About the Schlichtner Art Collection
collecting, connecting, curating
Exhibitions
The Schlichtner Art Collection has been an art collection in Vienna-Simmering since 2001.
From collecting came exhibiting. Exhibition activities began in 2020 during the pandemic with online solo presentations via my website and Instagram.
My first in-person group exhibition took place after the lockdowns in 2021/22 at the invitation of the Gegner-Haus on Lake Attersee. I now regularly organize and curate exhibitions. As a nomadic curator, I seek out interesting spaces, unusual locations, and public spaces, but I am also active at art fairs and have been invited several times by cultural forums of Austrian embassies abroad to curate exhibitions.
From the outset, collaboration with young artists has been particularly important to me, and their work is exhibited alongside the latest pieces by artists of different generations, origins, and backgrounds. This allows for a continuous contemporary perspective. Only in exceptional cases are works from my collection shown in my exhibitions. My exhibitions are characterized by the integration of as many artists as possible, in order to exclude as few as possible. This allows me to utilize the available space and enable the exhibited works to interact with one another, rather than isolating them. I conceive my exhibitions around relevant, current, and broad themes, so that diverse positions and media can be contextualized and experienced along a common thread. This creates environments in which multisensory experiences are possible without compromising the autonomy of individual works.
Collection
With a few exceptions, my collecting today focuses on works by artists with whom I collaborate in my exhibitions. But my collecting began differently.
I started collecting in 2001. At the time, I was a bicycle messenger, musician, and DJ, so I was familiar with street culture. I found artworks on the street that artists had simply placed in public spaces. As it turned out, many of these works were by Christian Eisenberger, and they were my entry point. Eisenberger sparked my interest in the visual arts, and today, in addition to my business degree, I also have a degree in art history.
This led to acquaintances with various artists. Street art and graffiti were initially the focus of my collecting—works by Keramik, Busk, Nychos, El Lasso, Die Made, Smurf, EmilOne, monochrom, and C215 from Nicholas Platzer's Inoperable gallery. That was the 2000s.
My collection currently includes, as of the end of 2025, works by Christian Eisenberger, Jonathan Meese, Begi Guggenheim, Amiko Kamikaze, les tardes goldscheyder, Stinkfish, Hermann Nitsch, Peter Kogler, Franz West, Thomas Gegner, Johann Hauser, Margareta Klose, Peter Várnai, Arianna Ellero, Monika Böhme-Sauter, Martin Dickinger, Aklima Iqbal, Sagar Sarkar, Susan Lisbin, Alan Neider, Sabine Hilscher, Martin Grandits, Gert Resinger, Annette Tesarek, Anna Pelz, Lukas Lex, Moritz Wildburger, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Oksana Zmiyevska, Bernhard Graschitz, Freakygreenfish, Lea Neckel, Martin Krammer, Daniel Mazanik, Lia Quirina, Isa Robertini, Ola Plankenauer, Patryck Chan, Nikola Milojcevic, Claudia Schumann, Georgiy Melnikov, Karin Frank, Fabian Seiz, Michael Vonbank, Adam Wiener, Kathi Gusch, Ana Vollwesen, Sebastian Pfeifhofer, Felice Gotthardt, David Blumenkind, Jakob Wächter, Alisa Krakhofer, Lym Moreno, George Kubla, Janusz Oliwa, Malgorzata Oliwa, Die Aschenbrecher, Oleg Ustinov, Gottfried Hoellwarth, Jeremias Altmann, René Fadinger, Stefanie Koscher, Walter Michael Pühringer, Vanessa Mazanik, Oskerhase, Judith Rohrmoser.
What particularly interests me in the art world?
Direct contact with various stakeholders in the art world, especially artists. Studio visits, collaboratively selecting and developing artworks for exhibitions. Engaging with art history, art theory, the roles of artists, the sociology of art, the economics of art, and the tensions between art and society, politics, economics, and the environment. Understanding art from a post-autonomous perspective.
Art transport and art handling.
All media and forms of creativity, performance, gender-relevant art, digital art, AI, architecture, spaces, light. Intermedial environments. Avant-garde, post-war modernism, contemporary, post-contemporary, Gen Z.
What don't I like?
Rules and regulations set by protagonists in the art world. Macho attitudes, misogyny, patriarchal structures, juries, rankings, art historical constructs.
Exaggerated academicism and art snobs. Envy among those involved in the art world. Better: Recognize the solidarity and creativity of everyone!
Otto Mühl and the idea of separating the work from the artist. Better: Look closely and ask yourself which ideologies and mindsets have given rise to the art we encounter!
Which authors do I particularly admire?
Verena Krieger, Paz Guevara, Linn Burchert, Luise Reitstätter, Pierre Bourdieu, Wolfgang Ulrich.