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Kaspar Laurenz (*1997) lives and works in Innsbruck, Austria, and Naples, Italy.
His artistic practice centres on painting. His bodies of work take different aspects of human experience as their point of departure, often explored through motifs drawn from nature and through a direct engagement with nature itself. Central to Kaspar’s work is the emotional response that develops between the work and the viewer. He considers colour an essential means of shaping this experience.
Kaspar moves between different painterly techniques, visual languages, and media without making a single, unified style the defining principle of his practice. He uses series to explore individual questions across multiple works. Beyond painting, his practice encompasses living sculptural works with trees, ceramics, fresco, works on paper, and digital media.
Among his central bodies of work is the series 36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser, in which he explores the changing manifestations of Alpine light. His hometown of Kitzbühel remains an important point of reference in his work and was the setting for two major solo exhibitions in 2025 and 2026.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 36 moods of the Wilder Kaiser, Studio G10, Kitzbühel, Austria
2025 Autumn impressions, Studio G10, Kitzbühel, Austria
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2026 Artlab, Gallery Benjamin Eck, Munich, Germany
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Stadtgemeinde Kitzbühel - Tree of 100 Apple Blossoms, permanent installation, since 2026
EDUCATION
Medical studies
Medical University of Vienna
2019 – 2026
Linguistic studies
University of Vienna
2018 – 2019
| 2026
August 2026 – Major solo exhibition of the series “36 Moods of the Wilder Kaiser” at Studio G10 in Kitzbühel
July 2026 – Renewed rejection by the Künstler:innen Vereinigung Tirol of the application for membership
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.
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