EXHIBITIONS

Sujet: TOMAK, Press Start I, 2024, 150x160 cm, Öl, Acryl, Siebdruck auf Leinwand © TOMAK

TOMAK

GAME OVER - PRESS START

 26. 05. - 13. 10. 2024

TOMAK presents GAME OVER - PRESS START as a veritable tour de force through his artistic work, transforming the large exhibition hall of the Angerlehner Museum into a molded panopticon of his thoughts. The exhibition, curated by Antonio Rosa de Pauli, provides an insight into TOMAK's intensive philosophical engagement with the concept of human-machine, which casts its shadow far into our present and seems to pose moral, social and artistic questions about the role of the machine in the information age. With cool elegance, TOMAK uses an individual sign language consisting of text fragments, anatomical representations, overpaintings or even deletions, creating a unique visual universe.

curator: Antonio Rosa de Pauli

Sujet: Bianca Regl, „Untitled (Snyders Garland) I“, 2024, Öl auf Leinwand, 200 x 170 cm, ©Bianca Regl

BIANCA REGL

UNEXPECTED TURNS

28. 04. - 06. 10. 2024

With "Unexpected Turns”, the Museum Angerlehner dedicates a solo exhibition to the Upper Austrian artist Bianca Regl as a premiere in the graphic rooms of the museum. Curated by Antonio Rosa de Pauli, the exhibition "Unexpected Turns" encompasses the earlier series of works by the artist, who works in Vienna and Beijing, as well as her latest works, which she will present for the first time. In her large-format figurative oil paintings, she not only references works from the Baroque period but in particular engages with color as a natural unity, as an "unbroken harmony". "Unexpected Turns" allows for a deeper insight into the exciting and multifaceted oeuvre of this outstanding artist, above all reflecting on the role of figurative oil painting in contemporary art discourse – a retrospective that was long overdue.

curator: Antonio Rosa de Pauli

Sujet: Henk Stolk, Monument der Frau, 2023, Acryl, Öl auf Leinwand, 230x130cm, ©Henk Stolk

HENK STOLK

Intertwined Relationships

 28. 04. - 06. 10. 2024

The Angerlehner Museum is presenting Henk Stolk's solo exhibition "Intertwined Relationships".

With his expressive, figurative paintings, Henk Stolk takes us on a journey through the various phases of relationships: from the first encounter, through physical and emotional entanglements, to the mysterious energy that emanates from lovers, through feelings such as passion, security and a desire that finds fulfillment in love for life. Sometimes, however, you have to say goodbye to the muse in order to make a new encounter possible. The carousel of love keeps turning until the end.

"Every picture is a struggle for an emotional expression that becomes a mirror of my personal tensions and experiences. I trust in the expressiveness and inner dynamics of the colors, which appear on the canvas as if by themselves during the painting process," says the artist.

curator: Maria Reitter-Kollmann

Sujet: Dénesh Ghyczy, Case Study, 2022, Öl und Acryl auf LW, 140 x 270cm, Ausschnitt © Dénesh Ghyczy

Dénesh ghyczy

ego paradise

01. 09. - 17. 11. 2024

With the exhibition Ego Paradise, the Angerlehner Museum is presenting the latest paintings by the German-Hungarian painter Dénesh Ghyczy, which will be on display in the museum's salon from September 1 to November 17, 2024.

The exhibition provides a deeper insight into the multifaceted artistic work of this exceptional artist, in which he depicts people in different poses, as if staged by chance, in architectural interiors. The basis of all paintings is initially an abstract background that the artist applies to the canvas. On this substructure he places his figurative compositions, which he first reassembles in a digital collage from his own as well as found templates, in order to then transfer them to the canvas. Very precisely constructed lighting moods bring light and color into a perfect interplay in the depicted space and create a contrast between free painting and structure, which is loosened up by the multifaceted and sometimes pasty-looking wave-like brushstrokes.

The title of the exhibition Ego Paradise refers to this level of meaning, more precisely to the current polarity between the need for constant public display of one's own person, the ego, on the one hand, and the desire to retreat into the private sphere on the other. The restless oscillation of the psyche between the illusion of a real, perfected digital world of social media, a paradise of egos, and real private seclusion is not only illustrated by the artist in his well-thought-out compositions, in which he skillfully allows the inside and the outside to enter into a dialogue, but also through his protagonists, who are mostly portrayed as lost in themselves, thoughtful, and sometimes melancholic. And it is precisely the melancholy that, for the artist, makes clear "(...) the disappointment about becoming aware of the illusion (...)".

The works shown in the exhibition resemble a visualization of individual atmospheres that show the dialectic between self-expression and withdrawal, between illusion and reality, between inside and outside of our current present - a masterful reference to the individual questioning of socially relevant and corresponding personal attitudes.