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.