All I Want: A solo exhibition by Christina Gschwantner

Christina Gschwantner is a Vienna-based painter whose work explores the tension between gesture and structure. Born in 1975, she studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, supported by a joint scholarship from the Sussmann Foundation and the University. Her early career included residencies in Greece, Mexico, New York, Australia, and Italy, experiences that informed her sensitivity to rhythm, variation, and spatial relationships within painting. Drawing from both Art Informel and Minimal Art, her practice combines instinctive, physical mark-making with a controlled compositional framework. Broad, gestural strokes of paint are set within ordered arrangements, creating a visual language where spontaneity and precision operate in parallel. Her paintings balance these opposing forces, allowing each to remain distinct while functioning as part of a cohesive whole.

All I Want brings together a body of recent paintings that emphasize color, rhythm, and repetition. Across the exhibition, gestural marks interact within structured systems, creating compositions that feel both immediate and measured. Repetition and variation establish a sense of order, while shifts in scale, density, and placement introduce movement and tension. Color operates with clarity, moving between tonal subtlety and high-contrast relationships that activate the surface.

Across the exhibition, Gschwantner’s paintings function as systems of interaction, where each element asserts its presence while responding to those around it. The balance between gesture and structure remains fluid, with compositions that feel active rather than fixed. The result is a body of work that is both direct and considered, where painterly expression is shaped through careful positioning and restraint. All I Want highlights Gschwantner’s ability to translate complex visual relationships into a refined abstract language grounded in clarity, rhythm, and control.