ABOUT
Kaspar Laurenz is a German-Austrian artist born in 1997 in Munich, Germany, and based in Kitzbühel and Innsbruck, Austria. His main practice centres on painting, creating meditative compositions of mountain landscapes characterised by high horizons and subtle light phenomena. Working primarily with oil on canvas and traditional fresco techniques, Laurenz explores the atmospheric qualities of colour and light as a means of shaping emotional and spiritual depth.
His paintings focus on nature as a site of inner experience, translating fleeting light conditions into reduced, contemplative images. Rooted in the visual language of Alpine life, his work moves beyond descriptive representation towards a more distilled perception of atmosphere and mood. His practice unfolds through a series-based approach extending across media, including fresco painting, ceramic vessels, and public projects involving trees as living sculptural forms.
A central body of work, 36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser, is among his most developed series to date, examining variations of light and atmosphere within the Tyrolean mountain landscape. In 2025, Laurenz presented a solo exhibition in Kitzbühel, Austria. His work continues to evolve through a sustained engagement with landscape, material, and the perceptual potential of colour.
EDUCATION
Medical studies
Medical University of Vienna
2019 – 2026
Linguistic studies
University of Vienna
2018 – 2019
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2025
Herbstimpressionen, Studio G10, Kitzbühel, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2026
Artlab Zwischenwelten, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
Der Wilde Kaiser, La Galerie, Kitzbühel, Austria
COLLECTIONS
Kaspar Laurenz's works are included in numerous collections across Austria and Germany.
| 2026
Bei ins dahoam
| 2025
KITZ Magazin
Bezirksblätter Tirol
| 2026
June – Exhibition at ArtLab, Galerie Benjamin Eck, Munich, and winner of the Public Award with Der Wilde Kaiser No. 3/36.
May – First plantings of the public art project Tree of 100 Apple Blossoms in the municipalities of Going am Wilden Kaiser and Innsbruck, Austria.
Early 2026 – Increasing focus on his own artistic practice, continuation of the series 36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser, and cooperation with Studio G10 in Kitzbühel.
| 2025
December – Submission for the Schiele Award not selected. Repeated offers of a donation to the Kitzbühel Town Museum remained unaccepted. Design for the Hahnenkamm Race poster rejected.
November – Move from Vienna to Innsbruck and rental of his own studio in Tyrol.
October – First solo exhibition Herbstimpressionen at Studio G10 in Kitzbühel.
August – Care for his ill grandmother until the end of her life.
July – Extended journey through Italy. Inspiration from the wall paintings of Pompeii and the frescoes of Piero della Francesca in Arezzo.
Early 2025 – Application for membership in the Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol rejected. Work in hospitals in Vienna and Tyrol.
| 2024
November – Beginning of the series 36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser.
October – One-month stay in Milan. Study of the colour of the Italian Renaissance through works in the Pinacoteca di Brera.
September – Extended stay in Uganda. Co-founding of the association Espoir to support children and young women in East Africa.
July – Expansion of the artistic practice to include ceramics, kintsugi and sculptural works, also as a return to the craft-based influence of his mother’s porcelain workshop.
| 2023
Autumn – First extended stay in Central Uganda. Work in a hospital, alongside landscape painting with oil paints brought from home.
Autumn – Study of Michelangelo’s works in Florence.
2023/2024 – Longer stays in Berlin with regular visits to the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and an intensive engagement with Impressionism through the Hasso Plattner Collection. Medical work in a closed psychiatric ward at Schlosspark-Klinik Charlottenburg. Participation in life drawing classes alongside medical work and landscape studies of the northern German lakes.
Summer – First extended artistic journey to his brother in Lisbon. Intensive engagement with painting and the light of the South, as well as study of the works of Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, William Turner and Caspar David Friedrich.
Spring – First journey to Pompeii. Study of fresco painting.
March – Journey to the Lofoten Islands in Norway. Engagement with the northern lights as a phenomenon of light.
| 2019
Switch from the study of linguistics to medical studies in Vienna.
First visits to the Albertina in Vienna and beginning of an independent, self-taught engagement with painting alongside his studies.
| 2018
Move to Vienna and beginning of the study of linguistics, driven by an interest in understanding language as an expression of cultural belonging, identity and perception.
| 2017–2018
Civilian service and work in the rescue service of the Red Cross.
| Until 2017
School years in Tyrol. First independent journeys through Europe and smaller jobs in France and Berlin.
| Since 1997
Early and intensive engagement with the Tyrolean mountain landscape through work on the family farm and in his grandparents’ alpine flower garden on the Kitzbüheler Horn.
Repeated observation of the Wilder Kaiser from a familiar perspective, which later became an initial motif in his own painting.
Artistic influence through his mother’s porcelain painting and porcelain workshop.
| 1997
Born in Munich and raised on a farm in Tyrol.
| MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS
Recurrence of sexually transmitted infections is commonly found in a subpopulation of Austrian users of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 2025
| RESEARCH / ACADEMIC WORC
Prevalence of facultative pathogens in stool samples of men who have sex with men using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis
Diploma thesis, Medical University of Vienna
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