EXHIBITIONS

Find out more about our current exhibitions

left: Makis Warlamis, Zyklus „Das unbekannte Universum“, Serie „Zeugen der Ewigkeit“, 2015,
Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 70 x 70 cm (Ausschnitt)
right: Heide Warlamis, Kuros, Idol, 2005, Bronzeunikat patiniert, 82 x 36 x 24 cm

ENDLESS ART

HEIDE & MAKIS WARLAMIS

09. 11. 2024 - 30. 03. 2025

In close cooperation with the Waldviertel Art Museum, the Angerlehner Museum is presenting a major exhibition of the universal artist Makis (Efthymios) Warlamis, who died in 2016, in dialogue with selected works by the artist Heide Warlamis.

For the artists Makis and Heide, art was and is a medium that permeates, shapes and renews all areas of life. A holistic approach that particularly characterizes the work of the artist-architect Makis Warlamis. In his working method, he does not bow to any boundaries, neither stylistic, thematic, art-immanent, nor those between cultures and ways of thinking.

In a deeply humane approach to art, for which art and community are inseparable, he has spent his life creating living spaces that work harmoniously with nature and art, in analogy to the universal fabric of all living things. In his large-format works, he illustrates ideas and alternative paths in an exemplary manner and provides food for thought for our future.

This comprehensive exhibition will transform the large exhibition hall into a meeting space and is a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the diverse work of Makis and Heide Warlamis - let yourself be surprised!

curator: Bernhard Antoni

ColLector's choice

angerlehner x löw-radeschnig

09. 11. 2024 - 30. 03. 2025

With "Collector's Choice | Angerlehner x Löw-Radeschnig", the Museum Angerlehner presents a unique selection of previously unpublicized works of art from the renowned private art collections of Heinz J. Angerlehner and Brigitte Löw-Radeschnig.

This exhibition format is a consistent continuation of the founding idea of the Museum Angerlehner, to make contemporary art and important private collections accessible to a broad public.

"Collector's Choice | Angerlehner x Löw-Radeschnig" brings together a remarkable number of different artistic positions from both collections, which exemplify both the multifaceted nature of contemporary art and the individual dynamics of a private art collection.

The exhibition illustrates the passion of these two art collectors and provides rare insights into their different approaches and preferences, which are reflected in the diversity and creativity of the works on display - an exciting dialogue that will have an impact beyond the museum visit.

curator: Antonio Rosa de Pauli

The exhibition features works by the following artists:

Josef Bauer, Christine Bauer, Wander Bertoni, Ákos Birkás, Herbert Brandl, Günter Brus, Djawid C.
Borower, Mario Dalpra, Gunter Damisch, Michael Dohr, Oliver Dorfer, Christian Eisenberger, Adolf
Frohner, Enrique Fuentes, Franz Grabmayr, Jörg Immendorff, Xenia Hausner, Martha Jungwirth,
Peter Kogler, Constantin Luser, Franziska Maderthaner, Gottfried Mairwöger, Maria Moser, Alois
Mosbacher, Otto Muehl, Claudia Nickl, Hermann Nitsch, Oswald Oberhuber, Martin Praska, Drago
Julius Prelog, Arnulf Rainer, Hubert Scheibl, Martin Schnur, Hans Staudacher, Andreas Tanzer, Eva
Wagner, Lambert Maria Wintersberger

Dénesh ghyczy

ego paradise

01. 09. - 15. 12. 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 December 15, 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.