Guggenheim Bilbao acquires works by Martha Jungwirth Acquisitions following artist's summer 2024 Guggenheim retrospective

Congratulations to Martha Jungwirth for the acquisition of two of her paintings – Australidelphia (from the series "Triptychon") (2020) and Self Portrait (1982–84) – by the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. These acquisitions follow Jungwirth’s major career retrospective at the museum in summer 2024.

Over the past six decades, Martha Jungwirth has forged a singular approach to abstraction that is grounded in the body and closely observed perceptions of the world around her. With an idiosyncratic, non-conformist approach to painting, her works occupy an intuitive space that exists beyond the formation of recognisable images, 'before spoken language', 'before memory' and 'before the obtrusiveness of objects'. The compositions reveal themselves to her during the painting process, which she describes as an 'adventure', creating in concert with her materials to produce works that are poised between chance and calculation.