Parov Stelar - Leave the Future Behind - Exhibition

Opening hours K-Hof Kammerhof Museum: Wednesday to Sunday 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, Monday & Tuesday closed. Opening speaker: Prof. Dr. Klaus Albrecht Schröder | General Director of the Albertina em. / Director of the WIENER AKTIONISMUS MUSEUM

Marcus Füreder, known worldwide as Parov Stelar, is one of the most successful Austrian artists of his generation. Between studio and stage, canvas and dance floor, he creates a multifaceted cosmos of art, sound, and emotion. For him, painting is a spontaneous impulse reaction – 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 complete. Painting forms his counterpart to music, the haptic to the digital world. "I paint, therefore I am," he says – painting as an existential statement. His works reflect a closeness to Pop Art from Warhol to Lichtenstein, while also revealing inner struggles, fears, and longings – visual psychograms of a seeker between sound and color. The native of Upper Austria studied painting in Linz and Berlin, exhibited large-format, autobiographically influenced works at the Francisco Carolinum in 2021, and shows: Parov Stelar constantly reinvents himself – between beat and brushstroke, euphoria and melancholy.