On Site

In 2023, some 170 staff members moved into the renovated Vienna headquarters of the international law firm of Freshfields. The building’s artistic design was realized by Austrian artist Peter Jellitsch, who has created an all-embracing artwork spanning the entire building. The book On Site takes a detailed look behind the scenes.

Artist:
Peter Jellitsch was born in Austria in 1982. After completing an apprenticeship as carpenter, he studied art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, from where he graduated in 2010. His work has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and can be found in collections such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten (MMKK), the MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, and the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Jellitsch has been the recipient of several grants & awards, including the Strabag Artaward (2014), the Theodor Körner Prize (2014), the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Scholarship (2013), and the Outstanding Artist Award of the Republic of Austria (2010). He has been a CCA Andratx Artist in Residence (2018) and has received a MAK-Schindler Scholarship, Los Angeles (2014), as well as holding scholarship residencies in Montpellier (2014), Paris (2014), and New York (2011). Peter Jellitsch is Senior Artist at the Institute for Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.