Josef Köstlbacher
In his paintings, Josef Köstlbacher explores aspects of perception and the construction of reality. His works challenge our viewing habits, defy expectations, and reveal unusual perspectives. Using the canvas as a stage for experiments in painting, he turns snippets from photographs and sketches, magazines, comics, computer games or YouTube clips into building blocks of a visual world in which they form their own connections. This “collage principle” serves as a method for reconstructing impressions and situations, a kind of recall technique.
From 2011 to 2020, Josef Köstlbacher studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Markus Oehlen and Stephan Dillemuth. In 2013, he attended the Universidad Complutense in Madrid as part of the Erasmus program. In 2023, he was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts with the Paris Scholarship of the State of Bavaria. He lives and works in Munich, Germany.
Photo: Josef Köstlbacher
