Current exhibition

Togeth­er with Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Markus Prachen­sky and Arnulf Rain­er, Josef Mikl is one of the most influ­en­tial fig­ures in Aus­tri­an post-war paint­ing. His ear­ly works focused on the human body. Over time, how­ev­er, Mikl increas­ing­ly detached him­self from fig­u­ra­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion: col­or sur­faces became denser, body forms were reduced. From the 1990s onwards, his paint­ings were char­ac­ter­ized by dynam­ic diag­o­nals, the paint­ing style became freer, lighter and achieved a great cre­ative open­ness.
Josef Pill­hofer­’s work is char­ac­ter­ized by its great diver­si­ty. From the very begin­ning, he was inter­est­ed in the ques­tion of form in space. His sculp­tures were often based on nat­ur­al forms, which he took up, sim­pli­fied and reassem­bled. Despite this abstrac­tion, the human fig­ure remained a cen­tral theme. Pill­hofer worked pri­mar­i­ly with clas­si­cal mate­ri­als such as stone and bronze.
The exhi­bi­tion brings togeth­er works by long-time artist friends Josef Mikl and Josef Pill­hofer and invites vis­i­tors to dis­cov­er paint­ing and sculp­ture in an excit­ing dialog.