Armin Dietrich (b. 1967) is a German-Swiss artist based in Berlin. After more than twenty years as a photographer across editorial, advertising and fashion — with a particular focus on staged still lifes — he turned entirely to painting in 2020. The trained eye for surface, light and composition that shaped his photographic work continues to inform his practice today.
His practice centres on large-format oil painting and extends into wall reliefs in Baltic birch plywood and smaller works on copper. Across these media, the urban surface becomes the place where material and memory converge. Each canvas is built like a weathered façade, layered over weeks with oil paint, scratches and patina. Dietrich works with a spray gun, but above all with his hands.
In his ongoing series Surface Memories, Dietrich is drawn less to what a city loses than to the way it is continually rewritten — never erased. The surface itself becomes a repository of memory, where remembrance is embedded in material rather than nostalgia.
His work has been exhibited in Berlin and Hamburg and is presented internationally, including at Enter Art Fair in Copenhagen.
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Solo Exhibitions
2019 — TRACES OF RITUALS, Gallery ADDAUX, Berlin
2018 — GODS & MONSTERS I, Falckenberg Unique Art Concepts, Berlin
2018 — GODS & MONSTERS II, Gallery ADDAUX, @ POSITIONS art fair (solo booth), Berlin
2017 — UNCLAD I, Falckenberg Unique Art Concepts, Hamburg
2017 — UNCLAD II. Falckenberg Unique Art Concepts, Berlin
Group Exhibitions
2026 — Enter Art Fair with NEUDEUTSCH art, Copenhagen
2026 — QUEER UNFRAMING, curated by Julian Daynov, BOLD, Berlin
2017 — LIGHT RIDER, Bernheimer Contemporary, Berlin
2016 — Time Shapes // Reactions, curated by Kerstin Godschalk, HB55, Berlin
