Kunst in der Natur Am Wachtberg

10/07/2025

Ursula Beiler’s artistic practice moves between powerful elemental forces and symbolic language. Known for her fire paintings, land branding and outdoor sculptures, she transforms nature into a dynamic studio.
“Nature is my studio, my collaborator, and my challenge,” she says.
Her work invites us to rethink our relationship with nature and each other, blending ancient symbols with urgent contemporary issues.

Image 1: “MILK STREET DANCE” 2014 Innsbruck, Austria
Image 2: “AURA LIGHT INSTALLATION” in St. James’ Cathedral 2015 ©️Photo W. Unger
Image 3: “Allsee” 2005 Ischgl, Austria

09/07/2025

Benedikt Vyplel ist ein Schauspieler und Künstler, der in seinen Arbeiten die Spuren menschlichen
Handelns sichtbar macht und ihnen eine neue Bedeutung verleiht.

Es geht darum, eine neue, respektvolle Verbindung zur Natur zu schaffen. In seinen Skulpturen und Installationen verbindet er Naturmaterialien wie Holz mit Metall und scheinbar unbedeutenden Fundstücken und schenkt ihnen so ein zweites Leben.

Durch sein Aus-ein-anders etzen steht er für den achtsamen Umgang mit unserer Mitwelt ein und dem Wunsch sie zu nähren, sie zu schützen und zu bewahren. Seine Werke sind stille Mahnmale
und zugleich poetische Erzählungen über die Kraft des Wandels und die Schönheit des
Vergänglichen.

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09/07/2025

Brigitte Sasshofer was born in Vienna. From 1982 to 1988 she studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In addition to sculptures and new media works, the artist works with expanded photography as well as inkjet and laser printing on various materials.
The Margareten-based artist can look back on numerous exhibitions both at home and abroad and is the recipient of the 2005 Recognition Award of the State of Lower Austria.

Image 1:
ANUBIS. God as an old dog. Concrete sculpture 2021 ©️ Brigitte Sasshofer / bildrecht

Image 2:
Headstander marble sculpture 2015 ©️ Brigitte Sasshofer / bildrecht

09/07/2025

Matěj Frank (* 1989, CZ) develops several autonomous creative practices. He works with sculpture, spatial installation, sound art and conceptual drawing. He is interested in slow events, the impermanent and ephemeral everyday.

He explores space, entering it with gesture or sound. He captures time through processual drawings and performances. His measure is the human body, the actual, living, and the figurative, artificial. For him, chance is important; he improvises and experiments based on fixed premises.
Matěj Frank looks for relationships between fullness and emptiness, transience, and permanence; he is interested in intersections and layers, while trying to maintain simplicity of form and process.

09/07/2025

Somebody Fusku works across various media, including mixed media, photography, video, and installation. His art often critiques the disingenuity of the Ethiopian parliament, offering a voice to the true feelings and opinions of the people.

Declaring himself his own muse, he frequently paints himself in female postures and figures, reflecting his exploration of social norms and questioning the concept of gender. Through his art, he examines whether gender is a social conditioning or a tradition passed down through generations.

08/07/2025

Jasmin Schaitl (born 1987 in Vienna) is an artistic researcher, visual artist, facilitator, and performer. Her practice explores participatory and performative methods that integrate touch, memory, and contemplative sciences. Recently, she has been investigating co-imagination as a collective, performative process informed by neuroscientific and cognitive research.

Her work has been exhibited and shown across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, in venues such as the KAAI Theatre in Brussels, KINDL in Berlin, WUK in Vienna, Ex Teresa Arte Actual in Mexico City, PLATO in Ostrava, the Film School in Łódź, and Pragovka Gallery in Prague.

Jasmin holds an Artistic PhD (2023) from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland, and is affiliated with the Angewandte Performance Lab at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She completed her MA in Art and Communication and Art Pedagogy (2012) at the same university.

Image 1: Tim Plagemann
Image 2: Foto Blansko City Gallery
Image 3-4: Foto Konteksty Festival
Image 5-6: Jasmin Schaitl

08/07/2025

Presenting this Saturday is, Oliver Roman, an Austrian artist whose practice bridges sculpture, ecological design, and architecture. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Bruno Gironcoli, Roman has, since the late 1990s, developed a distinctive body of work rooted in the intelligence of living systems.

Calling himself a “treearchitect” and “evolutionary agent,” Roman constructs site-specific sculptures and living structures from wood, branches, and natural materials—merging functional design with sensorial and spiritual experience. His installations draw from bionic principles and sustainable construction, resulting in over fifteen realized tree-architecture projects across Europe.

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Diesen Samstag präsentieren wir: Oliver Roman

Oliver Roman ist ein österreichischer Künstler, dessen Praxis an der Schnittstelle von Skulptur, ökologischem Design und Architektur liegt. Er wurde an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien unter Bruno Gironcoli ausgebildet und entwickelt seit den späten 1990er-Jahren ein eigenständiges Werk, das auf der Intelligenz lebender Systeme basiert.

Als „Baumarchitekt“ und „evolutionärer Agent“ schafft Roman ortsspezifische Skulpturen und lebende Strukturen aus Holz, Ästen und natürlichen Materialien – eine Verbindung von funktionalem Design mit sinnlicher und spiritueller Erfahrung. Seine Installationen orientieren sich an bionischen Prinzipien und nachhaltiger Bauweise und führten bereits zu über fünfzehn realisierten Baumarchitektur-Projekten in ganz Europa.

07/07/2025

Andreas Mathes’s work ranges from abstract sculptures to figurative works, and encompasses nuances in between. Common to all is an exploration of nature, humanity, and the values ​​that enable successful coexistence. His preferred material is wood. He masterfully draws diverse forms from it, thereby conveying important messages.

Vernissage: Saturday, 12 July 2025

Images:
The eager mechanic: A. Mathes
Eye II Photo credits: Th. Blazina

07/07/2025

02/06/2025

IRIE IN THE WOODS 🔥 13.-14.06.2025 🔥

Irie in the woods

Kleines Reggae-Festival in Niederösterreich – Irie in the Woods ist der Geheimtipp für ein entspanntes Wochenende voller Musik, Kunst & Entspannung.

14/07/2024

In 2006 Sito Schwarzenberger 🇦🇹 began making Art, following his parents footsteps and becoming a member of their K.U.SCH. art group. Since then he participated in numerous exhibitions in various countries. Especially their multiple studio residencies in China had a substantial impact onto his life and artwork.
Sito’s artwork speaks future sign language, representing life with imaginary and pure digital forms – although from time to time mixed with analogue drawing and painting techniques – you could call it «pictogrammatic konstructivism».
Not to forget his abstract Projection Installations and his absurd Objects as well as conceptual Installations, tending from immersion to subtle criticism of society.

13/07/2024

Mona Rabofsky’s artistic work is transdisciplinary and cross-genre, although she likes to describe herself as a conceptual ceramicist. The works are linked by the search for gaps, truths and boundaries within various areas of artistic and cultural practices and realities as well as materials in a philosophical and physical sense, driven by the question of the essence of things.

www.monarabofsky.com www.vocalnaps.at www.4rest.at

Frame 1: Artist Portrait ©️
Frame 2: Kopflab / Headmounted Display, 2005
Frame 3: Stille, 2017/18