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14.12.2023 - 1.2.2024 Clemens Wolf "UNSEEN 2+1=3" – Collectorsspace

Our Artspace was opened in September 2021 with Clemens Wolf's retrospective. We are now expanding our ArtWorld by adding a Collectorsspace for our collection. The space will be used temporarily until it is finally adapted. Due to our close ties with Clemens Wolf, it was an obvious choice for us to open the Collectorsspace with him again. The exhibition was thematically linked to his first show: He brought together an entire cycle of works – the Remix works – that has never been shown before. Hence the title UNSEEN. In Clemens Wolf's remix, old and ruinous stencils are used one last time. The artist cuts or tears up the stencils and creates new compositions by superimposing existing motifs. The collages are fixed to canvas with oil paint and then transferred to paper using an impression technique. The work is thus painted blind: The artist does not see how the result will develop when making the imprint. Guided chance is one of the central elements of Wolf's work and a recurring momentum.

8.9.2023 - 31.1.2024 Nana Mandl "Mirror, Mirror"

We have been following Nana Mandl's development for a very long time: we first became aware of her work during her studies. She creates colourful collages that play with various materials and illustrate the challenges and excessive demands of media. Nana also produces textile works, often in connection with furniture and clothing. Finally, painting – also in her unmistakable style – is part of her work. Nana thus mixes different, even contradictory techniques, the levels intermingle. In her exhibition at our Artspace, she also designed the room in its entirety and showed porcelain objects, cushions and textile works hanging from the ceiling alongside collages. The more recent works are very personal portraits of herself, friends and family in contemporary poses.

24.3.2023 - 27.6.2023 Peter Jellitsch

With the room installation "Peter and the Wolf", Peter Jellitsch has been a central part of the Artspace right from its start. In spring 2023, he shaped the entire loft, thus establishing a connection between the wall work and the exhibition space. Peter Jellitsch's works are very tech- and IP-savvy: He makes data streams visible and elaborates on patent drawings and fake palm trees that are actually mobile phone transmitters. The focus of the exhibition was an enlargement of his characteristic palm tree pattern consisting of six pieces. The sketches presented along illustrated the different possibilities of the arrangement. Colourwise, the works in the exhibition ranged from black to orange, red, various shades of blue and - for the first time - baby blue. After his originally digital 0/1 and thus black and white approach, this new colourfulness is just as big a step in Peter Jellitsch's work as the increasingly greater abstraction of his painting.

22.2.2023 –17.3.2023 Jakob Gasteiger

In the fourth exhibition in our Artspace Jakob Gasteiger showed, in addition to his characteristic acrylic works painted with his comb, a selection of his rarely seen works on paper. Characteristic of his abstract painting is the extreme reduction, which tells no stories. The viewer's perception is focused on the color, the structure of the lines and the resulting transitions between painting, sculpture and graphics. The artist's own state of mind in creating the works plays no role. The choice of color is not guided by emotion, but is a means to an end. To achieve this, Jakob Gasteiger deals radically with his material: from the numerous possibilities of size and format of the canvas, color and surface structure, he creates series with which he continuously perfects his paintings. Through a mixture of pigments, to which Jakob Gasteiger sometimes also adds powders of glass, aluminum, copper or iron, ash and even dirt, characteristic unique pieces are created. Our personal discovery, however, were the works on paper, which transcend between graphics and painting.

21.11.2022 -25.1.2023 Esther Stocker "Behind a chaos there is always also a kind of order".

In her exhibition "Hinter einem Chaos ist immer auch eine Art Ordnung" Esther Stocker showed a selection of in particular recent works. The reduced works in black, white and grey with their structures are very characteristic – but never redundant. The disturbances integrated into the otherwise perfect geometric representations nudge the viewer to think about and within perception. Some works have only slightly perceptible, supposed flaws. In others, especially the more recent works, the rupture of the system is more striking. Part of the third exhibition in our Artspace included works by artists who were and are important to Esther's development and understanding of art. On the opening evening, dresses designed by Flora Miranda in cooperation with Esther Stocker were on display.

25.3.2022 –15.8.2022 Judith Fegerl and Christoph Weber

Judith Fegerl and Christoph Weber are connected by an almost radical focus on their material. While Judith makes the invisible "element" energy visible, Christoph works with and against concrete. The artists and their materials entered into an exciting dialogue at the show. The exhibition also had urgency and timeliness given current issues such as global warming, soil sealing and the energy crisis. The second exhibition in our Artspace presented, among other things, works that had never been exhibited in Austria before.