Cengiz Hartmann

Cengiz Hartmann is a german artist focussing to reduce objects to the essential without eliminating the poetry.  The German term Begreifen (meaning both «to grasp» and «to understand») captures his essential method: a haptic form of thinking, where creating becomes inseparable from unveiling.

Since 2019 he has been working as a research assistant in the department of interior design at the Technical University of Ostwestfalen-Lippe in Detmold. He is a member of the German association of architects, artists designers and industrialists (Deutscher Werkbund) aswell as the artist guild (Lippischer Künstlerbund).

Cengiz Hartmann exhibits his work with galleries and at fairs internationally and works directly with private clients on commissions. 





photo: Georg Roske




»In my artistic practice, I seek to grasp the uniqueness of the outside and through that, the inside, the essence itself. A work of art becomes the outer manifestation of inner truth. I transform matter, which is pure being. This transformation reveals what cannot be spoken.

I create works of art that allow interaction and associations, both is elementary. It is always about relationship. 

I am in search of poetry, the essential expression in things. Form and content can not be separated from one another. I trust my intuition, it is condensed experience. Iterative phases of creation and reflection are equivalent.«







Exhibitions / Awards / Lectures




2026 group exhibtion RoCollectible, Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Milan

2026 Collectible Brussels, SM Bureau, Vanderborgt Building, Brussels

2026 group exhibtion Caretakers, Maj van der Linden, Berlin

2026 group exhibtion Organic(s), RART Gallery, Evians-les-Bains




2025 group exhibtion Winter Collection, Maj van der Linden, Berlin

2025 group exhibtion Quiet Forces, SM Bureau by Aleksandra Smetanina, Paris

2025 THEMA 2025, Palais Brongniart, Paris

2025 group exhibtion FELIX, by Stéphanie Frederickx, Destelbergen

2025 group exhibtion Story II, Gallery Soleille, Ibiza

2025 group exhibtion Summer Gallery, Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Porto Cervo

2025 group exhibtion RoCollectible, Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Milan

2025 group exhibtion Minim, by Stéphanie Frederickx, Brussels




2024 group exhibtion Repositorum, Bazar Noir, Am Tacheles, Berlin

2024 group exhibtion Red, by Stéphanie Frederickx, Mechelen

2024 Dutch Design Week 2024, Piet Hein Eek gallery space, Eindhoven

2024 BIG ART, Het Slotervaart, Amsterdam

2024 group exhibtion Jetzt, Lippischer Künstlerbund, Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo

2024 solo exhibtion Communicare, Church Maria im Weinberg, Warburg

2024 Milan Design Week 2024, ALCOVA at Villa Borsani, Milan

2024 Kunstwerk des Monats, Schloss Brake, Lemgo




2023 exhibtion New Marvel's, The Frozen Fountain, Amsterdam

2023 exhibtion Molière, by Stéphanie Frederickx, Brussels

2023 Dutch Design Week 2023, Piet Hein Eek gallery space, Eindhoven

2023 Lake Como Design Fesival 2023, Villa Salazar, Como

2023 group exhibtion Zwischenzeit, Lippischer Künstlerbund, Eichenmüllerhaus, Lemgo

2023 exhibtion Limitless, DOEN Gallery, Rotterdam

2023 exhibtion Xylos, Prime Matter Gallery, Lisbon

2023 Milan Design Week 2023, ALCOVA, Milan

2023 group exhibtion Minimaal, ICOON Museum, Hoek van Holland




2022 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Zeche Zollverein, Essen

2022 Dutch Design Week 2022, ISOLA, Pennings Foundation, Eindhoven

2022 ARTMUC, Munich

2022 experimental dinner by STEINBEISSER with Jeong Kwan, Amsterdam

2022 exhibition Natur&Mensch with Patrizia Casagranda and Philipp Hiller, Zehntscheune, Stadthagen

2022 Object Rotterdam, HAKA Building, Rotterdam

2022 exhibition Jardin Japonais with Timo Heijnk und Rainer Nummer, HOT studio, Detmold

2022 group exhibtion LeKuff, Lemgo




2021 award Caspar-von-Zumbusch Preis 2020 and solo exhibtion in Herzebrock-Clarholz

2021 group exhibtion Spectrum, Detmold




2020 group exhibtion LeKuff, Lemgo

2020 Dutch Design Week 2020, Piet Hein Eek gallery space, Eindhoven




2019 Dutch Design Week 2019, U_store Betül Canbaz, Eindhoven

2019 lecture Die Frage nach dem Wie, symposium Mensch, Raum und Material, TH-OWL Detmold

2019 lecture Auf dem Weg ins Neue, Werkbundakademie NRW, Wuppertal