Max Freund

1992 born in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna (AT)

2017 diploma, MFA, University of Applied Arts Vienna,  painting, Prof. Judith Eisler

2015 - 2016 HKU University of the Arts Utrecht (NL), Fine Arts

2011 - 2017 University of Applied Arts Vienna (A), Fine Arts, Painting, Prof. Judith Eisler

Freund approaches painting as an open field for exploring the human condition. His images emerge from the observation of culture—drawing on art history and pop culture, subcultural movements, music, books, as well as personal archives and everyday situations. Within them resonate themes of fragility, dependency, and alienation, but equally of community and shared experience. This ambivalence—between proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness—shapes Freund’s

visual worlds. His works often appear enigmatic and open-ended, offering narratives that resist rational explanation or neatly contained meaning. - Livia Klein