Unsichtbare Grenze

Gino Alberti

This charcoal drawing was created at the end of last year, shortly before the outbreak of coronavirus. In a certain way, the work already anticipated a social development connected to the pandemic. Reason being that the starting point for the creation of this work was the concept of border. The questions that now arise are of existential, metaphysical and symbolic nature. The current corona crisis is teaching a large part of mankind what limits and restrictions truly mean. Even if the virus does not stop at borders, we are forced to create an imaginary border through physical distance.
Today‘s digital means of communication enable us to do part of our job from home during times of partial or total lockdown. In doing so, they create the illusion that borders are easily overcome and that proximity is just one click away. Our body, the source of our emotions and thoughts, is not an emotionless computer that can be easily hidden in the back of our closet. As humans, we need physical and emotional closeness to survive.

Unter der Maske

AliPaloma

The project Beneath the Mask explores how the currently necessary face masks impact human communication and social interaction. A large part of human communication is non-verbal and happens via facial expressions, gestures and postures. “Our minds light on the face like butterflies on a flower, for it gives us a priceless flow of information” writes Daniel McNeill in his book “The Face“, 1999. Face masks cover an important source of information in the face, increasing social distance between people.

Verlassen sie ihre Wohnung nicht

Leonhard Angerer

This series of three photographs recalls the dark days of the lockdown in Brixen.

Eingeklemmt im Lebensfluss

Lois Anvidalfarei

Ohne Titel

Katrin Böge

In Europe alone, more than 280 million people were cut off from external reality by the imposed lockdown in March 2020 and suddenly had to limit themselves to living in their own homes and their core
environment. This circumstance changed the perception of the outside world like never before. The works revolve around the question of how the human being as an individual feels his own isolation and, parallel to this, the outside world, which is maintained by a connection that remains abstract. Through the medium of the transparent glass pane and the superimposition of different snapshots, the structure of space and
time is distorted. In this way the artist succeeds in picking up these divergences on several levels. Like a window, the glass breaks open the wall between the observer and the observed and allows to have insight into a space that moves between the inside of the figure and the outside perception of the observer, yet seems to stand still. One snapshot fades into the next and vanishes into a space that remains static.

Bedrohung

Gotthard Bonell

FIGLIO

Courtesy Galleria Antonella Cattani Contemporary Art, Bozen/Bolzano

Julia Bornefeld

Ohne Titel

Robert Bosisio

This portrait shows an anonymous, but recognizably Asian person. In a large format, noticeable as black and white, but held in complementary green-red combinations, enveloped in blurred and light-dark tones, it creates a certain astonished melancholy. It was important to me to embody the theme of human beings at this time.

Aloe vera

Jette Christiansen

Are you healthy and appreciate the value of your health? Then punch your way through the hard crust (corona) of all adversity. Aloa vera, the symbol for healthy living, will show you.

Untiteld (big unknowns 1 + 2)

Courtesy Alessandro Casciaro Art Gallery, Bozen/Bolzano

Arnold Mario Dall'O

Maybe art is just a pretext: a still life, a church altar, a portrait. But is necessary to approach the incomprehensible, the invisible, the inexpressible.

Tage zählen

Erich Dapunt

Counting day-to-day towards hope and the light of freedom …

O.T.

Jakob de Chirico

The Mardi Gras virus forced us to wear the masks.
The virus doesn‘t need masks because it‘s already dressed up as a king with Corona on.

Resonanz

Aron Demetz

Old traces, new traces, leave behind signs, sounds, tones, movement.
Everything rearranges itself … anew.

betterspace

Ulrich Egger

A special offer. Wideness, dissolution of boundaries and well-being.
We can hardly wait to welcome you in our reopened hotel.

Turmspringerin

Christine Gallmetzer

It’s touching how we all jump into the unknown every day anew. The only honest thing would be if we say we have no solution for this world and for our definition in it. The only thing we have is a lot of wonderful, hopeful attempts (that fail).

Corona und die Kirche

Beate Gantz

Is the Covid 19 crisis an opportunity for the church to be able to show, especially now, what is important when it comes to existential questions of life?

So far. So clos.

Elisa Grezzani

The forced loneliness and this absolute closeness.

Collage

Eduard Habicher

This is a group of works created by applying smoke on cardboard and using elements made of moulded and modelled stainless steel. This smoke, dense, black and opaque in some places, but foggy and transparent in others, becomes a metaphor of life: trying to hold on to the smoke, trying to hold on to it, is like trying to hold on to time itself, or a happy moment, the fleeting moment. He evokes certainties that smoke, the life that changes everything... the “whole” in constant change. And yet we persist in our attempts to “grasp”.

Chips from life

Eduard Habicher

Small structural steel beams IPE are rolled up like wood shavings and set themselves in motion with the slightest impact. Others, on the other hand, are made of stainless steel and sway in precarious balance. Stability and strength, caused by solid and heavy material, are dissolved in a playful and ironic way: we want to take ourselves a little less serious and let the circumstances that are coming up with greater ease and a smile on our faces. It is clear that these considerations are not only valid for the Corona-Virus time but are very general.

Grashang

Jörg Hofer

The picture stands for the assertiveness of nature, which repeatedly shows mans his limits.

flu(ch)t

Heinz Innerhofer

Never before has it been so easy to know so much. Just… Who’s lying? Who is telling the truth? Is it even possible to verify a message? Has it always been like this? Knowledge of the world is becoming a matter of faith. What source can be trusted? And like the keepers of all those only true religions, those who preach information insist on being omniscient.

nasty liquid

Wil-ma Kammerer

Evil juices, manipulating liquids are human ingredients. In times like these, bodily juices are very much in demand, you test them, you check them…

Dies ist kein Virus
aus der Serie Invisible Worlds

Brigitte Mahlknecht

That knowledge also spreads epidemically and, like a disease, can best be controlled by isolating the first infected people as quickly as possible, – I read in an article about sea lions that you want to keep from eating too much salmon on California‘s coast.

Diskrete Räume

Brigitte Mahlknecht

Coronachristus

Franz Pichler

We are trapped in this pandemic without any response. We do not know anything specific, we do not know the causes. The crown (corona) has been put on human incapacity.

Artig zu Hause? + Pasqua con chi vuoi?

Anuschka Prossliner

When the world is in the space between your own four walls, between desire and dullness, between unfamiliar closeness or distance. Gentle at home?

Zeitwende

Paula Regina Prugger

Global alliance, unity and diversity.

Ant Cinema

Josef Rainer

A cinema for ants: The building stands for the lockdown, the forced idleness, the cinema stands for culture, for what can no longer be done.

Diva (Idol)

Thomas Riess

Suddenly an unexpected power appears, which hits us in the middle of life.

Caul – Eigenface – Squint: a video trilogy

Berty Skuber

A study or reportage that hinges on the places in which I live, or think I live, both physically and mentally. Real places, imagined places, places for concentration… places which constitute a home – Caul began in 2019 with a radical change of a landscape. Eigenface developed before and during the Corona crisis. Squint entirely in the course of the crisis. The way of seeing things changes, the way the work approaches them, the mode of imagination… from the reality of real places, to the reality of imagined places.

unantastbar

Lois Steger

Agrimonia eupatoria is an old European medicinal plant. It is considered to be magical and wizardly. The Greek physician Dioscurides used it in
the first century to treat difficult-to-heal ulcers and “mental weakness”. The positive effect of agrimony on protective incenses against evil powers, enchantments, black magic and negative influences is firmly anchored in popular belief. Drunk as tea, it has a slightly anaesthetic effect. After drinking it, it is said, one sleeps like a dead person. As an incense Odermenning spreads a pleasant herbaceous and spicy scent. It has a cleansing, balancing and protective effect and helps with imbalance, restlessness and stress.

moll

Stefan Tschurtschenthaler

The eighty-part installation moll was not explicitly conceived for the currently most topical theme worldwide. Nevertheless, in terms of materials, form and expression it fits seamlessly into the current corona problem. Here, the material wax is seen as a carrier of memory and conservator of stories, and the wafer-thinly applied surface of graphite is seen as symbolic of writing and recording what has been experienced and suffered.
The individual round forms, each of which differs slightly from the others in its surface structure, are representative of the many individually experienced tales of woe of our time. The title of the installation moll, borrowed from music, is used as a bridge between the level of perception and feeling. This key, which is often described as dark, gloomy and bleak, can, in combination with melody leading, rhythm and tempo, put into a melancholic, thoughtful state.
According to the current sense of time.

BO#10

Andrea M. Varesco

The image object originates from the quarantine time window and reflects a subjective snapshot in terms of both color and form. As a result, beyond any narrative intention, a block of sensations in the form of coloured matter forces its way into the confined picture space.

LETHE

Maria Walcher

What is the role of “forgetting” in our society? How is the aspect of forgetting approached in particular by the field of cultural theory and literature and which associations are there in the context of dementia? In a series of works Maria Walcher approaches the topic, letting the different perspectives flow into each other and create their own narrative. Here we find two of them.

LETHE. Binär

“Ob ein Mensch Erfahrungen machen kann, ist in letzter Instanz davon abhängig, wie er vergißt.” (Whether a person can gain experience, depends on the last resort on how he forgets.) correspondence: Theodor Adorno – Walter Benjamin. White on gray, embroidered in digital code on a hammock, an analog note. Another riddle of history, which should be explored or just decoration?

LETHE. Symposium

A “staged symposium”, one voice moving into the other, creating a fictional dialogue that interweaves various aspects of “forgetting”.

Sphinx

Sara Welponer

The Sphinx, mythological figure that has appeared in the Mediterranean area since the Neolithic, is the guardian of the threshold and a liminal figure between life and death. In Greek myth, she lives in remote places and tests travelers by exposing them to riddles. Only those who can answer will be let through.

Stèle

Sara Welponer

The motifs reproduced on Stèle comes from the stones that make up the burial chamber of the Cairn of Gavrinis (Brittany), a megalithic monument from the Neolithic period: concentric circles, spirals and semicircles – often interpreted as “shields” (= protection). However, these motifs and patterns are also reminiscent of a labyrinth, place of loss and confusion.

Insel

Sara Welponer

A cumulus cloud appears on the horizon, signaling the presence of land after a long journey on the open sea. An island. Hope or exile?