Introducing: Simon Scharinger,
Crawling Home,
Salzburg (AT)

Exhibition Details:
This work (Hiding In Plain Sight, Oil on Linen, 20x30cm, Placed on Bricks, 2025) is 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.

We are delighted to be able to present the work of young Salzburg artist Simon Scharinger for a week in his hometown of Salzburg. The collaboration arose spontaneously from an encounter during Crawling Home – and quickly developed into a fruitful cooperation. Scharinger currently lives and studies in the Netherlands and is in the final year of his Master's degree in Fine Arts, Painting at the renowned Frank Mohr Institute in Groningen. The exhibition marks the first presentation of his work in Salzburg – and at the same time offers the opportunity to celebrate together once again one week before the closing of Crawling Home.

Text by Madelaine Williams

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