Stimmeder
of Breaking
This new body of work turns toward a single force: anger. Not the loud kind, but the one that forms in the quiet, where powerlessness settles into the body and waits. These paintings explore the instant in which that feeling rises, undeniable, unfiltered, taking over gesture, breath, and expression.
Psychological, gesture-based figuration exploring inner tension and quiet emotional intensity
Kurt Stimmeder is an Austrian contemporary painter working in the field of psychological, gesture-based figuration. His detailed oil paintings explore inner tension, subtle body language and the small, often overlooked moments in which the body reveals something internal.
A recent exhibition in Chelsea, New York, presented a new body of work investigating the threshold between inner emotion and outward gesture. In 2025, his paintings will also be shown during Art Miami / Art Basel Miami Week.
Working from his studio in Linz, Austria, Stimmeder develops each painting through short, simple movement studies, capturing fleeting psychological moments rather than literal imagery.
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