Minimal Paintings - Painting, Sculpture & Digital Artist

Minimal Paintings

My painting practice is rooted in reduction: form, line, and color are distilled to their essence. Within this deliberate simplicity lies a moment of clarity that reaches beyond the visible.

“Minimal Paintings” defines my approach to extending the tradition of Minimal Painting by adding an inner dimension. Whereas historical Minimal Art often emphasizes rigor, geometry, and objectivity, my work seeks a quiet balance between reduction and resonance. The paintings are not meant to create distance but to open spaces—spaces of stillness, contemplation, and focus.

Each work emerges from the process of subtraction: lines are simplified, colors subdued, forms reduced to their essential structures. What remains is a visual language of calm and clarity. For me, reduction is not a loss but a gain: it creates room for perception, breath, and a meditative experience.

Thus, my paintings become open fields—minimal in expression, meditative in their impact.

About

Suntje Sagerer is a mixed-media and AI artist combining drawing, painting, digital photography, sculpture and her Minimal Art Gallery (MAG). Explore hybrid art, unique works and new perspectives.

Suntje Sagerer lives in Berlin, Germany, whose interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, painting, Sculpture, and large-scale multimedia installations. She is the founder of the Minimal Art Gallery (MAG), established in 2014, an innovative exhibition format that presents contemporary artworks in miniature scale. Conceived as both a serial multimedia sculpture and a social sculpture, MAG challenges conventional exhibition spaces and redefines how art can be produced, displayed, and collectively experienced.

Sagerer’s work investigates social structures and contemporary conditions. Through the interplay of diverse media, she reorganizes cultural and societal phenomena, offering new perspectives on their underlying dynamics. Her practice is shaped by a strong DIY ethos and a deliberate independence from traditional art-world hierarchies, allowing her to create her own artistic platforms and modes of distribution. Her works reveal unexpected visual constellations while inviting viewers into an active, participatory encounter.

Born in 1982 in the GDR and trained initially as a design assistant, Sagerer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, receiving her Diploma in Fine Arts in 2011 and completing a postgraduate Meisterschüler program with Prof. Christian Sery in 2015. The birth of her daughter in 2010 significantly influenced her early artistic direction: limitations of time and space led her to experiment with miniature formats and staged photographic scenarios using vintage GDR dollhouse interiors. This resulted in her acclaimed series *Masters of Society* (2013), which critically examines family structures and the societal expectations imposed on women and mothers in the arts. The series was exhibited internationally, including at the East China University in Shanghai, and laid the conceptual foundation for MAG.

Since its founding, the Minimal Art Gallery has evolved into a long-term artistic project with numerous exhibitions across Europe, the United States, and Asia. Selected exhibitions include MAG Social Rooms (Berggut Oschatz, 2025), MAG Burnout (Kunstgehaeuse Dresden, 2023), MAG Mobile Supromo (CAC Málaga, 2023), MAG Mothers INN Volume One (GIF Vienna, 2023), and MAG Gunst der Stunde (Albertinum Dresden, 2022). Beyond MAG, Sagerer has participated in international group and solo exhibitions such as VON.SICH.SELBST. (C. Rockefeller Center, Dresden, 2025), OUT LAW since 1 (Kunstgehaeuse Dresden, 2023), Vigies (Fürst-Pückler-Park Branitz, 2023), Collapse (Shanghai, 2013), and the 4th Dresden Biennale (2012).

Sagerer has been awarded numerous grants, residencies, and project fundings, including an Artist Grant from the Cultural Foundation of Saxony (2025), a Bias FLINTA* Projects Residency (2023), Neustart Kultur/Stiftung Kunstfonds (2022), the Zygote Press Travel Grant in Cleveland, Ohio (2016), and multiple project fundings supporting the development and international expansion of MAG.

Through her multifaceted practice and the long-running MAG project, Suntje Sagerer has created a distinctive artistic position that merges conceptual rigor with an accessible, socially engaged format—establishing her as a relevant figure in contemporary art and its alternative modes of exhibition.

SUNTJE SAGERER