Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, May 2, 2026, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

NICOLE BOTTET

Artist talk at 11.30 am

Nicole Bot­tet, born in Pon­toise in 1942, stud­ied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Her artis­tic work focus­es on still lifes and her char­ac­ter­is­tic flo­ral motifs. 

Bot­tet cap­tures the aes­thet­ics of the every­day in her works. She prefers to work with oil paints on paper and can­vas and com­bines them with char­coal pen­cil draw­ings and col­lage tech­niques. She accen­tu­ates the sub­tle, fine­ly tuned col­ors of her paint­ings through the selec­tive use of gold and sil­ver leaf, which cre­ates a spe­cial luminosity. 

With her paint­ing, which oscil­lates between abstrac­tion and nat­u­ral­ism, she cre­ates an unmis­tak­able atmos­phere and focus­es on the poet­ry of every­day things. Since her first exhi­bi­tion in Paris in 1973, her work has been shown annu­al­ly in muse­ums and gal­leries in Europe and Japan. The artist lives and works in Paris. 

On the 1st floor

KARL KORAB — Works on paper and canvas

Karl Korab, born in Falken­stein (Low­er Aus­tria) in 1937, stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na. The artist has lived and worked in Son­ndorf in the Wald­vier­tel since 1980. The ver­sa­tile artist’s work includes oil paint­ings, col­lages and graph­ics. In his works, Korab con­cen­trates on still lifes and land­scapes. He devel­ops his own unmis­tak­able archi­tec­ture from his real sur­round­ings. Through sub­tle abstrac­tion, he opens the view­er’s gaze and cre­ates space for new interpretations. 

“I want to design, cre­ate a new real­i­ty for myself and for­mu­late it in my invent­ed or devel­oped visu­al lan­guage. That is my con­cern.” Karl Korab

The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures works on paper and can­vas by the artist

EXHIBITION DURATION: May 2 to June 10, 2026

Ausstel­lungseröff­nung: Sam­stag, 7. März 2026, 11 – 13 Uhr

JOSEF MIKL (1929 — 2008)

JOSEF PILLHOFER (1921 – 2010)

ARTIST FRIENDS IN DIALOG

PAINTING AND SCULPTURE

Gün­ther Holler-Schus­ter will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Togeth­er with Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Markus Prachen­sky and Arnulf Rain­er, Josef Mikl is one of the most influ­en­tial fig­ures in Aus­tri­an post-war paint­ing. His ear­ly works focused on the human body. Over time, how­ev­er, Mikl increas­ing­ly detached him­self from fig­u­ra­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion: col­or sur­faces became denser, body forms were reduced. From the 1990s onwards, his paint­ings were char­ac­ter­ized by dynam­ic diag­o­nals, his paint­ing style became freer, lighter and achieved a great cre­ative openness. 

Josef Pill­hofer­’s work is char­ac­ter­ized by its great diver­si­ty. From the very begin­ning, he was inter­est­ed in the ques­tion of form in space. His sculp­tures were often based on nat­ur­al forms, which he took up, sim­pli­fied and reassem­bled. Despite this abstrac­tion, the human fig­ure remained a cen­tral theme. Pill­hofer worked pri­mar­i­ly with clas­si­cal mate­ri­als such as stone and bronze. 

The exhi­bi­tion brings togeth­er works by long-time artist friends Josef Mikl and Josef Pill­hofer and invites vis­i­tors to dis­cov­er paint­ing and sculp­ture in an excit­ing dialog.

On the 1st floor

ART AFTER 1950

In the 1950s, abstract art stood for a new depar­ture and new free­dom. Whether clear geo­met­ric forms or spon­ta­neous, ges­tur­al paint­ing — many artists sought new ways of expres­sion. At the same time, the depic­tion of peo­ple remained impor­tant and fig­u­ra­tion made a con­scious return. From the 1990s to the present day, Euro­pean art has been more diverse than ever before. A wide vari­ety of themes, styles and forms of expres­sion stand side by side, invit­ing vis­i­tors to dis­cov­er and expe­ri­ence art in a very indi­vid­ual way. The exhi­bi­tion includes works from Adu­atz to Zens.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 7. March — April 29, 2026

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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