Christian Schwarzwald
Christian Schwarzwald works with drawings.
His idea of drawing is that of an all-encompassing and unrestricted medium. As drawing is everything for Schwarzwald, almost everything is drawn into his universe. No longer is a single drawing seen as just that, but newly as part of a more complex system of imagery. With an analytical mind Schwarzwald creates an encyclopedic world of drawing that stands face-to-face with our contemporary world and questions and challenges its views.
Born 1971 in Salzburg he lives in Vienna and Berlin. Since 2017 he is a Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2025 DRAW DREAM DRAMA DRIFT, Ni Art Museum Suzhou, Suzhou (CN).
AIDIOTS in C, MQ Artbox, Museumsquartier, Vienna.
ROAM, Ebensperger, Berlin.
2023 to paint the written world, with Kurt Chan, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hongkong.
2022 DRAWN, Ebensperger, Berlin.
2021 REGROUP, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
2021 POLYGRAPH, Kunstverein Kunsthaus, Potsdam (DE).
2020 COLLA, Kunstraum Friesenstrasse, Hannover (DE).
2017 Stricher, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
2017 Lyrcs, Ebensperger, Berlin.
2019 Wellen, (with Friederike Feldmann), smac, Berlin.
Group Exhibitions
2025 Terra Incognita, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha (AT).
Vienna today activating futures, Hai Art Museum, Shanghai.
2023 follow the rabbit, Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus/Suha.
THE FEST, MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna.
2022 SKIP, Geisterpop/ulation, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Eisenstadt (AT).
architectura, Kunstraum Friesenstrasse, Hannover.
Slavi Soucek Preis, Traklhaus, Salzburg (AT).
2021 Freedom and Independence II, Ebensperger, Vienna.
Metamodell, Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin.
2020 Durch das Raue zu den Sternen, Galerie 5020, Salzburg.
2019 Kraut, Kunstfestival, Luzern (CH).
XXL Estampes monumentales contemporaines, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen (FR).
the drawing people, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris.
Discrete Austrian Secrets, GCA The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing (CN).
2018 Zeichen und Wunder III, Kunsthaus, Nürnberg, Nürnberg (DE).
2017 Encore sous Pression, Centre de la gravure, La Louviére (BE).
Publications
ROAM. CHRISTIAN SCHWARZWALD, permanent verlag, Maer Press 2025, Vienna; Berlin.
ALL NEW GHOSTS, artist book with original monoprints, Text and images by Christian Schwarzwald, published by: Michael Woolworth Publications, 2025, Paris (FR).
AIDIOTS in C. CHRISTIAN SCHWARZWALD, published by: MAER PRESS 2025, Vienna; Berlin.
VIENNA TODAY, Activating Futures, Vienna Contemporary Art Exhibition, published by: The Hai Museum of Art Shanghai, curator: Margareta Sandhofer, 2025, Shanghai (CN).
THE FEST, Between Representation and Revolt, published on the occasion of the eponymous exhbition, MAK, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, editors: Lilli Hollein, Brigitte Felderer, Anne-Kathrin Rossberg, publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag Gmbh, Basel, Switzerland, 2023, Vienna.
