Stephan Backes’s works combinepainting and sculpture, linking landscape with architecture, and location with movement. His semi-realistic landscape paintings open up new perspectives on peripheral terrain—plots situated between planned design surfaces, speculative ownership,and emotionally charged spaces of possibility. They depict placesfull of potential, in-between spaces, landscapes in transformation, and fleeting horizons between past and future.The paintings are complemented by sculptural objects that emerge from architectural forms and evolve or dissolve through a process. These objects recall precisely conceived designs and make tangible how space and material can be connected to emotion, memory, and hope. Backes (lives and works in a rural region between Frankfurt, Cologne and Luxembourg) studied painting at the Royal College of Art in London. His art has been exhibited at institutions such as Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Museum Villa Vaubanin Luxembourg, Arebyte Gallery in London, Yvonne Lambert in Berlin and Daily Lazy Projects in Athens. Backes participated in the Triennale for Contemporary Art in Luxembourg. He was nominated for the Robert Schuman Prize (2020) and the Emy Roeder Prize (2014), and received grants from the Kunstfonds Foundation(2020) and DAAD Germany (2010). Backes is also founder and curator of the curatorial project:TransitTransit.eu