Martha Jungwirth Untitled, 2020

My pictorial reality is charged with passion, a language tied to the body, to dynamic movement. Painting is a matter of form, and then it receives a soul – through me. 

— Martha Jungwirth

Martha Jungwirth’s process follows a rhythm involving the body, with finger marks, blotches and scratches remaining as a visceral record of her presence in her work. Her paintings convey a palpable sense of self. As she has described, my art is like a diary, seismographic. That is the method of my work. I am completely related to myself.’ In Ohne Titel (2020), the vivid strokes of green, purple and pink paint, hues characteristic of Jungwirth’s work, gather as a dense presence at the centre of the painting, bearing witness to the physical intensity of the artist’s process.

In 2024, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao will hold a major retrospective of Martha Jungwirth’s work.