Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier
Artist Talk and Book Launch
Video
The joint discussion between Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier leads through the conception of the exhibition and the motivation and realization of the individual works of art. In particular, the central thematic issues of the project will be discussed, which focus on spirituality and ecstasy, not least youthfulness, music and other spheres that can be reached through these.
Giovanelli’s working method is characterized by the precise layering of highly pigmented oil paints, from which the plasticity and luminosity of her paintings derive. The representation of the ephemeral, the transitional and the exaggerated are at the heart of her art, which is a play on ambiguity that invites the viewer to cross thresholds between reality and fantasy.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an 80-page English-language publication of the same title, edited by The Hepworth Wakefield, and available via HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark as project partner. It will include a text by Phoebe Cripps, a conversation with Louise Giovanelli and Marie-Charlotte Carrier, a pop quiz by Charlie Fox, and poems by Helenskià Collett, with reproductions and illustrations of all the works shown in the exhibition.
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Participating artists
Louise Giovanelli
Solo exhibitions (selection): Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (2025), TANK Shanghai (2025), GRIMM, New York (2025, 2023, 2021, 2020), Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire (2024), He Art Museum, Foshan (2024), White Cube, Hong Kong (2024), Moon Grove, Manchester (2023), GRIMM, Amsterdam (2020), Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool (2022, 2016), White Cube Bermondsey, London (2022), Frutta Gallery, Rome (2019), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (2019), Workplace Foundation, Gateshead (2019), Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington (2019).
Group exhibitions (selection): AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam (2025, 2024, 2021), Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2025, 2022), Hastings Contemporary, Hastings (2024), Nasjonal Museet, Oslo (2024), The Courtauld Gallery, London (2024), Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2024), Hill Art Foundation, New York (2023), FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2023), CICA, Vancouver (2023), White Cube, Seoul (2023), Kasmin, New York (2022), Marlborough, London (2022), Hayward Gallery, London (2021), CLEARING, New York (2020), Air de Paris, Romainville (2020), Pablos Birthday Gallery, New York (2019), Arcade Gallery, London (2019).
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Vanessa Joan Müller, Evelyn Plaschg
Conversation
Video
The book presentation accompanying Evelyn Plaschg’s exhibition Viscous City features a conversation between Vanessa Joan Müller, Sandro Droschl, and the artist herself. Müller’s essay Ansichten des Unbestimmten (Views of the Indefinite) describes Plaschg’s painting as a poetic-analytical reflection on the body, pictorial space, and urban experience, inviting an in-depth exchange on image, text, and perception.
Viscous City: Evelyn Plaschg, Vanessa Joan Müller Evelyn Plaschg
Concert
Video
The video shows an excerpt from Evelyn Plaschg’s concert, which she presented as part of her exhibition Viscous City at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. The artist’s sound performance enters into dialogue with her paintings on display.
Evelyn Plaschg concert Exhibition Tour
Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents
Video
In her exhibition, A Song of Ascents, Louise Giovanelli explores the expansion of consciousness through spirituality and sensuality. Her colorful, hyperrealistic paintings blend classical techniques with fantastical motifs to depict emotional experiences in hedonistic scenes from theaters and working-class clubs.
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Evelyn Plaschg: Viscous City
Video
The exhibition Viscous City shows around twenty-five works by Evelyn Plaschg and provides a comprehensive insight into her painting practice, which moves between figuration and abstraction.
Exhibition Tour Evelyn Plaschg Stefan Albl
The Renaissance of Sensuality. Titian around 1520
Video
In his lecture, Dr. Stefan Albl discusses Titian’s art and its influence on the development of Renaissance painting, drawing parallels with the work of the artist Louise Giovanelli.
Stefan Albl The Renaissance of Sensuality. Titian around 1520 Evelyn Plaschg
Viscous City
Slide show
Evelyn Plaschg combines sophisticated technique and her own idiosyncratic imagery to produce a kind of painting that is figurative in ways that transcend all standard approaches.
Viscous City Louise Giovanelli
A Song of Ascents
Slide show
Louise Giovanelli paints striking hypnotic works that emit light both on a visual and metaphorical level. Her works often show mysterious objects, such as a closed curtain, a glimmering shock of hair, or the reflecting surface of a cocktail glass. There are also human figures, often women, seemingly caught in moments between awe and desperation, or about to cross over a border of experience and knowledge.
A Song of Ascents Evelyn Plaschg
Artist Talk
Video
Together, artist Evelyn Plaschg and curator Jan Tappe will speak about the process of painting, shifts within the artist’s practice, the role of photography as a point of departure, the presence of the body in the image, and a growing interest in urban spaces and infrastructures.
Evelyn Plaschg