JOHN PETSCHINGER
John Christopher Petschinger (born December 5, 1994, in Oberwart, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary artist living and working in Vienna and Burgenland.
His work is defined by vivid colors, expressive brushwork, and layered compositions created with acrylic, oil, collage, and multiple pours of resin, often on aluminum panels. These techniques produce glossy, high-impact surfaces with strong visual depth. Elements from fashion and financial magazines appear throughout his work, referencing contemporary culture and identity.
A recurring floral motif—frequently a single flower—has become an unintentional signature in his abstract paintings and serves as a personal homage to his mother. Petschinger’s works are held in private and public collections, are exhibited at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, and include collaborations with international brands such as Porsche.
SELECTED ARTWORKS
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BIOGRAPHY
Exhibitions
2025
- New Works, Solo Exhibition, Massoumi, Hamburg, Germany
- Neue Position II, Galerie Monica Ruppert, Frankfurt, Germany
2024
- For Some It Would Be Easier to Just Look at the Flowers, Galerie Gerald Hartinger, Vienna, Austria
- FERTILIZED, Landesgalerie Burgenland, Eisenstadt, Austria
2023
- Group Exhibition, Studio 84 – Galerie Lachenmann, Konstanz, Germany
- Group Exhibition, Studio 85 – Galerie Lachenmann, Frankfurt, Germany
2022
- You Are Like a Flower, Solo Exhibition, Museum Schloss Tabor, Neuhaus am Klausenbach, Austria
- Flowers for Mum, Solo Exhibition, Galerie Gerald Hartinger, Vienna, Austria
- Bucherer Collection, Vienna, Austria
2021
- Bucherer Collection, Vienna, Austria
John Christopher Petschinger (born December 5, 1994, in Oberwart, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary artist who lives and works in Vienna and the Burgenland region.
Petschinger was born into a family of hoteliers and was exposed to creative environments from an early age. At the age of six, he began working as an actor and appeared in a leading child role in Gebürtig, a feature film by Austrian writer and filmmaker Robert Schindel. This early experience with performance, staging, and narrative imagery has had a lasting influence on his visual language and artistic approach.
His painterly practice is characterized by an intense use of color, expressive brushwork, and a strong emphasis on materiality and surface. Petschinger works primarily with acrylic and oil paint, often combined with collage elements and multiple layers of synthetic resin. Many of his works are created on aluminum panels, which serve as a rigid and durable support for his layered techniques. Through repeated pouring, curing, and polishing of resin, his works develop a distinctive glossy finish and remarkable depth, giving them both visual intensity and physical presence. Some of his large-scale works weigh up to 30 kilograms.
Fragments from fashion, lifestyle, and financial magazines frequently appear within his compositions, subtly referencing contemporary visual culture, consumerism, and identity. These elements are embedded into the painted surface rather than dominating it, becoming part of a broader dialogue between abstraction, figuration, and modern imagery.
In his abstract works, a recurring motif of a single flower has emerged over time. What began unintentionally has since become a recognizable signature of his work and functions as a deeply personal symbol—a quiet homage to his mother and a point of emotional anchoring within otherwise dynamic compositions.
In addition to painting, Petschinger also works with photography, using the medium to expand his artistic ideas and consciously disrupt his painterly process. This interdisciplinary approach allows him to explore themes of perception, composition, and narrative from multiple perspectives.
Petschinger’s works are held in numerous private and public collections and are exhibited in institutional settings, including the Austrian Federal Chancellery. He has also collaborated with international brands such as Porsche, further extending his artistic practice into cross-disciplinary and commercial contexts while maintaining a distinct artistic identity.
Through his material-driven approach, layered symbolism, and vivid visual language, John Christopher Petschinger continues to develop a body of work that reflects contemporary life while remaining deeply personal and emotionally resonant.