Vernissage 21.05.2026 | 18:01 – 21:00
22.05.2026 - 01.08.2026

MAX FREUND | Sommersprossen Solo Exhibition

Max Freund’s first solo exhibition at the SALON of Galerie Andreae is entitled Sommersprossen ("freckles"), a title borrowed from his re-encounter with a childhood (anti-)heroine, Pippi Longstocking (from Pippi Långstrump, 1945, by Astrid Lindgren). The freckled Pippi Longstocking serves here less as a nostalgic reference than as a model for a different way of engaging with the world. She questions life plans and authority, is independent and rebellious, yet at the same time generous and kind. She is guided not by norms, but by potential and imagination. This is also where Freund’s artistic research comes in: as a practice that does not merely depict reality and collective memory, but expands and recodes them.

Freund conceives of images as peculiar constants of our civilisation, as repositories of time, cultural echoes and personal memories that negotiate both the past and possibility. In a present marked by constant image production, painting continues to shape contemporary art discourse. The artist, who lives and works in Vienna, perceives his image-based practice as a representation or even an extension of reality, feeding fantasy and abstract, non-linear thought processes into our reality.

Max Freund (b. 1992) lives and works in Vienna. In 2017, he completed his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Prof. Judith Eisler. His paintings are featured in numerous international exhibitions, projects and collections across Europe.

Opening: May 21, 2026, 6–9 pm
The artist will be present.

Max Freund
Sommersprossen
May 22 – August 1, 2026

Parallel to Max Freund’s solo presentation, Galerie Andreae is showing Ostrakon Stories by Tiziana Jill Beck.