Roman Pfeffer and Christof Zwiener

The artists Roman Pfeffer and Christof Zwiener survey the world of things in the Studio im Hochhaus. On 16 November 2021, at 7 pm, the exhibition opens and gives an insight into their interventions and deformations. It can be seen until 19 January 2022 in the studio im HOCHHAUS at Zingster Straße 25.

In their works, both artists charge things with history and expectations and interrogate the materials in different ways: Pfeffer uses a wide range of artistic possibilities to investigate the dimensions and proportions of things and to bring them into new forms, as in the reshaped 12’rowing boat that can be seen as Braintwister in the exhibition. In Zwiener’s work, the narratives of found objects and places play the main role. Through the predominant use of readymades, which are arranged site-specifically and occasionally alienated, Zwiener makes the superimposition of times visible. Past, present and future are here directly linked to an object, a building or a place.

Roman Pfeffer was born in 1972 in Vöcklabruck, Austria. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts with Gunter Damisch in Vienna and at the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Canterbury from 1996 to 2001. He is a member of the management team of the TransArts class at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, where he also lives.

Christof Zwiener, also born in ’72, from Osnabrück, studied interdisciplinary sculpture at the HBK Braunschweig. He lives and works in Berlin as an artist and curator. He organises temporary exhibition projects at various locations, often in gatehouses.