In collaboration with Galerie Bärbel Grässlin | Frankfurt
The work Untitled (2019) holds particular significance within Brandl’s late oeuvre. While large-scale works appear repeatedly throughout his practice, such monumental works with such an expansive, spatial presence remain rare. At the same time, this painting brings together key elements of his practice into an intense pictorial language: the painting process is fast, intuitive, and free of premeditated intent. Following the principle of all-over, gestural applications of paint cover the entire surface of the canvas. Luminous fields of colour—created solely through broad brushstrokes—structure the pictorial space, shifting from deep dark blue to orange, intense red, and vivid yellow. The work suggests an extension of colour and gesture into space—a painterly state in which condensation and dissolution remain in constant tension. In the movement of paint, which mirrors that of the body, and in the atmospheric openness of the pictorial space, the painterly energy that has defined Brandl’s oeuvre over decades becomes visible.
Since the 1980s, Herbert Brandl has played a decisive role in shaping international discourse on contemporary art and is considered one of the most significant Austrian painters of his generation. His work received early international recognition: in 1989, Brandl participated in the São Paulo Biennial and in 1992 in documenta IX. In 2007, he represented Austria at the Venice Biennale. From 2004 to 2019, he held a professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In 2025, Herbert Brandl was posthumously awarded the Austrian Grand State Prize.
PARCOURS 2026 MIAO YING
Miao Ying
Training Landscapes No.27 - By human hand and circuit's grace, Advance the world, reshape its place, 2025
In collaboration with Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong | New York
Location: Du Pont [Garage], Greifengasse 2, 4058 Basel
Miao Ying’s Mutual Conditioning investigates the reciprocal training processes that govern human cognition and artificial intelligence. Situated within the utilitarian environment of a carpark, the presentation pairs two live simulations with two oil paintings. Operating under datasets rigorously trained and conditioned by the artist, the simulations generate perpetually evolving landscapes composed of generic video-game assets, underscored by AI-voiced poems that traverse themes of technomancy, fantasy politics, and algorithmic ritual. Miao methodically channels the images birthed by these artistic systems into a secondary AI primed for textual interpretation, which are then meticulously translated into oil on canvas by traditionally trained painters. By oscillating between virtual generation and manual execution, Miao stages a loop of production where magic, ideology, and technology converge—revealing the shifting boundaries between human creativity and automated creation.
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Markus Wörgötter
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