The exhibition brings together works by twelve artists who live or spent their childhood in Scharnstein and some of the surrounding villages along the river with the name “Alm” (from the Indo-European albh- for white). The exhibited works, which include painting, drawing, printmaking, textile art, installation, ceramics and photography, explore a wide range of themes:
weathering processes on metal, watercoloured bald ibises, greylag geese and ravens, rubbish as a source material for art and as a break in the “beautiful” landscape, the eternal ice in a deep freeze, historic buildings, pride in craftsmanship and community, customs and landscapes of the Salzkammergut, everyday objects and farmhouse furniture that harbour entire worlds and protest movements, a walk-through forest installation that addresses people as protectors and destroyers of nature and at the same time the inner child, wild animals, mythical creatures and human portraits.
In addition, the project Temporal Forest, an art and research project of the Vienna University of Technology (Dr Philipp Haslinger, Dr Thomas Juffmann) in collaboration with the artists Enar de Dios Rodriguez and Jonathon Keats, can be visited on the ground floor of the listed building of the Galerie Kunst und Kultur im Brauhof. The exhibition visualises the movement of light and a mountain landscape whose photograph can only be viewed in 1000 years’ time. The gallery entrance is in the courtyard.
Exhibiting artists:
- Lieselotte Bittendorfer – Lithography
- Christine Danninger – Painting
- Gabriele Gruber-Gisler – Installation, Ceramics
- Alexandra Kienesberger – Painting
- Monika Kitzmantel – Watercolour painting
- Claudia Maria Pammer – Painting, Metal
- Gerhard Reittinger – Painting
- Erika Scharmüller – Painting
- Monika Steiner – Textile Art
- Anna Steinhäusler – Installation, Ceramics, Painting
- Thom Trauner – Photography and Painting
- Gernot Wührleitner – Photography
