Gallery next to St. Stephan
Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 28 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 33.1" E
The gallery next St. Stephan is an art gallery in the Grünangergasse in Vienna .
New gallery Grünangergasse
Otto Kallir- Nirenstein founded the Neue Galerie in Grünangergasse in 1923 . In 1938 he emigrated first to Paris, then to New York, where he founded the Galerie St. Etienne (French translation by St. Stephan) and, in particular, introduced Gustav Klimt , Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka to the USA. The New York gallery still exists today and is run by his granddaughter Jane Kallir. The gallery in Grünangergasse was managed by Vita Künstler on an interim basis until 1952.
Gallery St. Stephan / Gallery next to St. Stephan
The painter and graphic artist Gertie Fröhlich drew Monsignor Otto Mauer's attention to the orphaned gallery in Grünangergasse and introduced him to her fellow artists. In 1954 Otto Mauer opened the St. Stephan Gallery on the premises , which was continued from 1964 with the name Gallery next St. Stephan . In a climate that was rather closed to the avant-garde at the time, Otto Mauer had the central function of offering artists opportunities for articulation that were denied them elsewhere in Vienna. With commitment and elementary intellectual potency, he gave the gallery a strongly content-oriented character right from the start, initially for artists such as Herbert Boeckl , Rudolf Szyszkowitz , Leopold Birstinger , whom Otto Mauer had already got to know and appreciated in the Bund Neuland , and younger people like Peter Bischof on the forum for artistic debate. At the end of the 1950s, Otto Mauer turned more to Informel: the St. Stephan Gallery became a point of reference and forum for Oswald Oberhuber , Wolfgang Hollegha , Josef Mikl , Markus Prachensky , Arnulf Rainer , Maria Lassnig and others. At the same time, Otto Mauer, known throughout Europe as a speaker, collector, organizer and artist friend, established the gallery's international contacts and initiated a lively exchange with the international avant-garde. In 1958 the first “International Art Talk” took place in the Seckau / Styria Abbey . national and international art theorists and artists gathered. The tradition established in this way of regularly checking trends in contemporary art for their current status is continued to this day. Otto Mauer headed the gallery next St. Stephan until his death in 1973. His program included informal painting, contemporary architecture, installations and the like. a. by Joseph Beuys , conceptual painting and contemporary sculpture.
Oswald Oberhuber was an artist and organizer of the gallery's exhibitions as early as the 1960s. After the death of Otto Mauer, he took over the management and continued the tradition of an “information gallery”. He was primarily interested in conceptual art movements - he saw his exhibitions as a lively participation in the present, his work as an artist as permanent change. The writers of the Viennese group appeared, the Viennese actionists gave performances, in 1975 the exhibition “Magna” organized by Valie Export gave an overview of female creativity. The Graz Authors' Meeting held regular readings in the gallery rooms.
In 1978 Rosemarie Schwarzwälder became managing director of the gallery and began to set project-related priorities. The claim that the gallery next to St. Stephan had to do cultural work in the culturally deficient climate at the end of the seventies was realized with exhibition projects, events in the form of concerts, lectures, discussions, readings and performances. The result was an atmosphere that was again open to new phenomena in art that had previously only been found outside of Austria.
With projects on the subject of “New Sculpture” or “New Geometry”, the gallery picked up on the international discourse. The exhibition “Signs - Floods - Signals. Neokonstruktiv und parallel ”(1984) brought together young Austrian, Swiss and German artists such as John Armleder , Helmut Federle , Imi Knoebel , Franz Graf , Brigitte Kowanz , Heimo Zobernig and Gerwald Rockenschaub . The focus was on abstraction , conceptual art and minimal art and thus a professional collaboration with American artists.
Rosemarie Schwarzwälder has been the owner of the gallery since 1987. The claim of her work is twofold: on the one hand to perceive current tendencies in art and to take them up under a thematic aspect, on the other hand to thematize the historical or cultural context in which these tendencies arise. The project "Abstract Painting from America and Europe" (1986) juxtaposed two generations of artists from two continents with Helmut Federle , Imi Knoebel , Gerhard Richter , Robert Mangold , Brice Marden and Robert Ryman . The exhibition (1988) with Jean Arp , Josef Albers and John McLaughlin made historical reference to the abstract artists of the gallery program. The project “Cultures - Affinities in Spirit and Form” (1990) confronted the abstraction of the 20th century with abstraction forms of pre-Columbian cultures in South America, with those of the American South and Northwest, Thailand, Japan and China and established common references. The exhibition "Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis" brought together two generations of European and American painters who deal with the current possibilities of abstraction.
In connection with these thematic projects, the Galerie next St. Stephan organized a symposium - in the tradition of the "International Art Talk" founded by Otto Mauer. The contributions are available as publications. In addition, the gallery publishes catalogs on individual artists at regular intervals.
In 2009 the gallery in the Palacio de Sástago in Saragossa (Spain) was presented in a guest exhibition with its artists.
Publications
- About Mario Merz, 28th International Art Discussion of the Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna, October 28 and 29, 1983, edited by Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna 1984 (texts by Dieter Ronte, Gottfried Boehm, Karl Wutt, Marlis Grüterich, Zdenek Felix, Germano Celant, Peter Weibel and Robert Fleck)
- Abstract painting using the example of three European and three American painters / Abstract Painting of America and Europe. Helmut Federle, Imi Knoebel, Gerhard Richter, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Robert Ryman, Ed. Galerie next St. Stephan, Vienna, Ritter Verlag , Klagenfurt 1988, ISBN 3-85415-056-3 (German / English, texts by Donald Kuspit, Anne Rorimer, Denys Zacharopoulos, interviews by Robert Storr with Brice Marden and Robert Mangold, interview by Bernard Bürgi with Helmut Federle)
- Cultures - Affinities in Spirit and Form, Ed. Galerie next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85042-052-3 (texts by Mario Erdheim, Nicholas Fox Weber, Herbert Lachmayer, Adele Schlombs, Christian F. Feest , Donald Judd, Gottfried Boehm and Veit Loers)
- Abstract Painting Between Analysis And Synthesis / Abstract Painting Between Analysis And Synthesis, Ed. Galerie next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 1992, ISBN 3-85415-105-5 (German / English, texts by Noemi Smolik, Joseph Marioni, Adrian Schiess , Heinrich Dunst, Perry Roberts, Lydia Dona, Helmut Federle, Davis Reed, John Zinsser and Stephen Ellis)
- Heinrich Dunst, Walter Pamminger, Riss / Lücke / Scharnier A // Rift / Gap / Hinge A, ed. Galerie next St, Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Scheidegger & Spiess , Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-85881-301-5 (German / English, texts by Heinrich Dunst, Walter Pamminger, Rainer Bellenbaum & Sabeth Buchmann, Patricia Grzonka)
- Word + Work. Wassiliy Kandinsky, Louise Bourgeois, Agnes Martin, Meret Oppenheim, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd, Lee Ufan, Richard Tuttle, Helmut Federle, Ernst Caramelle, Alice Creischer, Liam Gillick, Andrea Fraser, Andreas Fogarasi, Galerie next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85042-055-6
- numerous artist catalogs
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Galerie New York ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heide Pils : Gertie - who? She is a well-known painter and graphic artist and initiator of the gallery next St. Stephan, but largely forgotten today. Gertie Fröhlich will be 85 in June. Die Furche , June 3, 2015
- ↑ Oswald Oberhuber . Oswald Oberhuber pioneer of informal art in Austria; Homepage Belvedere.
- ↑ For the history of the gallery up to 1982 see: Robert Fleck, Avantgarde in Vienna. The history of the gallery next St. Stephan 1954 - 1982. Art and art business in Austria, Löcker-Verlag, Vienna 1982, ISBN 978-3-8540-9036-6
- ↑ La Pintura y sus Alrededores (En torno a la Galerie next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder de Viena) / Painting and its Surroundings (About the Galerie next St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder in Vienna), Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza 2009, ISBN 978- 84-9703-259-9 .
