The interplay of light and color in unique die-cuts
After a trip to Southeast Asia, Nordmeyer began designing objects and installations made of paper. Sascha Nordmeyer then achieved his artistic breakthrough with the “Espace-Temps” (Space-Time) series. In these optical-kinetic compositions, he transforms his very own form of stamping into light-active artworks of great timeless elegance.
Each piece consists of hundreds or even thousands of stamped “micro-reflectors,” which Nordmeyer first designs digitally and then painstakingly presses by hand into the correct angle and the desired three-dimensional shape.
The results are works that play with light and geometric-serial compositions in an idiosyncratic and highly elegant way. The artist is increasingly applying this principle to monumental works and installations – for example, those made of metal. In 2018, Sascha Nordmeyer used this technique to create a large spatial installation as part of the “Nuit Blanche” in the Ryosoku-in temple in Kyoto.
Exhibitions and Art Fairs
2026
– FILA COLORE project, Frieze Seoul, Seoul, South Korea (solo show)
– Cinétisme de papier, Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France (solo show)
– Klotz Shows, Brussels, Belgium (duo show with Géraldine Wilcke)
– Ansichtssache, Schloss Neersen, Willicher Kunstverein, Willich, Germany
2025
– Meet the Artist, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo show)
– Cinétique-Quantique, Metahaus, Paris, France
– Luxembourg Art Week, Galerie La Ligne, Basel, Switzerland
– Modern Art Fair, Galerie Lélia Mordoch, Paris, France
2024
– Leurs Regards, Madeleine Millot-Durrenberger Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Nancy, France
– Flâneries d’Art Contemporain dans les Jardins Aixois, Aix-en-Provence, France
– Superpower Design, Innovation and Design Centre, Grand Hornu, Belgium
– Monochromatic Dialogue, Galerie la Ligne, Zurich (duo show with Serena Amrein)
2023
– #OrangeTheWorld, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Moderne Art Fair, Galerie Slotine, Paris, France (solo show)
– Embossed and tossed, Haus des Papiers, Berlin, Germany
– 10 Years – Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Knokke Art Fair, Stream Art Galerie, Knokke, Belgium
– Zero 23, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022
– #OrangeTheWorld, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Autumn Exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Summer Exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Sounding Light Spaces, Galerie La Ligne, Zurich, Switzerland (solo show)
– Art Paris, Paris, France (solo show)
– The Abstract Landscape, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Le langage des yeux – Yoshiyuki Miura & Sascha Nordmeyer, Stream Art Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (duo show)
2021
– Ecole du Monde, charity auction, Artcurial, Paris, France
– Art Paris, Galerie Slotine, Paris, France (solo show)
– COFA Cologne Fine Art, Galerie Kellermann, Cologne, Germany
– Winter exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
2020
– Art Paris, Galerie Slotine, Paris, France (solo show)
– Summer 20, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Winter exhibition, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
2019
– Reflections, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
– Art Elysées, Galerie Slotine, Paris, France (solo show)
– Art Paris, Galerie Slotine, Paris, France (solo show)
2018
– STORYGENIC KYOTO IN-EI RAISAN, Nuit Blanche, Kyoto, Japan (solo show)
– Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Paris, France (solo show)
– Center d’art contemporain / Passages, Troyes, France (solo show)
2017
– Pernod-Ricard, headquarters, Paris, France (solo show)
– YIA Art Fair #11, Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Paris, France
– YIA Art Fair #10, Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Basel, Switzerland
– YIA Art Fair #9, Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Brussels, Belgium
DDESSIN 17, Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Paris, France (solo show)
2016
– Dessins Espace-temps, Galerie Gratadou-Intuiti, Paris, France (solo show)
– DDESSIN 16, Paris, France (solo show)
2015
– Collection M. Millot-Durrenberger, Château des Lumières, Lunéville, France
– Favoris #1, Mustache, Studio Cassiopée, Paris, France
2013
– Artifact Biennale Internationale Design, Saint Etienne, France
2012
– Ultrabody – 208 opere tra arte e design, Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy
2011
– Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York, USA Awards
Awards and Prizes
2024
– Winner of the international competition PRISME for the creation of a monumental sculpture, University Hospital, Reims, France
2011
– Red Dot Design Award, Singapore
2001
– Hope of Creation, Comité Colbert, Paris, France
Public Collection
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Grants
2020
– Mediation Residency, Jean-Baptiste Colbert Gymnasium, Ministry of Culture, Reims
2018
– Individual grant for creation, Ministry of Culture – Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC), Grand Est, France
– Grant for research and creation
– Visual Arts, Grand Est, France
Sascha Nordmeyer (*1977) is a German-French artist and designer from Reims; his mother comes from France and his father from Lower Saxony, Germany. He studied industrial design at the École Supérieure d’Art et de Design in Reims, France; he then joined the French luxury manufacturer S.T. Dupont, where, among other things, he designed accessories for the James Bond film “Casino Royale.” Sascha Nordmeyer began to experiment more and more with his own designs and shapes and founded his own design studio in 2009. In 2011, he took part in the “Talk To Me” exhibition at the famous Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York with his work “communication prosthesis”. In the same year, he received the Red Dot Design Award in Singapore.
