Artists

Pete Kilkenny is a British-born artist known for his expressive cow paintings, combining powerful brushstrokes with emotional stories.

His unique works, often painted on newspapers from around the world, transform everyday objects into powerful artistic statements. His year-long project "Süddeutsche Kühe" (South German Cows), in which he created 301 cow portraits almost daily for the front pages of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, received widespread recognition for its originality and consistency.

Kilkenny's artistic approach combines contemporary expressionism with a deep connection to rural life, nature, and simplicity, emphasizing the beauty of the ordinary. His works often explore themes such as identity, tradition, and humanity's connection to nature, with cows as a recurring motif symbolizing calm, grounding, and a connection to the pastoral world.

His art has been exhibited internationally, including at the Würth Gallery alongside renowned artists such as Joseph Beuys and Picasso. His works are included in prestigious private collections, including those of Marion Würth and Peter Nobel, further cementing his reputation in the world of contemporary art.

Petra Schöller lives and works on the northern outskirts of Vienna. She creates analog collages, carefully and lovingly combining old and new. From found objects such as old magazines, manuscripts, or yellowed paper, she composes harmonious, luminous visual worlds that reflect her positive and orderly nature.
Her works move between aesthetics, order and intuition – finely balanced and at the same time imbued with quiet poetry.
Each collage is presented in a carefully selected frame, a found object with antique charm, as part of the overall concept.

Martin Tardy, born in Austria in 1992, is an artist with French roots, known for his figurative works, which typically originate from a single, continuous line. His training in fashion and art allows him to work with a variety of materials, including metal, wood, ceramics, and fabrics, which he incorporates into his work. Starting with quick sketches, he developed his signature style, which now also appears on glass, stone, bronze, and digital media. A particularly distinctive feature is his technique of drawing with both hands simultaneously, creating two lines that intersect and form a unified whole. His works reflect the complexity of human life and the body, confronting the viewer with depth, space, and movement. Since 2018, he has been exhibiting both in galleries and through his own solo projects.

Lara is a talented artist originally from Vienna, whose passion for art has been a constant in her life for many years. One of her greatest passions is sketching, a form of expression that has allowed her to explore and deepen her understanding of the human body. Through her work, she is particularly fascinated by how the human form can express emotions, aesthetics, and individuality.

Lara's artistic journey has taken her to various prestigious institutions. As a senior art student, she participated in the 2017 art18 exhibition, where her work was showcased to showcase her growth and discoveries in the art world. She has also studied at the Florence Academy of Art, where she focused on portraiture and technique, honing her ability to capture the nuances of the human figure. Additionally, she attended the Schloss Goldegg Art Academy, where she further developed her artistic knowledge and techniques. She has also gained valuable experience in the art world through her work in auction houses, where she deepened her understanding of the art market and the value of different works. Her education culminated in a Master's degree in International Arts and Cultural Management in Rome, a program that helped her combine her artistic skills with a broader understanding of the cultural and economic aspects of the art world.

In her art, Lara uses a variety of media, primarily pencil, charcoal, and watercolor. She particularly enjoys using sketching as a medium to explore the emotional depth and physicality of her subjects, always with the goal of highlighting the raw beauty and complexity of the human form.

Through her experiences and training, Lara continues to develop as an artist, using her art to convey the diversity and beauty of the human experience.

Nina von nhochzweiart, known as nhochzwei , creates striking minimalist 3D works that merge athletic aesthetics with material presence.

Drawing inspiration from the visual power and structure of sport, her art explores form, movement and surface in a way that invites both emotional and tactile engagement. Based in Germany, she works across disciplines and materials, translating physical intensity into sculptural clarity.

Daniel combines technology, intuition, and craftsmanship into a precise yet meditative practice. With a background in law and artificial intelligence, he explores the intersection of algorithmic thinking and sensory experience.

His works emerge from the tension between machine and material: digital designs become physical wooden reliefs where technical precision meets organic unpredictability. In this way, the work becomes a dialogue between code and nature – a process that unites control and letting go, calculation and intuition.

Every line, every cut is the result of concentration, discipline, and openness to the moment. Daniel's artistic approach manifests itself in this combination of technology and mindfulness: the digital serves not to create distance, but to bring us closer – to the material, to the process, and to the present moment itself.

Benjamin Thiele, born in Munich in 1991, is an artist living in Linz and Vienna who works with found and everyday objects. His works emerge as visual hypotheses, temporary arrangements that shift our perspective on the self-evident and question familiar perceptions. With playful precision, Thiele combines sculpture, installation, and spatial intervention, thereby opening up new realms of meaning from banal materials. In addition to his artistic practice, he also initiates curatorial formats in which exchange, process, and transience play central roles.