galerie gugging's solo presentation of Jürgen Tauscher was on view at PARALLEL VIENNA from 9 to 13 September 2026, at the Otto Wagner Areal. The fair has now closed, and a selection of work from the presentation is available here to view and collect online.
Titled "Vom Abheben und Zutexten," the presentation invites you into Tauscher's distinctive universe of drawing, writing, construction, and movement.
Tauscher designs and develops, drawing line after line. He builds the basic structure, supports, and mechanisms first, and only then turns to the outer form, working almost like an engineer. He is less an inventor of a fantasy world than a precise designer of independent systems of imagery, language, and movement.
Pencil lines merge into frameworks, sequences, frames, and surfaces. Dense hatching gives rise to airplanes, helicopters, Enterprise fleets, submarines, houses, and technically hybrid constructions. Found fragments of text are detached from their original context and reorganized as word-images. Even his signature stays fluid, he crosses it out, flips it, alters the years, or adopts names from those around him, sometimes even his fellow artists. Authorship takes flight and dissolves into itself, the signature remains present while becoming one of many building blocks in the unmistakable Tauscher cosmos.
At the center of his practice is the drawing surface he has used over an extended period. Its layers and traces make the creative process visible all at once, a worktable, a canvas, and an archive, a kind of flight recorder where intuition, hand, and paper converge.
