that do not merely depict light but bring it forth as a material event within the pictorial space. By deliberately dispensing with narrative content, symbolic programs, or expressive gesture, Carlgren directs attention to those elemental conditions from which pictoriality itself emerges: light, surface, layering, rhythm, and time.

Forms, materials, and spaces do not appear as self-contained entities but as presences in transition. They communicate themselves without ever fully revealing themselves. It is precisely in this that their intensity resides. The work does not speak of anything; it exposes a site of appearing in which visibility and withdrawal remain inseparably intertwined.

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Ylva Carlgrens Arbeiten bewegen sich im Grenzbereich zwischen Erscheinung und Entzug. Ihre Aquarelle bestehen aus zahllosen transparenten Farbschichten, die Licht nicht lediglich darstellen, sondern es als materielles Ereignis im Bildraum hervorbringen. Indem Carlgren auf narrative Inhalte, symbolische Programme oder expressive Gestik dezidiert verzichtet, richtet sie die Aufmerksamkeit auf jene elementaren Bedingungen, aus denen Bildlichkeit überhaupt hervorgeht: Licht, Fläche, Schichtung, Rhythmus und Zeit.

Formen, Materialien und Räume erscheinen nicht als abgeschlossene Einheiten, sondern als Existenzen im Übergang. Sie teilen sich mit, ohne sich vollständig preiszugeben. Gerade darin liegt ihre Intensität. Das Werk spricht nicht über etwas; es setzt etwas aus – einen Ort des Erscheinens in dem Sichtbarkeit und Entzug untrennbar miteinander verschränkt sind.

Ylva Carlgren

Julia SelinThis world I,II2026Oil on canvas196 x 460 cmEach 196 x 230 cmPhotographer: LCB and OMN—
09/06/2026

Julia Selin
This world I,II
2026
Oil on canvas
196 x 460 cm
Each 196 x 230 cm

Photographer: LCB and OMN






Wonderful News!We are absolutely thrilled and deeply honored to share that Moderna Museet, Stockholm , has acquired Juli...
09/06/2026

Wonderful News!

We are absolutely thrilled and deeply honored to share that Moderna Museet, Stockholm , has acquired Julia Selin’s monumental painting This World (I, II) for its permanent collection.

We could not be prouder to see this extraordinary work enter the collection of one of Europe’s foremost museums of modern and contemporary art.

A heartfelt thank you to the curatorial team at Moderna Museet, and our warmest congratulations to Julia Selin on this important and well-deserved milestone.

Work:
Julia Selin
This world I,II
2026
Oil on canvas
196 x 460 cm
Each 196 x 230 cm

Photographer: LCB and OMN






Installation view: Julia Selin – Sun‘s show On view through June 13.For inquiries, please contact: info@galerieleu.deWor...
22/05/2026

Installation view: Julia Selin – Sun‘s show

On view through June 13.
For inquiries, please contact:
[email protected]

Works:

Anima, 2026
Oil on canvas
245 x 115 cm

The trees, the breeze, the trees, the wind, 2026
Oil on canvas
20 x 25 cm

Alte Liebe, 2026
Oil on canvas
20 x 25 cm

What were the skies like when you were young?, 2026
Oil on canvas
250 x 188 cm

13 billion years of ecstasy, 2026
Oil on canvas
53 x 44 cm

Installation views:

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on view

Installation view: Julia Selin – Sun‘s show!“Selin approaches painting as a site where images emerge through process. Ea...
20/05/2026

Installation view: Julia Selin – Sun‘s show!

“Selin approaches painting as a site where images emerge through process. Each canvas is executed in a single, continuous layer of oil, worked while still wet. The image develops through pressure and movement. Where pigment gathers, it darkens into a compact field; where it thins, light appears from within the surface. The palette moves between dense, iron-rich reds and bright passages of yellow. Heat and illumination circulate across the works…
 
…The hand remains close—brush and finger tracing, pressing, dragging—leaving marks that feel both deliberate and immediate. The resulting colour hovers in an unstable register, a dewy, shifting tone the artist describes as a “ghost colour.” Illumination is not applied but released, giving the impression that the image is being uncovered rather than constructed“  (Text by Karin Bähler Lavér)

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Julia Selin
It has one billion names
2026
Oil on canvas
37 x 44 cm

Julia Selin
13 billion years of ecstasy
2026
Oil on canvas
53 x 44 cm
Photo: Lena Bergendahl
Installation view:

Opening reception tonight, 6-8 pmJulia Selin - Sun‘s show  ”In her painterly practice, Selin sustains a tension between ...
07/05/2026

Opening reception tonight, 6-8 pm

Julia Selin - Sun‘s show

 
”In her painterly practice, Selin sustains a tension between inward, diagrammatic imagery and the direct presence of the painted surface, recalling both the symbolic structures of Hilma af Klint and the spatial clarity of Barnett Newman. The paintings remain grounded in their material conditions while opening toward something less tangible—an image that forms in the encounter and continues to shift with attention. What they offer is not a fixed statement but a sustained perceptual state, where seeing becomes a way of holding something briefly in place before it changes again.“ (Karin Bähler Lavér)

Deutsch:

Eröffnung: heute Abend, 18–20 Uhr

„In ihrer malerischen Praxis hält Selin eine Spannung zwischen innerlichen, diagrammartigen Bildern und der unmittelbaren Präsenz der gemalten Oberfläche aufrecht, die sowohl an die symbolischen Strukturen von Hilma af Klint als auch an die räumliche Klarheit von Barnett Newman erinnert. Die Gemälde bleiben in ihren materiellen Bedingungen verankert und öffnen sich zugleich zu etwas weniger Greifbarem – einem Bild, das im Moment der Begegnung entsteht und sich mit der Aufmerksamkeit weiter verändert. Was sie anbieten, ist keine feste Aussage, sondern ein anhaltender Wahrnehmungszustand, in dem Sehen zu einer Weise wird, etwas für einen Moment festzuhalten, bevor es sich erneut wandelt.“ (Der gesamte Text von Karin Bähler Lavér ist auf unser Webseite verfügbar)



Julia Selin
No stars, 2026
Oil on canvas
245 x 115 cm
Photo: Lena Bergendahl

Join us next Thursday May 7th, for the opening of Julia Selin - Sun’s show!JULIA SELINSun‘s show Opening: 7 May, 6-8 pm🥂...
29/04/2026

Join us next Thursday May 7th, for the opening of Julia Selin - Sun’s show!

JULIA SELIN
Sun‘s show
Opening: 7 May, 6-8 pm
🥂

“Selin approaches painting as a site where images emerge through process. Each canvas is executed in a single, continuous layer of oil, worked while still wet. The image develops through pressure and movement. Where pigment gathers, it darkens into a compact field; where it thins, light appears from within the surface. The palette moves between dense, iron-rich reds and bright passages of yellow. Heat and illumination circulate across the works. 
 
The composition in several of the paintings recalls Philip Guston’s description of Piero della Francesca’s manner of dividing a painting: “The picture is sliced almost in half, yet both parts act on each other, repel and attract, absorb and enlarge, one another.”
 
The hand remains close—brush and finger tracing, pressing, dragging—leaving marks that feel both deliberate and immediate. The resulting colour hovers in an unstable register, a dewy, shifting tone the artist describes as a “ghost colour.” Illumination is not applied but released, giving the impression that the image is being uncovered rather than constructed…“(Full Text by Karin Bähler Lavér is available on our website)


Julia Selin
This World, 2026
oil on canvas
196 x 230 cm
Photo: Lena Bergendahl

Save The Date!We are delighted to present Julia Selin’s debut solo exhibition in Germany!Julia Selin (b. 1986) lives and...
21/04/2026

Save The Date!

We are delighted to present Julia Selin’s debut solo exhibition in Germany!

Julia Selin (b. 1986) lives and works in Malmö. She studied at the Umeå Art Academy and the Nordic Art School Kokkola in Finland, and has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in recent years, including in New York, Copenhagen, and Stockholm.

Her work unfolds in pictorial space between landscape and abstraction, marked by a strong atmospheric density. Working with reduced, often nearly monochrome palettes, she creates environments that resist clear localization, oscillating between an external experience of nature and inner perception. These take shape as images that evoke states rather than depict landscapes. Selin’s work centers on what lies beneath the visible surface: a pressure from below, a rising of form out of depth.

Stay tuned. Opening May 7, 6–8 pm.

Image:
Julia Selin, A dream of a dream of a dream of a dream,
oil on canvas, 175 x 84 cm, 2026
Photo: Lena Bergendahl

Otto Peine referred to his ceramic works as 'heavy paintings'Otto PieneDas neue rote Bild (The new red painting)2013glaz...
28/03/2026

Otto Peine referred to his ceramic works as 'heavy paintings'

Otto Piene
Das neue rote Bild (The new red painting)
2013
glazed clay
46 x 37 x 5 cm

The title The New Red Painting refers to the ZERO Group’s 7th Evening Exhibition, Das rote Bild/ The red painting (Düsseldorf 1958), in which red was the predominant color.

The exhibition is on view until April 16.

Installation viewOtto Piene - Burned Grid: Structure, Energy, Light
11/03/2026

Installation view
Otto Piene - Burned Grid: Structure, Energy, Light

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