Portrait Simon Scharinger

I am an Austrian artist with more than a decade of experience in the creative field. As a Designer, I have worked on corporate designs, editorial projects, digital interfaces (UI/UX), photography, and conceptual pieces. The transition from working as an UI/UX Designer for multiple years, to Fine Art marked a profound shift, guiding me into the intimate language of painting.

In my practice, I give form to that which hides in plain sight, oscillating between revelation and denial. I explore the emotional and structural interior of the human body through clinical scans, anatomical archives, diagnostic and medical images—sources that render invisible systems visible. 

My works move between figuration and abstraction. By creating my own painting materials—oil sticks, transparent primers, and grounds—I establish the basis for works that understand figuration not solely as narration or representation, but as presence.

These works are part of a series of black paintings that explore the intangibility and interiority of the body—not as anatomy, but as structure, affect and atmosphere. Influenced by diagnostic imagery such as X-rays and MRIs, these paintings compress emotionally charged and temporal states into dense, monochromatic surfaces. Symmetry and frontality act as a form of trap, catching what is Hiding in Plain Sight. While the composition simultaneously fixates and exposes, the monochrome creates a space of suspended recognition, where clarity dissolves. These works are less about representation and more about presence, absence, and psychological pressure.

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Recent works by Simon Scharinger, showcasing paintings, drawings and installation views.