Maria Lassnig

Petzel is pleased to present an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Austrian artist Maria Lassnig, in collaboration with the Maria Lassnig Foundation, Vienna, on view from March 12 through April 18, 2026. The exhibition surveys the later stages of Lassnig's career, spanning from the late 1980s through the early 2000s, and brings together a focused selection of works that reflect her sustained engagement with the body as a site of perception, conflict, and existential inquiry. Continuing Petzel's long-standing commitment to Lassnig's work, this presentation follows the gallery's exhibitions Maria Lassnig: The Paris Years, 1960–68 and Woman Power: Maria Lassnig in New York, 1968–1980. In contrast to those earlier examinations of her formative years abroad, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition turn to Lassnig's later years in Vienna, where she served as a professor at the University of Applied Arts starting in 1980.