Florian Leible works in the field of large-scale abstract painting. Rooted in a background of craftsmanship and graphic arts, his practice is grounded in material awareness and spatial clarity. His paintings explore movement as a fundamental condition of being — subtle shifts of color, surface and density that generate atmosphere rather than depict it.
Each work is developed through a controlled yet intuitive process, allowing softness and tension to coexist. The paintings do not illustrate emotion; they condense it into presence. In reduced architectural spaces, the works function as quiet fields of attention — moments of pause within acceleration.
Leible understands painting as an act of breathing: an exchange of energy between artist, surface and viewer. The work holds a state of aliveness — restrained, attentive, and open.
“A PAINTING INHALES THE LIVED
MOMENT OF ITS MAKING, HOLDS ITS TENSION, ITS FRAGILITY, ITS MOVEMENT AND THEN - EXHALES IT INTO SPACE.”
Touching Water
Touching Water is an ongoing body of large-scale abstract paintings. The series reflects on fleeting moments of awareness — small encounters that bring us back into presence. Touching water, feeling air, sensing movement: simple gestures that reveal the quiet intensity of being alive.
Through subtle transitions of color, density and surface, the works explore how softness and tension can coexist within a restrained visual language. Each painting develops through a process balancing intention and release, structure and intuition.
Rather than depicting an image, the works condense an experience — a moment of perception translated into atmosphere.
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lives and works in Cologne.
2017 – 2020 MA of Arts
Communication Design
2015 – 2017 BA of Arts
Communication Design
2014 – 2015 Faculty of Graphic Arts
University of Fine Art Cracòw „Akademia Sztuk Pieknych im. Jana Matejki”
2012 – 2014 Communication Design
University of Applied Sciences Trier
1990 - born in Freiburg