These are some of the porcelaine bowls I’ve been working on the past months (13×6,5 cm). The bowl is one of the oldest human forms, and its cultural significance is enormous. Apart from simplifying daily life, bowls are part of religious and spiritual rituals all over the world, and they have been a surface for art […]
I spent in India as part of an exchange semester at the art college in Bangalore (Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology). That’s why the things shown here are mostly sketches and the mural we painted on a surf school in the south of India.
“Mann” and “Frau” (clay, both l=12 cm) are two small sculptures I made spontaneously thinking about Francis Bacons dissolution of the human face and body. The sculptures simultaneously suggest sensuality and brutality.
The paintings I made in this year are influenced by nature and especially by the vineyards where they were painted. I was interested in the brilliant colors that you can find in nature and the slow dissolution into the mind. Oil on canvas
“my mountain made of clay” (length 35cm) is one of the first sculptures I’ve made with clay and it was a sort of “homecoming”. This mountain was modeled after one of the mountains in the “Ötschergebirge”, an area close to my hometown. I’ve always felt connected to mountains, I think they say something about the […]
Budapest-based artist Dorottya Kalocsai and curator Zsófia Kókai organized this exhibition together with Jana Kolbert, bringing together 8 young big scale women positions on painting. Participating artists are Dunja Krcek, Carina Luksik, Esther Martens, Anna Schmoll, Veronika Beringer, Dorottya Kalocsai, Jana Kolbert, Twan Geissberger. Opening 12.06.2019
After a week-long symposium where we worked in various places of Waldviertel (the forest, the shed, the garden, the house) we opened our exhibition in the barn of Dorfbründel, showing our various sculptures, sounds, videos, drawings, installations and paintings that are all inspired by the nature, the politics and societies of Waldviertel. With Dunja Krcek, […]
Exhibition in Kunstraum Wien Mitte, where we celebrated the beauty and pleasures of edibles. With Lisa Berger, Lucia Quiqueran, Anna Schmoll, Dunja Krcek, Birgit Glocker and Nora Eckhart
We were asked by the local cultural center of Spielfeld to curate and exhibit in an old castle in the south of Styria. With over 27 artists participating we had the great opportunity to show the diversity of contemporary painting to the people living there. The support and interest of the local cultural and art […]
This was my first solo show in a small space in Vienna. The title refers to the sometimes intangibility of art and the process of art making, and my personal confrontation with it at that time.
Twan Geissberger 