Georg Fuchssteiner is a painter and draughtsman whose work on paper and canvas oscillates between abstraction and figuration. His precise and transparent compositions, carried out in pencil, color pen, watercolor, ink with partially added collages on sometimes found materials, are full of details and evoke unique visual impressions. Fuchssteiner is a patient observer and he appreciates moments of serendipity in his work. Shapes and colors appear to be floating in his drawings and paintings of different sizes and cover the whole surface of the paper. Forms of vegetation and figures appear occasionally in his pictorial creations. Fuchssteiners delicately drawn depictions escape an easy interpretation. Instead, figurative and abstract details share the same pictorial space in proximity and elude any apparent relation to the reality of a beholder. This way, the artist’s works create new and unique meditative images full of lightness and poetry.
Most of Fuchssteiner’s works have specific titles. First, these appear to be descriptive, but the words chosen by the artist also lead to new individual thought processes. Additionally, the artist also recycles the printed word and reuses it in the form of self-made paper which then appear as collages with a clearly visible mix up of letters. The artist uses writing as a creative tool within the work and for its reflexive potential. Fuchssteiner’s complex oeuvre reflects his continous curiosity and openness to art, music and literature. He makes paintings that deal with personal experiences and impressions while also referencing fantastical imagery.
Vita
1982
Georg Fuchssteiner is born in Straubing
(lives and works in Bogen, Germany)
1999—2003
Training as an industrial mechanic
2003—2009
Study of free painting at the AdBK Munich with Nikolaus Lang and Markus Oehlen
2005
Cultural award of the city of Straubing
2007
Fanny Carlita scholarship
2008
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
Anniversary grant for the 200th anniversary AdBK Munich, foundation of the art academy
2011
Diploma of painting at the AdBK Munich Award: Senator-Bernhard-Borst Prize of the Foundation of the Art Academy
2018
Art Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Kunstpreis der Akademie der Schönen Künste, München)
Selected Shows
2025
SPUREN. Im Dialog mit dem Übergang (group show) – Regenbogenhaus in Straubing
Lüfterl – Artothek Niederbayern, Mainkofen
2024
Colour Planes and Stains (with Selma van Panhuis) – b2, Leipzig
2023
artificial ghosts – Jahn und Jahn, Lisbon
Soft Gravity (with Karl Bohrmann) – Jahn und Jahn, Munich
2022
Drawing Room, Lisboa
2021
Beauty (group exhibition) – Regensburg
2020
stay tuned (with Hedwig Eberle) – Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
Forget (Part II: Don’t Forget Your Mask) – Jahn und Jahn, Munich
2018
Nebelleben – Jahn und Jahn, Munich
Georg Fuchssteiner. Zieh die schmutzigen Stiefel aus, wenn du oben bist – Sandra Bürgel, Berlin
40 + 10 + 1 – Jahn und Jahn, Munich
Georg Fuchssteiner (Art Award 2018) – Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich
2017
Es geht voran (zusammengestellt von Dominik Eggermann) – Galerie Sandra Bruegel, Berlin
2016
Im Weg – Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich
Aus der Mitte entspringt ein Kreis – Kunstarkaden, Munich
2015
Wies is (with Hedwig Eberle) – Städtische Galerie Cordonhaus, Cham
Englische Titel – Neuer Kunstverein Regensburg, Regensburg
Gastspiel – Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf
2014
O.N.P.A.P.E.R. – Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Es ist schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von allen III – Galerie Jahn, Munich
2013
alles über Zeit – Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich
Herrn Hermelins hermeneutischer Park – Café Steiningers, Straubing
1, Gruppenausstellung – Goldnußgalerie, Bogen
Bild als Bühne – Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Bad Tölz
2012
Neue Wände, kuratiert von Avantrash – Galerie Knust + Kunz, Munich
Opossum – Prince of Wales, Munich
Editionen – Prince of Wales, Munich
Der tote Winkel/ neue Tricks – Galerie Seiler, Munich
Herr Hermelin und der gläserne Zeppelin – Theater Karotte, Hirschberg
Ü, mit Marcel Ralle – Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich
works on paper – Residenz, Munich
2011
The Gathering – Lothringer 13, Munich
Prärie – Diplomschau, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
Peripherie – Debütantenausstellung, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Munich
Es ist schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von allen – Galerie Jahn Baaderstrasse, Munich
2009—2004
K2AO, Aufruf zur Phase Null – W 139 Artspace, Amsterdam
K2AO, der bohemistische Leichnam – Kunstverein Harburg, Hamburg
phantom phantom (with Marcel Ralle) – im Weltraum, Munich
Melankolik – Klasse Oehlen, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Munich
Invasion 2 – Klasse Lang, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich
Ausstellung (with Eva Schedlbauer) – Städtische Galerie Halle 2, Straubing
