Opening reception:

Friday, 30 May 2025, 5 – 8 pm

This exhibition marks the inaugural solo show by David Roth at Elektrohalle. The exhibition will feature new paintings, installations and a video, specially conceived for this presentation.

The artist has been working on different bodies of work already for way more than a decade. He moves between multimedia and conceptual approaches – from painting on canvas, to video, photo and performative works, installations, and conceptual painting ideas. The common thread – or rather the origin of it – is questioning painting, questioning what painting is or was meant to be and questioning what painting can be. Roth‘s oeuvre is characterized by a variety of projects: He might use flowers as brushes, resulting in his Flower Paintings or drag canvases through forests, onto trees, or up onto mountains, even into a museum, he transforms paintings into a raft, a tent or a sledge, ... – or stacks used, painted material on wooden trestles, resulting in four-legged, colourful, voluminous bodies pregnant with painting(s) named Brains. 

David Roth

1985 born in Oberpullendorf, lives and works in Vienna (AT)

Education:

2011 Diploma with Daniel Richter

2009 – 2010 Villa Arson, Nice (FR)

2005 – 2011 Academy of fine arts Vienna (AT) (with Franz Graf and Daniel Richter)

Collections (selection):

Museum Schloss Moyland (DE)

AKZO Nobel Art Foundation (NL)

Collection Luciano Benetton (IT)

Landesmuseum Burgenland (AT)