Opening reception: Friday, 18 September 2026, 5 - 7 pm

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of Rogue-lite, Paul Riedmüller’s first solo exhibition at Elektrohalle. Born in Graz in 1989 and based in Vienna, Riedmüller studied painting and animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Set free within a loose net of valuation and recycling, we encounter Paul Riedmüller's (*1989 in Graz) inexhaustible world of images. In manifold chains of association, painted motifs of the most varied digital provenance line up and overlay one another. These at times colour-manipulated subjects, pairings and layerings make clear that after centuries of a canonised art history, and in the face of digital ubiquity, there is no motif left that mere selection could not render worthy of being pictured. In constant repetition, variation and also spontaneity, Riedmüller feeds AI hallucinations, 3D models and clip art into his chain of reuse, overlaying one layer of editing, meaning and chance with the next. This same logic returns in the exhibition's title, Rogue-lite. The term denotes a video-game genre whose premise follows the principle of so-called meta-progression: while every run begins anew, certain gains accumulate across the individual runs and make future runs stronger. The results of each run – or, for that matter, of each act of image-editing – condense into a new point of departure that carries within it what has already been achieved. - Niklas Koschel