Artist
Georg Haberler
Born 1985 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna
Georg Haberler makes mixed-media paintings in acrylic ink and sewing thread, using a sewing machine to draw on canvas, linen and textile so that drawing, painting and sculpture meet in a single surface. Abstract colour fields sit alongside figures and objects: vessels, bowls and bags, real and invented animals, compositions that seem on the verge of collapse yet keep their balance. Haberler leaves the stories open, so each viewer can find their own in them. The back of each work matters as much as the front, carrying threads, stains and gestures that complete the image when it is seen from both sides. Sewing is also a way for Haberler to unsettle conventional ideas of masculinity. In recent installations the work moves beyond the canvas, with animal forms cut free from the pictorial ground and painted stripes carrying the composition onto the gallery wall.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibition
He goes backward, looks forward Georg Haberler16 October – 15 November 2025
Art fair
SPARK Art Fair Georg Haberler21–23 March 2025
Art fair
POSITIONS Art Fair Berlin 202412–15 September 2024
Art fair
Art Düsseldorf 2024 Georg Haberler11–14 April 2024
Group exhibition
Dogs of Weserhalle7 December 2023 – 20 January 2024
Art fair
POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair Emil Urbanek, Georg Haberler and Jung A Lee14–17 September 2023
Solo exhibition
Von Krokodilen und Löwinnen Georg Haberler17 February – 12 March 2023
Group exhibition
Future Solos Group Show14 September – 14 October 2022
Works
Geht es der Schlange gut geht es uns allen gut, 2023
Acrylic ink, Thread & Textile on Canvas & linen with Oak Frame
103 × 83 cm
Acrylic ink, Thread & Textile on Canvas & linen with Oak Frame
103 × 83 cm
