A Poetics of Winter, Untold Tales for the Soul

The HOLLEREI presents a winter exhibition that traces the poetics of slowness, the untellable, the quiet moments. The unusually high number of participating artists creates a kaleidoscopic view of individual fragments and narrative moments. We are pleased to introduce you to the artistic positions on display!

Arnold Berger (* 1981) processes in his work the topos of dynamic, unconcluded semantics. He questions the perhaps endless complexity of situations, objects and structures, in order to arrive within a work at a pictorial composition whose aim is not mimetic proximity or similarity to the examined subject.

Mercedes Geissberger (* 1992) depicts in her current works vibrating movement sequences that capture temporal progressions in multiple overlays. The works possess a high radiance and are characterised by an outstanding figurative concentration.

Julia Maurer (* 1983) works primarily in small-format paintings, which she assembles installatively into work groups. Beyond the clear boundaries of individual works, her oeuvre therefore operates in an interplay of complexities, connected through a lyrically effective painterly approach.

Nana Mandl (* 1991) breaks open a traditional understanding of painting through transmedial collage techniques, connecting in a fractal manner the properties of different materials – from digital printing on canvas to the use of stickers, transparent films of various colours, etc. This creates unfamiliar image worlds that elude clear interpretation.

Paul Riedmüller (* 1989) pursues his artistic practice both in the studio and in public space. The resulting works differ enormously in their format choices, yet largely resemble each other in the formal solutions employed. His works maintain a relaxed figurative approach and present art-historical topoi in a contemporary, pathos-free manner.

Astrid Rausch (* 1975) negotiates, through the running, flowing, dripping, splashing of pigments, the original materiality of oil painting, with her process inherently containing a native deceleration, and access to an abstract figuration seeming important to her. Her work directly connects abstraction and a poetics of open figuration.

Christian Rothwangl (* 1993) creates virtuoso portraits in varying degrees of abstraction, but generally maintains in his work a certain proximity to still lifes, free-associative gestures or painterly surfaces that process the image in different ways. This gives the works a dreamily real diary character, such as perhaps can only emerge beyond textuality.

Patrick Wagner (* 1980) pursues a printmaking practice based on the use of word fragments, which are frequently brought into free graphic associations. The resulting works create poetic spaces in the interstice between word and image.