David Roth

Rot ist eine schnelle Farbe

30 May – 5 July 2025

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)

Documentation shot by Claire de Foucauld, sequence of David Roths video Le Pré de l'Orme, 2024 © David Roth