Negra Bernhard

“Wild Is The Wind”  gathers new works by Negra Bernhard – dogs, swans, women, flesh, and firelust. There’s biting, loving, dancing, and denial. Where the Right clashes with the Left, poverty growls at wealth, and power in uniform brands the bodies of others, the painter deploys hairy phantoms and naked Amazons.

In Left Jaw Bites Right (after Hobbes), history keeps spinning in circles – right against left, rich against poor, reason against instinct. Everything is battle, everything is dance, and the sky remains indifferent. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden  is a love song, but one with scars – love as the last stand against greed and corruption. No sentimentality here, just a fragile refusal of cynicism. 
Painter Tribe Jane reflects the duality of the artist’s existence – belonging yet detached, engaged yet alienated, forever questioning her place in the world she depicts. And The Forever New Class Ballet  remembers: the dance within Richter’s class, the fight between form, colour, and freedom – and the teacher smiling through the chaos.

Checkpoint Lullaby  hums with the exhaustion of witnessing tragedy on repeat, the slow decay of empathy. Nocturne for Two Strays – The Fence Was Always There  celebrates poverty, the outsider, the dignity of survival. In the two works from 2024 (State Of Affairs und The World Is Moving Closer Together), the familiar demons return: corrupt politicians, human greed, and the struggle of those just trying to exist. In Snout Full – Tired of Dreaming, fatigue takes over – enough of hustling, of chasing dreams like commodities. Tyrannis & Anarchia – A Love Story  dreams of escape: from rigid systems into the calm of nature, where breathing still feels possible.

Bernhard’s painting is not commentary – it’s resistance. Against forgetting, against comfort, against the quieting of rage. The works speak of systems devouring each other, of bodies refusing to belong.  Negra Bernhard paints against the state of the world – raw, wild, tenderly furious. Her paintings are both manifesto and stealth-grown bloom: enchanted, unsettling, dangerous in the best possible way.

Negra Bernhard was born in 1986 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and emigrated to Austria with her family in 1992. She lives and works in Baden near Vienna. From 2017 to 2022, Negra Bernhard studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Prof. Daniel Richter.

Opening on October 21st, 6 – 8 pm