Arthur Löwen

Arthur Löwen lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. He studied at Kunsthochschule Mainz under Winfried Virnich and completed his diploma in the class of Walter Dahn at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.

Löwen works with painting as a field of gesture, symbol, and memory — built through layers, traces, and fragmented interventions that reveal not so much a concrete image, but an emotional and physical state. In his practice, paint becomes more than a medium: a carrier of energy, movement, and compression.

Repetition and sign-like elements run through his work — lines, inscriptions, and symbolic fragments that appear and dissolve again, holding a painterly tension between control and chance. In his more recent paintings, personal references are transformed into autonomous visual spaces that resist fixed interpretation, and it is precisely through this resistance that they gain their striking presence.

Löwen is less interested in resolving an image than in holding it in suspension: somewhere between raw gesture and quiet concentration, his paintings do not demand attention instantly but unfold gradually, over time. Rather than offering answers, they open emotional and psychological spaces — and it is exactly there that their lasting impact begins.

His work has been shown in institutional exhibitions including Kunstverein Hannover and Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, as well as in several solo exhibitions with Galerie fiebach, minninger, Cologne.