Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer

Biography

1955
born in Vienna / A
1969–1974
Vienna Federal Training and Research Institute of Graphic Arts
1980–1988
independent graphic artist and illustrator
since 1989
creative director
since 1999
free artistic work
since 2004
curatorial activities
 
He lives and works in Vienna / Austria. 
 
Works held by private and public collections  (Selection)
Collection Museum Limbach / A
Collection Dr. Max Kowatsch / A
Collection Peter Liaunig / A
 
some private collections
 
Exhibitions
Solo and group exhibitions, art fairs  (Selection)
2023
Raum(un)möglichkeiten; group-exhibition; zs art galerie, Vienna
2022 
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair, Luxembourg / LUX
Collage II; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2021 
Correspondences; group-exhibition, Stadtmuseum Hattingen / D (C)
2021 
From Line to Space; zs art galerie, Vienna
2020 
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair – Virtual Tour, Luxembourg / LUX
 
Small works; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
2019 
Luxembourg Art Week | The Fair, Luxembourg / LUX 
 
The Landscape Principle; group-exhibition, zs art galerie Vienna
2018 
paper positions basel, Basel / CH
 
art KARLSRUHE, Karlsruhe / D
2017 
paper positions munich, Munich / D 
 
Positiones in painting; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
 
paper positions berlin, Berlin / D
 
Art Vienna, Leopold Museum, Vienna
 
Art Karlsruhe, graphic edition, Karlsruhe / D
2016
works on paper; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
 
 30 Jahre Werkstatt für
Kunstsiebdruck/Edition Stalzer; group-exhibition, Austria Auction Company, Palais Breuner, Vienna
 
Art.Fair Köln, Cologne / D 
 
POSITIONS BERLIN Art Fair, Berlin / D
 
30 x 30 x 30; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2015
Weightless; Solo-exhibition (with Eduardo Vega de Seoane), zs art galerie, Vienna
2014
Linear poetry; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
 
Art & Antique, Artfair, Hofburg Vienna, Vienna
 
5 years zs art gallery; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2013
forest within the art; group-exhibition, Lower Austria, Kleinzell / A 
 
Drawing Vienna 4th; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
 
Art Austria, Leopold Museum, Vienna
 
Emil Toman – Maler, Mentor, Wegbereiter; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna 
2012
all natural; group-exhibition, Kro Art Gallery, Vienna
 
Art Austria, Wien
2011
LichtGestalten; solo-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna (C)
 
Year of Forests; group-exhibition, Stift Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg / A  (C)
 
Year of Forests; group-exhibition, museum of Lower Austria, St. Pölten / A  (C)
 
Viennafair, Wien
 
Year of Forests; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
 
Art Austria, Vienna / A 
2010
WaldRaum; solo-exhibition, Museum Schloss Lackenbach, Lackenbach / A 
 
CCArt´10; group-exhibition, Creativ Club Austria, Vienna / A 
2009
zs artenvielfalt; group-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna
 
WaldRaum; solo-exhibition, zs art galerie, Vienna / A  (C)
2006
The colours of the forest; solo-exhibition, Tresor BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna (C)
2004
Stone and Life; solo-exhibition (with Walter Angerer-Niketa), Künstlerhaus, Vienna / (C)
2003
(Wiener)Wald und WiesenBilder; solo-exhibition, Galerie Sala Terrena, Mödling / A 
2002
Wald, Wiesen und WunschBilder; solo-exhibition, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna (C)

 
Bibliography

Future´s memories of today´s paradise.

Guido Zehetbauer-Salzer whose artistic production has been influenced by the fascinating phenomenon forest for years, portrays in his paintings the transcendent beauty and preciousness of a world we are risking to lose in its abundance and variety – seeing forest also as a synonym for the sense of all being. By means of formal reduction to raw structures and the excessive use of colors, he invites us to share his very personal impression of the forest universe, and to individually partake in the dream ourselves.