Philipp Fürhofer

August 2026

about Philipp Fürhofer´s exhibition designs in institutional contexts

17 July – 29 August 2026

16 July – 6 September 2026

Produced by Kobalt

11 September – 25 October 2025

by Jens Hinrichsen

27 September 2025 – 11 January 2026

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

25 October 2024 – 27 April 2025

by Michael Petry

17 October – 16 November 2024

12 Mai – 5 Novemer 2023

9 September 2024 – 27 April 2025

Interview with Philipp Fürhofer

Edited by Svenja Grosser, published by Hatje Cantz
Foreword by Philipp Demandt,
interview with Philipp Fürhofer by Christine Lemke-Matwey

1 May 2023

Das Leuchten der Palmen

30 April – 11 June 2022

With a foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy and essays by Sir Norman Rosenthal, Emily Ansenk, Ulrich Baer, Thomas Rogers, Denise Wendel-Poray and the special collaboration of Rufus Wainwright

July 11 – August 29, 2020

On August 11th Philipp Fürhofer was invited by Süddeutsche Zeitung to talk with Susanne Hermanski about his art and current projects

»The audience is the vital ingredient for Fürhofer’s illusionism: We must move our bodies in space to feel the shifting dimensions within his artworks, to see the painted image incorporated with our own environment, to witness our own image being sucked into the world before us«

Published by SKIRA
Canadian author and critic Denise Wendel-Poray  considers the intertwining of visual and musical arts examined in her book Painting The Stage: Artist’s as Stage Designers, reflecting on more than 200 years of artist’s designs for opera.

November 2019 - February 2020

»Fürhofer’s boxes are triumphs of illusionism, of ingenuous visual staging. His assemblages allow him to combine various textures and to relate these spatially – in this he has surely been informed by his work as a set designer for the opera.«

On January 22 Philipp Fürhofer was special guest at the anglophone program
»Arts and Culture« and the German-speaking »Der Tag«

On January 22 Philipp Fürhofer was special guest at the anglophone program
»Arts and Culture« and the German-speaking »Der Tag«

The installation was created specifically for the Schirn Rotunda, transforming the circular architecture of the building into an illusionary space. Two spatial situations alternate in a regular, pulse-like rhythm, reflecting the play between the viewers perception and their notion of reality.