Painting, along with sculpture, film, performance, and design, is a central component of the intermedia art of Heimo Zobernig. Since the beginning of his artistic practice in the early 1980s, the artist has built up a comprehensive painterly oeuvre, always based on his attempt to explore color like a "scientist." Thus, in Zobernig's work, painting has become a machine for the creation of insight. Characteristics of the artist's method in this context are strategies of simplification, standardization, and systematization using predefined rules and the artistic appropriation of industrial norms and widespread samples.
In 2002/2003 mumok first presented the diverse and yet highly consistent development of Austria's internationally well-known artist in a large exhibition, while this show will focus specifically on Zobernig's extended concept of painting, with selected recent groups of works. The artist designed the exhibition architecture himself, referring to the classical-modernist architecture of the Sonsbeek Pavilion, which the Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld created for a sculpture presentation in Arnhem in 1955. Processes of artistic production and material aesthetics as well as the examination of display and architecture or the challenge of the working mechanisms of museums and galleries can all be found in Heimo Zobernig's work. Even the graphic design of catalogues is subject to this system and thus becomes an important part of Zobernig's artistic practice. His own role as an artist appears like an attitude in motion that he constantly explores and develops.

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