Future exhibition

Liliane Tomasko – Bridge

22.11.2026 – 11.02.2027

Born in Zurich in 1967, Liliane Tomasko completed her artistic training at the Royal College of Art in London, where she graduated with a master’s degree in 1998. Since then, she has been exploring cartographies of the unconscious with her gestural abstract painting, reflecting both inner states and spatial experiences.

Like much of Tomasko’s oeuvre, the works appear entirely abstract, but reveal deep and intricate connections between the pictorial and narrative worlds. Larger forms reminiscent of figures appear and disappear, fragment and reassemble in the mind’s eye. The work is influenced by her longstanding interest in mythologies, particularly narratives of balance and justice, as well as the ancient concept of weighing the soul. Tomasko’s exploration of form, colour and shape, and the profound emotional resonances they can evoke, continues in a new series of works on paper. Each one offers a seemingly disharmonious interweaving of colours and lines that unfolds like a denser counterpoint to the expansive duality of diptychs. Tomasko makes increasing use of the classic pictorial form of the diptych, once again emphasising an expansion of emotional resonance spaces. She does not prescribe a reading of her works, but leaves it up to the viewer to lose themselves or find themselves in them.

In 2024, she herself formulated: ‘Where would the subconscious be located? And how does such an intensely inner organism relate to the outside world? As a bridge between the two locations; between inside and outside? My entire work is a mediation of precisely this theme, and in a sense, the big question is not who or what we are, but where we live, where is our place?’

Liliane Tomaskos work is in the permanent collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Collection du Conseil Départemental du Var, Toulon, France; the Hilti Art Foundation, Schaan, Liechtenstein; the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; K20 K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Staatliche Kunshalle Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, among other institutions and museum collections in the US and worldwide.
For the solo exhibition The Conundrum of the Organically Angular, at Maison La Roche, Paris, France (2025), a house built by Le Corbusier, Tomasko explored the permeability of our inner and outer worlds with her Shapeshifter series of paintings, in keeping with Le Corbusier’s maxim: “L’intérieur et l’extérieur sont un tout.”

The exhibition at the Ludwig Museum Koblenz presents her latest paintings, as well as a separate body of work on paper.

 

Liliane Tomasko, Chilled to the bone, 2024