About

Fleur Malmedy is a painter whose practice centres on questions of origin, materiality, and figuration. Working from her studio in Düsseldorf, she has developed a sustained body of large-format works in which milk functions as both medium and conceptual anchor — the substance through which the body first enters relation with the world.

Her formation spans institutional contexts across two continents: Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, and Design at the Peter Behrens School of Art, Düsseldorf — a dual training that informs the structural rigour underlying an apparently fluid surface. She is currently pursuing her studies in law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, extending a practice attentive to systems, limits, and their transgression.

Malmedy’s canvases resist the portrait as document. In refusing the fixed likeness, they return painting to one of its oldest questions: what does a surface retain, and what does it surrender?