Ruby Cascades, 2022
Nature has always been, for me, both a real and imaginary place of desire — something paradisiacal. Not in the sense of a perfect world, but one that is clear and true in all its facets.Mevlana Lipp
Mevlana Lipp (b. 1989, Germany) works and lives in Düsseldorf. He studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and was a Meisterschüler under Thomas Grünfeld. His practice combines painting, relief, and sculpture to reimagine natural motifs — flowers, pods, sea lilies — arranging them into vibrant, three-dimensional collages and relief-like panels. Lipp filters plant forms through abstraction, using wood, color, and layered surfaces to generate biomorphic images that engulf both detail and flattening, often in bold and unusual palettes.
His works are part of internationally renowned museum collections, including the Longlati Foundation, the X Museum, the Long Museum, and the Deji Art Museum. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Capsule Shanghai during Frieze Seoul, Plus One Gallery in Antwerp and Public Gallery in London. His works have also been featured in significant group exhibitions at Albertz Benda Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, Grimm Gallery in New York, Allouche Benias in Athens, Gaa Gallery and in New York.