ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1975, artist Christina Gschwanter honed her craft at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, supported by a joint scholarship from the Sussmann Foundation and the University. Her studies paved the way for residencies in Greece, Mexico, New York, Australia, and Italy, enriching her artistic perspective.
Gschwanter’s current work is a vibrant exploration of abstract forms, displaying a captivating evolution from her earlier focus on “stranger creatures, peculiar beings, and picturesque figures.” Presenting as a mesmerising arrangement of dots or splashes, Gschwanter’s canvases are alive with colour, energy and a harmonious sense of balance communicated with colour and form.
Gschwanter’s motifs, with their multiple perspectives and defiance of categorisation, delve into creative “grey zones.” Situated on the fault line between fantasy and play, Gschwantner’s work can at times appear naive—yet it is precisely here that her intrinsic seriousness lies. Gschwantner’s rigorous artistic methodology is based on a reconfiguration of form, a metamorphosis of the visible, a process of interpretation, and an approach of continual variation.
Gschwanter’s art is held in esteemed private collections, including those of the State Museum of Lower Austria and Krems City Council.
EDUCATION
2001 Diploma Mag.Art.
1997 University Of Applied Arts, Vienna
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 RAW Christina Gschwantner, Escat Gallery, Barcelona
2025 Lyric Exhibition, Patricia Amocida Gallery, Milano Italy
2025 Lille Art Up! Contemporary Art Fair, Acid Gallery, Lille Grand Palais, France
2025 Portraits, Yuan Museum, Caochangdi, Peking,
2025 #5 newandabstract Exhibtion, Germany
2024 Neunerhaus Kunstauktion Art Auction, Mak Wien, Vienna Austria
2024 ART Vienna International Art Fair, Gallery Stoss, Vienna Austria
2024 Art at the Park Art Fair, The Park Hyatt Vienna
2024 Art Fair Nesvrstani, Gallery D, Croatia
2024 St Hilda Art Festival, St Hilda’s School, Gold Coast QLD
2023 Colour With Soul, Yin Art Gallery, Taiwan
2023 Metrospective, Konsum163, group show, Munich, Germany
2023 Colour & Kin, 19 Karen Gallery, Australia
2022 Nowadays Exhibition, Florence Contemporary Gallery
2022 Art Vienna, Galerie Ursula Stross, Orangery Schönbrunn, Vienna
2022 … Also Colorful?…Prav Tako Barvita?, Ecoart gallery, Palais Niederösterreich, Vienna
2022 Warning, Galerie Ursula Stross, Graz
2020 H23, Linz
2019 Parallel, Vienna
2019 Art Austria, Vienna
2019 Art Vienna, Hofburg Vienna
2017 Bonboniere Caractère, Vienna
2017 Galerie Lendnine, Graz
2017 Wesensart, Gumpoldskirchen, Lower Austria
2016 Federspatzen Anderswo, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
2015 Art Austria, Leopoldmuseum Vienna
2014 Kleine Monster, Grosse Tiere, Nö Art, Langenzerdorf Museum
2014 Paintings, Galerie BH Melk
2013 Good Vibrations, Kleine Galerie, Vienna
2012 Dialoge, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
2012 Feuerwirklich, Galerie in der Poststelle Hirschbühl, Schwarzenberg, Vorarlberg
2011 Jahresausstellung 2011, Kleine Galerie, Vienna
2011 Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2010 Eigenartig, Landhausbrücke St. Pölten
2010 Frühlingsborten, Kunsthandlung Christine Ernst, Vienna
2009 Leichtsinn, Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2009 Kunsthandlung Christine Ernst, Vienna
2009 Rotation, Galerie am Karmeltiermarkt, Vienna
2008 Medizinische Universität Laibach, Slowenia,
2008 Salon Fantastique, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin, Germany
2008 Kunst für Menschen in Not, Museumszentrum Mistelbach
2008 Sommerloch, Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin,
2007 Galerie Am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2007 Kunsthandel Christine Ernst, Vienna
2006 Wesenspiel, Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2005 Sinnesfreudig, Alte Schmiede/Schönberg am Kamp,
2005 Winter, Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2005 Galerie Dörr, Marbach/Donau,
2005 Fabelhaft, Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2004 Galerie Figl, St. Pölten
2004 Winterfarben, Galerie am Karmelitermarkt, Vienna
2004 Wundersam, Dominikanerkirche Krems
COLLECTIONS
2018 Museum of Lower Austria
2010 Museum of Lower Austria
2006 Land Niederösterreich
2004 Magistrat of Krems
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Emergent Realities and the Fabric of Now Vol.2, Contemporary Art Chronicle
2007 May, Christina Gschwantner, Dr. Elisabeth Voggeneder, Vienna
2001 January, All I Want, Christina Gschwantner, Dr. Christiane Krejs, Vienna
2001 January, Rundlinge, Christina Gschwantner, Dr. Christiane Krejs, Vienna
