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imon Lehner’s first solo exhibition at KOW introduces the Vienna-based artist (b. 1996) with sculptures and a new cycle of paintings. Toxic models of masculinity, which Lehner has previously examined in a private and pop-cultural context, he now pursues further and in doing so is uncovers (self-)destructive psychologies that have long been collective in many societies.

The show opens with a classic family portrait. Drained of color and slickly glossy, as though they had sprung from a 3D printer, father, mother, daughter and sons embody the non-soul of pseudo-documentary soaps and TikTok …