Stephan Backes’s works combinepainting and sculpture, linking landscapewith architecture, and locationwith movement. His semi-realisticlandscape paintings open upnew perspectives on peripheral terrain—plots situated between planneddesign surfaces, speculative ownership,and emotionally charged spacesof possibility. They depict placesfull of potential, in-between spaces,landscapes in transformation, andfleeting horizons between past andfuture.The paintings are complemented bysculptural objects that emerge fromarchitectural forms and evolve ordissolve through a process. Theseobjects recall precisely conceiveddesigns and make tangible how spaceand material can be connected toemotion, memory, and hope.Stephan Backes (lives and works inthe Trier region) studied paintingat the Royal College of Art in London.His art has been exhibited atinstitutions such as KunstvereinLudwigshafen, Museum Villa Vaubanin Luxembourg, Arebyte Gallery inLondon, Yvonne Lambert in Berlin,and Daily Lazy Projects in Athens.Backes participated in the Triennalefor Contemporary Art in Luxembourg.He was nominated for theRobert Schuman Prize (2020) and theEmy Roeder Prize (2014), and receivedgrants from the Kunstfonds Foundation(2020) and DAAD Germany (2010). Backes is also founder and curator of the curatorial project:TransitTransit.eu