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Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher’s work is imbued with that intense intimacy that you feel on hot summer days when the air seems to stand still, you seek out the shade and watch the quiet play of the curtain.
It’s like déjà vu in this inner emptiness that makes you feel so cheerful and carefree and opens your mind to all kinds of daydreams and wandering thoughts.
Her paintings are a painted abstract diary, a reference to her state of mind, feelings and memories, skillfully captured on the canvas, acting as a catalyst for our own emotional world.
Anyone who engages with the artist’s work cannot help but slow down and pause for a moment.
What a blessing.
And so modern.

The term “language” plays such an eminently important role in understanding the artist’s works because her pictures are not actually painted, but written.
Each of her works is a life note, a recorded emotional state, a diary entry.
It is as if she is communicating her messages to us in specially developed, different character sets.
The gestures – sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical, sometimes in dynamic circular movements or freely combined – form her grammar.
And surprisingly, she draws on an ancient yet contemporary communication concept.
Hieroglyphs, emojis and “Oberlik-Burtschers” are communicative primordial matter, fine matter in its purest form.
Painted pure substance without superimposed values, norms or social constraints.

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Artist brigitte oberlik-burtscher

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The artist Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher in her studio in Vienna; 2022 Photo by Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher © konsum163

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Brigitte Oberlik- Burtscher’s work is a perpetual diary in which you immerse yourself and find your own story.
The artist’s works possess the poetic depth of classicist communication.
Anyone familiar with the film “The Beloved Sisters” by director and screenwriter Dominik Graf will know what is meant.
The shimmering, poetic determination of her painting also has a socio-political dimension, especially in a world that is increasingly dominated by algorithms, AI and the constant use of empty words.
After all, it shows us how breathtaking and captivating storytellers can be.

“The dialog with the picture is a dialog with myself, a dialog between gut and head, between courage and care”, Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher about the work in the studio.
Photo by Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher © konsum163

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brigitte oberlik-burtscher

The term “language” plays an eminently important role in understanding the artist’s works, because her pictures are not actually painted, but written.
Each of her works is a life note, a recorded emotional state, a diary entry.
It is as if she is communicating her messages to us in specially developed, different character sets.
The gestures – sometimes horizontal, sometimes vertical, sometimes in dynamic circular movements or freely combined – form her grammar.
And surprisingly, she draws on an ancient yet contemporary communication concept.
Hieroglyphs, emojis and “Oberlik-Burtschers” are communicative primordial matter, fine matter in its purest form.
Painted pure substance without superimposed values, norms or social constraints.

The artist in the exhibition “Wilde Mischung” at ArtSpace in Munich; 2022 © Cornelia Bier

it must be told

brigitte oberlik-burtscher

SPARK, 40 x 40 cm Mixed media with wax and flowers on cardboard; 2022 Photo by Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher© konsum163

Intimate insights into the work of Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher – the abstract pictures look like a painted diary; Photo by Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher2023 © konsum163

Insights into the studio

2023

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Looking für words, 54 x 68 cm, Aquarell und Aquarellstifte auf handgeschöpftem Papier © konsum163

"An abstract image absorbs your thoughts, your feelings, your memories, your experiences, it absorbs you - you can find everything in it."

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Looking for words (Ausschnitt), © konsum163

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Insights and views into the studio and the works of the Viennese artist; Photo by Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher © konsum163

subtle substance as pure substance

2023

exhibitions and bio

2023 Strings and Strokes, konsum163, Munich

2022 Now – There, Van Gogh Art Gallery, Madrid KRAS Gallery, 1060 Vienna, Stumpergasse 16 (participation) International Art Fair Luxembourg

2021 Atelier Elisabeth Krainer, 1010 Vienna, Petersplatz Group exhibition Gallery KRAS, Vienna

2021 group exhibition Liebe, love, amour – publicartists 1080 Vienna

2020 Group exhibition, art.aqua, Vienna

2019 KALEIDOSKOP, 50 years of the Steinfeld Culture Days

2017 take a breath, Thomas Hüttl cooking studio, Vienna

2016 Monotypes – an aha-experience, M-Zone MAMUZ, Mistelbach

2014 VKK Eichgraben, Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher, painting, Sabine Müller-Funk, glass objects

2012 Group exhibition, in focus, artmark Gallery, Vienna

2010 Group exhibition Spurwechsel, Diocese of St. Pölten Hauptsache Musik, group exhibition, Kulturtage Laaben, Brand-Laaben group exhibition, , 10 years Galerie am Lieglweg, Neulengbach

2005 Group exhibition, BPW – Private Collection 03 Palais Palffy, Vienna

2004 Freies – Gefügtes, Galerie am Lieglweg, Neulengbach Group exhibition, Hortus Niger Annual exhibition, Seminar G. Brettschuh Schloß Halbenrain

2000… my heart longs for green colors … , RLB Vienna colors .
constructions, Studio office + home G. Wurzer, Klagenfurt

1999 New Rooms – New Pictures III, Brand-Laaben

1998 Color .
Order .
Structure, Kulturhaus 9754 Steinfeld, Carinthia

1997 Farbklänge über Strukturen, Ordnung, Bewegung und Stille, Bank Austria, Vienna

1996 Gallery of the company
Siemens and gallery in the Siemens factory building, Erlangen

1995 Presentation at the PSK Vienna

1989 Group exhibition, Neue Galerie, Nuremberg

1985 Landscape in pastel and watercolor, Kur- und Kongreßhaus, Millstatt, Carinthia

1984 Watercolor – colored pencil – pastel, Casablanca, Vienna

1984 Gallery in Neumarkt am Wallersee

1981 Group exhibition, watercolor and pastel, Gallery of the HTL Mödling

1977 Drawings, Sparkasse Steinfeld, Carinthia

Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher’s talent was recognized at an early age, and drawing and painting were encouraged at school.
Her first exhibitions also took place while she was still at school.
“Painting has always been a way for me to express myself.”
Having grown up in the countryside, the artist has lived in Vienna, the capital of Austria, since 1982.
During her training in interior design and furniture construction, she learned a lot about shapes, proportions, reduction, tension, harmony and texture.
“Critically examining my own wishes and listening to my clients have also certainly shaped me.”
In addition to working as a freelance interior designer, Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher continues to develop her artistic skills in seminars and workshops with various artists and in several techniques (calligraphy, oil painting, monotype, working with pigments, abstraction, photography).
Her first solo exhibition attracted attention in Vienna in 1984.
Brigitte Oberlik-Burtscher lives and works in Vienna and in the countryside in Brand Laaben.
Her work is traded internationally.

brigitte oberlik-burtscher

subtle

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it must be told

brigitte oberlik-burtscher

it must be told

brigitte oberlik-burtscher

Insights into the studio

2023

"An abstract image absorbs your thoughts, your feelings, your memories, your experiences, it absorbs you - you can find everything in it."

brigitte oberlik-burtscher

subtle

subtle substance as pure substance

2023

exhibitions and bio

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