Everyday scenes, portraits and landscape photographs by Styrian photographers Albert Rastl, Michael Moser, Erich Bahrendt, Konrad Mautner and others are made available to international photo artists: Zuzana Pustaiova (SVK), Yukimi Akiba (JP), Kim Boske (NL), Zhang Kechun (CHN), Marco Lanza (IT), Elisabeth Czihak (A), Tamas Dezso (HUN), Pawel Jaszczuk (POL), Patrick Lambertz (DE-CH), Stefanie Mooshammer (A) and Yvonne Oswald (A). They comment on and interpret the historical views, in this way linking them up to contemporary photographic art.

The exhibition will display both the historical and newly created works.

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The two artists MelaMoi and BernhardPe have made it their artistic practice to devote themselves entirely to spaces. Nothing new is added, nothing existing is removed. The focus is on dealing with what already exists. The greatest power lies in the creative moment. We shape ourselves, our relationships, the realities of our lives and thus also the spaces that continually characterise us. Far too few areas allow us to place design at the centre of our attention. In art, this is a given. For 48 hours, both work their way through the space. In this case, the garden of the former Carmelite convent. Whereby the garden is actually meant here and any interior spaces are left out. The garden consists of organic and inorganic materials. Interrelationships become apparent. Here, hierarchies behave differently than in enclosed spaces where art is brought to bear. In the garden, nature provides the possibilities, and it is the garden – thus the purpose to which the space is dedicated – that brings the other materials into the field. We work with natural materials, but also with everything else that is used in the monastery garden. Alienation and refinement. Shaping and liberating from familiar forms. Exploring the potential of spaces. Daring to create new narratives. Working out of the space describes the artistic approach of MelaMoi and BernhardPe quite well.

AVANTGARD/EN

AVANTGARD/EN is an extended artist-in-residence programme at the Carmelite Convent in Gmunden and contributes to making the garden a place of public dialogue, encounter, reflection and cultural exchange that brings together people from different backgrounds and perspectives to negotiate the present. 
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Water and wood are both critical factors; without them, the extraction of salt would not be possible. – Salt and water are also both of critical importance for our bodies. Our organism is to 65 % made up of water and requires a daily ration of at least five grams of salt. – After all: salt and water are actually adversaries, which mutually devour each other and dissolve each other and are cursed to exist symbiotically until they are perhaps separated once again in a brew house.

“sudhaus – art with salt and water” is the central art exhibition of the European Capital of Culture. With the international and interregional participation of renowned artists, a spectrum of topics that is as broad as possible will be presented, which is introduced by documents from the history of the region. With a wide variety of facets and points of entry, the topics of salt and water will be presented in the form of objects, sculptures, installations, films, photography and sound works.

A part of the exhibit will make reference to the conference Open Water Dialogues, which concerns itself with urgent problems such as disappearing glaciers and the increasing scarcity of water around the world.

Contributors

Hicham Berrada (Paris), Christine Biehler (Hanau), Marion Eichmann (Berlin), Caterina Gobbi (Courmayeur/Berlin), Norbert W. Hinterberger (Berlin), Anouk Kruithof (Brussels), Sigalit Landau (Tel Aviv), Radenko Milak (Banja Luka), Wolfgang Müllegger & Georg Holzmann (Obertraun), Lucy+Jorge Orta (Paris), Kati Roover (Helsinki), Michael Sailstorfer (Berlin), Eva Schlegel (Vienna), Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch (Vienna), Simon Starling (Glasgow/Copenhagen), Anna Rún Tryggvadóttir (Reykjavik), Motoi Yamamoto (Kanazawa), Wenting Zhu (Shanghai/NY) (artists)

Gottfried Hattinger (curator)
Elfi Sonnberger (production management)
Julia Schwarz (project assistance)

With support from: Upper Austrian Chamber of Labour, EU Japan Fest

Dogs and other pets are not allowed in the exhibition.

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Born in Vienna, Detter spent his youth with rigorous training at the cadet school in Prague. In 1905 he studied as a pupil of Franz von Stuck at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. After spending time abroad, mainly as a portraitist in Germany, Czechoslovakia and Switzerland, he came to Gmunden in 1945. It was in the town of Trause that he finally found a large circle of friends and a suitable atmosphere for his artistic work. This was followed by works and exhibitions in Linz, Vienna, Vaduz and numerous other places. In addition to portraits, the artist also devoted himself to genre painting, still lifes and scene paintings with religious content, among other things, in an attempt to translate traditional themes into the new age.

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Maria Moser shows new, energetic and expressive paintings. 
The colour red is characteristic of her work and is reminiscent of glowing iron:  “…it is the primordial material iron, which I make my own for my brute “representation”, homage to the archaic primordial matter; the interior of the earth, the hot heart of things…”  Her paintings are existential in nature, they stand for life processes, for inner human transformations and psychological change.Her work has had a lasting influence on abstract art in Austria since 1945.
 
Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg with newly created, large-format paintings and sensitive, expansive installations, in which gold, gold leaf, is also integrated as a painting material, which fascinates with a special lucid, spherical quality of light. For the artist, the colour gold represents a space of timelessness, a space of spiritual confrontation: “…For me, these paintings are abstraction and a concentrate of emotional density. For me, this is a key to a timeless sense of the world. Past and future become present in the pictures.” Beginning and end at the same time.

Maria Moser
*Born in Frankenburg, Upper Austria in 1948. 1968 – 1973 Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, 1973 Diploma in Painting , 1974/75 Egypt Scholarship, lives as a freelance artist in Frankenburg.
After some early large sculptures made of iron, steel, wood and stone, Moser is almost exclusively occupied with painting. She mostly paints large-format oil paintings on canvas, as well as works on paper and graphics. She often uses impressions from her father’s forge in abstract form in her works (including Scale,Bath of Blood,Anvil,Bending and Breaking). She finds other motifs when travelling, in nature and in scrap yards. Red nuances are symptomatic of her work. She uses colour to create lively depth and spatial dimensions that are imbued with vitality. This allows the viewer to immerse themselves in a painterly cosmos that leads them to the origins of their existence. Among other things, she created the stained glass windows of the parish churches in Grieskirchen and Schwanenstadt and designed the church interior of the parish church of St Konrad in Linz-Froschberg.

Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg
Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg was born in 1955 on Gründberg in Linz, Upper Austria.From 1976 to 1980, he studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna under Bazon Brock and Oswald Oberhuber Painting.  From 1980 onwards, he exhibited extensively in Austria and abroad.Since 1987 Rudolf Leitner-Gründberg has lived and worked in Bubendorf, Wolfsbach, Lower Austria.
The artist works in cycles that develop over the years, with painting,drawing, object and spatial installation. With the works of his OPUS series a change in his painting took place until the early 1990s, it was extended into the space with objects and took on an installative character that ultimately led to a Gesamtkunstwerk. The viewer is no longer a counterpart to the work, but is included in this picture-object-space concept. One of Leitner-Gründberg’s early themes is the crown, which he integrates into his painting. For him, the crown is a symbol of the highest form we can achieve in life. He sees it as a symbol of life for every human being. In 1991, he created the temporary monument – The Crown on Gründberg, followed in 1999 by The Crown in Kaiserpark, Bad Ischl. The third crown project (planned from New York via Europe to St. Petersburg) was realised from 2014-2016, in Wolfsbach, New York, Salzburg and Linz. 
In the Golden Paintings gold leaf is integrated into the painting in combination with the colours yellow, red, blue and white. Gold as a symbol of timelessness, as a metaphor for immortality, but also as a sign of light beauty and spiritual realisation. The artist’s credo: “This painting should succeed in extending the present into the future as well as the past and thus make a greater continuum of time perceptible in the present image”.
 
Book: Labor des Glücks, Die Berührung der Welt; (ed.Carl Aigner, Barbara Leitner-Szapáry) presents the extensive Gesamtkunstwerk. 

Additional opening hours:
Anytime by telephone appointment, T: +43 650 8401075

Art today?

Visit the exhibition and then discuss art over a meal together in the restaurant. The Tanglberg/Schloss Hochhaus gallery thus caters to the tastes of art lovers.
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The project managers Christina Burda and Amina Handke, together with Michaela Lackner and the Lederermayerhaus project association, invite you to coffee, cake and conversation as part of the chestnut festival in Unterach.

Museum of Memory

A house becomes a place for exchanging the living history of its surroundings. The history of the Lederermayerhaus dates back to the beginning of the 18th century. Among other things, it was the location of a fishmonger’s and the home of a Lederer trade. It was a farm and a loving cat house, cared for by its last owner.
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Chronically unwritten

The project invites the people of Unterach to actively participate in the process of creating the new community chronicle.
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Important information about visiting the museum

Due to its age and building structure the Lederermayerhaus is not barrier-free and not suitable for large gatherings of people – in the event of large crowds or bad weather  there may therefore be waiting times when visiting the opening or other events. We ask for your understanding. Drinks and weather-protected seating in front of the building will be provided.

Please also note that access to the museum room is via an old, unsecured staircase and very low doors. The museum room is located on the first floor.

Public WC facilities are located opposite in the municipal office building.

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The “ANALOG” exhibition can also be viewed in the same building.

SCALA Salzkammergut Craft Art Lab

A new space for encounters in the Hand.Werk.Haus Salzkammergut is intended to serve as a “central point of departure, base camp and space for action”. SCALA invites the world to blaze new trails between art and crafts!
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at and scala2024.com

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Metal artist Andreas Schönangerer (AT) is working with young sculptors and craftspeople at SCALA Experience on an object in public space, and you can gain an impression of the artistry of metal artist in residence Rebekah Frank (US) at her temporary studio in the Stephaneum. By the way: Many thanks to Fronius for the technical equipment!

This studio will also be used by US metal artist Donna E. Price (US), who has been living in Altmünster for several years. Like Rebekah, Donna has a strong connection to the Penland School of Craft, an important source of inspiration for SCALA Salzkammergut Craft Art Lab.

Another SCALA artist in residence is Sadatsugu Watanabe (JP). The Japanese shokunin (master craftsman) specialises in traditional wood joints. Thanks to the support of Magma Tools and EU Japan Fest, we will be able to showcase his legendary skills with Japanese saws and planes. Obertraun sculptor and boat builder Wolfgang Müllegger (AT) will also take up the theme of ‘connections’ in his work on site.

Lenka Cain Pavlickova (CZ) will not only build her marionettes, but also bring them to life in a playful way. Gerhard Stöglehner (AT) will introduce the art of armchair weaving, Claudia Gams (AT) will show samples of her work as a milliner. Daniel Rainer (AT), Thomas Kari (AT) and Thomas Bochsbichler (AT) will be on site with a clay workshop in collaboration with project ‘Simple Smart Buildings’. Goldsmith Herbert Trucker (AT) and watchmaker Florian Dostal (AT) will be joining us directly from Lake Attersee with their work tables.

And last but not least: the SCALA Connect sculpture park around Neuwildenstein Castle will be opened at 11.00 am!

SCALA Salzkammergut Craft Art Lab

A new space for encounters in the Hand.Werk.Haus Salzkammergut is intended to serve as a “central point of departure, base camp and space for action”. SCALA invites the world to blaze new trails between art and crafts!
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at and scala2024.com

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The Traunseetram, both an inner-city means of transport and a regional railway, connects people with cultural capital locations, history, tradition and modernity. Passengers experience sustainable art (installations) at stops and thus experience visions of energy and mobility. The two Traunseetram stops at Klosterplatz and Engelhof station have been declared fields of artistic experimentation and designed by art students. An artistic performance took place at the Karl z’Neuhub stop. Art objects from the youth project “For the world I want to live in” were displayed at a further 7 stops. The art installation “Zaungäste” connects Energie AG and Stern & Hafferl at the tram depot in Gmunden – both companies have a long history together

More informationen at: Kunsterfahren.at

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Opening

Thursday, 26/09/24, 17:00, Gmundner Keramik
Please register for the opening with the keyword “ELMAR TRENKWALDER” by 24/09/24 at: anmeldung@ooelkg.at

Elmar Trenkwalder (born 1959) lives in Innsbruck. He studied under Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and gained international exposure early on, including “Aperto 90” at the Venice Biennale by Harald Szeemann (1990), “Austria in the Rose Net” at the MAK in Vienna and “Wunderkammer Österreich” at the Kunsthaus in Zurich (1996), the Lyon Biennale (1997), and the Musée de Louvre in Paris (2005).

Curators: Genoveva Rückert, Veronika Schreck

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Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
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For her, simply living in a place always means a confrontation with that place. Inevitably, content and questions arise about the building, the surroundings, the people and events. The artist responds to this with site-specific works that are created as a processable during her stay. You can see these new results on each of the four weekends.

SIMPLY LIVING  is also open for individual visits by appointment until 20/09/24.
Further information at hannaburkart.com and instagram.com/hannaburkart

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Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
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Salt Lake Cities

Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

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Artistic works by: Alfredo Barsuglia, Petra Kodym, Markus Moser, Bashir Quonqar, Donna E. Price, Ferdinand Reisenbichler, Verena Schatz, Heidi Zednik

ANALOG! continues this tradition with contemporary artistic references and offers a series of productions that deal with the former Stephaneum secondary school.

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The English word ‘curing’ means healing someone or something, but is also used to describe traditional processes of preservation, such as salting food. In this double sense, ‘curing’ became an idea for thinking about the garden, its history and contemporary relevance. What would happen if we worked with organic processes of change (fading, fermenting, decay, corrosion), paid attention to plants, or acknowledged that our health is entangled with that of the planet? 

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Salt Lake Cities

Regional vacancies as places of experience and meeting places for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in them and activate them with artistic contributions.
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“Sound of Silence” is a call for contemplation in a noisy world. It invites visitors to actively immerse themselves in the process of self-reflection and experience a moment of peace.

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Women’s and girls’ football in the Salzkammergut

How can football change culture in the long term? A women’s and girls’ project gets to the bottom of this question.
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Salt Lake Cities

Regional empty spaces as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in these spaces and to activate them with artistic contributions.
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In his temporary workshop at the railway station, he creates a series of surveillance cameras as wire objects, which he presents in the former stationmaster’s office. As in previous residencies, the artist immerses himself intensively in his work. The surveillance cameras arouse his interest for reasons of both content and form. Through the large number of lenses focussed on the visitors, the artist intensifies the effect and evokes a feeling of distress. This is intensified by a sound installation by Rupert Derschmidt, which distributes the noise produced by the devices when swivelling and focussing throughout the room. Visitors are exposed to the sight and sound of the cameras throughout the room.

For the artist, the unwanted images from the surveillance cameras are juxtaposed with the photos voluntarily posted online by many. Although people don’t want to be watched by someone without being monitored, they are happy to post lots of images online in order to be seen: “I’m at Pettenbach station on my way to Tauplitz. #seeyou”
 
Markus Moser, wire artist from the Almtal valley, forms a link with his work from the northernmost railway station in the Capital of Culture region, Pettenbach, to its southernmost, Tauplitz. 

Accessibility 
No barrier-free access (studio access via a step)
Traffic area of the ÖBB – children only under supervision
Public toilet

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Note:
Also worth seeing in the station through the windows from the outside is the adjoining room, the abandoned dispatcher’s room, a remnant of days gone by.   

Salt Lake Cities

Regional vacancies as places of experience and meeting points for art: the Capital of Culture 2024 invites young artists from Germany and abroad to research, live and work in them and to activate them with artistic contributions.
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