Christian Eisenberger

Christian Eisenberger * 1978 in Semriach, Austria. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

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Born 1978 in Semriach, Austria
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria

Christian Eisenberger (*1978 in Semriach, Austria) has created a stylistically and quantitatively rich oeuvre that has resisted precise categorization. His work has always oscillated between obsessive compulsion and absolute freedom. Eisenberger does not deprive his art of aesthetic pretensions, which is why it speaks directly to the viewer. At the same time, however, many of his works pose existential questions immanent to humanity alongside this aestheticization. Christian Eisenberger’s works tend to have strong references to nature, whereby nature, which must follow its own physical laws without choice, is juxtaposed with human existence as a corrective. 

Initially, Christian Eisenberger studied painting at the Ortweinschule in Graz from 1999 and then Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the class of Brigitte Kowanz from 2000. Major solo exhibitions of Eisenberger’s work have been held at the following institutions: Kunsthalle Gießen, Germany, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Austria, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Moreover, his works have been shown in group exhibitions at Ostlicht, Vienna, Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, MUSA, Vienna, Austria, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland, Mumok, Vienna, Austria, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria, Lentos Linz, Austria, among others. 

In 2013, at the invitation of Galerie Krinzinger, Christian Eisenberger participated in the artist in residence program of the One World Foundation in Ahungalla, Sri Lanka. In 2014, works by Eisenberger were shown for the first time in a solo exhibition at Galerie Krinzinger and recently, in 2020, in the exhibition SEHN SIE TIEF 9975 – 15432 – 32718. Since then, he has exhibited at Krinzinger Schottenfeld in 2023 and has had another solo show at the main gallery in 2024. In 2016, Christian Eisenberger received the Hilde Goldschmidt Prize.

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