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Exhi­bi­tion open­ing: Sat­ur­day, July 19, 2025, 11 a.m. — 1 p.m.

GRUPPE ST. STEPHAN 

HOLLEGHA — MIKL — PRACHENSKY — RAINER 

Flo­ri­an Steininger will speak at the open­ing at 11.30 a.m.

Galerie Welz is ded­i­cat­ing its fes­ti­val exhi­bi­tion to the artists of the “St. Stephan Painters’ Group”. The ear­ly works of Wolf­gang Hol­legha, Josef Mikl, Markus Prachen­sky and Arnulf Rain­er rep­re­sent the Aus­tri­an avant-garde of the post-war peri­od. The “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vien­na, found­ed by Otto Mauer in 1954, pre­sent­ed works by Aus­tri­an artists to the pub­lic, quick­ly became the lead­ing insti­tu­tion in the Vien­nese art scene and became the cen­ter of infor­mal paint­ing. Hol­legha, Mikl, Prachen­sky and Rain­er made a deci­sive con­tri­bu­tion to the devel­op­ment of art in Aus­tria and are now con­sid­ered part of Aus­tri­an clas­si­cal mod­ernism. The exhi­bi­tion shows works on paper and can­vas by the artists. 

On the 1st floor

CLASSIC MODERN & CONTEMPORARY ART

Par­al­lel to the exhi­bi­tion on the ground floor, works of clas­si­cal mod­ernism, includ­ing those by Lyonel Feininger, Gus­tav Klimt, Alfred Kubin, Joan Miró and Egon Schiele, as well as works of Aus­tri­an con­tem­po­rary art, includ­ing those by Eduard Angeli, Joan­nis Avramidis, Joan­na Gle­ich, Got­tfried Salz­mann and Julian Taupe, will be pre­sent­ed on the first floor of the gallery.

EXHIBITION DURATION: 19. July — Sep­tem­ber 6, 2025

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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 the 100th anniver­sary. On the occa­sion of Rudolf Hradil’s 50th birth­day, select­ed works and a small selec­tion of every­day objects from the artist’s stu­dio will be shown in dis­play cas­es as a guest per­for­mance at Galerie Welz. Graph­ic works, water­col­ors and oil paint­ings from the gallery’s col­lec­tion com­plete the overview of works.

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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