DE

Exhibitions

SCHAU, SCHAU....!
21.10.2024 - 04.07.2025

Review
Events
Collection
The Kunsthaus
Information
Newsletter
Audioguide
Contact
Imprint
Privacy Policy
Logo Kunsthaus Kollitsch
DE
  • Afra Al Suwaidi
  • Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht
  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Alfredo Barsuglia
  • Hubert Becker
  • Wolfgang Becksteiner
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Lucile Boiron
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Brandy Brandstätter / Kollitsch
  • Karl Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Edward Burtynsky
  • Christopher Bucklow
  • Sandi Červek
  • Caroline Wells Chandler
  • Sandro Chia
  • Louisa Clement
  • Natalie Czech
  • Anna Daučíková
  • Violet Dennison
  • Ines Doujak
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Sophie Dvořák
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Simon Edmondson
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Gernot Fischer-Kondratovitch
  • Christian Flora
  • Andreas Fogarasi
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Franz Grabmayr
  • Ernst Gradischnig
  • Vivian Greven
  • Wolfgang Grinschgl
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Giselbert Hoke
  • Andy Holtin
  • Bernadette Huber
  • Lucy Ivanova
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Anna Jermolaewa
  • Eva Jospin
  • Zhanna Kadyrova
  • Rohullah Kazimi
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Herlinde Koelbl
  • Cornelius Kolig
  • Arnulf Komposch
  • Suse Krawagna
  • Eric Kressnig
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Margaret Lansink
  • Karl Larsson
  • Tina Lechner
  • Jens Liebchen
  • Axel Lieber
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Klaus Merkel
  • Joel Meyerowitz
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Jürgen Münzer
  • Loredana Nemes
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Marianne Oberwelz
  • Arnold Odermatt
  • Hans Op de Beeck
  • Bernd Oppl
  • Mohannad Orabi
  • Markus Orsini-Rosenberg
  • Aitor Ortiz
  • Olga Pedan
  • Max Peintner & Klaus Littmann
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Margot Pilz
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Arnold Pöschl
  • Hannes Rader
  • Damir Radović
  • Fabian Ramirez
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Issa Salliander
  • Robert Schad
  • Julia Scher
  • Heimo Setten
  • Stefanie Seufert
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Toni Schmale
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Jon Shelton
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Paul Spendier
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Martin Steinthaler
  • Esther Stocker
  • Pier Stockholm
  • Howard Tangye
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Mikhail Tolmachev
  • Martina Unterwelz
  • Oman Valentin
  • Anna Virnich
  • Karl Vouk
  • Maja Vukoje
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • Ina Weber
  • Clemens Wolf
  • Yunyao Zhang
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Hemd IV [Shirt IV], 2015
, Gesso, oil auf wood \ 37 x 29 cm
Kollitsch Collection
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Lupo fühlen [Feeling Lupo], 2015
, Gesso, oil on wood \ 37 x 29 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Ulrich Pester always explores new avenues in his approach to painting. Banal everyday images are transformed into new images by the painting process and these are reveal subtle messages and delicate visual wit with their formal clarity. Detached from its original function, in Lupo fühlen the bubble wrap is transformed from a banal original motif into a medium of sensual touching and feeling.

— Magdalena Koschat

© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Ohne Titel [Untitled], 2008
, Oil on canvas \ 52 x 40 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Greetings from Palermo, 2010
, Oil on wood \ 35 x 28 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Ohne Titel [Untitled], 2010
, Oil on linen \ 35 x 28 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Deep Forestal Scream, 2007
, Oil on canvas \ 32 x 24 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne

Like a colourful collection of curios, Ulrich Pester confronts us with familiar objects from everyday life and nature in their wide range of forms. However he overcomes the purely naturalistic imagery by rising far above the physical properties and laws of logic and blending these objects with hypothetical worlds of feeling as part of a metamorphosis process.

© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Ohne Titel [Untitled], 2010
, Oil on linen \ 35 x 28 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Fertig ist das Mondgesicht [The Face of the Moon is Ready], 2010
, Oil on linen \ 64 x 50 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
© Ulrich Pester © Ulrich Pester Ulrich Pester, Ohne Titel [Untitled], 2010
, Lithography, hand-coloured \ 29 x 21.5 cm
Falderbaum/Vieth Collection, Cologne
Biographie
KUNSTHAUS : KOLLITSCH
Deutenhofenstrasse 3
9020 Klagenfurt
Opening hours
Monday - Thursday:
8am - 5pm
and by appointment
Contact us
Kontakt Icon +43 463 26009 88
Mail Icon kunsthaus@kollitsch.eu
Newsletter
Audioguide
© 2025 KUNSTHAUS : KOLLITSCH GmbH