SUTURA
MARKUS WÖRGÖTTER

Opening: 9 October 2026, 6.30 pm
Exhibition duration: 10 October –28 November 2026
Opening hours: Wed–Sat, 10.30–17.00 hrs


There is a peculiar quality to Austrian artist Markus Wörgötter’s (b. 1966) smaller than life-size sculptures. They appear to viewers as both intimate and moving, yet often also grotesque or even unsettling. They are neither representational nor purely abstract. In his work, Wörgötter combines plaster, bronze, and textiles to form small, corporeal presences that oscillate between organic form and shell, between vulnerability and self-assuredness. His anthropomorphic sculptures appear figurative and representational, yet they ultimately embody something abstract—a quality both topographical and transformative: forces, states, and affects. Abstraction is not merely presented but given literal, physical form. Affect is not to be understood here solely as a psychological state; it is inscribed directly into matter: bodies expand, are compressed, concealed, and deformed. The soft, often intricately shaped—and at times proliferating—hand-sewn textiles contrast with the hard surfaces of plaster or bronze, creating a tension between malleability and solidity, what has been created and what has emerged—a quality that defines the figures. At the same time, it remains unclear whether the textile layers constitute clothing, protection, or skin—or whether they are in fact the body itself.