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Paint Expressions: Small art galleries in central Innsbruck

10 March 2025

Post originally written in: English

I recently took my 12 year old son to Galerie Augustin, a small art gallery in very close to the centre of Innsbruck, because they had an exhibition on showing original art work from the television show The Simpsons. It was a lovely way to while away half an hour or so and it set me on a little journey of looking into some of the other small galleries in the centre of Innsbruck. It also provided the inspiration for this piece.

Augustin is a lovely little gallery with friendly proprietors. It's just off Museumstrasse, very close to the old town. When we visited we also viewed a selection of lovely mountain-scape paintings from the Tirolean artist Hubert Zöhrer. If un-showy snowy mountain scenes are your thing, he's definitely your man, but it was The Simpsons stuff that we came to see.

Now on until March 15th (it's run having been extended), the selection is taken from the exhibition 'Here comes Bart!', currently showing at the Caricature Museum in Krems, Upper Austria. You can see a representative selection of original production cels (short for celluloid, transparent sheets on which objects are drawn or painted), sketches and limited drawings in the sales exhibition, all of which were created before digitization in 2002.

This is definitely one for all The Simpsons nerds out there (is there any other kind of Simpsons fan?)

Next up is Seeding Circles, a retrospective from Greek-Armenian artist Aikaterini Gegisian. The exhibition combines recent interpretations and commissions with rearranged older works and consists of 'evocative collages in the form of paintings, textiles and humorous videos...drawing on the archives of popular culture and mass media from the 1960s to the 1990s', much of it inspired by Gegsian's return to agricultural practices.
Seeding Circles is about the 'little things' such as gardening, traditional practices and decorative art and their importance role in the cycle of life, nature and art.

It runs from March 7th until June 10th 2025.

On the opposite side of Maria-Theresien-Strasse to Kunstraum Innsbruck and Galerie Maier is the larger TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle (art hall).

TAXISPALAIS' next major exhibition is 'Fliessen' (Flow) by Tirolean artist Hannelore Nenning, which runs from March 15th to April 27th 2025. Described as an 'activist watercolour painter', Nenning's subject is the Alpine waters of Tirol and Austria, and more specifically running water.

Nenning invites us to admire the landscapes through which water flows while asking us to consider whether we are prepared to destroy them to increase the flow of capital. The exhibition features a series from Platzertal, a valley that could very soon be exploited as an energy resource.

Official opening with free admission: Friday, March 14, 7pm

TAXISPALAIS often do free guided tours (included in the entrance fee) These are mostly in German, but sometimes in other languages. The next one in English is with Jehona Morina on April 9th 2025. You can register here.

Opening times:
Exhibition
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm,
Thu 11am–8pm

Library
Tue–Sun 11am–6pm,
Thu 11am–8pm

6 Euro / reduced 4 Euro
Combined ticket* 14 Euro / reduced 11 Euro
Free admission on Thursdays from 6 pm
Groups of 10 or more people 4 euros / person
People with special needs, children and young people up to 18 years of age: Free admission