Nick Oberthaler valuation
Austrian painter, based in Brussels, of pared-back, conceptual abstractions in signal colours that play with frame and wall.
Nick Oberthaler was born in Bad Ischl, Austria, in 1981, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Geneva, and lives and works in Brussels.
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Bio
Nick Oberthaler was born in Bad Ischl, Austria, in 1981, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the École supérieure des beaux-arts in Geneva, and lives and works in Brussels. Since 2020 he has been professor of painting at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Lyon. His paintings, in acrylic on canvas, aluminium and paper, use a reduced, technical-looking language of flat planes, bands and edges, often in iridescent signal colours, that borrows from image theory, digital screens and the codes of institutions. Window and landscape are never far away. He looks to Blinky Palermo, Marthe Wéry and James Bishop, and tests where a painting begins and ends, swapping frame and picture plane and hanging works in sequences that answer the room. He was in Minimal Myth at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam in 2012 and RIDEAUX/blinds at the Institut d'Art Contemporain in Villeurbanne in 2015.
His works are often made as parts of a sequence or for a particular space, so it should be clear whether a work stands alone or belongs to a group, and the installation photographs from its exhibition help. Flat, unvarnished acrylic surfaces and aluminium supports mark easily and should be handled with gloves. Thaddaeus Ropac represents him.
At a glance
- Born
- 1981
Bad Ischl, Vienna and Brussels
The blackbird must be flying, with Thomas Julier, was shown at the Centre d'Art Bastille in Grenoble in 2014, the year of Calculated Reserve at the Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen in Rome.
His work is in the Belvedere in Vienna, the Lentos in Linz and the Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar.
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