Galerie Ernst Hilger

Jakob Kirchmayr (1975) creates atmospheres – also for the creative process: he works with literature in his head. “I am fascinated by the compression of the texts,” he enthuses. “Being able to say everything with very little. Texts that are charged with so much content and emotion. ”This is how you could also describe his brushstroke, which is filigree and expressive at the same time. Kirchmayr tells a lot in his work – also because he works without a sketch and so sometimes shift by shift. “There is all the spontaneity in the sketch; the first idea, the first impulse. If you want to transfer a good sketch, you will never achieve its quality again. The spontaneous is lost in the transmission, the lines lose their dynamism. ”This is how he preserves them. And this is how emotional, dense works are created.

2021 Jakob Kirchmayr @ Art Cologne Represented by Galerie Ernst Hilger November 17 – 21 50 YEARS GALERIE ERNST HILGER, May – April , 2021 Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria 2020 Jakob Kirchmayr & Merlin Kratky @ Hochhaus Herrengasse Vol. I + II May 1 – July 16, 2020 Supported by Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna Austria Art Fairs 2020 Jakob Kirchmayr @ Viennacontemporary, Vienna, Austria Represented by Galerie Ernst Hilger 2019 Jakob Kirchmayr – Im Schatten des Maulbeerbaums / In The Shade Of The Mulberry Tree (solo show), November 7, 2019 – January 17, 2020 Galerie Clemens Rhomberg, Innsbruck, Austria Jakob Kirchmayr – Schwarze Tulpen (solo show), September 18 – Oktober 15, 2019, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria

Galerie Ernst Hilger (founded 1971) at Dorotheergasse 5 (first floor) in Vienna’s 1st district represents the works of artists such as Erró and Mel Ramos, along with exponents of Austrian modernism from the 1960s onward and the main exponents of the most important international art movements of the 20th century. Hilger NEXT assembles those positions and provides artists from cutting-edge countries with a platform. The gallery’s labor has been rewarded through the participation of its artists in important international exhibitions and biennales over the past years: such as Ángel MARCOS, Simon VEGA, and Cameron PLATTER at the Biennale di Venezia 2013. In order to extend the cooperation with international museums the HilgerBROTKunsthalle was inaugurated in 2009.