Jakob Gasteiger

*1953, Salzburg
1970-1974 University of Music and Performing Arts, Salzburg
1990 Faistauer Prize for Painting
1995 Prize winner, 24th Austrian Graphics Competition Innsbruck
1999 26th Austrian Graphics Competition Innsbruck, Prize of the Provincial Capital Innsbruck
2017 Appreciation Award for Fine Arts of the Province of Lower Austria
2019 Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Province of Lower Austria

Jakob Gasteiger is considered a representative of analytical painting. In his works, he questions the parameters of painting and thematises, expands and breaks through the boundaries of graphics, painting and sculpture.
The artist's most extensive and at the same time best-known group of works are his mostly monochrome paintings with relief-like structures, which are formed by using a comb spatula to apply the paint to the picture's background.
Within this working process, colour is not used by Gasteiger as a carrier of content or meaning, but as a material per se. The colour material serves the artist to investigate questions about colour materials and the boundaries between non-colour to colour, of material, colour and colourfulness.
The comb spatula is Gasteiger's tool. It replaces the brush and allows to work without personal handwriting in the sense of a mechanical process.
Since the end of 2018, Gasteiger has expanded this group of works with the use of neon colours. These are very garish colours that accentuate the relief-like structures of these compositions in a new way and at the same time irritate the eye to a particular degree and challenge it with optical illusions.

Text: Karin Schwarz-Hönig

10.11.2020

Acrylic on plywood, diameter 110 cm

Exhibition view galerie gölles Jakob Gasteiger

Untitled, 2011, acrylic with glass and iron on canvas, 220 x 220 cm

25.1.2013

Silk and carbon paper on canvas, 60 x 60 cm

Ausstellungen

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2021
Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Liechtenstein
Albertina Museum, Vienna
2020
W&K Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, Vienna
Galerie Rauminhalt, Vienna
Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
2019
Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
Gallery Rauminhalt, Vienna
Room for Art in the Lindenhof, Raabs an der Thaya
Art Space ARS, Vienna
Gallery Weihergut, Salzburg
Artbox, Museumsquartier Vienna
2018
Kanning, Ernsthofen
Gallery Panarte, Vienna
2017
Gallery Castle Parz
Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
Gallery Artdepot, Innsbruck
Gallery Judith Walker, Ebenau Castle, Weizelsdorf
Art Space Walker, Klagenfurt
2016
Salzburg Museum, Salzburg
Art Space St. Virgil, Salzburg
2015
Hollenbach Gallery, Stuttgart
Bechter Kastowsky Gallery Vienna
2014
Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt
Gerber House, Fehring
Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
Gallery Walker, Ebenau Castle, Weizelsdorf
Gallery Artdepot Innsbruck
Art Space Walker, Klagenfurt
Artbox Kitzbühel
2013
c.art Gallery, Dornbirn
EMB-Art, Vaduz
Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz
Gallery at the Stone Monika Perzl, Schärding
2012
Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg
Gallery Jünger, Baden
Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2011
Gallery am Stein, Schärding
Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
2010
Gallery 422, Gmunden
Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Nexus Art House Saalfelden
Vienna House of Artists
2009
Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart
2008
Gallery at the Stone, Schärding
St. Peter an der Sperr, Wiener Neustadt
Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg
Gallery Jünger, Baden
2007
Gallery De Rijk, The Hague
Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall / Tyrol
Gallery Kratochwill, Graz
2006
State Gallery at the Upper Austrian State Museum Linz
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna
Gallery Lausberg, Düsseldorf
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg
2005
Gallery am Stein, Schärding
Gallery Jünger, Baden
Art Gallery Krems
Gallery CC, Graz Congress, Graz
Gallery Judith Walker, Carinthia
Gallery 422, Gmunden
Gallery De Rijk, The Hague
2004
Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz
Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Mizrahi Fine Arts, Vienna
2003
Gallery nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
Baker & McKenzie, Düsseldorf
Gallery Cora Hölzl. Düsseldorf
2002
Gallery CC, Graz Congress, Graz
Rupertinum, Museum of Modern Art Salzburg
Gallery Academia, Salzburg
2001
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Gallery Figl, Linz
Gallery Jünger, Baden
Gallery Lea Gredt, Luxembourg
Permanent Installation Sparkassenzentrale Münster

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
move the view Estermann+Messner Gallery, Vienna
J. Gasteiger, M. Kravagna, R. Schaberl Artecont Gallery, Vienna
2020
o.T. Museum Liaunig Neuhaus / Suha
Sculpture - Painting Bechter Kastowsky Gallery Liechtenstein
Sculptures & Paintings Gallery Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna
Mischfutter Collection of Drawings and Prints Tanglberg Gallery
Time Travel. Austrian Art from 7 Decades Kunstraum im Palais Kinsky
Kleinformat Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Liechtenstein
Night Rolls Rheinterrasse Düsseldorf
Unique Pieces Gallery Artemons Contemporary, Vienna
An original from...(VII) Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
2019
Painting! - Rudolf de Crignis, Jakob Gasteiger, Elisabeth Sonneck Gallery
Kim Behm, Frankfurt
Art - Design? QuadrART Dornbirn, venue for contemporary art
Too much is not enough! The Donation "Artelier Collection" Neue Galerie, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Warmly dedicated to the future Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
Peter Baum: Archive Library Collection Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
Land(e)scapes. 44 artistic positions Annual Museum Mürz
Examples from the gallery's programme since the early days Collection of drawings and prints Galerie Tanglberg
Opening exhibition Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Liechtenstein
fine art, modern & contemporary Gallery Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna
Show...6 Kunsthaus Kollitsch, Klagenfurt
Back to the Future 2 Gallery Kim Behm, Mannheim
Traces in the Wind Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea
Out of Storage Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Vienna
The Tip of the Iceberg Museum der Moderne Salzburg
Under a Thousand Gallery Schloß Parz
Masterpieces - 25 years of Galerie Jünger Galerie Jünger, Vienna


2018
Grand Art Award of the Province of Salzburg Galerie im Traklhaus Salzburg
fine art highlights & contemporary Galerie Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna
Framing tilted at an angle. The Liaunig Collection on the Move Museum Liaunig Neuhaus / Suha
Mixed Set Collection of Drawings and Prints Gallery Tangelberg
25 Visions Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
Poor Collectors (Collection Peter Funken, Andreas Koch) Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
Abstract! Gallery Schloss Parz
Pop UP Gallery Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Liechtenstein
The 90s Wien Museum, Vienna
Cultural Award Winner Kunstverein Mistelbach
fine art & contemporary Gallery Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna
Parallel Vienna Gallery Schloss Parz, Art Space Retz
Come-Back Gallery Eugen Lendl at the Kunstverein Graz
Examples from the Drawing Collection Drawing and Graphic Collection Galerie Tanglberg
25 Years of the Schmidt Gallery Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
An Original from...(VI) Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
2017
Heavy Metal Lower Austrian Society for Art and Culture, St. Pölten
Abstract Painting Now Kunsthalle Krems
Poor Collectors (Collection Peter Funken, Andreas Koch) Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen; Kunsthalle Kühlungsborn, Kunstverein Weltecho Chemnitz
Abstract Sculpture Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Vienna
From Picture to Object Panarte Gallery, Vienna
Austrian and Hungarian artists from the László Vass Collection
UngArt Gallery, Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna
Continuity and Breaks Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
Under a Thousand Gallery Schloss Parz
The Drawing Collection Drawing and Graphics Collection Tanglberg Gallery
30 Years Gallery Cora Hölzl Düsseldorf Presentation of selected works from the programme
Summer 17 Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Vienna
Special exhibition Ferdinand II. Ambras Castle, Tyrol / Gallery Artdepot Innsbruck
Monochrom Altes Mesnerhaus Außerteuchen, Carinthia
September Contemporary Gallery Kovacek & Zetter, Vienna
Art_Coordinates Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim near Wels
The Grand Opening Kunstraum Retz, Retz / Lower Austria
Picture - Sculpture Bechter Kastowsky Gallery, Vienna
Drawings - between Scheibbs and Nebraska Collection of Drawings and Prints Gallery Tangelberg
Winterreigen Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
An Original from... Gölles Gallery, Fürstenfeld
Cultural Award Winners of the Province of Lower Austria Lower Austrian Documentation Centre for Modern Art, St. Pölten
A lot and even more Gallery Artdepot, Innsbruck
2016
simply the best Artdepot, Innsbruck
Augen-Blicke Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus / Suha
Poor Collectors (Collection Peter Funken, Andreas Koch) Galerie Mitte, Bremen
Bildlicht Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Thank You, Goodbye Gallery Detterer, Frankfurt
Winterreigen Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Small Pieces Gallery Eugen Lendl, Graz
Light, Colour, Form László Vass Collection, Veszprém
2015
Gasteiger, Bretterbauer, Kienzer Gallery 422, Gmunden
Vienna Underground Gallery Jünger, Vienna
Aspects of Fire Museum of Contemporary Art, Benedictine Abbey Admont
100 Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg
Near Distance Landesmuseum Lower Austria, St. Pölten
20 Years Hollenbach Gallery, Stuttgart
Small Formats with artists of the Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
Neon Sign Gallery Ropac, Salzburg
An original from... Gölles Gallery, Fürstenfeld
2014
Trailer Gallery Jünger, Vienna
Margarete Roeder Gallery New York presents in Cologne: Gasteiger, Gritsch, Sandback, Toenges, Tollens
Art Austria 14 Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
10 years Gerberhaus Fehring, Styria
Triangle. Circle. Square Gallery Art and Trade, Graz
Special Selection Gallery Jünger, Bad Vöslau
Small Format with artists of the gallery Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
Small Format Gallery 422 Gmunden
Visual worlds of reduction RLB Kunstbrücke, Innsbruck
Winterreigen Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Byways (eyes on) Gallery Jünger, Vienna
2013
Material Gallery Bechter-Kastowsky, Vienna
Creative Density Artroom Würth, Böheimkirchen
Land in Sight! Museum of Modern Art, MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Lower Austrian Insurance Company, St. Pölten
10 Years Museum of Admont Abbey Admont Abbey
A.E.I.O.U. - Austrian Aspects in the Würth Collection Museum Würth, Künzelsau
Personal Structures Palazzo Bembo, 55th Venice Biennale
Coloured Grey Mies van der Rohe House, Berlin
Collected Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg
Summer 2013 Exhibition Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
First presentation of the Angerlehner Collection Museum Angerlehner,
Thalheim near Wels
25 Years for Art Gallery Walker, Schloss Ebenau, Weizelsdorf
Uomini Illustri/Donne Superbe Gallery Jünger, Baden / Austrian Cultural Forum Belgrade Galerjia Bel Art, Novi Sad
Salzburgers in Vienna Gallery in the Traklhaus, Salzburg
Painting Gallery c-art, Dornbirn
20th anniversary of the Schmidt Gallery Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
The Collection #4. 21er Haus, Vienna
Transfer Gallery Jünger, Bad Vöslau
Final Cut Gallery Jünger, Baden

2012
Schwarz Weiss Gallery Monika Perzl, Schärding
The New Dimension. Sculptural and Spatial New City Gallery Salzburg
Gold Lower Belvedere, Vienna
Sigrid and Franz Wojda Collection. Museum of Modern Art, Carinthia, Klagenfurt
Art Austria 12 Gerersdorfer Gallery, Vienna
Reality and Abstraction II. Concrete and reductive tendencies from 1980 onwards
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Carinthia
Collection of Contemporary Art of the Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna
MA - In Praise of the Space Between artmark Gallery, Vienna
Art Acquisitions of the Province of Salzburg 2010-2012 Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
Abstraction / Figuration Austrian Contemporary Art presented by the STRABAG Art Foundation. Art Museum Sochi, Russia
Drawing Spitzbart Gallery, Tangelberg
Drawing Gallery 422, Gmunden
Winterreigen Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Small formats with artists of the gallery Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
2011
ON. Positions of Silence Gallery in der Schmiede, Linz
Winter Thaw Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto
Art Austria 11 Gerersdorfer Gallery, Vienna
Concrete Abstraction Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
Spring Exhibition Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Normal Time Expedithalle Vienna
uomini illustri /donne superbe. The portrait or self-portrait in contemporary art Galerie Jünger, Baden
The Art to Innovate. AirWorks Museumsquartier, Vienna
Defiant Gardens Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg
Focus: Abstraction Museum Essl, Klosterneuburg
New Works for the Anniversary. 15 Years Gallery Hollenbach Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Winterreigen Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Small formats with artists of the gallery Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt
2010
Surface - Surface as Principle Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum Linz
Art Austria 10 Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
Garden / Art Gallery Jünger, Baden
Painting: Process and Expansion MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna
Dreams Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg
Collection Vienna Insurance Group Leopold Museum Vienna
New Acquisitions 2010 Antal-Luszig Collection, Debrecen, Hungary
Woven and Painted Art from the Otten Collection. Otten Art Room, Hohenems
Artelier Collection. Series 1 Artelier Collection, Graz
Outside the Cartouche. Monochrome Works of the Antal-Lusztig Collection
Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts, Debrecen
2009
Pictorial Space Gallery of the Municipal Museum of Arts, Györ
Volume ViennaFair 2009, The International Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna
Abstraction / Concept / Script Gallery Judith Ortner, Vienna
Materia Negra Mauroner Contemporary Art, Vienna
Vis-à-vis Ulmerfeld Castle, Amstetten
Art Austria 09 Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
EMB Contemporary Art, Liechtenstein
AirWorks Untere Donaulände, Linz
Intersections Linz Lentos Art Museum, Linz
Intersections Judith Walker Gallery, Carinthia
Innovations of the Salzburg Provincial Government Galerie im Traklhaus, Salzburg
The Colourful Gallery Lausberg, Düsseldorf
"WE" Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg
Colour and Light Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Opening De Rijk Contemporary Art, DenHaag
From the Klocker Collection, Innsbruck Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall / Tyrol
Winterreigen Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Collection Veronika and Peter Monauni Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Best Of Lausberg Contemporary Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto
Small Formats Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt

2008
Monet - Kandinsky - Rothko and the Consequences. Ways of abstract painting Kunstforum Wien
Intuitive - Dynamic - Informal Salzburg Museum, Salzburg
Masterpieces of the Essl Collection Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
Art Austria 08 Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
Crossing Borders. Confronting ArtisticDiversity Bkhf Gallery, Miami
time to celebrate Mauroner Contemporary Art Salzburg
Archive Hortopia Art Garden Graz
Monochrome and Reduction Gallery Judith Walker, Carinthia
Liaunig Collection Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Carinthia
Pictorial Space Tatranská Galéria Poprad, Slovakia
Men Gallery Jünger, Baden
Gegenstandslos Society for Art and Design, Bonn
small but beautiful Galerie de Rijk, DenHaag
10 years Gallery 422 Gallery Margund Lössl, Gmunden
30 x 2 armchairs / chairs Artelier Collection Graz
15 years Gallery Schmidt Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Pictorial Space Austrian Cultural Forum, Belgrade
2007
10 Years Art Trade De Rijk Gallery DeRijk, The Hague
Gallery Lausberg, Toronto
Artists of the Gallery Judith Walker, Carinthia
Art Austria 07 Gallery Gerersdorfer, Vienna
EMB-Contemporary Art, Liechtenstein
International Monochrome Painting in the Vass Collection Modern Gallery -
Vass Lázló Collection, Veszprém
Space: Concepts Stadtmuseum Waidhofen / Ybbs
Connections 090507 Tyrolia Headquarters, Thurnmühle Castle, Schwechat
Art Collected & Made for Admont 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art, Benedictine Abbey Admont
Zomertentoonstelling Gallery De Rijik ,The Hague
Forum Exhibition Gallery Schmidt, Reith im Alpbachtal
Da Capo! Gallery Lausberg, Toronto
Whenever for the time being News from the Art Collection Bank Austria Creditanstalt, Kunstforum Wien
Relationship. Works on Paper from the Holzer Collection Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna
Christmas Exhibition Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Review Gallery Kratochwill, Graz
2006
International - Constructive - Concrete Austria Center Vienna
Confrontations and Continuities.Austria 1900 - 2000 Museum Essl, Klosterneuburg
Body - Space, Objects Lower Austrian Documentation Centre
for Modern Art, St. Pölten
Artists' Books Stadtpark Gallery, Krems
Personal Structures Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall inTyrol
EMB-Contemporary Art, Liechtenstein
20 Years Gallery Lendl Gallery Lendl, Graz
Art Collected & Made for Admont Museum of Contemporary Art, Benedictine Abbey Admont
Spectrum of Colour Lower Austrian State Museum, St. Pölten
Christmas Exhibition Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Curtain Call Gallery Lausberg, Toronto
Personal Structures Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2005
Grand Art Prize of the Province of Salzburg Gallery imTraklhaus, Salzburg
Drawings / Watercolours / Collages Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Personal Structures Museum Ludwig, Koblenz
Gallery Vadnai, Budapest
Admont Monastery Collection 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art, Benedictine Monastery Admont
Abstraction Gallery Goldener Engl, Hall in Tyrol
Library Differently. Wondrous and Transformed Museum for Contemporary Art, Benedictine Abbey Admont
Anthony Cragg, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jakob Gasteiger, Markus Redl Art Garden Graz
Gasteiger, Girardoni, Ogawa, Phil, Piasta, Rietmeyer, Sakurai White Cube Gallery, Osaka
Red as Colour Lausberg Gallery, Düsseldorf
EMB-Contemporary Art, Liechtenstein
Abstract Painting Gallery Gölles, Fürstenfeld
Editions Edition Artelier. Graphic Cabinet, Secession Vienna
Christmas Exhibition Schmidt Gallery, Reith im Alpbachtal
Long Shadows Gallery Jünger, Baden