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Tobias Pils
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Tobias Pils is among the most exciting painters making work today. Across two floors, mumok now presents the most comprehensive exhibition of this artist’s work to date, continuing the institution’s tradition of mid-career retrospectives of Austrian artists who have also achieved international acclaim.

With tremendous persistence and sensitivity, Pils has developed his own visual language, defying easy legibility and using ambivalence as a source of power. Deeply engaged with the history of painting, his work at the same time seeks actively to establish a dialogue with the present. In his minimal, often almost austere world of color, pictorial spaces unfurl that merge the personal with the universal and transform the intimate into the monumental. Repetitions, variations, and ruptures all generate a field of tension constantly realigning the gaze and enabling us to experience the act of seeing itself as a continual, open exploration—like a familiar place that we enter for the very first time.

Curated by Manuela Ammer

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Tobias Pils, Hmm, 2025

Tobias Pils
Hmm, 2025
Oil on canvas
130 × 90 cm
Courtesy Tobias Pils
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, Blindensturz, 2024

Tobias Pils
Blindensturz, 2024
Oil on canvas
202 × 305 cm
Courtesy Tobias Pils
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, Geist, 2024

Tobias Pils
Geist, 2024
Oil on canvas
150 x 180 cm
Courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Vienna, and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, A found egg, 2023

Tobias Pils
A Found Egg, 2023
Oil on canvas
270 × 199 cm
Courtesy Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/Vienna
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, Untitled, 2023

Tobias Pils
Untitled, 2023
Ink on paper
53,5 × 78 cm
Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils Sleepers (2), 2022

Tobias Pils
Sleepers, 2022
Oil on canvas
190 x 180 cm
Rachovsky Collection, Dallas
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, night on earth, 2018

Tobias Pils
Night on Earth, 2018
mixed media on canvas
283 x 200 cm
Courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, Marfa (nine), 2016

Tobias Pils
Marfa (nine), 2016
mixed media on canvas
202 x 238 cm
Collection Scharpff, Berlin
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, Untitled (Mädchen), 2015

Tobias Pils
Untitled (Mädchen), 2015
Mixed media on canvas
320 × 200 cm
mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, donation Tobias Pils, 2025
Photo: Jorit Aust
© Tobias Pils

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Tobias Pils, Untitled (Grrl), 2025
Tobias Pils, Sunhead, 1983/2024
Tobias Pils, Untitled, 2006
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Tobias Pils, Untitled (Grrl), 2025
Tobias Pils, Sunhead, 1983/2024
Tobias Pils, Untitled, 2006
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Detail view: Tobias Pils, Untitled (Grrl), 2025
Tobias Pils, Sunhead, 1983/2024
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, 27. September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026

Exhibition view

Exhibition view: Tobias Pils. Shh, September 27, 2025 to April 12, 2026
Tobias Pils, Untitled, 2018
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Portrait Tobias Pils

Tobias Pils, 2025
Photo: Georg Petermichl / mumok

Katharina Murschetz
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Published on December 19, 2024

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