Katherine Bernhardt Solo Exhibition at Halle für Kunst Steiermark

Halle für Kunst Steiermark presents Neonfarbblendluminanzwuchtgemaeldenetzhautkollisionsgefahr, the first institutional exhibition in Europe dedicated to Katherine Bernhardt. With her large-scale, vibrantly colored paintings, Bernhardt has established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary painting. Art historically, her work operates at the intersection of Pop Art, Neo-Expressionism, and post-digital painting. Bernhardt draws on the strategies of 1960s Pop Art, as developed by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg, translating their visual vocabularies into a subjective and expressive contemporary language. Unlike the calculated detachment of classical Pop Art, Bernhardt’s paintings are characterized by gestural immediacy, spontaneity, and a deliberately imperfect openness. Her work also reveals affinities with the Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s, particularly with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnabel.

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