Featured artists

Featured artists
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Brigitte Lichtenhofer-Wagner

Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists of Austria
Born in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria

Her education began with the Viennese painter and graphic artist Florentina Pakosta, studying human physiognomy.

After that, she continued her self-taught training with a focus on graphics
Shifting the focus to painting using acrylic and oil media, training at art academies and studio courses with established artists.
At the same time, studying art history and art theory at the University of Vienna and the adult education center

Exhibitions in Vienna, Graz, Innsbruck Art fair, Munich, Florence and Plovdiv

Publications in art magazines such as Spotlight, Art Awarded International and Kunststücke Works of Contemporary Artists as well as illustrations
in a publication of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

AWARDS:
1st prize at the ART Award of the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Austria, 2019
3rd place at the ART Award of the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Austria, 2017

"My sources of inspiration are emotional images from various sources such as books, newspapers, and social media.
From these, stories with subtle messages are created, which are then conveyed to the viewer in this way but leave room for interpretation.
The visual representations go beyond the everyday perception; familiar thought patterns are broken, new perspectives are opened up.
Therefore, my images are also to be understood in the tension between objectivity and abstraction.

Regarding the hydrant and motorcycle images:
These works show various representations both in their overall form (hydrants) and as details (hydrants and motorcycles), it allows an idea of the complete object
and its functionality. Especially the detailed views show the objects with all their signs of use, which time, humans, and weather have left behind."

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Christine Rechnitzer

Award winning contemporary artist, born in 1968 in Vienna, who lives and works in Burgenland.
Member of the Professional Association of the Visual Artists of Austria.
She conducts and organizes CreARTivity painting workshops, in which participants can connect and re-connect with their innate creativity. Christine is a certified Art Therapist, she also re-designs lampshades.

In her works she uses besides the classic materials, coffee, salt, nail polish, bark of the whine and cream of tartar among others.

In her early twenties, after she graduated from Fashion School, she was a guest student at the master class of Friedensreich Hundertwasser at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
Although she decided to pursue a career in marketing and management, creativity has accompanied Christine throughout her life, in one way or another and painting has been a constant factor in her life.
After more than 20 successful years in the pharmaceutical industry and international retail management, she followed her heart and became what she is: a visual artist.

“Art must be alive and perceived vividly, only then does it fulfill its purpose. If it is not just consumed superficially by the viewer but is perceived in its entirety when the viewer looks beneath the surface, valuable communication can arise between artist and viewer and a dialogue can begin. A dialogue that often doesn’t need words.” she says and

“It is always fascinating to have a blank canvas in front of me and to dedicate myself to creating a work with all my creative being.
Joyfully immersing myself in a state without time and space - that is pure pleasure and fulfillment at the same time.”

41 Group and 3 Solo Exhibitions since 2022, in Vienna, Graz, Bad Tatzmannsdorf, Gols, Sankt Pölten, Wallendorf, Museum Krems Dominican Church, Rome, Florence, Milan, Venice, Fuerteventura, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Zurich, Miami, Los Angeles, New York.

2024 Woman´s Essence Award Barcelona
Participant in the 60th Biennale di Venezia Musa Pavilion

Profil picture ©Marcel Plavec

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Elena Baurecht

Fine artist, lives and works in Vienna, Austria

«Flashbulb memories»
My artistic research is based on the phenomenon of "flashbulb memories". These are vivid emotional memories from childhood associated with new knowledge and exploration of the universe.
Space fascinates everyone, especially children: they play astronauts, build models of rockets and lunar vehicles, visit museums and go to performances just to get closer to this great mystery.

I also want to contribute to the space odyssey. My small contribution to the possible unity with the cosmos. After all, participation in the great discovery of humanity is important for everyone.
My personal project is related to impressions and memories. Humanity has always strived to reveal the secrets of the universe; the starry sky has always attracted attention and lured with its darkness.
My works touch on the theme of "games", games as a way of exploring the world.

In the project I use various media – acrylic and oil painting, screen printing. I fill large local spots with vivid metaphorical scenes.
The works depict one fleeting moment or another: a girl dreaming of becoming an astronaut, a boy dressed as his favorite hero conquering space.
These physical embodiments of flights of imagination form a child's vivid world as space, object and illusion.

Elena Baurecht was born in Russia in 1983 and has been living in Austria for over 17 years.

The artist has been engaged in painting since childhood.

She learned realistic painting by attending the summer school at the St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Arts and taking several courses with Edith Lesnig (Obervellach).

She has also learned various painting and creative techniques through various national and international courses.

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Galia Mink

Fine artist, lives and works in Vienna, Austria

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Ján Hoffstädter

Fine artist, sculptor, Slovakia
Former chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava

After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts (VŠVU) in Bratislava and before the Velvet revolution in 1989, he worked as a teacher at a public school of art in Bratislava. At the same time, he was engaged in free sculptural work and organizational activities. In 1983-84, he completed art studies at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. From 1990 to 2021, he worked at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava/ Slovakia, where he led a sculpture studio S.O.S. /Sculptures Objectively Subjectively/ for several years. From the year 2000 to 2007, he became a chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.

He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in many collective shows and symposium at home and abroad. Part of his free work are objects, installations, medals, but he also devoted himself to projects and implementations in public space. From 2013 to 2021, he was a chairman of a "sculpture monument commission" in Bratislava. Over the last couple of years, he has been working with language of abstract forms of expression and the range of its representative signs and pictorial symbols. This allows him to express his ideas more easily- what he actually means and, moreover, to point it out with an accent. Within his last works, he creates minimalist objects in one stroke, with an open story, without forcing your version of content.

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Kiril Bozhkov

Head of Department Painting, Prof.Dr. at The National Academy of Art Sofia
PhD in Art History
Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists from 1997 year

Kiril Bozhkov born in 1964 in Novi Han near Sofia. He became his MA and specialization in mural painting in the National Art Academy,Sofia and
in 1994 began teaching at the Department of Painting.
From 1981, until now, participation in over 250 group and 50 individual exhibitions in Bulgaria, Germany, Japan, Egypt, the United States, Poland, Serbia and Macedonia.

Works by Kiril Bozhkov are owned by the National Art Gallery, the Sofia City Art Gallery, the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Belarus and
many galleries and private collections in Austria, England, Belgium, Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Egypt, Ireland, Cyprus, Norway, Russia, USA, Czech Republic, Slovenia, France, Netherlands,
Switzerland, Japan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Hungary, Italy, etc.

Awards:
2023 – 3rd place in the "PORTRAIT" category at the 1 st World Watercolor Contest "WATERCOLOR FOR ALL" IWS Atelier Gallery Santiago, Chile
2023 – 1st Place at the first international watercolor festival, Spain, Cordoba
2023 – Eskoda Award – 1st Japan Watercolor Triennale, Nadeshiko
2022 – Award of NEVSKAYA PALITRA of III International Watercolor & Spirit Triennial - Varna
2022 – Mention Award – 7th International ”Love, Tolerance and Peace Through” Watercolor Festival & Golden Brish Contest, Izmir
2021 – Gold Art Award – 1 st International Watercolor Biennale Hamyang, Korea
2019 – 1st Place - 2nd International Biennial of Watercolor KIPUS – BOLIVIA – LIGHTS OF THE WORLD
2019 – Top 6 Best portrait - Tirana International Watercolor Biennale 2019, thirds edition
2018 - International Category Winner - First Watercolor Biennale, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia
2018 - Best Portrait Award at the 1st International Watercolor Festival "Tropical Watercolors" Costa Rica
2018 – In Top 100 – ranking for participation in the Universal Watercolor Exposition Online Contest, in Zhuji, China (the first World Watercolor Olympiad in the world)
2017 - In Top 20 - International Watercolor Contest “Thoughts made of Water”, Chihuahua , Mexico
2017 - 1st Place Best Portrait - 2nd TIRANA INTERNATIONAL WATERCOLOR BIENNALE 2017
2016 - In Top 30 artists in 2016 Taiwan World Watercolor Competition
2016 - The award of IWS Bulgaria for contribution to the development of world watercolor art - International Triennial of watercolor Warna, 2016
2016 - 3rd Award of Biennial International Fabriano Watercolor 2016
2016 - Award for best watercolor I International Art Festival 2016 - Bangladesh
2014 - Knight of the brush in 2013 (category knight of illusions) - Orchid Art Center
2012 - Award of the International Competition for watercolor, Karposh Municipality, Macedonia
1991 - 1st prize for painting at the National Academy about residence and work in Washington
1991 - Special prize for painting, the "Nude"
1990 - Award for composition of National Academy of Art, Sofia
1989 -1st prize in drawingof National Academy of Art, Sofia

Publications in national and international journals such as:
2016 – Art Of Watercolor Magazine, 24 th number, Septembar - November 2016

K. Bozhkov is author of the book "Virtuosity and painting"(2015).

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Le Rusch

Member of the Cultural Network of Lower Austria
Member of the Professional Association of Visual Artists in Austria

First creative attempts, especially with drawings, during my youth. Due to family and professional reasons, I then shifted my artistic ambitions to photography.

Since 2006, thanks to my daughters, I have returned to painting. I work in various techniques, preferring watercolor and acrylic painting, but I am open to any technique.
My artistic awareness is shaped by the beauty and uniqueness and the naturalistic depiction of nature and humans.

Lessons with various international artists, master classes from 2018 to 2021 at the Kunstfabrik Wien, solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Sales to Germany, UK, Switzerland, Ukraine, Italy, USA.

The world is full of colors; you just have to see them!

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Mónika Katalin Pál

Hungarian artist

Mónika Katalin Pál is a Hungarian artist whose creative journey began after graduation. What started as a simple hobby has evolved into an intense dedication that now defines her professional life.

Her creations serve as windows into her emotional world, skillfully blending human experiences, environmental elements, and metaphysical dimensions. Each brushstroke she makes aims to portray life's fundamental truths and demonstrate how deeply we connect with the world around us.

The principle of 'Spirit through hand' guides her artistic process. Her spiritual inclinations act as a powerful creative force, enabling her to translate her inner experiences and spiritual insights onto canvas. Through her distinctive artistic approach, she develops a visual vocabulary that breaks conventional limits and draws viewers into a space of deep contemplation and connection.
Her profound bond with animals has significantly shaped her creative vision. These creatures have consistently provided both creative stimulus and emotional support throughout her journey. She recognizes art's capacity to highlight the crucial need for environmental conservation and species protection.
Driven by an unwavering devotion to art and determined to forge meaningful connections through her pieces, she continuously pushes creative boundaries while aiming to leave an enduring impression on her audience.

Artistic Statement

My creations serve as a reflection of love, optimism, autonomy, and personal feelings, resonating with individuals on a deep and meaningful level. Motivated by the beauty of the natural world and the enchantment of animals, I draw inspiration from these sources to bring my paintings to life. My ultimate objective as an artist is to evoke joy and happiness in the hearts of those who view my work.

It is an honor for me to witness the positive impact my paintings have on people's lives.

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