Lazy Mike presents German artist Daniel Lergon’s solo exhibition Auflösung at its Cheongdam space, on view from Thursday, December 4, 2025, to Saturday, January 24, 2026. Marking the artist’s first solo exhibition in Seoul, the presentation debuts a new body of paintings centered on the relationship between light and surface and on perceptual experience, opening new possibilities for contemporary abstract painting.

Daniel Lergon applies the industrial optics of retroreflection, turning the picture plane into a perceptual field that shifts and expands with the viewer’s position, gaze, and the conditions of light. In this exhibition, he harnesses retroreflection—light returning to its source—to make painting operate not as a fixed image but as a dynamic event. Rather than asking what is depicted, the work asks under what conditions it appears, completing itself through the viewer’s active movement and attention.

Taking its title from the German term for “dissolution” or “dissolving,” Auflösung explores the moments in which structural breakdown and perceptual shift occur within the work. Working over an earth (soil) ground, the artist layers a single pigment with a gray retroreflective pigment and—through bodily gestures using brushes, cloth, and plastic sheets—gradually articulates the structure of the picture plane. Going beyond the mere disappearance of a simple form, the paintings visualize how the constituents of perception interact and reconfigure one another.

Rooted in a longstanding curiosity about optics and cosmology, Lergon’s painting stages a field in which perception comes into being, centering on the ceaseless interplay of light, material, surface, and viewer. Tracing a passage from figuration and near‑abstraction to chromatic eruptions, fissured surfaces, and perceptual turbulence, the exhibition proposes anew the ontological and perceptual stakes of contemporary painting.

Daniel Lergon (b. 1978, Germany) graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts and has held more than forty solo exhibitions, including Auflösung (forthcoming) (Lazy Mike, Seoul) in 2025; Flow (Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź) in 2024; Umbra (Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne), Clareira (Lehmann + Silva, Porto), and Lichtung (PSM, Berlin) in 2022; Lines and Grids (Galleria Mario Iannelli, Rome) in 2021; and Correspondance Métallique (Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels) in 2013. As for major group exhibitions, he has participated in over one hundred, including Nicht viel zu sehen. Wege der Abstraktion 1920 bis heute (Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal) in 2024; Gemischter Satz (Galerie Crone, Vienna) in 2022; We aim to live (Zuzeum, Riga) in 2020; and Double Rotation (Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen) in 2015.