Exhibitions

Markus Redl I Mudras

MUDRAS 30 Nov 2017 - 10 Feb 2018 The exhibition MUDRAS at Kandlhofer gallery, is a selection of works over a fourteen year period. The exhibition includes drawings, a cinematic work, a moving sculpture, text collages, a sound installation (that plays with structure of an audio book) as well as sculptures made from various materials. The formal language... Read more

Alina Kunitsyna | In The Fold

Main Room 18 Oct - 18 Nov 2017 Alina Kunitsyna born 1981 in Minsk, Belarus, lives and works in Vienna and Damtschach. The title of the exhibition “In the Fold ” refers on the one hand directly to the fold depicted as an object, which always had a strong presence as a subject of Kunitsyna’s works, and on... Read more

Grear Patterson | Lucky Charm

Project Room 7 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 The American artist Grear Patterson (b. 1988 in Redding Connecticut, US; lives and works in the Bronx, New York, US) presents new works at the Project Room and refines his previous examinations of sunsets. Patterson is renowned for his arrangements of custom made image carriers, works in which he establishes... Read more

Keith Coventry | Tabula Rasa

Main room 7 Sep - 14 Oct 2017 Galerie Lisa Kandlhofer is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of British artist Keith Coventry in Austria. Keith Coventry was born in Burnley, UK, in 1958. He lives and works in London. He has shown internationally since the early 1990s. In 1997 Coventry was featured in the legendary „Sensation“-... Read more

Group Exhibition I Tiefe Kirschen

19 Jul - 19 Aug 2017 'Tiefe Kirschen' is a sculpture show by students of Heimo Zobernig. The works approach the question of sculpture through different media and contexts. Vor mir steht eine in sattem Bordeauxrot glühende Kirsche, die abgründigste Kirsche, die ich je gesehen habe. In meinen Händen wiegen die Einkäufe schwer, ich muss weiter.... Read more

Malte Bruns I Videoroom

Videoroom 7 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 At a first glance, the settings of the videos and photographs of the Düsseldorf artist Malte Bruns (*1984, Bielefeld, DE) seem to have emerged from the design laboratories of the old Hollywood. But his creatures do not undergo an active extension of the body by way of technological innovation. With... Read more

Ville Kylätasku I Project Room

PROJECT ROOM 7 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 When getting to know Kylätasku’s (*1979; Tampere, Finland) take on artistic work and on life, one’s attention shifts to two points in specific. These points can be called anachronistic, or even a countercurrent to the zeitgeist. Firstly, as opposed to the self-referencing and inwardness often associated with contemporary art, Kylätasku... Read more

Nicole Wittenberg | Will you still love me tomorrow

MAIN ROOM 7 Jun - 15 Jul 2017 There’s Got to be a Morning After There’ve been a couple morning-afters when a beautiful stranger, on seeing the painting near my bed, exclaimed, Oh! It’s a cock! I usually ask what he thought it was. Last night I just thought it was, you know, energy. And he wasn’t wrong... Read more

Lindsay Lawson | The Real Smiling Rock Last Updated 11-06-2015

4 May - 3 Jun 2017 Lindsay Lawson's practice is a supple amalgamation of an array of media. She has developed a type of situational process involving contracts, correspondence and interpersonal exchange that the she calls Arrangements. 'The Real Smiling Rock Last Updated 11-06-2015' is the latest version of a living document recording an Arrangement between... Read more

Patric Sandi | Paint(h)ings

PROJECT ROOM 4 May - 3 Jun 2017 The exhibition 'PAINT(H)INGS' features new works of Patric Sandri (*1979 Uster, CH) including compositions with lines, colors and mathematical concepts. Sandri questions the role and function of the painting and extends it into a three-dimensionality by using the stretcher frame. The construction of the individual stretcher frames is based on... Read more

James English Leary | The Bursting Grape

MAIN ROOM 4 May - 3 Jun 2017 The paintings of James English Leary (*1982 Chicago, US) pit figuration against abstraction invoking metaphors that nurse (and satirize) camp-psychological states in the viewer. Rather than “painting the paintings” Leary constructs them out of painting’s component parts (stretcher, fabric, color, in that order) often employing a shaped substrate. The resulting... Read more

Maximilian Prüfer | Brut

23 Mar - 29 Apr 2017 For six years Maximilian Prüfer has been developing his own printing process. Using what he calls “naturantype,” the artist records such phenomena as the beating wings of moths, or the trails of ants and snails and questions their structural processes. Prüfer’s works are highly aesthetic objects and conceptual examinations of... Read more

Group Show I Stranger days

16 Feb - 19 Mar 2017 Malte Bruns | Benedikt Hipp | Lindsay Lawson | Pascual Sisto | Julia Weissenberg curated by Jürgen Dehm The exhibition STRANGER DAYS is dedicated to the perceptual dispositions in a world that has become porous, where technology has developed a life of its own, images can only be read as... Read more