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03.10.2022-06.07.2023

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  • Maria Anwander & Ruben Aubrecht
  • Thomas Arnolds
  • Rozbeh Asmani
  • Cornelia Baltes
  • Alfredo Barsuglia
  • Hubert Becker
  • Hans Bischoffshausen
  • Brandy Brandstätter
  • Karl Brandstätter
  • Julius Brauckmann
  • Ulu Braun
  • Edward Burtynsky
  • Christopher Bucklow
  • Sandi Červek
  • Caroline Wells Chandler
  • Sandro Chia
  • Natalie Czech
  • Violet Dennison
  • Ines Doujak
  • Lutz Driessen
  • Sophie Dvořák
  • Irena Eden & Stijn Lernout
  • Simon Edmondson
  • Cédric Eisenring
  • Jan Paul Evers
  • Lino Fiorito
  • Christian Flora
  • Dietmar Franz
  • Christian Freudenberger
  • Jakob Gasteiger
  • Michela Ghisetti
  • Antonio Girbés
  • Bruno Gironcoli
  • Gernot Gleiss
  • Dorothee Golz
  • Franz Grabmayr
  • Ernst Gradischnig
  • Vivian Greven
  • Jochem Hendricks
  • Giselbert Hoke
  • Andy Holtin
  • Bernadette Huber
  • Pedro Jardim de Mattos
  • Eva Jospin
  • Soli Kiani
  • Peter Klare
  • Jakob Lena Knebl
  • Cornelius Kolig
  • Arnulf Komposch
  • Suse Krawagna
  • Eric Kressnig
  • Robert Kunec
  • Alina Kunitsyna
  • Hans Kupelwieser
  • Ulrich Lamsfuß
  • Margaret Lansink
  • Tina Lechner
  • Jens Liebchen
  • Axel Lieber
  • Mevlana Lipp
  • Peter Lohmeyer
  • Gerhard Lojen
  • Constantin Luser
  • Joel Meyerowitz
  • Sissa Micheli
  • Jürgen Münzer
  • Loredana Nemes
  • Ferdinand Neumüller
  • Arnold Odermatt
  • Hans Op de Beeck
  • Bernd Oppl
  • Aitor Ortiz
  • Olga Pedan
  • Ulrich Pester
  • Peter Pongratz
  • Arnold Pöschl
  • Hannes Rader
  • Damir Radović
  • Fabian Ramirez
  • Thomas Rentmeister
  • Markus Riebe
  • Megan Rooney
  • Evan Roth
  • Robert Schad
  • Julia Scher
  • Stefanie Seufert
  • Eva Schlegel
  • Toni Schmale
  • Ralph Schuster
  • Jon Shelton
  • Hayley Aviva Silverman
  • Tracey Snelling
  • Paul Spendier
  • Nina Rike Springer
  • Laura Stadtegger
  • Esther Stocker
  • Vincent Tavenne
  • Oman Valentin
  • Anna Virnich
  • Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • Ina Weber
  • Clemens Wolf
Apple/Apple, from the Apple(s) series Apple/Apple, from the Apple(s) series Dietmar Franz, Apple/Apple, from the Apple(s) series, 2012-2019
, Graphite on plywood, 74 works in total: approx. Ø 100 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Korbinian Aigner, known as the “Apple Pastor”, was both a priest and an expert in growing fruit, particularly apples. Due to his critical remarks he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp in 1941 where, as a forced labourer in agriculture, he succeeded in growing new varieties of apples between the barracks, which he named KZ 1, KZ 2 (Concentration Camp 1, 2), etc. At the same time he untiringly drew sketches of different varieties. To commemorate Aigner, the US concept artist Jimmie Durham planted an apple tree of the Korbinian variety KZ 3 in the Parkaue park in Kassel as part of his contribution to documenta 13 (Kassel, 2012). Inspired by this action and in memory of his great grandfather who was also incarcerated at Dachau – both men survived – Dietmar Franz took an interest in Aigner’s sketches and re-drew some of his Apple Portraits. Since then he has been drawing one apple after another.

— Felix Kucher

Trash Bags, from the Apple(s) series Trash Bags, from the Apple(s) series Dietmar Franz, Trash Bags, from the Apple(s) series, 2017
, Graphite on plywood, 44 x 24 cm
Kollitsch Collection
Christmas 2012, from the series Trash Bags Christmas 2012, from the series Trash Bags Dietmar Franz, Christmas 2012, from the series Trash Bags, 2019
, Graphite on plywood, 71,5 x 50 cm
Kollitsch Collection

In his very recent series Trash Bags, which he started in 2016, Dietmar Franz picks up a theme that is by no means new, but nevertheless extremely topical: waste. Using his proven technique of graphite on plywood, he creates two-dimensional wall objects that seem deceptively genuine and which cause irritation, both when the trash bags are seen separately and when they are arranged into groups, as still lifes. Inevitably, the viewer is faced with the question of their content, which may be a variety of things. Based on his own annual dilemma of how to dispose of his Christmas tree, he depicts a tree in a trash bag, thus adding an additional level of interpretation.

Wörthersee III, from the series NATURgeil (NATURALLY wicked) Wörthersee III, from the series NATURgeil (NATURALLY wicked) Dietmar Franz, Wörthersee III, from the series NATURgeil (NATURALLY wicked), 2016
, Graphite on plywood, Ø 100 cm
Kollitsch Collection
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