Zwischenraum

Zwischenraum

Curators: Gerd Bergmeister and Josef Rainer

This first exhibition explores and highlights the commonalities between art and architecture at a kind of intersection. This also reflects the artistic thinking of the two curators (an architect and an artist). The exhibited works operate in a borderline area between art and space and engage with the theme of empty space and its transformability and experienceability. It is about creating new connections.

Peter Sandbichler and Marlies Baumgartner transform the gallery spaces, playing with negative and positive space, with interspace and surrounding space. The different working methods of these two artists interlock, complement, and enliven each other, opening up new perspectives. Traces in space. This creates new connections.

We continue these connections in a first-time collaboration with the Pharmacy Museum. The magnificent rooms of the museum are filled with new works by the two artists Michael Fliri and Christian Piffrader. Almost like an alchemical laboratory, their exhibited objects adapt to the museum’s ambiance. Interspaces and connections arise between the artistic positions and the objects of the collection, referring to each other. These positions are complemented by a special walking stick, which in turn relates to existing objects in the collection.

These strategies of the two exhibition venues are united by a new melody composed by Manuela Kerer. A composition that will unfold in Brixen.

The curators of the Stadtgalerie Brixen are also initiating a research project for the city of Brixen. A new interface between architecture, culture, and art. A weaving together of these disciplines with the aim of filling empty spaces with content and shaping new identities.

A competition for students of the Universities of Mantua – Milan and the Technical University of Rosenheim. The central theme is the urban space with its vacancies and interspaces. Working into the historical substance – adding or subtracting in the urban fabric as part of an overall strategy between art and architecture.