Felicitas Goltz
Felicitas Goltz
same changes
2026
Acrylic and oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm
The paintings of Felicitas Goltz draw equally from the visual strangeness of daily life, the social encounters fostered by social media, and the plenitude of imagery found on the internet generally. Evoking a world shaped by smartphones as much as her own direct observation and inward imagination, Goltz’s artistry is fundamentally concerned with translation: how contemporary experience is filtered, distorted, and emotionally absorbed through images.
At first glance, her paintings can appear almost documentarian. Yet this initial realism gives way to the subtle distortions or deliberately “wonky” qualities that come to light upon closer examination. Intentional weirdness is central to how the works operate. Without explicitly locating her subjects within a fixed narrative or timeframe, Goltz allows viewers to project stories onto the objects and environments she depicts—iPhone screens, LED TVs, all the assorted mirrors which accompany us through public and domestic life.
Her figures—often young women rendered somewhere between specificity and anonymity—are not specific individuals so much as generalized composites that accrue a host of pleasant and unpleasant associations, identifications, and projections. Portrayed within intimate, everyday scenes, Goltz’s paintings reflect broader social experiences surrounding femininity, self-image, and visibility in contemporary culture. Her highly personalized use of color fleshes out soft layers of atmosphere and depth, capturing the shifting emotional registers through which digital life is experienced and remembered.
Works
Felicitas Goltz
on my own again
2025
Acrylic on canvas
80 x 80 cm
Felicitas Goltz
whatever Ruby Woo says
2025
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Felicitas Goltz
trying my best (not to burn down the house)
2026
Acrylic and oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm
Felicitas Goltz
maybe she‘s born with it
2025
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 30 cm
Felicitas Goltz
this is what makes us girls
2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm
Felicitas Goltz
splash
2024
Acrylic and oil on canvas
80 x 60 cm
Exhibitions
TELEVISION, 2026, Blech. Raum für Kunst, Halle (Saale), Germany
Someone is in my House, 2025, Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
BOOBS Now №1, 2024, POV contemporary x Galerie Philipp Anders, Leipzig, Germany
felt cute might delete later, 2024, Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
CV
Felicitas Goltz
b. 2000 in Naila, Germany
Lives and works in Halle (Saale), Germany
EDUCATION
2022 - now
Kunsthochschule Burg Giebichenstein Halle (Saale), Painting class of Tilo Baumgärtel
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026
TELEVISION, Blech. Raum für Kunst, Halle (Saale), Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
es hätte auch anders kommen können, aber jetzt sind wir hier, Blech. Raum für Kunst, Halle (Saale), Germany
2025
Someone is in my House at Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
2024
Annual exhibition of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (Saale), Germany
in Motion, Kunstverein Hof, Germany
BOOBS Now №1, POV contemporary x Galerie Philipp Anders, Leipzig, Germany
felt cute might delete later, Galerie Lætitia Gorsy, Leipzig, Germany
slip of the tongue, Burg Galerie im Volkspark, Halle (Saale), Germany
2023
Annual exhibition of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (Saale), Germany
2022
feels like a hug, Galaxie neuer Künste, Halle (Saale), Germany
Press
"The paintings of Felicitas Goltz, for their part, take a perspective on seemingly ordinary objects and events. that highlights their essential strangeness. A man tying his shoe, for example, in the acrylic on canvas work, Just Another Man (2024), radiates a complex emotional texture that could be parsed into anger, sadness, astonishment, or desire. The storied ambiguity of the picture’s overarching theme shines through all the exacting detail by which it’s rendered."
– Whitehot Magazine