Sexmaster, 2026
Willehad Eilers, also known as Wayne Horse, is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, drawing and video. His expressive and often grotesque visual language explores the contradictions of contemporary society, addressing themes of hedonism, excess, consumerism, sexuality and the human condition. Through dark humour, exaggerated figures and absurd narratives, Eilers examines the tension between pleasure and discomfort, freedom and self-destruction. His paintings and video works offer an ironic yet incisive reflection on modern life, social conventions and the pursuit of happiness in a culture defined by material abundance and constant self-optimization.
His works have been featured in solo exhibitions at the Jan Cunen Museum, Oss; Concordia, Enschede; Galerie Droste, Paris; and Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels. Group exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London; Stedelijk Museum, Breda; Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse, Lille; De School, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin. His video works have been screened at international festivals including IDFA, Amsterdam; Kasseler Dokfest; International Short Film Festival Winterthur; Pictoplasma, Berlin; and Portland Underground Film Festival. Eilers' works are held in important collections including Collection Taschen, Collection Rudin De Woody, Green Family collection, Coleccion Solo, MER Collection and the Lisser Art Museum collection. His publications include the monograph Tanz auf der Klinge / Hold Me (Kerber Verlag, 2023), covering works from 2018 to 2023, and Sexmaster (Editions Lord Byron, 2026), a 516-page limited-edition artist book. Since 2019, Eilers has also been publishing his ongoing artist zine series The Horse Diaries, with ten volumes released to date.
Willehad Eilers, (*1981, DE), lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He graduated from the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, NL in 2010. He is represented by Droste Galladé, Germany and France and Levey Kwok Gallery, Begium.