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Founded in 1977 in Innsbruck, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman has been working with important and internationally renowned contemporary artists from Austria, including Bruno Gironcoli, Hermann Nitsch, Walter Pichler, Arnulf Rainer and Franz West. In the 80s the gallery started working with a younger generation of painters – Siegfried Anzinger, Herbert Brandl, Erwin Bohatsch and Gunter Damisch – that were just leaving the academies, later known as “Neue Wilde”. Artists from different media and the neighbouring countries joined the gallery in the 90s and early 2000s: Éva Bodnár, Maria Brunner, Thomas Feuerstein, Michael Kienzer, Florin Kompatsche and Peter Sandbichler.

The gallery profile is continuously complemented with significant international positions, always taken in a cultural context: John M Armleder, Günther Förg, Jürgen Klauke and Tal R; as well as our latest collaborations with Mai-Thu Perret (2020) and Johannes Wohnseifer (2016). The focus remains to work with artists long-term and to accompany them through their career. 

In 2011, the gallery opened a large-scale dependance in Vienna’s first district, that next to its major hall also holds a smaller second exhibition space called SEITENGALERIE. While Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman have been operating as the gallerists for already 40 years, in 2020 a younger generation of directors joined their team, consisting of Maximilian Thoman and Eva Oberhofer. They are now taking care of the space in Vienna as well as continuously adding new positions of another generation to the gallery’s artist list, like Julia Haugeneder and Johannes Kofler. Furthermore a dialogue with emerging artists was founded with the projectspace tart.vienna, that regularly hosts exhibitions for external artists in the gallery’s SEITENGALERIE. 

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Seilerstätte 7
1010 Vienna
Austria


tel +43 151 20 840
fax +43 151 20 840-13


Wed–Fri 12–18 Sat 11–15 and by appointment

Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34
6020 Innsbruck
Austria


tel + 43 512 575785
fax +43 512 575785-13


Tue–Fri 12–18 Sat 10–15 and by appointment

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