Paulina Aumayr

Paulina Aumayr (born 2002 in Vienna) is an artist working in painting and text. She lives and works in Vienna and studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in Daniel Richter’s class. Her practice navigates the intersections of intimacy and violence, addressing the subtle, structural forces of patriarchal power. She has shown her work at Galerie Krinzinger, VinVin Galerie, Galerie Michael Bella, and the Parallel Art Fair.

 

Aumayr explores the mechanisms of power and corporeality through a visual language that stands on the threshold between intimacy and aggression: the skin as a boundary between inside and outside, as a site of touch and injury, of romantic tenderness and sexual threat. Her painting makes violence felt, not just visible. Dogs with bared teeth appear repeatedly as ciphers of threatening masculinity. At the same time, her work is about certain bodies that endure and keep going until what feminist theorist Sara Ahmed calls “affective exhaustion.” Her series are thus shaped by repetition as resistance and exhaustion as a form of protest. “It happens because it does not stop happening,” says Aumayr.

 

 

 

Solo Shows: 2025:  „You’ve come on more faces than you’ve said my name“ Galerie Michael Bella, Vienna; 2024:  „Ich schmecke dich noch für Stunden. Tage und Jahre.“ Galerie Zehetmayr, Vienna; „Spucke und Blut“ Galerie Kras, Vienna.

Group Shows: 2026: Soft Control, Tempesta Gallery, Milan; 2025:  Systems of Subversion, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna; Art Auction 14, Weserhalle, Berlin; In the Loop, Hochsommer Festival, KS Room, Feldbach; Freaks, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna; Contemporary Figuration Fragments and Confrontations, Synaps Design Platform, Vienna; Versammlung in der Beletage, AEREA Blum, Vienna; Sexy Solidarities, Porn Film Festival, Semperdepot, Vienna; Phoenix out of the ashes, Schaumbad, Graz; Rundgang 2025, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna; 2024:  Hundezone Funkhaus, Vienna

 Ganz und gar, Odeon Theater, Vienna; It is not quite what it seems to be but also it is exactly that., Parallel, Vienna; Ziffer im PDF, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.