Gerhard Petzl
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→ Magazine: Artist talk magazine – issue 36, UK, 2025
Book: Jaarboek Kunstenaar 25, Netherland, 2025
→ Portrait Gerhard Petzl, 2024 (https://artworlddaily.com/gerhard-petzl-a-journey-through-shapes-colors-and-textures/)
→ Contemporary art curator - Parallel world (Online portrait Gerhard Petzl), Dubai, 2024
→ Magazine: Contemporary Art Curator`s magazine, 2nd issue, 2025 Visionaries: Artists shaping the future, Dubai, VAE, 2024
→ Catalog: MUSA International - WE CONTEMPORARY, ISBN 9788894626032 by Natalia Gryniuk, IT, 2022
→ Magazine: BOOMER gallery magazine, "Art for real!", UK, 2022
→ Magazine: VOGUE - 4th Edition, Boomer gallery, UK, 2022
→ Book: 'A like Artist' , Vol.1, ISBN 2938-2270, Al-Tiba9, Spain, 2022
→ Magazine: London magazine (Chelsea Life), UK, 2022
→ Magazine: Circle Spotlight - Contemporary art magazine, Issue 29, FR, 2022
→ Magazine: Pastry Arts, Issue 13, US, 2021
→ Magazine: Magazine art - In times of change, IT, 2021
→ Magazine: Circle Spotlight - Contemporary art magazine, FR, 2021
→ Book: 'Science meets Chocolate Art' by Gerhard Petzl, ISBN 978-2-9701206-2-9, 2020
→ Book: "A Feast for the Eyes" by Carolyn Tillie (ISBN-10-1789140633), 2019
→ Book: 'Chocolate crystals-the soul of chocolate' by Gerhard Petzl, ISBN 9782970120605, 2018
→ Book: 'The chocolate table' by Gerhard Petzl, ISBN 9782970120612, 2018
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→ Castello gallery, Whispered Realms: Hidden spaces & Beings, “2 masks”, Venice, IT, 2025
→ I see U - Galerium Art, “Planet 17”- wooden wall art, CAN, 2025
→ The sky above - Exhibizone, ”Planet 6 - wall art”, Ont, CAN, 2024
→ Exhibizone - Emptiness 2024 (3rd Annual Exhibition and Promotion), CAN, 2024
→ Andakulova Gallery, “100 % cocoa - snow sculpture”, Dubai, VAE, 2023
→ Nicoletta gallery, “Anthill mouse - mirrored world Edition”, Berlin, D, 2023
→ Thomson gallery, “Mandala bronze sculpture”, Zug, CH, 2023
→ Andie art gallery, “Fake Ruby”, Athen, Greece, 2023
→ Casa del arte gallery, “Grass lion”, Palma de Mallorca, SP, 2023
→ SwissART Expo, “Mandala Version green”, wall art, Zurich, CH, 2023
→ Lights, Shadows, Reflections by Gallerium.art, “Light tie”, CAN, 2023
→ Cipriarte Venezia Gallery, “Terbacil quattro”, IT, 2023
→ Contemporary Art Curator - Parallel Worlds, “Angry Jack spider”, Online, 2023
→ ArtEXPO Basel, “Taddli-mirrored world Edition”, CH, 2023
→ Finity Gallery, “Light tie-wall art”, Berlin, D, 2023
→ Gardenia - ExhibiZONE (Exhibition), “Tulips happiness”, Ont, CAN, 2023
→ Extinction - Gallerium.art (Exhibition), “Planet 11 - wall art”, Ont, CAN, 2023
→ Colorium - Gallerium.art (Exhibition and publication), “Light tie”, Ont, CAN, 2023
→ Strata II, Layered reality (Verum Ultimum), “Layered chocolate rock”, OR, US, 2023
→ Red Bluff Art Gallery - Furry friends, “Egyptian remple cat“, CA, US, 2023
→ AVE22 MetaGallery - ALIVE exhibition, Metaverse, 2023
→ Exhibizone - LOVE exhibition, “Odissi - body painting”, Toronto, CAN, 2023
→ Figures or Faces - Las Laguna Art Gallery, “Hip-Hop forever”- wall art, CA, US, 2024
→ Exhibizone - True beauty, “Planet 6 – wall art”, Toronto, CAN, 2023
→ Gallerium Art - "Believe" exhibition, “100 % cocoa - snow sculpture”, Toronto, CAN, 2023
→ Core ART space - Rose Colored Glasses, “Pink tulips happiness”, Col, US, 2023
→ The Holy ART - DRIFT exhibition, “Spider - mirrored world Edition”, London, UK, 2023
→ Influx gallery - The Endless exhibition, “Pink lung lobster”, London, UK, 2023
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→ Global Art Virtuoso: Elite Artistic Career Achievement Award, Spain, 2024
→ Shortlisted VAA - Artist of the year competition, UK, 2024
→ Finalist - Ten Moir gallery "Still life competition", Santa Fe, US, 2024
→ David Michelangelo International prize, Rome, IT, 2021
→ Citizen of honour, Kalsdorf/Graz, Austria, 2018
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Born 1973, in Graz, Austria.
Lives & works in Vevey, Switzerland and Kalsdorf/Graz, Austria.
A visual artist who works with bronze, stone, wood, mixed media, chocolate and does not limit himself to any medium, technique and shape. The exploration of shape, colour and texture is the journey, which brings him into unexplored areas and self-discoveries. He sails between 2D-visuals the classical way of drawings on paper or digital art, 3D-sculptures (from found objects, recycled materials to metal works like bronze or Aluminium) and ends up often even in the field of Science.
I am following an inner urge to create artworks which are mostly a way trying to understand myself and where this energy comes from. It is like a flow of thoughts which manifest in a sculpture, a drawing or whatever else it could be like an arrangement of things which end as a photograph. Sometimes I find a sculpture which I started 20 years ago and finished at 80% completion as I felt something was missing back then and all of a sudden I continue working until find it completed at a certain point in present. It is like I needed my personal and artistic development of 20 years to complete the artwork. As I have worked over 30 years between the creative industries of food, on the highest possible level, and the medium chocolate, where in parallel with the artistic sculptor explorations, my brain is trained to think, to create and to deliver.
My artistic style is definitely abstract but the materials can be bronze, Aluminium, mixed media, stone, resin, wood and chocolate (by the way, I am an internationally renown chocolate artist).
The uniqueness of my artworks are the harmonious appearances of sculptures which are either the perfection of execution, which means that even a chaotic looking artwork is arranged piece per piece to create this chaos as an assembled arrangement rather than just coincidently fallen objects. I have explore a lot with scientific visuals of chocolate crystals which resulted in the “Planet series”. Or I can find a piece of wood, see something in it, work on it, change and add maybe something to it and the flow goes on naturally. The same goes with stone blocks, I just start the angle grinder without a plan and see what the rock brings me. I feel that all space is already taken, I just remove the unnecessary to bring out the object I see.
I have also explored “mirrored images” where trees, objects, sculptures, flowers get a totally new meaning and appearance. Maybe in 100 years our brains will be able to see mirrored naturally as it feels like an elevated dimension of seeing.
