Antonio Labuhar combines tactile craftsmanship with poetic softness. Working with organic wool, his pieces move between sculpture, abstraction, and interior design – creating sensory anchors in an increasingly disembodied world.

Born in 1996 in Zell am See, the Vienna-based Croatian artist creates works that transform spaces and distill emotion. After a period in Berlin working as an Motion Designer & VFX-Artist, he returned to Vienna and completed his Master’s degree in Digital Design & Experimental Media at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten in 2022.

His practice explores materiality, space, and emotion – balancing physical presence with imagination and hybrid forms of experience. Each work establishes a dialogue between softness and object, intimacy and form.

“My work is driven by the need to create a counterbalance to the hardness and acceleration of contemporary life. For me, wool is more than a material – it is an anchor, a soft resonant space where thoughts and emotions take shape.

Through sculpture, abstraction, and interior, I explore the interconnections of materiality, space, and the body. I am interested in the tension between physical presence and imagination, between functional use and poetic meaning.

Each piece emerges from a deliberate, slow process – handmade with natural and sustainable materials. My focus is not perfection, but invitation: to pause, to feel, to connect. I want to show that softness can be a form of strength, and that art can open spaces in which we encounter ourselves anew.”

2025 (current + upcoming)

23.05.2025 – 24.05.25 / LUCID DREAMS FESTIVAL / Group Exhibition – “Stoneage” / “URGEWÄCHS” / Bühne im Hof, 3100 Sankt Pölten

16.05.2025 /  Dionysos Festival / Group Exhibition / REPLUGGED, Lerchenfelder Straße 23, 1070 Wien 

14.04.2025 – 08.05.2025 / “SOFT WORLD” Solo Exhibition / Drogerie Wien, Pfauengasse 8, 1060 Wien

06.04.2025 –  10.05.2025 / Group Exhibition  / Culture Clubhouse, Burggasse 72, 1070 Wien

2023

“TABULA RASA” – Ausstellung Liga für Menschenrechte 2023, Yppenplatz, Wien

2022

Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2022 nomination BEST FAHSION FILM / Hisu Park – Grumpy Jane and Gang

Berlin Commercial Film Festival official selection 2022 / Hisu Park – Grumpy Jane and Gang

Serbest International Film Festival (SIFF) 2022 – Quarter Finalist Experimental Work / BLUE Christina Seewald

2021

Artificial Museum 2021: Oposition – Volksgarten Vienna / YUKI

2020

Best Austrian Animation Festival 2020 nomination BEST AUSTRIAN ANIMATION / AHA – Pan Kee Bois

2019

Best Austrian Animation Festival 2019 nomination BEST AUSTRIAN
ANIMATION / WISH

XMEDIA Volkstheater Vienna 2019 / “126” audiovisual installation