Vienna a Venezia / Vienna in Venice

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The exhibition “Vienna in Venice” brings together three very different artistic perspectives from Vienna. However, Peter Baldinger, Jakob Gasteiger and Andrea Bischof have one thing in common: they have all published works with the Artbook-Verlag publishing house, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. The publishing house has taken the opportunity to organise a joint exhibition of its artists in Venice to coincide with the opening of the 61st Art Biennale.

In his paintings, Peter Baldinger obscures the depicted subject as if it were a view through a pane of frosted glass, thus drawing attention to the need to observe something several times and more closely before making a judgement. Peter Baldinger presents his “Visconti Suite” cycle. The films of the director, who died 50 years ago, largely revolve around beauty, decadence and decay, which inspired Baldinger in the creation of these new works. The same goes for the fact that Visconti's famous film is set in the decaying lagoon city: the film adaptation of Thomas Mann's “Death in Venice”. While Visconti depicts the dissolution of social conditions in images of opulent beauty, in Baldinger's work this dissolution occurs precisely in the destruction of this beauty. His painting distorts and dismembers his subjects as if seen through a pane of frosted glass.

Andrea Bischof, an abstract impressionist painter, loves painting, colour and large formats. Her impactful paintings possess an immediate vitality; each one is a celebration of colour and a feast for the eyes. For many years, she has dedicated herself intensely to Venetian painting and has a permanent studio in the Lido of Venice. This continuous proximity to the cultural and atmospheric cosmos of the lagoon city has had a lasting impact on her artistic practice. In “Vienna to Venice 2026”, she presents the large-format painting “The Grand Spectacle in the Sky,” which was previously exhibited at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden.

Jakob Gasteiger's artistic practice emphasises the material and manual aspects of painting. Instead of the brushstroke – traditionally an expression of the artist's individuality – he uses toothed tools such as comb spatulas or scrapers to create textures in thick layers of paint. This gesture is both anonymising and concretising: it negates the desire for subjective expression and underscores the creative process as a visible result. The painting emerges as a trace of an action, not a representation of an idea.

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Beteiligte

Peter Baldinger, Andrea Bischof, Jakob Gasteiger