Christopher
Schlesinger

"Anyone who wants to understand me only needs to look at the wood I have worked with and listen, feel, and see what it tells, because it reveals everything my soul had to say at that moment," Christopher Schlesinger said when asked about the motivation behind his work.

Christopher Jörg Schlesinger was born in Gmunden in 1971 and now lives with his wife and two children in Bach near Schwanenstadt, Upper Austria.

As a trained sculptor, he pursues his work to give appropriate space to his desire for creation, spiritual liberation, artistic expression, and physical labor.

Each of the sculptures is made from local tree trunks. These trunks are living history, as some are over 100 years old.

Thus, tree trunks, some of which weigh over a ton, often create delicate, seemingly very fragile pieces. Many of his works are about flow, escape, search, and balance in life.

"In this process of creation and making, it is possible to step out of the real world and immerse yourself in a parallel world. In this world, only one's own rules and the creation process, which brings with it a very specific dynamic of ups and downs in the engagement with the respective sculpture and the trunk from which it emerges, are reality," says Christopher Schlesinger.

Various exhibitions in galleries and residencies in Germany and abroad, including England, Germany, and Canada, testify to his work.