> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Can You Respawn as an Artist? Tin Trohar at Klubhaus - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/can-you-respawn-as-an-artist-tin-trohar-at-klubhaus/ - Published: 2025-10-22T06:59:24.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-01T10:36:28.000Z - Description: After 10 years of glitter paintings, Tin Trohar's "1996" at Klubhaus marks a radical respawn. Five paintings. One catharsis. On view at Klubhaus Wien by Alexander Giese and Christof Habres - Author: Ernst Koslitsch - Tags: Exhibition > Can you start over after a decade of doing the same thing? [**Tin Trohar**](https://www.instagram.com/tintroharpaint/?ref=catapult-platform.art) spent ten years making glitter paintings. Then his studio disappeared. He moved. His mother's death anniversary arrived. ![Kunst und Schnittlauch by Christof Habers and Alexander Giese presents Tin Trohar at Klubhaus Wien ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_2034.JPG) ****Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus (Kunst und Schnittlauch), Vienna. Hiking-boot painting from the new body of work. A childhood drawing of a Boot hung in his studio, refusing to leave him alone. By the time[ **"1996" opened at Klubhaus**](https://kunstundschnittlauch.com/klubhaus/?ref=catapult-platform.art), the glitter was gone. What replaced it wasn't just new work. It was a giant leap into terrain he didn't recognize. No safety net. No backup plan. Just five paintings and balloons at the entrance marking a threshold he can't uncross. --- ## **Tin Trohar's "1996" at Klubhaus: When Respawn Becomes Necessity** This wasn't planned as a reinvention. Trohar didn't sit down and decide to evolve his practice. Life interrupted. No studio. A move. Pressure from an upcoming show at [**Klubhaus** **(Kunst und Schnittlauch**](https://www.instagram.com/kunstundschnittlauch/?ref=catapult-platform.art)[**via Instagram).** ](https://www.instagram.com/kunstundschnittlauch/?ref=catapult-platform.art) ![Tin Trohar Artist , exhibition view curated by Alexander Giese and Christof Habres . Kunst und Schnittlauch. symbosium. Every Friday. Room view at Klubhaus showing a small round Jeep painting and a large mother-and-child painting from “1996.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_2054.JPG) ****Artist Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus ****(Kunst und Schnittlauch - Klubhaus by Christof Habres and Alexander Giese)**, Vienna, installation view with the mother-and-child painting and the Jeep motif. Image courtesy of Catapult Munchies Art Club And then, in the middle of logistical chaos, the anniversary of his mother's death. Memories started flickering back. Not the polished kind you put in photo albums. The fragmentary ones that show up uninvited. A childhood drawing of a Jeep, something Trohar drew as a child, became omnipresent in his temporary workspace. Not as decoration. As insistence. His father dug deeper, gave him more drawings from his past. These fragments from childhood demanded attention until the Jeep became a painting. --- Become a Supporter Independent art writing. All free. Support if you can. [Learn more ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/join/) --- Then came the oversized hiking boot. The mother and child. Five paintings total. None of them glitter. None of them crucifixions. All of them feel like someone working through what was, what is, and what might still be possible. Trohar told me *(us)* this wasn't psychological processing in the therapeutic sense. It was engagement. A reckoning with himself through paint. The boot isn't a metaphor for overcoming obstacles. It's a fragment of something larger. You climb it only if you're willing to face what happened. The climb doesn't promise resolution. Just perspective from a different height. ![Alt text: Long horizontal canvas with painting of a rifle from Tin Trohar’s exhibition “1996” at Klubhaus, Vienna.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_6464.jpeg) ****Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus, Vienna. ![Christof Habres kunst und Schnittlauch artist Tin Trohar at klubhaus Wien](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_2057-1.JPG) ****Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus (Kunst und Schnittlauch), Vienna. --- ## Why This Matters for Artists (and Anyone Else) Respawning is terrifying. You lose your accumulated style, the recognition, the things people expect. For an artist, it's worse. Your income depends on people knowing what you do. Collectors buy the thing you're known for. Galleries book you because your work fits a narrative they can sell. Walking away from that requires clarity. Or necessity. Sometimes both. Trohar had a moment when the glitter stopped making sense. Not because it was bad work, but because the feeling was gone. So he stopped. Used different formats. Painted differently. Explored new thematic terrain. That's not courage. That's listening when your practice tells you it's time to move. What makes "1996" compelling isn't the newness. It's the honesty. These paintings don't pretend to have answers. The Jeep flickers between memory and invention. The boot insists you look up before you can see clearly. This is what it looks like when an artist stops performing and starts searching. --- ![View through a doorway toward the mother-and-child painting from Tin Trohar’s “1996” at Klubhaus, Vienna. 2 chairs infront from artist Franz West.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_2058-1.JPG) ****Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus, Vienna, installation view with the mother-and-child painting in the background. Permanent pieces are 2 chairs by artist Franz West. ## **The Role of Friendship: Alexander Giese** Alexander Giese who's been Trohar's friend for years. Not the kind of friendship that offers polite encouragement. The kind where someone can tell you, unfiltered, when something works or doesn't. Where a gesture, excited or skeptical, says more than paragraphs of critique. That relationship matters here. Trohar wasn't working with a commercial gallery that needed him to deliver a recognizable product. He was working with someone who'd support the leap. That safety net, not financial, but emotional, makes risk possible. You can't respawn in a vacuum. You need at least one person who says, "Yeah, try it. Let's see what happens." Giese gave him that space. Klubhaus became a container for work that needed time to emerge. The balloons. The boot. The quiet paintings of memory making sense of itself. This wasn't a market calculation. It was a friendship making room for transformation. --- ![Christiof Habres and Alexander Giese curated and discover (Klubhaus, Kunst und Schnittlauch. Artist Talk with, Tin Trohar: Seating area at Klubhaus with a round Jeep painting on the wall and the edge of the mother-and-child painting from “1996.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/10/IMG_2053.JPG) ****Tin Trohar:** “1996” at Klubhaus, Vienna, installation view. ## **The Giant Leap Forward** For artists, the unknown is both threat and opportunity. Trohar's leap into new terrain wasn't about discovery in the romantic sense. It was about necessity. When your work stops inspiring you, stops awakening something, it's time to move on. To dare to move on. Not because the old work was false, but because it stopped being true. He chose adaptation. Different formats. Different themes. Different way of moving a brush. That choice has consequences. No more glitter means no more easy recognition. But staying would have been worse. The statement "1996" makes isn't "look how I've grown." It's "I can't keep doing what I was doing and still mean it." For anyone standing at a similar threshold, that's the lesson. Respawn isn't about becoming someone new. It's about recognizing when what was real stops being real, and having the courage to follow what comes next. --- ## **About Tin Trohar** **Tin Trohar** is a Croatian-born, Vienna-based painter known for his use of acrylics and glitter on burlap to reinterpret classical and mythological themes. His work has been shown at [**Giese & Schweiger Gallery** ](https://www.gieseundschweiger.at/en/exhibitions/12-tin-trohar.-funf-kreuzigungen/?ref=catapult-platform.art)(Fünf Kreuzigungen) and **Galerie Michael Bella** (Europe's Feet: In Mythos et Lascivia, 2024). “1996” marks a radical departure from his signature approach: the glitter is left behind for memory, loss, and the hard work of confronting what remains when familiar methods no longer suffice. --- ## **What is “Kunst und Schnittlauch” - Klubhaus (Vienna)?** **“Kunst und Schnittlauch**” is a Vienna art talk series moderated by **Alexander Giese** and **Christof Habres**. Every Friday afternoon they discuss current exhibitions, artists, and art-market developments in a relaxed format. The playful name nods to the setting: **bread with chives** alongside conversation, combining culture and a touch of culinary ease to keep art mediation accessible, lively, and personal. [Klubhaus - Kunst und SchnittlauchThe Klubhaus is our main exhibition space. Private and very close to our hearts. Regular shows and special events take place in Währing!![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/cropped-Bildschirmfoto-2023-04-28-um-08.21.30-1-270x270-1.png)Kunst und Schnittlauch![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/2023_03_03_Sophia-Vonier_00139-HDR_web-1.jpg)](https://kunstundschnittlauch.com/klubhaus/?ref=catapult-platform.art) Klubhaus - Kunst und Schnittlauch by Alexander Giesse and Christof Habres , Währing ### **Where and why it matters** Talks take place at **Kunsthandel Giese & Schweiger** in Vienna or at the **Klubhaus in Währing**, a private room for informal exchange and open discussion. The aim is direct dialogue over academic distance: clear language, close looking, and context that helps audiences understand contemporary art. In short, **“Kunst und Schnittlauch” unites Klubhaus atmosphere** with serious art criticism, making Vienna’s art scene readable for newcomers and experts alike ### **Currently on view - Exhibition Details** **1996** [**Tin Trohar**](https://www.instagram.com/tintroharpaint/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **Location:** Klubhaus, Kunst und Schnittlauch, Vienna (Founded by Alexander Giese and Christof Habres. --- **You can respawn. But only if staying the same becomes unbearable.** Tin Trohar's "1996" is proof. Five paintings. One giant leap. No glitter. 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