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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, June 7, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

RUDOLF HRADIL

On Birth­day

GUEST PERFORMANCE SALZBURG MUSEUM

Kat­ja Mit­ten­dor­fer-Oppolz­er and Cay Buben­dor­fer will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Rudolf Hradil (1925–2007) is one of the most impor­tant Salzburg artists of the 20th century.

In 2023, the Salzburg Muse­um received numer­ous oil paint­ings from his estate, which are a won­der­ful addi­tion to the many graph­ic works from pre­vi­ous pur­chas­es and dona­tions by the artist. In hon­or of Rudolf Hradil’s 100th birth­day, select­ed works and a small selec­tion of every­day objects from the artist’s stu­dio will be shown in show­cas­es as a guest per­for­mance at Galerie Welz. Graph­ic works, water­col­ors and oil paint­ings from the gallery’s col­lec­tion com­plete the overview of his work. 

On the 1st floor

EVA MÖSENEDER

Andrea Löb­mann will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Eva Mös­ened­er (born 1957), who has estab­lished her­self as a print­mak­er, returns to her begin­nings — paint­ing — along­side new two-dimen­sion­al graph­ic works. Her pic­tures are most­ly pop­u­lat­ed by veg­e­tal plant crea­tures. The crea­tures emerge from the paint dur­ing the paint­ing process, as if by them­selves. This makes the cre­ative process very dif­fer­ent from that of col­or etch­ing. The exhi­bi­tion shows the artist’s cur­rent graph­ic and print­mak­ing works. 

EXHIBITION DURATION: 7. June — July 12, 2025

Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, May 3, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

VALENTIN OMAN — GABRIELE KUTSCHERA

Dr. Johannes Jetsch­go will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Valentin Oman cel­e­brates his 90th birth­day in 2025. To mark the occa­sion, sev­er­al nation­al and inter­na­tion­al exhi­bi­tion projects will be held to hon­or his work. From 1958 to 1962, Oman stud­ied at what is now the Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Arts in Vien­na and com­plet­ed a spe­cial class in print­mak­ing at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. 

The forg­ing tech­nique in iron and pre­cious met­als is a cen­tral theme in Gabriele Kutscher­a’s work. Start­ing with jew­el­ry cre­ations, Gabriele Kutschera turned to forged iron sculp­ture in the 1990s. Find­ing a rhythm, ham­mer­ing and anneal­ing, i.e. ten­sion and relax­ation, the per­cep­tion of time and change is her main motif. 

In the exhi­bi­tion, Gabriele Kutscher­a’s forged iron sculp­tures enter into a rela­tion­ship with Valentin Oman’s dif­fer­en­ti­at­ed fig­ures and his graph­ic and painter­ly works.

On the 1st floor

ERICH GRUBER

Erich Gru­ber’s draw­ings are all about con­tent, atten­tion to detail and the sig­nif­i­cance of the incon­spic­u­ous things around us. In today’s fast-paced world of image and infor­ma­tion over­load, the artist tries to entice the view­er with his draw­ings to take a longer look in order to dis­cov­er some­thing new again and again. 

EXHIBITION DURATION: 3. May — June 4, 2025

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, March 8, 2025, 11 a.m. — 2 p.m.

GOTTFRIED MAIRWÖGER
(1951 — 2003)

Hartwig Knack
Art his­to­ri­an | cul­tur­al sci­en­tist will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Got­tfried Mair­wöger stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Josef Mikl and Wolf­gang Hol­legha in the 1970s. The urge to paint and col­or was a cen­tral need for Mair­wöger from the begin­ning of his artis­tic career. Ini­tial­ly, his works were based on a very sim­pli­fied sub­ject, but over time they devel­oped into pure abstrac­tion. His com­po­si­tions have a two-dimen­sion­al empha­sis. He works in sev­er­al lay­ers. A spe­cial qual­i­ty of Mair­wöger’s paint­ing is his han­dling and exper­i­men­ta­tion with col­or. The choice of col­or, its lumi­nos­i­ty and the inter­ac­tion with the oth­er lay­ers of paint are deci­sive. The exhi­bi­tion fea­tures oil paint­ings on can­vas and works on paper by the artist. 

CONTEMPORARY ART & CLASSIC MODERN

On the first floor of the gallery, works of con­tem­po­rary art and clas­si­cal mod­ernism by artists such as Eduard Angeli, Vic­tor Bauer, Franz Grab­mayr, Josef Mikl, Pablo Picas­so, Emil Schu­mach­er and many more are presented.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 8. March — April 29, 2025

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