Parov Stelar - Leave the Future Behind - Exhibition

Opening hours K-Hof Kammerhof Museum: Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 to 15:00, Monday & Tuesday closed. Opening speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus Albrecht Schröder | General Director of the Albertina (ret.) / Director of the WIENER AKTIONISMUS MUSEUM

Marcus Füreder, known worldwide as Parov Stelar, ranks among the most successful Austrian artists of his generation. Between studio and stage, canvas and dancefloor, he creates a multi-layered cosmos of art, sound, and feeling. For him, painting is a spontaneous impulse response – a dialogue with chance. Digital drafts flow into luminous oil compositions that transform in the process, until a painting "looks back" at him and he knows: It is finished. Painting forms his counterpoint to music, the haptic to the digital world. "I paint, therefore I am," he says – painting as an existential statement. His works mirror an affinity with Pop Art from Warhol to Lichtenstein, while at the same time revealing inner struggles, fears, and longings – visual psychograms of a seeker between sound and color. The native Upper Austrian studied painting in Linz and Berlin, exhibited large-format, autobiographically inspired works at the Francisco Carolinum in 2021, and shows: Parov Stelar keeps reinventing himself – between beat and brushstroke, euphoria and melancholy.