David Roth

David Roth’s artistic practice forms a long-term research into the origins, processes and manifestations of painting. For Roth the process of making and the element of chance involved are as important to notice as the final visual outcome. Therefore a so called end product as for example a painted canvas and side products as for example a palette or a piece of cloth for cleaning brushes, have the same value for him. Every surface with marks and history of the process may turn up in his works. Time and duration are important elements and the layering of materials from different periods within one work can either spark dissonance or renewal. Roth’s works continually play with concepts of construction and deconstruction as well as with the performative and sculptural potential painting can possess. This becomes very clear in his painterly installations and in his intriguing and humorous videos that document the sometimes unusual making process of various of his ‘paintings’. 

David Roth (1985) graduated from the Academy of fine arts Vienna in the class of Daniel Richter. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include ‘Rot ist eine schnelle Farbe’ at Elektrohalle Rhomberg in Salzburg’, ‘Certain Circumstances. Selected Flowers’ at Panis in Rouen, ’Labour and Wait’ at Dürst Britt & Mayhew, ‘Method Acting’ at Galeria Alegria in Barcelona, ’Imagine’ at Bildraum 01 in Vienna, ‘remember’ at New Jörg in Vienna, ‘Vogl/Roth’ at Skulpturinstitut in Vienna, ‘ça grésille, ça clignotte’ at le commissariat in Paris. Recent group exhibitions include 'True Colors' at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, 'Earth, a collective Landscape' at the AkzoNobel Art Foundation in Amsterdam,  ‘Landscapes’ at Museum Schloss Moyland in Bedburg-Hau, ‘Great God! This is an awful place’ at Dürst Britt & Mayhew, ’Vielfalt’ at Landesmuseum Burgenland, ‘Imago Mundi’ at Belvedere Winterpalais in Vienna. Work by Roth is held in private and public collections including the Museum Schloss Moyland, Landesmuseum Burgenland, the AkzoNobel Art Foundation, the Aksenov Family Foundation and the Luciano Benetton collection. David Roth lives and works in Vienna, Austria.