Sarah Pichlkostner (1988, Salzburg, Austria) lives and works in Vienna and London. In 2014 Pichlkostner has received the prestigious grant of De Ateliers in Amsterdam and in 2019 she was a resident at ISCP New York, supported by Cultural Ministry of Austria. The long-term research by Sarah Pichlkostner is focused on the representation of time, space, self-optimization, productivity, self-reflection and empathy created by objects. Through a deep study of the behaviour of materials, that combines effortless contemporary methods with laborious and outmoded fabrication techniques, Pichlkostner reflects on the social behaviour of and towards objects.
Solo and group exhibitions include Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (2026); Leopold Museum, Wien (2024); Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (2023); David Dale Gallery and Studios, Glasgow (2022); Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (2022, 2020); Fill O, curated by P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2022); Josh Lilley Gallery, London (2021, 2019, 2017, 2015); Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden (two-person exhibition with Donald Judd, curated by Rudi Fuchs) (2019); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2018, 2015); De Ketelfactory, Schiedam (2017); and Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (2013). Her work has been presented in one-artist booths at Artissima, Turin, and Vienna Contemporary (both 2017), and FIAC, Paris (2015).