05.02.2021

Annual Program 2021

Current exhibitions
Exhibition overview from May 2021

Video presentation of the program by Seamus Kealy (11 min)

Maybe we have lost ourselves a little this past year. Sometimes it might be ok to be a bit lost, a bit confused, shaken or foggy but nevertheless uncertain. Then it might also do us some good to take a look at our befuddlement, individually and collectively. This year our program tries to take a little bit of this uncertainty on. Our exhibitions take a glance at notions of the unknowable, ideas of vulnerability, crossings of references and genre, and sometimes beckon to our collective histories, via for example, the medium of film. Otherwise, instead of pretending to have the answers to difficult questions, our exhibitions at times only echo back these very questions, and even linger around in uncertainty, sometimes with humour, sometimes not, while continuing to press on and make a statement or a gesture in a sort of generative déjà vu.

We commence the year with a postponed exhibition, entitled … Line as Thought, Lines as Universe …, an exhibition of drawing co-curated with Nikolaus Gansterer. This will be accompanied in the Kabinett with a presentation by Marlies Pöschl, the 2019 Emerging Artist Prize Winner. We continue a long-term installation in one section of the Ring Gallery by Omer Fast, as well as the wonderful painted mural Big Sky Blooming created by Megan Rooney in late 2020.

In the spring, Austria-born Tatjana Danneberg presents new paintings and sculpture in her first institutional solo exhibition. In the Kabinett will be new work by French artist Camille Holowka. The summer exhibitions include a major presentation by Gabriel Abrantes in the main gallery and the work of Daniela Zeilinger in the Kabinett, complemented by our Sunset Kino. In the autumn, a group exhibition called Film as Muse coincides with an exhibition by the 2021 Spallart Prize Salzburg winner Elliott Mickleburgh. We complete the year with the Annual Exhibition, and an exhibition by the 2020 Emerging Artist Prize Winner, Stefan Kreiger.