Hubert Scheibl is one of the most important contemporary Austrian painters. His oil paintings and drawings are always non-representational, renouncing subject matter in favour of emotions, the artist’s own, as well as those of his spectators.

His art is defined by dichotomies and antinomies. Certain works reveal an infinite variety of colour in the cracks in the uppermost, bright monochrome layer of paint. Others depend on the contrast within spaces of light, reminiscent of the Old Masters, countered by grand painterly gestures, executed in one controlled movement. Others in turn open new vistas on imaginary landscapes of colour and light, behind mist-like veils of colour. All of Hubert Scheibl’s paintings, however, seem suffused by an inner radiance.