Christian Rothwangl

Untitled, 2025, acrylic ink on paper, 40 x 30 cm, not framed
If framing advice is needed, please contact the Curator, Esther Attar Machanek who is pleased to take care of the arrangements.
(Gallery price € 1,100)

Christian Rothwangl * 1993 Bruck an der Mur, Austria.
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Education/training
2019: ASA Stipendium der HFBK Hamburg, DE
2017: UCL, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2013-2020: Academy of fine Arts, Vienna, AT
www.christianrothwangl.com

Christian Rothwangl’s paintings oscillate between figuration and abstraction, addressing questions of identity, corporeality, and painterly autonomy. His works condense real experiences and personal memories into independent visual worlds, where material presence and symbolic charge intertwine. The six works presented here were created during a residency in Kuberton, HR, and in the following weeks in Vienna. Positioned between documentary observation and free imagination, they draw from models, photographs, or purely symbolic compositions. One work depicts a wooden figure from a nearby village, its formal and material characteristics translated into the painterly process. The representations fluctuate between figural concreteness and abstract dissolution. While some motifs remain clearly defined in contour and presence, others dissolve into fragmented structures. The use of colored ink on paper reinforces this state of suspension —allowing for a fluid, immediate process in which chance and control intertwine.