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Innsbruck blooms… exhibitions

24 March 2025

Post originally written in: Italiano

It's springtime, and it's not just the meadows that are blooming in Tyrol. There is buzz in Innsbruck. Many new exhibitions are opening these weeks and will remain open for the next few months. I've made a selection a bit for everyone's taste, from an exhibition at stations devoted to Easter traditions suitable for the whole family, to three exhibitions by contemporary women artists working in different artistic media, and ending with works by Austrian architects Ehrentraut Katstaller-Schott and Karl Katstaller in El Salvador. The exhibitions are within walking distance of each other. So it only remains for me to wish you a good art walk in Innsbruck!

Test your knowledge of Easter traditions by visiting the exhibition "Ostern feiern - Hier und Anderswo," through April 27 at the Volkskunstmuseum in Innsbruck. A tour with interactive stations, suitable even for young children, takes you on a journey through different religions to find out why eggs are given as gifts at Easter, what instrument is played on Maundy Thursday instead of bells, and... what a blue deer has to do with it. There is a pass for children to stamp at each "solved" station and to pick up a sweet gift at the museum checkout at the end.

Ostern feiern - hier und anderswo
Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Universitätsstraße 2, Innsbruck
5.03.2025 - 27.04.2025
Open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last admission 4:30 p.m.
Full admission 9 euros, concessions 7 euros, free up to 19 years of age and Innsbruck Card holders

There are as many realities as there are people who perceive them. The exhibition INN SITU IMAGINATION UND AUGENSCHEIN at the BTV Stadtforum presents until July 12, 2025 unpublished works by Gerti Deutsch, an Austrian photographer who during National Socialism fled to England, where she established herself as a successful photojournalist. After World War II, she spent a long period in Tyrol and Vorarlberg and traveled to, among other places, the Alpbachtal to photograph everyday life with her sensitivity.
In the audiovisual installation in the exhibition, writer Ilija Trojanow narrates 12 images of the photographer: only after listening to their stories in the dark do the photographs appear. An experience to discover the diversity of human perception.

Imagination und Augenshein. Gerti Deutsch/Ilija Trojanow
INN SITU, Stadtforum 1, Innsbruck
19.03.2025 - 12.07.2025
Open Monday through Friday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m

Closed on holidays
Free admission

At the Kunstraum Innsbruck, the exhibition Seeding Circles by Aikaterini Gegisian, a Greek-Armenian visual artist who lives and works between Thessaloniki and London, is on view until June 10, 2025.
Seeding Circles presents a kind of collage of the artist's old and new works in different media, reinterpreted and placed in dialogue with each other through the narration of agricultural practices in a garden.
Gegisian works with collage as a feminist method that aims to redistribute power relations, drawing on the archives of popular culture and mass media from the 1960s to the 1990s. The artist thus invites us to rethink and reinvent the past and develop new images for the future, as a world-making practice in which emotions and aesthetics play an important role.

Seeding Circles. Aikaterini Gegisian
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Maria-Theresien-Straße 34 / Arkadenhof, Innsbruck
07.03.2025 - 10.06.2025
Open Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1-6 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays 1-8 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m.-3 p.m

Closed on holidays
Free admission

Through May 3, 2025, the Neue Galerie is showing Working Class Daughter by Miriam Bajtala. The artist, born in Bratislava, lives and works in Vienna. The drawings, videos and photographs on display relate the artist's personal history to collective memory, poetically addressing the reproduction of inequality and power relations, but also strategies of emancipation. Starting with biographical elements, such as fleeing at the age of only seven with her family to Austria where she arrived as a refugee, the artist's reflection shifts to major themes, between past and present.
The title of the exhibition - Working Class Daughter - is borrowed from the book of the same name published in 2024 by artists Karolina Dreit, Kristina Dreit and Selina Lampe, which deals, among other things, with the concepts of class and classism in the artistic and cultural spheres.

Working Class Daughter. Miriam Bajtala
Neue Galerie, Rennweg 1, Großes Tor, Hofburg, Innsbruck
28.02.2025 - 03.05.2025
Open Wednesday through Friday 12 noon - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m

Closed on holidays
Free admission

Aut, the center dedicated to architecture in Innsbruck, is offering an exhibition until June 14, 2025, dedicated to a pair of Austrian architects who have completed a great many projects in El Salvador. Numerous schools, marketplaces and municipal offices, large public administrative and cultural buildings, as well as a large number of projects for private clients: these are all part of the impressive-though almost unknown in Europe-work that architects Ehrentraut Katstaller-Schott (1924-2024) and Karl Katstaller (1921-1989) carried out in all parts of El Salvador. The two architects, who had met in Vienna in Lois Welzenbacher's master class, responded to a call from the government of El Salvador in 1952 and became important protagonists of architectural modernism in the Central American country in the following years.

Aufbruch in die Architekturmoderne El Salvadors
aut. architektur und tirol, im Adambräu, Lois Welzenbacher Platz 1, Innsbruck
14.03.2025 - 14.06.2025
Open Tuesday through Friday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m

Closed on holidays
Free admission