GERHARD FLEKATSCH
visual art


about me





For decades, the Austrian artist Gerhard Flekatsch has been combining and re-evaluating his experiences in medicine, music and journalism through works of visual art such as photographs, videos, installations and paintings. At an early age he was introduced to painting and drawing in the studio of his grandfather, the painter Professor Richard Mahler. Since then he is working with a variety of techniques and methods. His artistic activity is focused on human imagination, perception and the discovery, that reality is in some sense personally constructed.


Seit langem kombiniert und re-evaluiert der Österreichische Künstler Gerhard Flekatsch seine Erfahrungen aus der Medizin, der Musik und als Journalist in Form von Werken der Bildenden Kunst, in Foto- und Videoarbeiten, Installationen und Malerei. Schon früh wurde er im Atelier seines Großvaters, des Malers Professor Richard Mahler in die klassische Malerei und das Zeichnen eingeführt. Seither nutzt er viele unterschiedliche Techniken und Methoden . Seine künstlerische Tätigkeit befasst sich mit menschlicher Vorstellungsvielfalt, Wahrnehmung und der Erkenntnis, daß die Wirklichkeit in gewisser Weise in unserem Denken konstruiert wird.



selected exhibitions and events


2022
European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2022, within the Kaleidoscope of Culture at the Cultural stations SVILARA and BARKA, „Cabinet of Wonders", opening by Sara Vuletic and Danilo Vuksanovic
2021
Schloßberg Graz „let's PET", group exhibition for Kulturjahr 2020 Graz, public space
2019
SULUV Gallery, „waste and society", work in progress with 4 Serbian and 4 Austrian artists, Novi Sad
2018
24 hours Svilara „Between reminiscence and expectation“, opening of Kulturna Stanica Svilara, Novi Sad by Prime Minister Ana Brnabić
2018
Artist in residence with NS2021 foundation. Collaboration with Likovni Krug at Petrovaradin studios
2016
Bell tower Liesl „hells bells“, curated by Dr. Ulrike Schuster, Graz
2014
Umjetnička Galerija BiH (National Gallery of BiH) curated by Dr. Edith Risse, Sarajevo
2013
Gallery am Schillerplatz "multiple choice“ opening by Friedrich Cerha and Ursula Magnes, Vienna
2011
Art 4 Amnesty International, life painting (5 artists) 50 faces for 50 years AI, Vienna
2011
Art-com gallery, "idiosyncrasy" curated by Mag. Angelika Romauch, Vienna
2010
Video for Absolut Vodka exhibition "absolut essential", Vienna
2010
"Near East – Near West", transcultural dialogue and festival (2 month) at Hainfeld Castle
2009
Wittgensteinhaus „gestural phrasing“, opening Ernst Strobl, Vienna
2006
Museum Arterra "fluida" curated by Elmar Zorn and Ewald Stastny, Berndorf
2005
Performance "mit den Augen essen" (eating with your eyes), Museumsquartier Vienna, curated by Sylvie Proidl and Ingrid Süschetz, Vienna
2002
Gallery Tonart „under your skin" opening Mag. Andrea Jungmann (Sotheby’s), Vienna
1995
„art integro“ Art Mile - Round Table 37, curated by Angelica Bäumer and Agnes Husslein, Vienna
1993
Casineum Velden, Casinos Austria, Velden
1993
Austrian Embassy "inner affairs", Washington D.C.