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Galerie Sophia Vonier

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Galerie Sophia Vonier

Focussing on Austrian and international contemporary art, Galerie Sophia Vonier hosts exhibitions of

27/05/2026

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| ‘s first exhibition at the gallery is open to the public.

writes in her text accompanying the show:
“With Thomas Bernhard, walking is not just locomotion, but a way of thinking. Step by step, an inner monologue unfolds, which ignites with the movement, increases, falters and starts again. For him, walking means exposing himself to the world and moving away from it at the same time. It is a rhythmic process between control and loss of control. A similar distinction is made by Francis Alÿs: “A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.”

The exhibition ‘While Walking’ by Bettina Willnauer in the Galerie Sophia Vonier in Salzburg connects to this thinking figure and translates it into textile picture spaces. Their hand-tufted wall work does not arise from a fixed pictorial concept, but develops procedurally. Starting point are drawings or loose sketches, which are transformed in the course of the work. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
all my shoes walking in NY, 2026
hand tufted wall piece, sheep’s wool
160 x 65 cm, framed

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20/05/2026

by | is open to the public 🍎🌳🌧️

| wrote in her accompanying exhibition text:
“(…) In their pictorial worlds, observations of the everyday are intertwine with imaginative, dreamlike elements. As you walk, it seems, fixed boundaries dissolve: reality and fiction begin to flow into each other. Birds, plants, animals, human figures and fragments of landscapes appear as memories or projections. They are condensations of perception, snapshots of a moving consciousness. Shoes that mark paths through cities, animals that appear as companions or opposites, plants and mushrooms that spread out and permeate spaces, all this forms an open dynamic structure. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
Big Apple I, 2026
handtufted textile work, sheep wool
115x105cm, framed
unique piece

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10/05/2026

•Upcoming•

the first show with | will open on May 16, 2026 from 11am to 3pm at the gallery.

The exhibition will present recent hand turret unique textile works by the Vienna based artist and will be accompanied by a text by |

08/05/2026

| ‘s second solo show at the gallery is on view until May 16, 2026.

| wrote:
„ “Poem” is the title of another significant series of works whose source material is 25 years old. Yellow squares created during her student years form an existing body of work that is now
being overwritten. The artist collages private interiors of public figures from digital archives or
other found footage of natural events, condensing them
into a striking whole. In doing so, she addresses moments that are preserved in their status yet embodied as a process—as printmaking, as layering, and as a blend of history and the present. The motifs of demolition, disruption, and naturally occurring disruptive factors do not address the possibility of natural disasters, but rather the artistic treatment of memory and the process of its reproduction.“

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14/04/2026

‘s second solo show at the gallery is on view until May 9, 2026.

writes in his accompanying text:
„Three peculiar objects (Obscure objects)—once forgotten and now stranded once more— serve as the opening and anchor of an exhibition that views the personal perspective as both a principle and a method. As a passionate collector and attentive finder, Elisabeth Schmirl perceives objects as found pieces situated in metaphorical waiting rooms. Through the artistic transformation of these objects, which are now reflected within the exhibition space, the artist exposes visitors to kaleidoscopic visual conditions and viewing techniques. Elisabeth Schmirl’s work moves
between object art, photography, and printmaking without seeking to make a distinction between these media the focus of the work. What remains is not the question of the integrity of artistic media, but a sensually interwoven relationship between viewer and image, one that literally generates manifold reflections.“

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26/03/2026

the second of | is open to the public with prolonged opening hours during the Salzburg Easter Festival.

| wrote:
„(…)The conglomerate of kaleidoscopic images in the artist’s work refers to ever-evering views: a picture, one would now have to be led to claim, is not a picture at all, but always a look at first.

The group of works of ‚Unreadable Stills‘, which the exhibition is entitled, follows this principle as a series of experiments with countless variants. Here, the artist prints pictorial motifs as

Underpressure with gravure ink on glass plates and/or wets them with gelatine and highlights them. Schmirl motifsly superimposes, modifies and modifies digital collages of clouds, geysers and volcanic eruptions that float out of contexts, functions and times in the form of variable cloud densifications. Do we encounter the fragmented image of a volcanic eruption differently than a cumulus cloud on a warm summer day? In the enriched remix, the cloud formations seem almost indistinguishable in the motif and

To be magically arbitrary: Everything is condensate. Everything is space-poor or space-rich, graceful, almost spiritual structure. Everything indicates a state that is in steady resolution. (…)“

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15/03/2026

| ‘s second soloshow will open on Saturday, March 21, 2026 from 11am to 2pm at the gallery.

The show will be accompanied by a text by |

The artist wrote in a statement about her recent work:
„The work group Unreadable Still gathers a series of glass bodies in which light, color and perception overlap. The starting point is photographic motifs of clouds, geysers, weather phenomena - fragile phenomena, atmospheric and ephemeral. But their representation resists the image: It is not fixed, but layered, filtered, broken.

The images are created in a multi-stage transfer process: By means of gelatine waterslides, the motifs are applied to glass or aluminum, then deposited with dichroitic foil, superimposed or combined. The resulting image carriers react to light and viewing angle - they change with the movement of the viewer, show themselves in constant optical change.

The works rely on presence instead of representation: Only in space, in the alternation of point of view, proximity and light does the image arise. There is no fixed center, no static subject - rather a spectrum of possibilities that extends between color shift, light reflection and motif rest.

Perception is not negotiated here as insight, but as resistance: What we see is not an immediate „image“, but the result of a situation - broken, delayed, depending on position and medium. In this sense, the works are not simply visual, but epistemic. They ask how reality shows itself, how it is conveyed technically, but also how it is experienced physically and situationally. (…)“

13/03/2026

Last day of by
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Livia Klein | wrote in her text accompanying the artist‘s second :
„(…) With the exhibition, Julia Brennacher shows that painting is always more than the sum of its individual settings: it is a system of relationships that only unfolds completely in space. Their work maintains that fragile balance between visibility and hint, between what remains and what escapes. Painting is understood as an open archive in which the present can be recomposed. In Brennacher, a structure is created that escapes clear readability. Thus, the exhibition invites you to follow traces, transitions and resonances and to experience painting as a medium that is thought out in space, continues to oscillate and is constantly expanding, especially in its openness.“

All works here:
Julia Brennacher
Untitled, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
34x26cm
Price on request - dm for portfolio.

12/03/2026

Last days of by
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Livia Klein | wrote in her text accompanying the artist‘s second :
„(…) With the exhibition, Julia Brennacher shows that painting is always more than the sum of its individual settings: it is a system of relationships that only unfolds completely in space. Their work maintains that fragile balance between visibility and hint, between what remains and what escapes. Painting is understood as an open archive in which the present can be recomposed. In Brennacher, a structure is created that escapes clear readability. Thus, the exhibition invites you to follow traces, transitions and resonances and to experience painting as a medium that is thought out in space, continues to oscillate and is constantly expanding, especially in its openness.“

All works here:
Julia Brennacher
Untitled, 2025
Acrylic and oil on canvas
34x26cm
Price on request - dm for portfolio.

11/02/2026

‘s second solo show is back and will run until March 15, 2026.

The gallery will be open Tuesdays - Thursdays from 9am to 1pm and Fridays from 10am to 5pm, and by appointment.

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Mittwoch	12:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	12:00 - 18:00
Freitag	12:00 - 18:00
Samstag	10:00 - 15:00

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