Fuchssteiner’s subject matter is a type of painting immanently formed by diverse heterogeneous structures, fantastically turbulent visual abundance, and dialectically interwoven proliferation and order: as if painting corresponded with the ontological principle of nature and its self-organisation. Shapes which divide, multiply, mature. The pictorial event – not symbolic, not depicting – happens, in a sense, analogously to the physical nature of our cultural existence. The personal – aspects of lived reality and dreams as it were – are integrated into the aesthetic structure of the composition: the subject asserts itself as a conscious part of the whole.
Fuchssteiner paints the imagery of a form of being which cannot be found in our fully differentiated, utilitarian world, but which in art is a reality overflowing with meaning.
Fuchssteiner shows that artworks are objects which shape the indefinite nature of our world. And Fuchssteiner understands his craft. He sensualises thought, reconciles paradoxes, and paints images that are beautiful in an unorthodox way. In 2018 he was awarded an Art Prize by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich.
Text by Friedrich G. Scheuer, 2018
Drawing, painting and abstraction between abstraction and representation. The complex work of Georg Fuchssteiner (b. 1982) 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. As well as realistically worked paintings he makes works that tend towards abstraction. In these paintings and drawings, figurative elements appear within the densely pictorial space.
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
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
