Evelyn Plaschg
Viscous City

Styrian artist Evelyn Plaschg is considered an outstanding painter of her young generation. Her work is now to be acknowledged in a solo exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. The artist combines sophisticated technique and her own idiosyncratic imagery to produce a kind of painting that is figurative in ways that transcend all standard approaches. Plaschg uses the medium of painting with great state-of-the-art prowess, in order to explore convincing forms, expressions, and perspectives that while working within the well-known tension between the figurative and the abstract also open up intimate realms shaped by digital worlds. This has much to do with the approach to life taken by the artist’s own generation, which has practiced and internalized showing, enacting, and optimizing the body like no generation before. These works tell of the artist’s own physical desire in connection with the other, and of collective experience in (real and imaginary) shared spaces and social systems in which these merge.

The exhibition Viscous City will be accompanied by a publication (Revolver Publishing, Berlin), that richly illustrates Evelyn Plaschg’s artistic development, including two texts by the Vienna-based German art historian and curator Vanessa Joan Müller and the New York critic and curator Kari Rittenbach, entering into a special kind of conversation with the exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST.