Johanna Marie SCHIMMING - VIBRATIONS

Galerie Richard is presenting, for the second time, the solo exhibition of Johanna Marie SCHIMMING, entitled VIBRATIONS, a series of acrylic paintings on canvas, from 22 November to 27 December 2025. Her works explore encounters between different abstract pictorial languages.
She masters both delicate gradients of light and precise geometric blocks, as well as thick acrylic strokes. These strokes create relief, leaving rhythmic marks that reveal the movement of the gesture—her own term—which distinguishes her work. The contrasts in textures, the interplay of light, and the subtle use of shadows create compositions of great sensitivity.

Johanna Marie SCHIMMING’s paintings demonstrate remarkable mastery of multiple pictorial techniques, balancing simplicity and complexity. Every gesture and every detail is deliberate. Her artistic approach is centred on the creation of emotional landscapes. The artist seeks harmony and aims to convey vitality through her paintings. She begins a canvas with the desire to immerse herself in a particular atmosphere, guided by colours found in nature. In her work, she also explores her perception of space through research on depth, using added relief, layers of paint, or transparent varnish rectangles that act both as veils and as openings into another dimension. She places great importance on the “empty” space surrounding a gesture, which she perceives as similar to the resonance space surrounding a sound. In her painting, she also identifies and explores elements akin to musical composition: time, dynamics, rhythm, harmony, acceleration, and silence. She expresses these themes through a visual language that combines freedom and precision, allowing the work to build progressively, often instinctively, through layers and textures.

This painter is particularly interested in transitions and the subtle movements between different materials and forms. What might appear abstract becomes, under her brush, a concrete image of human emotions. She develops an aesthetic that expresses the delicate balance between the outer world and the intimate. In her works, finely orchestrated plays of light and shadow produce visual effects that sometimes evoke animated landscapes, as if seen from a moving train. The application of thick layers of paint also allows her to bring a certain materiality to abstraction, reinforcing the physical and tangible presence of the work. In her choice of colours, Johanna Marie SCHIMMING often turns to those that evoke nature, such as deep and vibrant greens and a range of blues, which she juxtaposes with brighter hues like yellows and apricots to create points of visual tension.

Born in 1988, Johanna Marie SCHIMMING has seen her talent recognised through numerous prestigious international awards and competitions. Most recently, she was a finalist for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2023 for her work 097, exhibited at the York Art Gallery in the United Kingdom. Her work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy, England, Belgium, and South Korea.