"My work is the result of prolonged thought processes from the 1970s to the present. THINKING SPACES, THINKING FIGURES emerge in the form of constructive, antagonistic systems, sequences, and layers.
Images that appear intuitive function as guiding inner driving forces.
I sense myself within a taut arc that slowly tilts."
(Meina Schellander, 2025)

In September 2026, fjk3 presents an extensive solo exhibition dedicated to the Austrian exceptional artist Meina Schellander (b. 1946, Klagenfurt). She is one of the most consistently independent voices in Austrian contemporary art. Her work moves between figure and space, image (painting, drawing/photography), object/sculpture, and installation. It is dialectically conceived, systematically arranged, layered, and formulaic—always with a strong poetic or reflective-critical component, often fundamentally shaped by language. The exhibition presents key works from over five decades as well as new extensions of existing works. An extensive discursive program accompanies the project.Meina Schellander, born in 1946 in Klagenfurt, lives and works in Vienna as well as in Ludmannsdorf / Bilčovs / Carinthia. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the master class for graphic art under Max Melcher. Her oeuvre encompasses painting, drawing, object, installation, site-specific works in public space, as well as a continuously expanding lyrical body of work.

Her works have been shown in exhibitions in Austria and abroad, including the Museum of the 20th Century Vienna, the Vienna Secession, the Lentos Art Museum Linz, the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia, the Museum Liaunig Neuhaus/Suha, the Neue Galerie Graz, as well as in Basel and Ljubljana. In addition to her visual practice, she has published several textual works in which her visual language continues on a literary level.
Meina Schellander is represented by Galerie Crone Vienna/Berlin and is a member of the Vienna Secession.