works / systems / visual structures

Works

Systems describes three interrelated perspectives within Florian Mehnert’s practice: Perceptual Fields, Reference Systems and Social Systems. A curated entrance into Florian Mehnert's practice: participatory projects, data works, installations, drawings, photographs and paintings are presented as connected forms within one continuous investigation of perceptual fields, reference systems and social systems.

Perceptual Fields Reference Systems Social Systems

01 / Perceptual Fields

Visual Spaces

Drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs in which landscape, materiality, gesture, and spatial order come to the fore.

Drawing / Charcoal / Paper

Forest

Large scale charcoal drawings that transform landscape, density and observation into perceptual fields.

Drawing / Charcoal / Paper

Wood Systems

Charcoal drawings in which woodland structures turn into dense image systems of trunks, leaves and ground.

Works on Paper / Drawing

Works on Paper

Ink works, charcoal drawings and mixed media works on paper form a central material line in Mehnert's practice.

Painting / Canvas

Paintings

Painting is a material way of thinking through systems.

Etching / Overpainting

Overpainted Etchings

Printed lines and painterly interventions move between edition, gesture and unique image.

Large Drawings / 2026

Large Drawings

Large scale works in which density, rhythm and observation become fields of perception.

Woodcut / 1997

Aus einer Form

Woodcuts from 1997, reduced to form, print, placement and variation.

Analog Practice / Woodcut

Lockdown Woodcuts

Analog woodcuts of broken digital displays, creating a deliberate counter movement to digital image culture.

Light / Drawing / Space

Light Drawings

Drawn lines become walkable fields of colour, reflection and spatial perception.

02 / Reference Systems

Reference Systems

Reference Systems explores the often invisible structures through which we make sense of reality and orient ourselves within it. Coordinates, movement data and technological infrastructures are translated into line, light, image and space. The works give abstract relationships a sensory form and investigate how technical systems shape our perception and actions.

Movement / Data / Image