Katherina Olschbaur wants to flip the script on women in art. Her paintings are energetic and erotic, and also funny too. One portrait shows a sexy minotaur posing naked with stockinged legs in the air. "You need humour to be serious", she explains. Olschbaur is also obsessed with research, particularly feminist theory. But her style is mainly inspired by dead white men from European art history – she loves the work of romantic painter Francisco Goya and impressionist painter Édouard Manet. This might seem inconsistent, but it's intentional. While working with Olschbaur in 2020, the curator Allyson Unzicker summed up the ethos of her practice perfectly: “If we cannot escape patriarchy, women must challenge and subvert these roles and myths.”