Press reports + interviews
2025 ArtCraftLiving / Grace Denker Gallery - VIBRANT EXPRESSIONS
2025 Luciana Grandi / Galerie Helligkeit - Florian Wörrle
2023 Luca Franzil / Galerie ARTtime- Assolutamente Arte
2023 Udine Today - Assolutamente Arte
2018 INKA City Magazine Karlsruhe - RODEO STEREO
2018 Singulart Magazin - Florian Wörrle im Gespräch mit Singulart
2016 INKA Stadtmagazin Karlsruhe - Der Künstler hinter dem Cover: Florian Wörrle
2016 INKA Stadtmagazin Karlsruhe - Florian Wörrle
2016 Stuttgarter-Zeitung - Florian Wörrle bei Strzelski "Kosmischer Zauber"
2016 Badische Neueste Nachrichten - Achterbahn der Techniken
2013 Stuttgarter Zeitung- Greetings from the hand grenade
Florian Wörrle
Luciana Grandi / Galerie Helligkeit / 2025
Florian Wörrle, a German artist from Dillingen an der Donau, studied painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. There, he developed a signature style characterized by expressive paint applications, dynamic structures, and an experimental approach to materials. His works combine traditional techniques with innovative approaches and engage viewers both visually and emotionally. Wörrle's works intensely address the relationship between materiality, color, and perception. They reflect the simultaneity of sensory overload and beauty in a changing world. Bold colors and haptic textures lend his works a strong physical presence and invite the viewer to engage with the work in space. His artistic practice combines spontaneous experimentation with meticulous attention to detail. Nature plays a central role as a source of inspiration and functions as a metaphor for deceleration and permanence, which contrast with the digital age. His art deliberately remains open to interpretation and oscillates between autonomy and reference, structure and illusion. With his "Shaped Canvases" and color objects, Wörrle breaks through the rigid boundaries of panel painting, creating works that fascinate with their physical presence. A distinctive feature of his art is the multifaceted technique that combines vibrant colors, strong contrasts, and organic forms. Flowing color gradients and dynamic compositions are reminiscent of natural motifs such as fields of flowers or landscapes, with natural growth processes and movements recreated through dripping or flowing colors. Wörrle draws inspiration from important cultural movements such as Abstract Expressionism, citing artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, and Gerhard Richter as role models. At the same time, he addresses contemporary themes such as digitalization and the handling of a flood of images. His work questions traditional visual languages and consciously deconstructs artistic clichés to open up new perspectives. Florian Wörrle's works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy. His works are part of renowned collections, including the PIFO Gallery in Beijing, the Heidenheim Art Museum and private collections in Germany, the USA, England and Liechtenstein.
VIBRANT EXPRESSIONS – Florian Wörrle
ArtCraftLiving / Blog-Article from 26.03.2025
Under the theme VIBRANT EXPRESSIONS, 12 artists from across Germany will showcase two of their works each at the GRACE DENKER GALLERY starting March 28, 2025, offering a glimpse into their creations and sparking interest for more. The diverse methods, ideas, and concepts provide a unique and inspiring experience.
Learn more about the exhibitors in the following article and gain insight into their artistic endeavors and concepts.
Florian Wörrle's artistic journey is a profound exploration of nature's inspiration, transcending direct semantic interpretation. His work thrives on analogies, structures, and metaphors, creating a delicate balance between autonomous imagery and an illusion of referentiality. This unique approach results in paradoxical creations that are both visually and tactilely captivating.
His artistic process is a dance between spontaneous, experimental material engagement and meticulous refinement. This duality births intriguing forms that draw viewers in with their vibrant colors and textures. Wörrle's current collection emphasizes the physical presence of art as a counterpoint to digital dematerialization. By redefining the relationship between material and visual representation, his works break away from traditional canvas forms, evolving into color objects that assert their presence in space and engage viewers directly.
Wörrle's art is an act of freedom and childlike discovery, resisting the overwhelming influence of digital media and virtual realms. Looking to the future, he aims to delve deeper into the fundamental aspects of visual perception and materiality. His fusion of color objects and material images challenges both the familiar and the questioning, playing with canonical visual languages and exposing clichés. This exploration of image theory and perception in our increasingly digitized world remains a thrilling prospect for him.
Through his art, Wörrle conveys the pleasure principle, inviting viewers to indulge in a sensory experience. His works exude an unrestrained joy in color, material, and creativity, encouraging audiences to savor an artistic experience that engages multiple senses. The pieces stand in defiance of contemporary trends towards dematerialization, emphasizing the undeniable presence of the physical.
Wörrle's exhibition offers a celebration of sensory delight, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in the tangible beauty of art that speaks to the body and soul.
Florian Wörrle – Anything but flat
Jayanthan Sriram / Galerie Strzelski / 2015
How many of us have sat in art class and had our concepts and work held back by sayings like "Don't paint beyond the edges"? Perhaps such limitations on creativity are still educationally justified in primary school, where the fine motor skills of adolescents are still being fought for, but in any case this statement conveys a very outdated image of art. An image that is very clear and still prevails in people's minds: "Art has to be beautiful" - old hat. But also "art is a picture on a canvas", "art is the representation of things from this world". Anyone who lives in the here and now and has not missed the last hundred years of human history knows how incredibly limited these perspectives are. And yet, they are probably still being taught to students. Art is first and foremost an expression of the artist. It doesn't matter what form he uses or what material he uses. Either way, art knows no boundaries.
Florian Wörrle follows an interesting path with his art. He is not only a self-contained artist, but also a teacher at a high school. If his art can be used to draw conclusions about his teaching, he encourages students to play with the understanding of the flat image.
Wörrle's art is best explained by his materials: you will never find the normal "oil on canvas" setup here. Wörrle works with whatever he can get his hands on. The list of materials reads like the result of a visit to the hardware store. He uses PU foam, acrylic paint and varnish to bring his exercises in form and color to life. The fact that there is still a canvas behind this mass of material as a support can only be guessed at in the finished works. His works are never really square and perfectly delimited. For example, in "Fetter Ecke" he lets a corner melt away and often drops of paint still remain. Titles such as "Gotham City" or "Tischlein deck dich" are not just references to familiar things, they seem to give the free forms a feeling and help reception; even when the title is "Spritzgebäck". Because of their colorfulness, the pictures provoke suspicions of kitsch. Kitsch is a term that derogatorily describes the most trivial expressions in art, but are Wörrle's works perhaps trivial precisely because their implicit openness of form can appeal to everyone without triggering an intellectual discourse about concepts such as truth or beauty? Art is primarily about expression. And just as the picture should have no edges and should not just be tied flat to the canvas, expression is never trivial.
To return to Wörrle's work as a teacher: every teacher was once a student himself, and Wörrle was with Anselm Reyle. Reyle's art is a game with materiality and the concept of high and low art, and many of these traits can be found in Wörrle's work. Reyle passed his impetus on to his student Wörrle, who will pass on the idea that art goes beyond the framework and is not just a picture on a wall to his students. How this idea will develop further is not yet clear, but it is always welcomed. In addition, the next logical step for Wörrle himself seems to be to break away from the wall and conquer the entire room in the form of sculptures. So that no one can complain if something "sticks out".