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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
Zwinger Zwinger Toni Schmale, Zwinger, 2019
, Sand-blasted steel, burnished, oiled; steel, burnished, waxed, 80 x 200 x 65 cm
Kollitsch Collection

Precision and craftsmanship are the defining factors in the oeuvre of this artist, who has chosen steel as the base of her sculptures. She rolls, bends, and moulds the material herself and applies various steel-working techniques for colouring and shaping its surface. Zwinger (2019) brings to mind the remnants of a cage, whose emptiness gives rise to associations of power and liberation, bondage and redemption – an imagery also reflected in the treatment of the actual material, which the artists bends to her will. Social power structures and gender stereotypes are central topics in this artist’s oeuvre. In her massive steel sculptures, she also emancipates herself from her unwieldy material by means of an ingenious system of interlocking parts, thus illustrating her physical independence.

Fisting Fisting Toni Schmale, Fisting, 2020
, Concrete, steel, 25 x 9 x 8 cm
Kollitsch Collection

In her art, Toni Schmale questions societal structures and stereotypical gender roles. The artist – previously a professional footballer in the German national squad – prefers to work with concrete and steel, materials that traditionally have a masculine connotation. Power relations and control are recurring themes, as are sexuality and fetishism. The symbolism behind the clenched concrete fist triggers off associations of strength, resistance, threat, and self-defence, and reaches yet another level of interpretation through the title of the piece, Fisting.

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