EXPLORING MODES OF BEING Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim/Wels
May 3rd till September 14th 2025
The Museum Angerlehner dedicated a comprehensive solo exhibition to the artist Claudia Hirtl in the museum’s large exhibition hall.
For the first time, the focus will be exclusively on her so-called “main clauses”—large-format paintings in egg tempera and colorful pigments.
Hirtl's works explore the tension between image and writing, between Western abstraction and Asian sign-based language. Inspired by Japanese characters, kanji, which Hirtl deconstructs, superimposes and transforms in her paintings, she puts traditional viewing and reading habits in question and reflects on fundamental issues of time, place, and identity. The reduced color palette and the deliberately composed materiality of the paintings allow the viewer to immerse themselves in layers of color and sense the subtle dynamics of the pictorial composition, which leads to a more discerning perception.
With the exhibition “Claudia Hirtl –Exploring Modes of Being", the artist invites you to enter her artistic space of thought, which, like various ways of being, is always in flux, in a constant effort to reframe the given and point out alternatives.
Curator of the Exhibit: Antonio Rosa de Pauli
Video: Daniel Zanetti Photos: Pia Sternbauer, Martin Bilinovac
