Art Düsseldorf 2026

15 - 19 April 2026

Galerie Kandlhofer
präsentiert
PAULINA AUMAYR, FRAUKE DANNERT, ANDREAS GREINER,
PACO KOENIG & NANA MANDL
Paulina Aumayr
Paulina Aumayr

Paulina Aumayr (b. 2002, Vienna, AT) 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 work explores the mechanisms of power and corporeality through a visual language that always 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. Aumayr’s 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.
Paulina Aumayr Jeder Titel würde zu viel verraten. (1), 2026, oil on canvas, 175 x 155 cm, 68 7/8 x 61 in
Paulina Aumayr
Art Düsseldorf 2026

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Paulina Aumayr
Jeder Titel würde zu viel verraten. (1), 2026
oil on canvas
175 x 155 cm
Paco Koenig
Paco Koenig

Paco Koenig (b.1990) grew up between Berlin and a small island in the northern Aegean Sea. During his studies in Architecture at the Universität der Künste Berlin he started to pursue a diverse practice characterised by a commitment to painting and its formal and conceptual possibilities. He focuses on the materials, on how to paint, the surfaces, on the brushwork, the textures and all the subtle nuances of the structures that make a painting. Despite their material disparities, all works share the random or deliberate painterly traces that appear on their surface.
Paco Koenig Rwawra, 2026 Oil on Aluminium, 50 x 40 cm, 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in
Paco Koenig
Art Düsseldorf

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Paco Koenig
SYNTAX ERROR, 2025
oil on aluminium
210 x 150 cm
(P095/25)
Nana Mandl
Nana Mandl

Nana Mandl (b. 1991 in Graz, Austria) studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee and received her diploma in fine arts at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

Mandl creates expansive, colourful and material-intensive collages, composed of analog and digital image archives that she combines into precise and multi-layered images in which private memories meet the collective memory of a generation. In her practice, Mandl uses sticker motifs and decals, Disney characters and Bravo covers, handwriting and photos in conjunction with photoshop layouts and renderings, pixelated surfaces and visual information remains from digital image production, storage and reproduction. The canvas is repeatedly emphasized in terms of its materiality, different textiles meet and are processed in different ways and used embroidery as if a gestural brushstroke. In the work, sewn and embroidered items are an anchor point and antipole to the accelerated image production and circulation that characterizes digital technologies.
Nana Mandl daydream in blue, 2026 textiles, embroidery and tube yarn on canvas, framed 154 x 114 cm 60 5/8 x 44 7/8 in
Nana Mandl
Art Düsseldorf 2026

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Nana Mandl
daydream in blue, 2026
textiles, embroidery and tube yarn on canvas, framed
154 x 114 cm
Andreas Greiner
Andreas Greiner

Andreas Greiner (b. Aachen, Germany, 1979) is a Berlin-based ecological artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans time-based works, living and digital sculptures, photography, and video art. In much of his work, he explores the intersection of biology, technology, and the natural world, with special attention to non-human forms of subjectivity and climate change. Greiner's art has been showcased internationally at the Yokohama Triennale (2020), Vienna Biennale for Change (2021), and the Geneva Biennial for Art and Urban Nature (2023). He was awarded the 34th Kaiserring Scholarship at the Mönchehaus Museum in Goslar in 2019 and has exhibited at institutions like the Berlinische Galerie, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Hamburger Kunsthalle, and Centre Pompidou. Since 2022, Greiner is Professor of Media Art at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel. After studying medicine and anatomy, he transitioned to art at the Institute for Spatial Experiments (then led by Olafur Eliason). Greiner is also a co-founder of art4biodiversity, a non-profit organization promoting and supporting artistic initiatives for ecological action. His recent solo exhibition Game of Life (2023/2024) investigates our relationships with artificial intelligence, nature, and the future.
Andreas Greiner Multispecies Members Club, 2026 Printed circuit board (PCB) with conducting paths, wooden frame 39,5 × 27,5 × 3,5 cm 15 1/2 × 11 × 1 1/2 inches Edition of 12 plus 3 AP
Andreas Greiner Logic in the Sky with Datamines (GeForce 8400), 2026 vegetated graphics processing unit (GPU), framed in aluminium 30 x 20 cm 1 3/4 x 7 7/8 in
Andreas Greiner
Art Düsseldorf 2026

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Andreas Greiner
Multispecies Members Club, 2026
Printed circuit board (PCB) with conducting paths, wooden frame
39,5 × 27,5 × 3,5 cm
15 1/2 × 11 × 1 1/2 inches
Edition of 12 plus 3 AP
Frauke Dannert
Frauke Dannert (b.1979 in Herdecke, DE) lives and works at Cologne. She studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and at Goldsmiths College in London. The genesis of Dannert’s practice lies in her interest in the architectural space and the medium of collage. These collages manifest themselves on paper, wall paintings, carpet inlays, curtains, projections, films and photographs. Through this she dissects architecture, examining it as to its sculptural potential, pointedly heightening particular features or else subverting preconceived structural assumptions. By altering the scale and shapes of the building materials depicted, Dannert produces creations that oscillate between the organic and the architectonic, illusion and reality.
Frauke Dannert Skirt (P04/26), 2026 papercollage 52 x 40 cm (framed) 29,7 x 42 cm (unframed) (P04/26)
Frauke Dannert
Art Düsseldorf 2026

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Frauke Dannert
Skirt (P04/26), 2026
papercollage
52 x 40 cm (framed)
29,7 x 42 cm (unframed)
(P04/26)