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14/10/2026

**MEET BRUNO.**

A young boy sits against a vivid red background, his arms folded, his gaze directed straight at the camera.

His name is Bruno, the son of photographer Philip-Lorca diCorcia, photographed by Nan Goldin in Naples in 1995.

For Goldin, photography has always been closely intertwined with personal relationships. Rather than observing life from a distance, she has often photographed people within her own circle, creating images shaped by familiarity, connection and shared experience.

Just one year after it was taken, Bruno’s portrait became the poster image for *Nan Goldin: Children 1976–1996* at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

**Thirty years after that exhibition, the portrait remains a compelling example of Goldin’s deeply personal approach to photography.**

What begins as a portrait of a child becomes part of a much larger story, one of relationships, representation and the enduring presence of an image.

Nan Goldin
*Bruno with Tattoo, Naples*, 1995
C-print
Edition of 15
104.5 × 73 cm
Signed, dated and numbered on the reverse

Available through Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska.

Final slide: Interior visualisation for illustrative purposes only.

09/10/2026

AXEL HÜTTE – FLOWERS

Nine small glass prints line one wall of our current exhibition. Each shows a flower photographed against white, then turned to black. Swipe to follow them along the wall.

In this inversion, the former shadows become soft, smoky traces around blossoms and stems. Lifted from soil and season, the plants turn into fine lines and filigree forms.

Each image is printed on the back of a glass panel, with polished stainless steel behind it. Hütte developed the technique in 2014, and it gives the works unusual depth and an almost glowing colour.

The dark ground recalls Baroque flower painting, where lavish bouquets glowed out of shadow as reminders of how quickly beauty fades. Hütte keeps the darkness but lets go of the abundance: a few stems, suspended between what is real and what is remembered. In the gallery, five large-format prints complete the series.

Visit the exhibition until 28 October at Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg.

More on our website - link in bio.

Installation views: Axel Hütte – Flowers, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, 2026. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi

06/10/2026

On the occasion of Pia Fries’ birthday, we take a closer look at a practice in which paint is never simply colour on a surface, it becomes matter.

Pia Fries pours, presses, layers, scrapes and shapes paint, allowing it to build into ridges, folds and almost sculptural forms. At times dense and physical, at others fluid and delicate, colour becomes something with its own weight, movement and energy.

This material approach is often brought into dialogue with printed imagery. Fragments introduced through silkscreen meet the immediacy of paint, creating a tension between reproduction and the unique gesture, image and object, surface and depth.

Perhaps this is what makes looking at a Pia Fries painting so rewarding: from a distance, we see a composition. Up close, another world emerges - one of texture, movement and material.
Today, we celebrate Pia Fries and invite you to take a closer look.

Discover more works by Pia Fries on our website - link in bio.

Slide 1; Slide 2: Pia Fries, POLYPOGON K7, 2007, oil and silkscreen on wood, 37.5 × 47 cm, Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist
Slide 3; Slide 4: Pia Fries, binom X, 2024, oil and silkscreen on wood, 80 × 64 cm, Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist

03/10/2026

On the occasion of tonights "lange Nacht der Museen":

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE MUSEUM BECOMES THE SUBJECT?

We usually enter museums to look at art. In Ola Kolehmainen’s MVSEVM series, our attention shifts to the museum itself.

Moving through some of Europe’s most remarkable collections, Kolehmainen explores the relationship between artwork and architecture, light and space, history and the present. Rather than simply documenting what he encounters, he fragments, repeats and reconstructs - allowing familiar objects and interiors to appear in unexpected ways.

With the ORF Long Night of Museums taking place across Austria on October 3, it feels like a fitting moment to look at the museum from another perspective.

Swipe through for a closer look at Kolehmainen’s MVSEVM series.

Discover more works by Ola Kolehmainen on our website - link in bio.

Slide 1: Ola Kolehmainen, MVSEVM IX (Sir John Soane Staircase), 2020, archival inkjet matt print, 235 × 235 cm, Edition of 4 + 2 AP. Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist

Slide 2: Ola Kolehmainen, MVSEVM I (Nefertiti III), 2021, archival inkjet matt print on Dibond, 342.9 × 393.7 cm, Edition of 6 + 2 AP. Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist

Slide 3: [Text slide]

Slide 4: Ola Kolehmainen, MVSEVM XIII (Victoria & Albert), 2020, archival inkjet matt print, 193 × 460 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 AP. Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist

Slide 5: Ola Kolehmainen, MVSEVM I (Nefertiti II), 2021, archival inkjet matt print, 172 × 228 cm, Edition of 4 + 2 AP. Courtesy Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, and the artist

Slide 6: [Text slide]

Slide 7: Installation view: Ola Kolehmainen: MVSEVM, Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, 2021. Photo: Ulrich Ghezzi

25/09/2026

SÉBASTIEN DE GANAY - AROUND THE WORLD

Currently on view in the heart of Bratislava: Around the World, a public installation Sébastien de Ganay .

Two life-size watchtowers face one another in the city’s Main Square. Painted pink and perforated by bullet holes, the seemingly playful structures reveal a more unsettling presence on closer inspection - reflecting on surveillance, borders, division, and the tensions shaping our contemporary world.

The public installation is on view in front of the French Embassy through 28 September, while the accompanying exhibition Around the World continues at the French Institute in Slovakia through 22 October 2026, presenting variations of the work alongside pieces from de Ganay’s Grids series.

We are delighted to see the work of our artist Sébastien de Ganay taking over this historic public space in Bratislava.

Explore more of Sébastien de Ganay’s work through our website - link in our bio.

Photography: © Pauline Thurn und Taxis

22/09/2026

Tomorrow at 6 PM, we warmly invite you to join us for the opening of Axel Hütte’s exhibition at the gallery.

We look forward to welcoming you and sharing the evening together.

RECEPTION: Wednesday 23 September at 6pm
Come by and join us!

18/09/2026

Installation in progress: AXEL HÜTTE's exhibition FLOWERS is taking shape at the gallery.

Set against deep darkness, the works hover between reality and imagination, permanence and transience.

OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, 23 September, 6 pm
On view through 28 October 2026

16/09/2026

Installation in progress: Axel Hütte’s exhibition FLOWERS is taking shape at the gallery.

Set against deep darkness, the works hover between reality and imagination, permanence and transience.

Opening reception: Wednesday, 23 September, 6 pm
On view through 28 October 2026

31/08/2026

Bye bye PHILIPP FÜRHOFER - Hello AXEL HÜTTE with our upcoming exhibition "FLOWERS"

23 September - 28 October 2026
Opening reception: Wednesday 23. September at 6PM

FLOWER_2334
2024
Ditone print
Ex. 1/4
205 x 155 cms / 80 3/4 x 61 in

FLOWER_4676
2020
Ditone print
Ex. 1/4
205 x 155 cms / 80 3/4 x 61 in

21/08/2026

Currently on view on our 2nd floor

PHILIPPE DECRAUZAT
Screen 3
2024
100 x 100 cm 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in

PETER HALLEY
Fixed
2025
138 x 140 x 10 cm 54 3/8 x 55 1/8 x 3 7/8 in

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