Art Dealer Eva Presenhuber Will Open Her Second Gallery Since the Beginning of the Pandemic, This Time in Vienna
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- 20 Jan 2022
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Veteran dealer Eva Presenhuber is opening a new gallery in Vienna, in her native country of Austria.
The new location—the second Presenhuber will have opened since the onset of the pandemic—will welcome visitors in March in the opulent first district, one of Vienna’s most famous and architecturally interesting areas (and notably away from the city’s gallery hub).
“In difficult times, you have to look forward rather than think you can’t do anything anymore, and that you have to just save money,” she said of opening a new gallery during a pandemic. “Difficult times also offer opportunities. It makes you stronger. The artists like that you’re not stopping. It gives them strength.”
The space on Lichtenfelsgasse street is just steps from the Austrian parliament and within walking to the Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Presenhuber will inagurate the location with a solo exhibition of new paintings by gallery artist Tobias Pils, who is known for his vividly figurative grayscale oil paintings.
The exhibition, titled “Between Us Space,” will feature an intervention by another Austrian in the program, Gerwald Rockenschaub. The rest of the year will feature solo exhibitions by Sam Falls, Michael Williams, Karen Kilimnik, and Joe Bradley.
It will be Presenhuber’s fourth location, in addition to her two galleries in Zurich and one in New York.
“I go back and forth to [Austria] quite a lot and I have to say that Vienna really is one of the most attractive cities when it comes to architecture and city planning,” she said. “I don’t care so much where the other galleries are. It’s more about having a space where I like to spend time.”
Presenhuber also owns an apartment in the building that she will lend out to visiting artists. Read More…
