In Extraterrestrial Landscapes, Dr Marc Graas presents a series of imagined environments that feel at once architectural, biological, and archaeological. These works depict not planets as we know them, but evolving habitats shaped by unknown forces, unfamiliar materials, and the remnants of prior existences.
Across the paintings, structures rise that resemble cities, shelters, towers, or mechanical fragments — yet none of them fully belong to human logic. Forms appear assembled from the residues of earlier civilisations, fragments of spacecraft, and organic matter that seems to grow, decay, and recombine. What looks built may in fact have grown; what appears alive may once have been engineered. The distinction between construction and organism dissolves.
Graas treats matter as something unstable and responsive. Each imagined planet has its own conditions — gravity, atmosphere, temperature, unseen energies — and materials behave accordingly. Surfaces bend, drip, float, harden, or erode. Elements detach and reattach. Nothing is static. These landscapes are not snapshots of places, but moments within continuous cycles of transformation.
For viewers connected to design and the built environment, the works offer a shift in perspective: structures without permanence, systems without predictable rules. Instead of control and precision, there is adaptation and improvisation. Form follows environment in extreme ways, and survival depends on flexibility rather than stability.
Despite their strangeness, these environments do not feel hostile. Colour, gesture, and movement give them a surprising sense of vitality and even optimism. Collapse is not presented as a catastrophe but as part of renewal. Pieces fall apart only to become material for new configurations. The visual language remains playful, open, and exploratory — closer to the flight of a butterfly than to the rigidity of engineered perfection.
Extraterrestrial Landscapes ultimately reflect on processes that also shape our own world: growth, decay, reuse, and continuous reconfiguration. By placing these dynamics on distant, imaginary planets, Graas creates space to reconsider how matter, structure, and life might interact beyond human expectations.
- Painting exhibition by Dr Marc Graas „Extraterrestrial Landscapes“ 5 – 28.02.2026 Da Vinci Forum, Luxembourg 6 Bd Grande-Duchesse Charlotte, 1330 Ville-Haute Luxembourg
- Our members are invited to the vernissage on 18 February, 18:00.
- Exhibition opening hours: from 5 to 28 February
Without appointment: Monday to Friday: 10:00–12:00 and 14:00–16:00 (except 26/02)
By appointment (+352 45 13 54): Monday to Friday: 8:00–10:00, 12:00–14:00, 16:00–17:00
By appointment (+352 661 311 205): on other days - Thank you for contacting the curator for private visits, buying, etc: Oksana@art-management.lu +352 661 311 205
About the artist
“I would like my paintings to resemble the flight of a butterfly; I would like my paintings to make people happy.”
Marc Graas was born in Luxembourg in 1963. After high school, he studied medicine in Innsbruck, Austria. After working in hospitals in Luxembourg, Austria, and Germany, he now practices as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist in his own city-based practice.
His artworks have recently been exhibited in Austria, Germany, and Italy, as well as at several locations in Luxembourg, among them is the Valentiny Foundation.
His father was also a painter, and Marc inherited his talent. Before developing his passion for painting, Marc Graas was mainly interested in literary expression. He has published five novels in German.
Oksana Polyanska,
Exhibition curator / Expert d’art assermenté
