Magdalena Maller’s painting emerges from accumulation rather than narration, grounding itself in a practice of collecting words, images, and fragments of experience encountered directly or absorbed indirectly. Working with egg tempera, oil, pigment, and rabbit-skin glue—often on stitched or reassembled canvases—she treats painting as a physical and temporal process where surfaces are built, interrupted, covered, and reopened. Her dense, condensed scenes bring violence, intimacy, and memory into tension, creating an alert, nocturnal imagery where fragility and force coexist, and tenderness is never far from threat. Maller has been studying painting and graphics at the Art University Linz since 2020. Her academic development includes an Erasmus stay at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille from 2023 to 2024. Prior to her artistic training, she completed a forest engineering degree at the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf between 2016 and 2021. SOLO EXHIBITIONS • Hazy Reminiscence as a Joyful Residue — Barvinskyi Art Gallery, Vienna, 2026 • Der Mohn ist noch nicht rot — Marthashofen Residency, Bavaria, 2025 • Die Marienkäfer sind im Wein ertrunken — Kunst im Bad, Linz, 2024 • Die Marienkäfer sind im Wein ertrunken — Open Air, Ottensheim, 2024 SELECTED GROUP / INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS • Spiritus — Leisenhof Gärtnerei, Linz, 2026 • Connected — IFK Wien, Vienna, 2026 • Feet First — F23, Vienna, 2026 • Das Jahr des Pferdes — splace, Linz, 2026 • Soroptimist Künstlerinnenpreis — Salzamt, Linz, 2025 • Best Off — Kunstuniversität Linz, 2025 • Best Off Sommerfrische — Gmunden am Traunsee, 2025 • Glückslabyrinth Linz — Linz, 2025 • Malerei & Grafik — PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna, 2024 • Kunst braucht Kultur — Schlossmuseum Linz, 2024 • Accrochage — Jeanne Barret, Marseille, 2024 • The Appropriation — Lentos collection, Linz, 2023–2024 • Exchange 2023 — Esterhazy Now, Eisenstadt, 2023 • Klang-Kunst — OK-Platz and Brucknerhaus, Linz, 2022 • Odor — University of Art and Design Linz, 2022 • Nothing Exists This Is Not RAEL — Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, 2022 • Replika — Sculpture Studio Thiele/Pfeiffer, Linz, 2022 • Flood — Urfahraner Markt, Linz, 2021 • double — Aoba Pop Up Store, Landshut, 2020 SELECTED PROJECTS / COLLECTIONS • Papageno & Papagena — commissioned project for Esterhazy Now Foundation, Hotel Galantha and Esterhazy Palace, 2023 • Es gewittert bald — painting acquired by Esterhazy Now Foundation, 2023 • Lithography and salt prints — acquired by Schlossmuseum Linz