Although his paintings are self-contained units, Pils intensely reflects the character of the spaces in which his works are presented. In the painting installation he conceived for the Central Hall of the Kunsthalle Krems, he takes the opportunity to stage this atrium as a daylight space. He also resists the logic of the space in that he refrains from the obvious solution of using the wall as a presentation surface. By activating a zone of impossibility—the only glass wall - he submits the space to the necessities of his painting.