Walter Storms Galerie presents Viola Bittl, one of the most prominent German representatives of abstract painting of her generation, for the first time. The exhibition title “Return” refers not only to her return to Munich, where she once studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in the class of Sean Scully, but also to a reflection on the return to the fundamentals of painting.

Bittl’s participation in 2020 in the major show of 53 artists of today’s forty-year-olds “Jetzt! Junge Malerei in Deutschland”, exhibited by the curators of the Kunstmuseen Bonn and Wiesbaden, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz and the Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, places Bittl’s work in the context of the best representatives of painting as a leading discipline of art.

Viola Bittl is known for her insistent and multi-layered works that explore the boundaries of painting and create a dialogical space between form and abstraction. The exhibition “Return” presents a selection of her works since 2018, including her most recent series of “New York Paintings”, which were created during a studio scholarship in New York.