Alois Neuhold, du musst dir die Augen ausreißen und die Hände in die Ohrstiegen legen

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In the work of the Styrian painter Alois Neuhold, who was ordained as a priest before studying painting and was later suspended, political engagement and artistic expression intersect in a way that transcends the concrete truth of his daily claims. The provocative potential of Neuhold's political actions, with their vision of wanting to uproot an entire institution, has been newly interpretable in his consistent paintings and drawings over the past twenty or thirty years within the church system. The materialization of the spiritual, a fundamental theme of art, becomes concrete in Neuhold's monastic painting existence, translated into the poetic while simultaneously subversively sacralized.