--- type: exposition title: Alois Mosbacher language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/alois-mosbacher-0" --- # Alois Mosbacher ## Palinops ![Vierteiliges Ölgemälde, die Szenen des Totentanz im Hintergrund abbilden, teilweise verdeckt durch Äste im Vordergrund](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Totentanz_2012_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=WUfhAR-P) **Duration:** 10 March 2023 - 10 September 2023 Ropes, balls, cacti, tents, backpacks, a ladder – all unremarkable objects, but in Alois Mosbacher’s work, they become snapshots of highly private and perceptive experiences of nature. Enigmatic images of nature emerge, full of chance encounters and paradoxical interactions between objects that, at first glance, seem very out of place in the landscape. Since the 1980s, Mosbacher has expanded his pictorial world of plants and animals to include a variety of subjects and forms, developing his own artistic language that cleverly internalizes art historical influences and current trends without explicitly citing them. While Mosbacher's landscapes, still lifes, and figurative compositions are open to multiple interpretations, they resist both formalist and symbolist explanations. Although the works reduce the representational, they are not abstract—they are too based in materiality, too concrete, too close to the formal quality of individual object templates for that. In the forest of intertwined objects, knotted lines, and erratic constructions, the artist succeeds in giving even the most banal things an autonomous identity. Perception goes beyond what is represented. At the Belvedere 21, Alois Mosbacher constructs an immersive setting, in which the ordinary is celebrated through the extraordinary in coded constellations. The exhibition does not follow a linear narrative and conventional museum fittings are largely dispensed with, resulting in a freedom of movement between the works that creates a rhythmic pictorial habitat. Tree-entwining tendrils encroach on the boundaries of the picture plane and thus provide direction, rhythm, and tempo. The exhibition invites a change of perspective and combines Mosbacher’s playful, enigmatic artistic language with his trademark humor. Curated by Miroslav Haľák. \#AloisMosbacher ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ##### In cooperation with - [Die Presse](https://www.diepresse.com/) - [Parnass](https://www.parnass.at/) ## Impressions - ![14-teilige schwarz-weiß Kreidezeichnung von Pflanzen — Alois Mosbacher, Ascension, 2017 (14 pieces) — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Ascension_2017_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=qlfZWBxH) - ![Ölgemälde einer weiß-grauen Pflanze auf blauem Hintergrund — Alois Mosbacher, Bride, 2022 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Braut_2022%28c%29Alois%20Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=emllpa_x) - ![Ölgemälde einer Landschaft aus Baumstämmen mit taubenblauem Hintergrund, im Vordergrund steht ein horizontaler Balken zwischen zwei Baumstämmen — Alois Mosbacher, The Beam, 2020 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Der-Balken_2020_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=uSnnKWqi) - ![Ölgemälde von weißen Geästen zwischen welchen sich ein orangefarbener Basketball befindet, der Hintergrund schwarz wie die Nacht — Alois Mosbacher, The Night, 2017 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Die-Nacht_2017_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=G9mBOuQv) - ![Ölgemälde eines grünen, stacheligen Kaktus, im Hintergrund werfen andere Pflanzen ihre Schatten an die Wand — Alois Mosbacher, Idol, 2022 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Kaktus-W_2022_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=QpO7qaxw) - ![Vierteiliges Ölgemälde, die Szenen des Totentanz im Hintergrund abbilden, teilweise verdeckt durch Äste im Vordergrund — Alois Mosbacher, Dance of Death, 2012 (4 pieces) — Museum of Contemporary Art at Admont Monastery — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Totentanz_2012_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=iKtRWLmb) - ![Ölgemälde von bunten Baumstämmen und Ästen, die ein Versteck bilden — Alois Mosbacher, Hiding Place, 2020 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Versteck_2020_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=xpr2jmZz) - ![Schriftzug "warte hier auf mich" auf einem grünlichen, teilweise verschwommenen Hintergrund, der den Wald abbilden könnte, — Alois Mosbacher, Wait for me here, 2004 — Courtesy Alois Mosbacher — © Alois Mosbacher / Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2022-09/Alois-Mosbacher_Warte-hier-auf-mich_2004_%28c%29Alois-Mosbacher.jpg.webp?itok=ovjxLf5G) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%201.jpg.webp?itok=0xoPGhgC) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%203.jpg.webp?itok=Remkk3a9) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%204_0.jpg.webp?itok=votP9X7W) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%205.jpg.webp?itok=hBZtTREm) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%206.jpg.webp?itok=J0mv_8JI) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%207.jpg.webp?itok=km33Nfjm) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%208.jpg.webp?itok=UR5QFEo9) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wien © Bildrecht, Wien 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%2010.jpg.webp?itok=C0VxR7H2) - ![Ausstellungsansicht "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" im Belvedere 21 — Exhibition view "Alois Mosbacher. Palinops" — Photo: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Vienna © Bildrecht, Vienna 2023](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/2023-03/Alois%20Mosbacher%20PR2%2013.jpg.webp?itok=6rc-ukOy) ## Videos **Alois Mosbacher. 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