Painting, sculpture and Installation are the main axes of Thierry Harpes' artistic practice, resulting from an iterative interaction. The layers of paint in the paintings can be called literal forms. As a result, the boundaries between drawing, painting, and sculpture blend or disappear completely. In this process-oriented composition, Thierry Harpes also incorporates concrete figures and signs, his own lexicon. These sections humorously and absurdly overturn the emphasis on material abstraction and foreground inherent in all of Thierry Harpes' work, thus opening another level of thematic association and connection.
Thierry Harpes (born in 1991) studied painting, sculpture, art history, and philosophy under professors Robert Lucander and Mark Sadler at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He obtained his master's degree in 2021. His works have been featured in several exhibitions in Germany, Italy, Austria, and Luxembourg.