Christian Ludwig Attersee

“Within the art world ever since the 1960‘s Attersee has been a solitary activist for an inventive and sweeping art of life and passion, a positively provocative celebration of the artist as an inventor and beautifier of the world that we live in.”

—Max Hollein, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Galerie Gmurzynska is excited to present the career-spanning solo exhibition of the legendary Austrian artist, Christian Ludwig Attersee. The exhibition presented simultaneously at Galerie Gmurzynska’s uptown and Gallery O’Flaherty’s downtown spaces. It is going to be Attersee’s first large-scale exhibition in New York, bringing together works from the 1960s, characterized by a fusion of abstraction, surrealism, and pop art, to his most recent paintings of today.

This exhibition at Galerie Gmurzynska pays tribute to Christian Ludwig Attersee's historical importance, recognizing his transformative influence on Post-War painting and his unwavering commitment to pushing creative boundaries. This exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated monographic catalogue published by the Kunstforum Wien with contributions from Max Hollein, Ingried Brugger, Daniela Gregori and Rainer Metzger.