While Scheibl’s early works are characterized by their rather monochrome palette, his current paintings boast a colourful poetic splendour. Expressivity and materiality have been superseded by transparency and a calmer sensory style. The canvas is now a finely modulated membrane of colour, with an inner light shining through to give the viewer a sense of immense space. Hubert Scheibl’s masterful works show how much room for development there still is within the medium of painting, even at the beginning of the third millennium. His monumental canvases are fictions, timeless mental constructions that invite contemplation and create unusual visual experiences. They are journeys into the self, into the depths of the individual psyche, speaking to and expressing universal archetypal feelings.

Scheibl’s role over the past decades as a prominent representative of sensory, gesture-rich abstract painting among Austrian artists of his generation was reflected in the São Paulo Biennale of 1985, the Venice Biennale of 1988, many international exhibitions of his work, and numerous acquisitions by renowned museums and collections (including the National Art Museum of China, Würth Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Centre Pompidou und Musée National d´Art Moderne in Paris, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum, Essl Museum, National Gallery at the Upper Austrian Provincial Museums, Lentos Art Museum in Linz, Liaunig Museum, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg, Lower Austria State Museum in St. Pölten, Albertina, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Belvedere, MUMOK, Ploner Collection, Strabag Kunstforum, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and Vienna Secession). Hubert Scheibl also received the 1992 Art Prize of the City of Vienna, and in 2014 was given the gold mark of merit of the Province of Vienna.