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viennacontemporary 2025

Marko Djurdjevic

Born in Vienna in 2001, Marko Djurdjevic lived from age five to eighteen in the Klosterneuburg children’s home, a life experience that deeply informs his work. Self-taught in both painting and woodcut printing, he uses the colour blue as a constant: not just a favourite, but a source of strength and healing. In 2022, he received the Klosterneuburg Culture Promotion Prize. Galerie Gugging is proud to present his debut at viennacontemporary and to officially represent him from fall 2025. Marko Djurdjevic’s large-scale paintings invite the viewer into expansive emotional terrain. His compositions often depict dreamlike forests and silhouettes, using layers of deep blue to evoke distance, memory, and introspection. Working instinctively and without formal training, Djurdjevic explores personal themes with remarkable visual clarity, offering work that is both vulnerable and monumental in presence.

Leopold Strobl

Leopold Strobl’s distinctive small-format drawings possess a quiet intensity that invites deep focus. Using colored pencils layered over found newspaper imagery, he transforms the everyday into the extraordinary. In this photo, Strobl stands beside a recent series of works, each one a portal into his layered, introspective world. His practice is marked by remarkable consistency, creating new pieces daily through a meticulous process that has earned him recognition in both contemporary and Art Brut contexts worldwide. Strobl’s works have been exhibited internationally, including presentations at the la Biennale di Venezia, and continue to resonate with audiences across Europe, Japan, and the United States. His art reflects both precision and imagination, offering collectors and viewers a chance to experience a universe distilled into intimate scale.

NATURE. blue & green

A presentation by galerie gugging for viennacontemporary 2025

This collection brings together two artists who approach nature not as subject matter, but as state of being. Through deep blues, layered surfaces, silhouettes, and quiet marks, these works explore the emotional terrain of memory, isolation, resilience, and reflection.

Each piece speaks in its own voice. Some loud, some soft. All with the urgency of lived experience.

Whether expansive or intimate in scale, the works draw you into slow observation. Colour becomes emotion. Repetition becomes ritual. Landscape becomes language.

Nature. blue & green was originally presented at viennacontemporary 2025 and is now available to view and collect.

A presentation by galerie gugging for viennacontemporary 2025

Each piece speaks in its own voice. Some loud, some soft. All with the urgency of lived experience.

Whether expansive or intimate in scale, the works draw you into slow observation. Colour becomes emotion. Repetition becomes ritual. Landscape becomes language.

Nature. blue & green was originally presented at viennacontemporary 2025 and is now available to view and collect.