Opening: Jun 05, 18–21:00
The artist is present.

Joint opening with
Charim Galerie, City Galerie Wien,
Croy Nielsen and Zeller van Almsick.

Johannes Wohnseifer creates works through an associative play of material, format and content, whose smooth and shiny aesthetics mimic those of the advertising industry, thus challenging its propagandistic impetus. His aim is to reveal the core of a brand image with its myths and stereotypes. He often uses the same staging techniques in his video works, photographs, sculptures, and installations as those used in marketing. These adaptations are contrasted by subtle details that reduce the core, the brand, the company, the celebrity, to a mere shell, appearing as a reproducible surface.
Johannes Wohnseifer, born in 1967 in Cologne, lives in Erftstadt and has been teaching as professor of painting and sculpture at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne since 2007. In 1998, he received the Peter Mertes Scholarship, in 2000 the Promotional Award of the City of Cologne, and in 2001 the Ars Viva Prize for Art and Design. Concurrently, institutional and international solo exhibitions took place, including Museum Ludwig Cologne in 1999, Sprengel Museum Hannover in 2003, and Hara Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2005. Johannes Wohnseifer’s work has since then been exhibited and collected internationally.
Introduced by Michael Kienzer in a group exhibition at Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman Vienna in 2014, the collaboration between Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman and Johannes Wohnseifer officially started with Warum ich Amerikaner bin in 2015 in Innsbruck. In 2017, Wohnseifer curated the gallery’s contribution for the annual gallery festival Curated By in Vienna. In 2020, the solo show Wiedergabe followed, in which the artist refered to his own sculptural work, in particular the cube – the essential basic sculptural form, that he used in many different contexts. Two years later, Wohnseifer is presenting new works in Some Words Look Better Than Others, made mostly from aluminum. In this exhibition, the artist explores fragments of architectures from public spaces, which, in isolated form and different materiality, open up new contexts.