Verrueckt
2025
Oil on canvas
120 × 130 cm

Die doppelte Aufbrechung des Himmels
2025
Oil on canvas 
37 × 34 cm

Sich Vertrauen
2025
Oil on canvas
35 × 50 cm 

Sechs Wochen Hausarrest
2024
Oil on canvas
120 × 130 cm

dass was prägt
2026
Installation consisting of 11 clouds
Cardboard, acrylic, oil

Komm ins Bett, ich habe vorher das Licht ausgemacht
2024
Oil on canvas
41 × 44 cm 

Im falschen Jahr
2024
Oil on canvas
41 × 43 cm 

Verlust des Daches
2025
Oil on canvas
150 × 240 cm 

Two geometric forms, like building blocks stacked and shifted into one another. A house; accidentally figured, yet the primordial patron of our fragile limbs. What makes a house a home? And what happens to the sense of safety that clings to this familiar figure, once you strip away its essence? Not destroyed or deprived, but deconstructed, witty, and psychological. The deconstructed house is all too familiar to the smallest of playing humans (homo ludens): the doll’s house. It is renowned for its architectural cross-section, primarily born out of practical necessity, yet resulting in unpleasant side effects for its inhabitants: frontal draughts, sticky fingers, and a total lack of privacy. At least these miniature residents retain the mini­mal protection of the roof, and, much like stacking dolls, the smaller house rests safely inside the larger one. By the time the smallest humans have outgrown playing with the smallest house, it usually ends up in the attic, unaware that this shelter too may soon be lost. Lennart Schweigert playfully captures these vulnerable moments in his works. Roofs evaporate, entire structures are sunk like ships, safe havens vanish, unease spreads, and familiar, once-­homely figures dissolve. The loss of the roof mirrors the loss of control over one’s own persona, which once found rest and realignment in a dedicated place. Thoughts, feelings, coupled with a simple geometric form. The roof of the world may not be a mountain; perhaps it is the clouds instead, shielding us (like good friends) from the judging ancient gaze of the stars – which are far too old for our earthly freshness and occasionally chuckle at our fragile follies.  Lennart Schweigert’s prosaic titles lend the motifs their intrinsic character, acting in turbulent or gloomy times as a kind of atmospheric comic relief. His titles insist on opening questions rather than merely posing them. From the archaic (one may say old-fashioned) structures and formal motifs of the house, Lennart Schweigert carves out space for new narratives; at times lustful, at times melancholic, mostly personal, and hopefully, always a touch embarrassing. Lennart Schweigert (*1996, Frankfurt am Main, DE) lives and works in Cologne. He studied painting under Gunter Reski at HfG Offenbach and under David Ostrowski at the Kunstakademie Karlsruhe. Since 2021, he has been a fellow of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including the Zollamt Galerie (2022) and Magma Maria (2023) in Offenbach, Galerie Heike Strelow (2025) in Frankfurt am Main, and most recently in a solo exhibition at La Felce (2025) in Cologne. With the solo show »Verlust des Daches«, Lennart Schweigert marks the launch of the 2026 program at JVDW gallery.

Text: Bérénice Lamay

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