Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman

Founded in 1977 in Innsbruck, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman has worked with important and internationally renowned contemporary artists from Austria, including Bruno Gironcoli, Hermann Nitsch, Walter Pichler, Arnulf Rainer and Franz West.

In the 1980s, the gallery began working with a younger generation of painters—Siegfried Anzinger, Herbert Brandl, Erwin Bohatsch and Gunter Damisch—who had just graduated from the academies and would later become known as the Neue Wilde. Artists working across different media and from neighbouring countries joined the gallery in the 1990s and early 2000s, including Eva Bodnar, Maria Brunner, Thomas Feuerstein, Michael Kienzer, Florin Kompatscher and Peter Sandbichler. The gallery s profile has continued to expand with significant international positions, always considered within a broader cultural context. These include John M Armleder, Gunther Forg, Jurgen Klauke, Tal R, Johannes Wohnseifer, Mai-Thu Perret and Iman Issa. In 2011, the gallery opened a large-scale location in Vienna s first district. After more than 40 years of Elisabeth and Klaus Thoman s work as gallerists, their son Maximilian Thoman joined the gallery in 2020 and has been its gallerist since 2023. Maximilian Thoman has continued his parents tradition while opening the programme to a younger generation of artists. He has introduced positions from his own generation, including Sarah Bechter, Julia Haugeneder, Johannes Kofler, Lukas Thaler, Axel Jonsson and Mona Schulzek. At the core of the gallery s programme remains its commitment to working with artists over the long term and accompanying them throughout their careers.