This was PARALLEL Vienna 2026 | Otto Wagner Areal, September 9 to 13

I showed at PARALLEL Vienna, together with Daniel Sommergruber, in our own room 216 in Pavilion 13.

Denise Schellmann at PARALLEL Vienna 2026, with Diptych „Freud und Leid", 2024.

Each position stayed its own, and the room took shape between them.

Exhibition view, PARALLEL Vienna 2026, Pavilion 13. Left: Triptych „Inner Motion I", 2026. The other works in this view are by Daniel Sommergruber.

Freud und Leid is from 2024, my first large-format diptych. It was shown then at WestSpace, Vienna, in The Window and the Couch, curated by Simon Rees. At PARALLEL it took the inward side, Sommergruber's perspectives the outward. People stayed in front of it longest, and it drew the most questions.

Exhibition view, PARALLEL Vienna 2026, Pavilion 13. Left: Diptychs „Invisibles 26 I" to „Invisibles 26 IV", 2026. Centre: Diptych „Freud und Leid", 2024. Right: Diptychs „Mitosika I" and „Mitosika II", 2026.

Exhibition view, PARALLEL Vienna 2026, Pavilion 13. „Micro Peeling SD IV", 2026, edition of 7, no. 5/7, above Group „Micro Peeling SD V–VIII", 2026. Right: Diptychs „Invisibles 26 I" to „Invisibles 26 IV", 2026.

PARALLEL Vienna 2026

Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna

Pavilion 13, Room 216

9 to 13 September 2026

With Daniel Sommergruber

Thank you to everyone who came by. The works shown are in the studio in Vienna, viewings by appointment.