Alfons Pressnitz (1982, Wagna, Austria) lives and works in Berlin. Primarily working in painting and drawing, Pressnitz develops enigmatic pictorial worlds in which landscapes, interiors, still lifes, and figures appear suspended between observation and imagination. Drawing on references ranging from art history and popular culture to personal memory, his works combine representational motifs with unexpected juxtapositions, creating images that are at once familiar and disorienting. 

Pressnitz studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Johanna Kandl and Adolf Frohner, and at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Herbert Brandl. His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Austria and internationally, including at the Essl Museum, Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, and Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. He has received several awards and grants, including the Recognition Prize of the Anton Faistauer Prize for Painting and an artist residency grant in Rome from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. 

His works are held in numerous public collections, including those of the Universalmuseum Joanneum, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Austrian Federal Art Collection.