Exhibitions
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MARIANNE LANG | Sturmwurf
Read More: MARIANNE LANG | SturmwurfOpening: Thu., February 12, 6:00 pm. Nature is something beautiful; it is something we humans need; it is something we make use of—even though it can quickly become dangerous once we underestimate its power.
Past
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PAPER POSITIONS | Edges and Études
Read More: PAPER POSITIONS | Edges and ÉtudesEdges and Études brings together two distinct yet resonating artistic positions — Marianne Lang and Michaela Spiegel — who express the interplay of form, tension, and embodied experience through their work in different ways.
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KURT HÜPFNER | Resilience
Read More: KURT HÜPFNER | ResilienceAt the center of the exhibition stands the figure of Job, whose story of suffering, endurance, and spiritual struggle addresses themes that have lost none of their relevance to this day.
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FRANZ ALKIER | Ob es nun mein Weg ist
Read More: FRANZ ALKIER | Ob es nun mein Weg istWithout academic training, yet driven by profound inner urgency, Franz Alkier created a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing painting, drawing, ceramics, object art, photography, and text.
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PETER BALDINGER | ICONtrast
Read More: PETER BALDINGER | ICONtrastPeter Baldinger’s latest works engage with the ambivalence of icons. Under the title ICONtrast, the exhibition questions the tension between admiration and critique, between collective memory and individual perception.
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KURT HÜPFNER | Individuelle Mythologien
Read More: KURT HÜPFNER | Individuelle MythologienThrough his oeuvre, Kurt Hüpfner offers viewers insight into the events, religions, and myths of our world. Each artwork bears his distinctive signature of contour, surface, and form — allowing us to glimpse how the artist perceived the world.
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CHRISTINE MAYR | Love Diverse
Read More: CHRISTINE MAYR | Love DiverseChristine Mayrs drawings and sculptures are at once sensitive, empathetic, courageous, provocative, and direct.
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PETER BALDINGER | DANSE MACABRE II
Read More: PETER BALDINGER | DANSE MACABRE IIDissolution — the central concern in Baldinger’s work — is also at the core of his project Danse macabre, initiated in 2022. The project engages with Hans Holbein the Younger’s woodcut series Images of Death, created around 1525.
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ENDLICHER . HÜPFNER | Much more than that
Read More: ENDLICHER . HÜPFNER | Much more than thatLanguage as both point of departure and working material — this is precisely where our exhibition of works by Michael Endlicher and Kurt Hüpfner begins.
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ALL IN 2.0
Read More: ALL IN 2.0The exhibition presents a selection of works by the artists represented by Galerie Dantendorfer — Peter Baldinger, BENKA, Christian Brandtner, Kurt Hüpfner, Marianne Lang, Petra Lupe, Christine Mayr, and Adrian Uncrut.
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BENKA @Parallel Vienna 2023
Read More: BENKA @Parallel Vienna 2023With his art, BENKA aims to encourage viewers to question digitalization and the use of smartphones and artificial intelligence in our daily lives. The artist is particularly interested in the complex interaction between humans and machines, exploring both the opportunities and the risks it entails.
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CHRISTIAN BRANDTNER | Transformation
Read More: CHRISTIAN BRANDTNER | TransformationThe exhibition places a focus on the newest series Tardigrade, in which Brandtner engages with the 500-million-year-old tardigrades.
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PETER BALDINGER | DANSE MACABRE
Read More: PETER BALDINGER | DANSE MACABREDissolution forms the central concern in Baldinger’s oeuvre, whether through square grids or through the obscuring of the motif by a kind of blurring. This theme once again moves to the foreground in Baldinger’s most recent works addressing Holbein’s Bilder des Todes.
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PETRA LUPE | ichbinimmerviele
Read More: PETRA LUPE | ichbinimmervieleThe exhibition offers insight into the diverse work of the Upper Austrian artist Petra Lupe and showcases her remarkable handling of different materials and techniques.
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BENKA | Painted with vulgarity
Read More: BENKA | Painted with vulgarityThrough his art, BENKA aims to encourage viewers to question digitalization and the use of smartphones and artificial intelligence in our everyday lives. The artist is interested in the complex interaction between humans and machines, as well as the opportunities and dangers that accompany it.
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HERBERT ACHTERNBUSCH | Maler und Bildhauer
Read More: HERBERT ACHTERNBUSCH | Maler und BildhauerHerbert Achternbusch – writer, director, painter, actor, sculptor, stage designer. Today, this universal artist is primarily known as an author, filmmaker, and anarchic agitator of the 1970s and 1980s; originally, however, he was a visual artist.
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PETRA LUPE | tabula rasa
Read More: PETRA LUPE | tabula rasaWhen tabula rasa (scraped tablet) is referred to here, it does not mean the soul of the newborn as imagined by ancient philosophers, which comes into the world like a blank page.
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KURT HÜPFNER | Vom Erahnen der Welt
Read More: KURT HÜPFNER | Vom Erahnen der WeltThrough his oeuvre, Kurt Hüpfner offers viewers insight into events, religions, and myths of our world. Each artwork bears his personal signature of contour, surface, and form—allowing us to sense how the artist perceives the world.
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MARIANNE LANG | we are nature
Read More: MARIANNE LANG | we are natureWe are nature—the exhibition once again aims to sharpen visitors’ awareness of their relationship to nature and to their living environments. And perhaps, afterward, one or another may ask themselves: Are we nature?
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CHRISTINE MAYR | Face and Faceless
Read More: CHRISTINE MAYR | Face and FacelessAt the center of the exhibition is the series Faceblind, in which the artist addresses the topic of face blindness.
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(Master)pieces
Read More: (Master)piecesIn our online and offline viewing room, we present a selection from our current gallery program featuring works by Kurt Hüpfner, Marianne Lang, Petra Lupe, Peter Baldinger and Christine Mayr.
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ADRIAN UNCRUT | Woher, Wohin
Read More: ADRIAN UNCRUT | Woher, WohinAdrian Uncrut’s work is shaped by his education in sculpture and restoration at the National University of Arts in Bucharest. While in his early years he still relied on composing and planning, in recent years he has increasingly shifted to working intuitively.
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BENKA | Virtual Insanity
Read More: BENKA | Virtual InsanityIn our exhibition VIRTUAL INSANITY, we present a comprehensive insight into the artist’s work and his critique of the virtual madness of our time.
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KURT HÜPFNER | Studio Exhibition
Read More: KURT HÜPFNER | Studio ExhibitionGalerie Dantendorfer is pleased to dedicate a studio exhibition to the work of Kurt Hüpfner. We are showing changing selections of works by the Viennese artist, giving visitors the opportunity to experience the full spectrum of his oeuvre.
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PETER BALDINGER | LOOK TWICE!
Read More: PETER BALDINGER | LOOK TWICE!In the paintings of the exhibition BALDINGER. LOOK TWICE!, he systematically approaches everyday motifs and well-known subjects from art history, asking: How much information is necessary to recognize a motif?
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ALL IN
Read More: ALL INWith **ALL IN**, Galerie Dantendorfer presented its first exhibition—a powerful opening featuring works by Kurt Hüpfner, Christine Mayr, and Adrian Uncrut. Three artistic positions, three individual approaches, united by an intense engagement with the human, the narrative, and the fragmentary.
