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Walter Obholzer<\/h2>\n\n\n

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Walter Obholzer\u2019s work is characterized by the ambivalence of attraction and repulsion: he adopts ornamental structures and gestural forms, which he captures with painterly finesse in a cool tempera palette. He freezes the dynamism of outer form into a coloristic stillness. The fact that the images evoke the appearance of a fresco that has been uncovered points to the ambivalent question of authorship in contemporary painting. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

Biography<\/p>\n\n

1953\u20132008 born in Ebbs (A), passed away in Vienna.1973\u20131978 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna1974\u20131975 Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest (HU)2000\u20132005 Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna<\/p>\n\n

Solo-Exhibitions (selection)<\/p>\n\n

2007 Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, K\u00f6ln (D)2000\/2003 Galerie Meyer&Kainer, Vienna (AT)1999 Galerie Meyer&Kainer, Vienna Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg House a\/d Werf, Utrecht (NL)1997 galeriestadtpark, Krems (AT) Art Connexion, Lille, (BE) R\u00e4ume f\u00fcr neue Kunst Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal (D), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (F)1996 Nanomuseum (F)1995 \u201e20 Fleck\u201c, museum in progress\/Kunsthalle Vienna )A), \u201eAPP BXL\u201c, Brussels (BE)1994 Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), R\u00e4ume f\u00fcr neue Kunst Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal (D)1993 \u201egef\u00fcllt 1993\u201c, museum in progress, Vienna (AT), Kunsthalle Innsbruck Galerie (AT), Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (F)1992 Galerie Metropol, Vienna (AT)1991 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (F), Kunstforum Munich (D), Museum Schlo\u00df Hardenberg, Velbert-Neviges (D)1989 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT)1986 \u201eVorphotographie\u201c, REM, Vienna (AT)1982 Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck (AT)<\/p>\n\n

Group-Exhibitions (selection)<\/p>\n\n

2007 \u201elange nicht gesehen\u201c, MUSA, Wien (AT)2005 \u201eARS PIGENDI. Meisterwerke \u00f6sterreichischer Malerei seit 1900 aus der Sammlung der Neuen Galerie Graz\u201c, Neue Galerie Graz (AT)2004 \u201eLuis Gordillo, Walter Obholzer, Laura Owens, Mark Schlesinger\u201c, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, K\u00f6ln (D)2000 \u201eAcross the Quaterdeck\u201c, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg \u201ePittura Austriae\u201c, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck (AT), \u201eAccords Oppos\u00e9s\u201c, Centre d\u00b4Art Contemporain, Bouvet-Ladubay (F)1999 \u201eAbstrakt\u201c, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT) \u201eDe Cora(z)i\u00f3n\u201c, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona (ES)1998 \u201eVoorbij de Kunst\u201c, MUHKA, Antwerpen (BE) \u201eThe Erotic Sublime\u201c, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT), \u201eSammlung Michael Klaar\u201c, Galerie der Stadt Wels (D) \u201eREVIEW\u201c, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna (AT)1997 \u201eBildraum erweitert\u201c, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (BE) W 139, Amsterdam (NL), \u201eJenseits von Kunst\u201c, Neue Galerie, Graz (AT), \u201eSous le Manteau\u201c, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (F), Baumgartner Galleries Inc., Washington (USA), EVN-Sammlung, Ottenstein1996 \u201eSicht der Dinge\u201c, Landesmuseum, Innsbruck (AT), \u201eoasis\u201c, Bricks and Kicks, Wien (AT), \u201ecompartments\u201c, Kopenhagen (DK) \u201ethe great devide\u201c, Bricks and Kicks, Wien (AT), \u201efenetre jaune cadmium\u201c, Galerie Cora H\u00f6lzl, D\u00fcsseldorf (D), \u201ePittura\u201c, Castello di Rivara, Turin (I), \u201eJocaste en Arcadie\u201c, Chateau de Grignan, Frankreich \u201eJenseits von Kunst\u201c, Ludwig M\u00fazeum, Budapest (HU) (cur. Peter Weibel)1995 \u201eouvert\u00fcre\u201c, Rouen (F) \u201ePittura\/Immedia\u201c, Neue Galerie\/K\u00fcnstlerhaus, Graz (AT) \u201eSkizzen, Modelle, Notizen\u201c, Raum aktueller Kunst, Vienna (AT), \u201eDas Abenteuer der Malerei\u201c, Kunstverein f\u00fcr die Rheinlande und Westfalen, D\u00fcsseldorf (D), \u201eDas Abenteuer der Malerei\u201c, W\u00fcrtembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (D)1993 \u201eFuture Perfect\u201c, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (AT), \u201eDer zerbochene Spiegel\u201c, Museumsquartier Vienna (AT), \u201eSupervision\u201c, R\u00e4ume f\u00fcr neue Kunst Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal (D), Ludwig M\u00fazeum, Budapest (HU) \u201cDer zerbrochene Spiegel\u201c, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (D)1992 \u201eWhere\u201c, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne (F), R\u00e4ume f\u00fcr neue Kunst Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal (D)1991 \u201eKunst Europa\u201c, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (D), Biennale Sao Paulo \u201eAltrove\u201c, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Prato (I)1990 \u201eCarnet de Voyages\u201c, Fondation Cartier, Paris (F)1989 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (D) \u201eWhat is contemporary art\u201c, Rooseum, Malm\u00f6 (S) \u201eDie 80er\u201c, Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna (AT)1988 \u201eEin anderes Klima\u201c, Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf (D), Biennale Venedig, Aperto \u201ein situ\u201c, Secession, Wien (AT), \u201eBrennpunkt Wien\u201c, Bonner Kunstverein (D)1984 \u201e1984-Orwell\u201c, Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Vienna (AT)<\/p>\n\n

Collections<\/p>\n\n

BA-CA Kunstforum Vienna (AT), Belvedere Vienna (AT), EVN Sammlung (AT), Institut d\u2019art contemporain Villeurbanne (F), museum in progress Vienna (AT), Neue Galerie Graz (AT)<\/p>\n\n

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