Ein junger Mann steht in einem Kunststudio mit mehreren Gemälden an den Wänden. Er trägt schwarze Kleidung und blickt ernst in die Kamera.

Mattis Richter

Born on February 18, 2003, in Großenhain, Saxony, Germany

Education

  • 2021: Abitur at Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium, Großenhain

  • Since 2021: Architecture student at the Technical University of Dresden

Artistic Experience

  • 2010 – 2020: Member of the painting circle SKZ Albertreff Großenhain

    Participation in various exhibitions of the painting circle

  • Since 2018: Specialization in oil painting

  • 2020: Participation in the Stadt-Kunst-Fest Großenhain and surrounding areas

  • 2021 – 2022: Joint exhibition with Petra Rothe at the City Library Großenhain

  • March 2023: First Trip to Morocco

  • October 2023: Participation in the Kreativmarkt at Galopprennbahn Dresden

  • February – May 2024: Creation of the painting series Desert Nights

  • June – October 2024: First solo exhibition Desert Nights at SKZ Albertreff Großenhain

  • September 2024: Second Trip to Morocco

  • September-October 2024: Three-Week Study Trip to Kyrgyzstan

  • October-November 2025: solo exhibition at Café Europa, Dresden

Fotos: Florian Arnold (@its_floar), 2024

I am someone who thinks a lot. Perhaps too much. But it is precisely from this that what I create emerges. My paintings, my writings, my view of the world come from this constant attempt to understand things that in reality cannot be understood.

I often feel as if I am living between the past and the present. Nostalgia accompanies me like a quiet shadow. I think a lot about the past, about people, about times that will never repeat. That makes me sad but also attentive. It allows me to see the world differently, softer, more serious, more honest.

I realize how much I search for authenticity. For moments in which nothing is staged. For people who do not pretend that everything is easy. Perhaps that is why I paint, to capture what cannot otherwise be grasped, a mood, a feeling, a memory that is already fading.

I am sensitive. Easily overwhelmed. And yet curious about what lies out there. Inside me there is always this tension between retreat and departure, between reflection and letting go. Often I feel like an observer, trying to understand life while it is already moving on.

My art is my attempt to organize this inner chaos. Not to find answers but to make the questions visible. I want to show that thoughtfulness is not a weakness, that vulnerability is a form of strength, and that in silence one sometimes learns more about the world than in all the noise out there.