Nico Sawatzki is certainly not a landscape painter in the classic sense.

The beginnings of his art lie in street art. Sawatzki is one of the very few street artists who have developed their very own, unmistakable style, moving away from the house wall and towards the canvas. This is characterized by the motifs and an artistic technique developed over many years, which gives his works a high recognition value.

His recent works move between abstraction and suggestion. With spray paint and acrylic, he creates color fields that evoke horizons or atmospheric light without depicting concrete landscapes. His paintings function as resonance spaces where perception, memory, and emotion intertwine, connecting to Romantic ideas of inner reflection but translating them into a contemporary, abstract language focused on the fleeting moment of seeing.

Blur, gradients, and overlays create a visual tension between clarity and dissolution, turning painting itself into a reflection on perception. Light, mist, and color form atmospheres that evoke the familiar without defining it, inviting viewers to bring their own memories and associations. Sawatzki’s use of spray paint references post-street-art aesthetics, yet he employs it for delicate color veils that oscillate between presence and fading. His works seek moments of suspension - visual in-between spaces where perception is renegotiated - asserting a precise, poetic position within contemporary painting.

Sawatzki has received the 2022 Cultural Promotion Prize of the City of Regensburg. His works have been shown at major art fairs such as KIAF Art Seoul, Art Toronto, and art KARLSRUHE, and are held in public and private collections, including the Bavarian State Painting Collections and the Art Collection of the District of Upper Palatinate.