Florian Pumhösl: Lithosphere

Florian Pumhösl (b. 1971, Vienna) lives and works in Vienna and Munich. Pumhösl’s works—reliefs, paintings, drawings, films and installations— are constituted by themes and references encoded within a visual language that appears formal. Through the selection, reduction, rearrangement, and reproduction of his motifs and source materials—procedures of transcription—the artist arrives at a vocabulary that is at once abstract and semiotically motivated. Recurrently interested in formal processes undergone in relation to terrain, Pumhösl’s latest work departs from a longstanding involvement with human land-shaping above ground to derive forms emergent in subterranean zones.

Yuki Higashino is an artist and writer based in Vienna. He has exhibited at Carriage Trade, New York, David Zwirner, New York (online), MAMOTH, London, Last Tango, Zurich, Le BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, Galerie kunstbuero, Vienna, Contemporary Art Factory, Kyoto, Urgent Paradise, Lausanne, and has an upcoming solo show at Künstlerloge Ratingen in May 2024. He has screened his films at Mumok, Vienna, and Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao. His writing has been published in journals such as Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, and the Brooklyn Rail. He is the co-editor of Agency journal.