– Arthouse Clemens Keiffenheim

2026

ClemK & friends Sodom und Gomorrha in Atelier - Galerie Stark
4.3. – 7.3.26

The toxic apocalypse of Sodom and Gomorrha cannot destroy art. Art heals. Internally. Relentlessly. It gives structure to chaos, strengthens resilience, acts as emotional recovery, as prescription medicine, transforms stress into positive energy, leads us out of everyday misery.

ClemK`s wild freestyle portraits of MOTHER EARTH reflect an ambitious film that he was unable to make during his film career. “Mother Earth in intensive care – Let's take her out.” Now he has painted it. A garishly battered creature looks down on us. Lamenting, chaotic, yet full of kindness, gentleness, and warmth. A cry of outrage.

Herwig Maria Stark. The most subtle of the three. His views are romantically sad, yet full of hope. He invites his viewers to reflect on their own emotions and experiences, to identify with the characters depicted. His works radiate a universal humanity. Stark knows how to bridge the gap between the outer and inner worlds. Through his art, he creates a connection that transcends language and culture.

Helmut Sagmeister. Seine faszinierend expressiven Fotomontagen interpretieren Sodom und Gomorrha als inneren Zustand. Nicht der göttliche Zorn zerstört die Stadt, sondern der Mensch selbst. Die Bilder zeigen keinen historischen Ort, sondern einen Prozess: Verführung, Verdrängung, süße Zerstörung, Erstarrung und Leere. Die brennende Stadt wächst aus dem Körper. Der Untergang beginnt im Inneren.

Boris Manner (Die Angewandte, Anselm Kiefer) opens on 4.3.

2025

ClemK's Pop-Up Atelier, Kurrentgasse 1010 Wien
3. September 2025

ClemK im Bilderrausch

Szenisch authentisch
Gemälde, Texte, Aktionen
15.10-19.10.2025
10 h - 21 h
Opening 15.10. 18:30 Uhr

atelierzierputz
Kurfürstenstraße 19
81371 München

2024

"Blow up Schutting II – Faces of a poet"
Pressemitteilung für live Act am 16.5. in der Gallery Steiner, Kurrentgasse 4

Vernissage 08.05. and Live Act 16.05. – Impressions

Vernissage 13.03. – Impressions

2023

Arezzo TV: “La bellezza discreta dell’Atavismo”: al Circolo Artistico la mostra di ClemK

„BLOW UP SCHUTTING“

The vernissage and the accompanying homage to Julian Schutting was celebrated as an intense and very entertaining event. We would like to thank for the extremely positive advance notice and the coverage on radio and television. E.g. Ö1 Leporello, ORF ZIB 2, the daily newspaper "Die Presse".
Particularly praised was the very intensive, extremely powerful presentation of the portraits. Which is the usual book flap pictures of the writer Julian Schutting expressively put out of their pleasing pupa.

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Ausstellung 28.9.-21.10.2022

Hommage an, für und mit JULIAN SCHUTTING, zum 85. Geburtstag & H.C. Artmann Preis
Eine Ausstellung als Hommage mit Vernissage und Finissage als Trialog der Künste: Schutting liest, ClemK malt und inszeniert, Teodora Miteva (Cello) und Donka Angatscheva (Piano) musizieren. Ein live act - simultan improvisierend, gegenseitig einander inspirierend.

They have been neighbors since 2014 and have become warm friends:
renowned writer Julian Schutting and film/TV director and painter Clemens Keiffenheim (ClemK).

In September, Schutting will receive the H.C. Artmann Prize, in October he will turn 85 and his new book will be published.
Reasons enough to create a tribute for him.

Keiffenheim is fascinated by the personality and the many faces Schutting revealed in life and not least in his more than 60 books.
In 2019, he began to portray him. With the exhibition "Blow up Schutting" he presents the works to the public for the first time in a tribute to, on and with Julian Schutting.

With "Blow up" he refers to an enlargement technique used in film, which can be used to explain Keiffenheim's painting technique. However, the painter is also interested in enhancing the reputation of this exceptional writer, who has won several awards, and bringing him to the attention of a wider audience.

Keiffenheim studied the many faces of Schuttings during numerous, joint visits to the Heurigen. Depending on the situation in life, everything is represented, from mischievous smiles to grim looks or pensive melancholy - which can also be whimsically inferred from the titles of the individual portraits.

So what could be more natural than to hold the homage at the Hengl-Haselbrunner winery in rooms that have been specially redesigned for the occasion - right next door in the Grätzl, where Schutting writes, Keiffenheim paints, and both are at home under the same roof, door to door.

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