Jakob Gasteiger

painting as material thinking

Jakob Gasteiger is a key figure in radical painting — an international art movement that has been questioning the foundations of the medium since the 1980s. His works do not carry images or symbols; they are the direct result of a process: structured with toothed tools, built up in layers, reduced to the essential.

gesture and repetition

In place of the brushstroke, Gasteiger uses scrapers and comb spatulas to work pigment-rich paint into rhythmic surfaces. Each painting documents a concrete span of time and a physical act — duration, materiality, and repetition made visible.

painting as object

His works are not windows onto the world, but autonomous surfaces that assert their own presence. In this reduction lies the radicality of his approach: painting as thinking in matter and structure.

about the artist

Jakob Gasteiger, born in Austria, lives and works in Vienna. He is one of the leading representatives of radical painting and his work is held in major international collections.