Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 17, 2026, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

HERMANN KREMSMAYER

NEW WORK

Artist talk at 11:30 am

For the Salzburg-born painter Her­mann Krems­may­er, who lives in Vien­na, col­ors are ini­tial­ly pure joy of exis­tence. Krems­may­er became known for his intense, large-scale col­or com­po­si­tions on can­vas. Often paint­ed wet-on-wet, the col­ors take a bath togeth­er. For the artist, the world of paint­ing con­sists of three ingre­di­ents — col­or, light and space. He com­bines the wealth of free­dom of mod­ern paint­ing with the tra­di­tion of depict­ing light and its shad­ows. The painter con­structs spaces as worlds of thought, as sen­su­al emo­tion­al spaces, as ide­al coun­ter­parts for fan­tasies. “It is an ele­gant break­through that Krems­may­er achieves: a few brush­strokes are all he needs on a ground that has been laid out with the utmost care in terms of mate­r­i­al and col­or, and as if through an unex­pect­ed­ly opened win­dow, our gaze falls back a few mil­len­nia in the his­to­ry of the genre.” (K.M. Gauss) 

The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures new works by the artist, in which he invites view­ers to immerse them­selves in these fan­tas­tic worlds of color.

On the 1st floor

FRIEDRICH DANIELIS (1944 — 2021)

PAINTINGS TO MUSIC

Friedrich Danielis ist ein Solitär in der öster­re­ichis­chen Gegen­wart­skun­st. Das Erfassen von The­men in Bildzyklen ist ein Charak­ter­is­tikum des Kün­stlers. He was inter­est­ed in chang­ing and mod­i­fy­ing an ongo­ing basic theme. Thus, with­in a cycle of paint­ings, well thought-out com­po­si­tions were cre­at­ed in which forms and struc­tures were con­stant­ly var­ied anew and in which his pas­sion for dif­fer­ent tech­niques and mate­ri­als, whether in paint­ing or draw­ing, was always vis­i­ble. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures pas­tels and gouach­es on paper, as well as egg tem­pera works on can­vas, includ­ing from pic­ture cycles of Mozart and Mahler.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 17. Jan­u­ary — March 4, 2026

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Ausstel­lungseröff­nung: Sam­stag, 06. Dezem­ber 2025, 11 – 13 Uhr

NIEVES SALZMANN

NEW WORK

Kün­st­lerge­spräch um 11:30 Uhr

Nieves Salz­mann, born in 1976 in Les Lilas in France, focus­es in her paint­ings on the depic­tion of land­scapes and urban spaces — aban­doned sub­urbs, indus­tri­al areas and most­ly desert­ed places. She is par­tic­u­lar­ly fas­ci­nat­ed by per­spec­tives, streets and traces, lines that stretch into the dis­tance and can be con­tin­ued by the view­er. The artist trans­fers these visu­al impres­sions and ideas to a wide vari­ety of image car­ri­ers such as paper, can­vas, wood and Plex­i­glas. The mul­ti-lay­ered atmos­pher­ic com­po­si­tions, most­ly exe­cut­ed in oil and graphite, are rep­re­sen­ta­tion­al but not worked through. The motifs are rec­og­niz­able, but delib­er­ate­ly incom­plete and often sketchy. Nieves Salz­mann lives and works in Paris. The artist has been rep­re­sent­ed with her works at Galerie Welz since 2011. New works are on dis­play in the exhi­bi­tion, includ­ing works cre­at­ed after her last trip to Japan. 

On the 1st floor

PAUL FLORA (1922 — 2009)

ZEICHNUNGEN UND GRAFIKEN

The illus­tra­tor and car­i­ca­tur­ist Paul Flo­ra, born in Glurns in South Tyrol in 1922, is one of the most impor­tant artists of the Aus­tri­an post-war peri­od with his char­ac­ter­is­tic draw­ings and exten­sive graph­ic work, who became known for his strik­ing, humor­ous and satir­i­cal works. Paul Flo­ra lived and worked in Inns­bruck. The cur­rent exhi­bi­tion fea­tures draw­ings, lith­o­graphs and etch­ings that reflect the artist’s sub­tle pow­ers of observation. 

AUSSTELLUNGSDAUER: 6. Dezem­ber 2025 – 14. Jän­ner 2026

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 25, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

HANNES MLENEK

HOMO HUMANUS

BUCHPRÄSENTATION am 7.11.2025, 17 bis 19 Uhr

HOMO HUMANUS, Wern­er Trenker Collection

Intro­duc­to­ry words by Roman Grab­n­er, Bru­se­um Graz

The artist’s cen­tral theme is the human body. With expres­sive lines set in one piece, based on the momen­tum and strength of his own phys­i­cal­i­ty, Hannes Mlenek places frag­ments of the fig­u­ra­tive on the page. Knowl­edge of nature is always a point of ref­er­ence in the artist’s works. How­ev­er, Mlenek takes his works far beyond this, both in the sense of a con­cept of thought and con­tent, as well as in their dimen­sion, in that they unmis­tak­ably always claim the space for them­selves. Hannes Mlenek lives and works in Vienna. 

On the 1st floor

PRINTS AFTER 1945

After 1945, art rein­vent­ed itself — artists ques­tioned bound­aries, broke them down and left room for new forms and ideas. Instead of style guide­lines, indi­vid­ual approach­es dom­i­nate. The exhi­bi­tion presents posi­tions in art after 1945 — from the upheavals of the post-war peri­od to con­tem­po­rary devel­op­ments, includ­ing works by Karel Appel, Le Cor­busier, Jean Dubuf­fet, Sam Fran­cis, Hans Har­tung, Kurt Kocher­schei­dt and Hen­ri Michaux.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 25. Okto­ber – 03. Dezem­ber 2025