Born in Leipzig in 1986, Lars Fischer lives and works in Berlin. A painter, Fischer is a trained display designer who worked in the field before developing his current practice. He completed his studies at the Universität der Künste in Berlin under Professor Thomas Zipp.
 
Frequently painting on PVC prints, Fischer’s gradient, tubular brushstrokes call to mind wires, playing with his thematic interest in technology and catastrophe. Trees resemble cables, their branches curved like pipes in ‘Der schwarze Baum’, as are the bodies in ‘Technospheric Disaster’, receiving the same treatment – their limbs jointless and smooth. Grainy flickers of the printed background seep through the oil paint, pushing the medium into a contemporary context few other artists enter. In other works featuring a volcanic explosion, a dead pigeon, and other environmental disasters, Fischer leaves the realm of science fiction and brings us back to our own reality. Highlighting the facets we tend to want to avoid, Fischer reminds us of our complicity.