Georg Thanner is primarily concerned with the narrative aspects of painting and is just as interested in the medium’s possibilities as in its boundaries. The impossibility of linear narration in painting is counterweighted by being freed of the constraints of linear perception. The persistence of artistic practices and positions that are considered outdated in Western, bourgeois discourse, whether due to antagonism, indifference, or simply friendly crankiness, is a frequent point of reference.

Georg Thanner (born 1991 in Munich, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. He studied art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig under Astrid Klein and Michael Riedel, at the Royal Academy in Stockholm under Olav Westphalen, language art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Daniel Richter.