Georg Thanner, born 1991 in Munich, Germany, lives and works in Vienna. He studied fine art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under Astrid Klein and Michael Riedel, at the Royal Academy in Stockholm under Olav Westphalen, language art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Daniel Richter. He is primarily concerned with the narrative aspects of painting and is just as interested in the medium’s possibilities as in its boundaries. The impossibility of linear narration in painting is counterweighted by being freed of the constraints of linear perception. The persistence of artistic practices and positions that are considered outdated in Western, bourgeois discourse, whether due to antagonism, indifference, or simply friendly crankiness, is a frequent point of reference.


Exhibitions (selection); 2024: The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, house of spouse, Vienna (solo exhibition); 2023: Blurred Eyes, S:t Göransgatan, Stockholm (group exhibition), Systema Marseille (group exhibition), No ! alla violenza, Rinde am Rhein, Düsseldorf (solo exhibition); 2022: Vom Beweis einer unhaltbaren Behauptung, Stella, Berlin (group exhibition); DRAWINGS, Pina, Vienna (group exhibition); 2021: DIE ELLA IST EIN MONSTER in menschlicher Gestalt. I never want to see her again. with Kea Bolenz and Felix Krapp, Scherben, Berlin; The Man-Servant, with Manuel Cornelius, Nails, Düsseldorf; All Corners Made to Be Leaned, Kunsthaus Rhenania Cologne, 2020: Ming & Jonas, with Felix Pötzsch, Fonda Leipzig.