"A rather sad aspect of the current discussion of painting is that this medium is frequently regarded only as a historically charged symptom, as the frozen component of a discourse in which the only significance left to it is to be, in fact, painting. [...] And yet they still exist, a small scene whose members continue to deal undeterred with the problems of painting and its history, continually uncovering something new. This involves issues of perception and its constantly changing conditions in a historical context. However, this does not mean regarding painting as an isolated island and ignoring the fact that it has been divested of its hegemonic status within artistic media. This engagement is carried out with the means of painting.
Doris Piwonka's works are an outstanding example of this ongoing pursuit of a discourse and the existence of the possibility of constantly generating new results at the same time." (Martin Prinzhorn from „Additive Elimination" in „Doris Piwonka, Painting", Schlebrügge.Editor)

Martin Prinzhorn is author, linguist, and curator. He has written essays amongst others on such artists as Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Jutta Koether or Mary Heilmann. He writes amongst others for „Texte zur Kunst“, Berlin. Prinzhorn is assistance professor at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna.