Catalogue | Arnulf Rainer

Selbstgespräche / Soliloquies

Arnulf Rainer numbers among post-1945 Austrian and international art’s most significant and uncompromising personalities. This artist, who was born in Baden (near Vienna) in 1929 and passed away in Upper Austria in late 2025, left an indelible mark on international art history as an innovator who spent over seven decades probing the outer limits of painting.

Rainer’s oeuvre extends across painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and performative works. On view in this exhibition will be around 70 masterpieces from Rainer’s timelessly relevant output that draw a both fascinating and multifaceted arc from his early overpaintings to the Face Farces and crosses as well as the Veiled Pictures of his late oeuvre.

This 224-page comprehensive catalogue accompanies the exhibition and features texts by Antonia Hoerschelmann.