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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: SATURDAY, April 20, 2024, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

PETER B I S C H O F
(1934 — 2021)

Paul Kozak will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Peter Bischof was born in Vien­na in 1934. After abstract expres­sion­ist begin­nings and along­side reli­gious-lit­er­ary themes, he placed the human body and expan­sive, dynam­i­cal­ly mov­ing images of peo­ple at the cen­ter of his works. As ear­ly as 1957, the artist real­ized that he not only want­ed to depict the human fig­ure, but also incor­po­rate his thoughts and asso­ci­a­tions. In 1959, the artist’s first solo exhi­bi­tion was shown at the Galerie St. Stephan in Vien­na. Peter Bischof lived and worked in Kößl­wang in Upper Aus­tria and in Vien­na. He passed away on August 5, 2021. The cur­rent exhi­bi­tion fea­tures works on paper and can­vas and the new pub­li­ca­tion “Peter Bischof — Ein Maler”, Album Ver­lag, will be pre­sent­ed at the exhi­bi­tion opening.

Book pre­sen­ta­tion
PETER BISCHOF — A PAINTER
hgg. by Andrea Tramp­isch and Paul Kozak
ALBUM PUBLISHER

On the 1st floor

YOSHI T A K A H A S H I
(1943 — 1998)

Yoshi Taka­hashi, born in Tokyo in 1943, stud­ied at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Fine Art, Tokyo and at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts, Munich. In addi­tion to his teach­ing activ­i­ties (1973–1993), Taka­hashi cre­at­ed works on paper, can­vas and graph­ics. From 1974 onwards, he devot­ed him­self inten­sive­ly to print­mak­ing tech­niques. In his painter­ly and graph­ic col­or mosaics, the artist invites the view­er to enter gar­dens and dis­cov­er plants, ani­mals and hous­es step by step. Taka­hashi lived in Ger­many from 1966 and in Aus­tria from 1974. The artist died in Bad Reichen­hall (Ger­many) in 1998.

Lit­er­a­ture: Cat­a­logue raison­né of prints 1974–1997

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: April 20 — May 25, 2024

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024, 11 AM to 2 PM

DRAGO P R E L O G
(1939 — 2020)

Dr. Berthold Eck­er will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

In his work, Dra­go Prel­og deals with lines, strokes and char­ac­ters in a vari­ety of ways. In 1960, he cre­at­ed his first, char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly late-for­mu­la, scrip­tur­al works. At the begin­ning of the 1970s he devel­oped his fig­u­ra­tive “bomb and explo­sion pic­tures”, fol­lowed by topo­graph­i­cal pic­tures moti­vat­ed by maps, as well as moun­tain pic­tures and the “St. Stephen’s Tow­ers”. In 1977, he began the series of his “Umlauf­bilder”, in which he approach­es the paint­ing sur­face from four sides on a hor­i­zon­tal can­vas. “Start­ing rough­ly from the cen­ter, the lines seek their path, peer towards the edge of the pic­ture, but remain main­ly next to each oth­er, on top of each oth­er, mixed up. Each line refers to the one before it, each line is cre­at­ed pri­mar­i­ly for the pur­pose of con­dens­ing the result­ing for­ma­tion …” (Dra­go Prelog)

On the 1st floor

CONTEMPORARY ART AND CLASSIC MODERN

Works of con­tem­po­rary art and clas­si­cal mod­ernism are pre­sent­ed on the first floor of the gallery.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: March 2 — APRIL 17, 2024

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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2024, 11:00 AM

ERNST S K R I Č K A
(1946 — 2020)

Ernst Skrička’s oeu­vre focus­es on peo­ple, espe­cial­ly their phys­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal state. It is this excit­ing bal­ance between hold­ing on and leav­ing things open that Skrič­ka is con­cerned with in his pic­to­r­i­al inven­tions. As he said him­self, he wants to give the view­er an intro­duc­tion, but not restrict their view. It is the seri­ous play with the line, whether on paper or can­vas, with pen, pen­cil or brush, that the artist was inter­est­ed in. Ernst Skrič­ka was born in Vien­na in 1946 and stud­ied at the Acad­e­my of Fine Arts in Vien­na under Prof. Melch­er from 1964 to 1970, as well as his­to­ry, art his­to­ry and phi­los­o­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vien­na. The artist lived and worked in Hein­richs near Weitra and in Vien­na, where he died in 2020. 

On the 1st floor

ARTISTS
Printmaking

Print­mak­ing works by Eva Bosch, Edith Gru­ber, Christa Mayrhofer, Eva Mös­ened­er, Yoko Omo­mi and Susanne Pohl will be pre­sent­ed on the 1st floor of the gallery. The artists work with a wide vari­ety of print­mak­ing tech­niques, such as etch­ing, which offer Eva Bosch, Edith Gru­ber, Eva Mös­ened­er and Susanne Pohl many pos­si­bil­i­ties for expres­sion. Here, line and col­or are placed in a nuanced rela­tion­ship to one anoth­er. Yoko Omo­mi is rep­re­sent­ed with her lat­est works in linoleum print on paper, on wood­en bod­ies. Christa Mayrhofer uses wood­cuts to cre­ate organ­i­cal­ly vibrant tapes­tries by cov­er­ing and open­ing them. The exhi­bi­tion reveals the diver­si­ty and indi­vid­ual imple­men­ta­tion of the artists’ print­ing techniques.

Exhi­bi­tion dura­tion: JANUARY 13 — FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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