ELMAR TRENKWALDER

For more than three decades, the Austrian artist Elmar Trenkwalder has been convincing with a work of fascinating content and visual ambiguity. With their fantastic, exuberant wealth of detail, his monumental ceramic sculptures are reminiscent of magnificent Baroque and Rococo architecture, but also of Asian forms. It is above all the radical approach that gives Trenkwalder a unique position in the international art scene. Coming from painting, he turned to ceramics as a means of artistic expression as early as the mid-1980s. The development of a construction method that was more architectural than ceramic led to the creation of opulent, expansive sculptures that only experience static limits due to the virtuoso mastery of the material.
The exhibition provides an overview of the work as well as new works produced especially for the exhibition.

Elmar Trenkwalder (born 1959) lives in Innsbruck. He studied under Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and gained international exposure early on, including "Aperto 90" at the Venice Biennale by Harald Szeemann (1990), "Austria in the Rose Net" at the MAK in Vienna and "Wunderkammer Österreich" at the Kunsthaus in Zurich (1996), the Lyon Biennale (1997), and the Musée de Louvre in Paris (2005).

Curator: Genoveva Rückert