Galerie im Traklhaus – 30th anniversary

The Gallery opened in 1973, in the house where the poet Georg Trakl was born.

For the first ten years, the Salzburg Kunstverein was responsible for the exhibition programme, and for the next two years organised the series Palette, with works by Salzburg artists. From 1985, the Arts Department of the Province of Salzburg took over the premises, and first presented a mixed programme with works primarily by Salzburg artists. There were also annual exhibitions in collaboration with the International Summer Academy and the Rupertinum Museum. The programme, with 6 exhibitions held each year, soon came to focus on promoting the rising generation of artists. In 1986 a promotional programme was launched, with the aim of presenting works by younger, lesser-known Austrian artists from all the provinces, who would be given the opportunity of holding an exhibition as an initial springboard. Documentation was important here – first in a catalogue for the two artists exhibiting jointly, then in individual catalogues. This series, in which works by 146 artists were presented, ended in December 1998 with the 73rd exhibition in the promotional programme of the Province of Salzburg.

From the end of 1999 a new series followed, this time in collaboration with other museums and institutions. This was no longer exclusively for the purpose of promoting young artists, but rather a further step taken by the Gallery together with younger and also better-known artists. The former age limit of 35 was lifted, and applications were invited from all over Austria. The exhibitions (with catalogue), planned in collaboration with a museum or (preferably) an exhibition room in Austria or abroad, are shown in the Gallery and subsequently (or previously) in the other institution, so that the artists are in fact applying for two exhibitions. The selection is made by a jury; artists from other EU countries may be represented in the programme if proposed by the jury.

In 2003, the Gallery mounted a jubilee programme of three exhibitions each providing a survey of ten years, and an exhibition with artists from the Summer Academy:

I. 1973 – 1982

10. 1. – 15. 2. 2003

The first exhibition showed works by artists who had been presented in the gallery between 1973 and 1982: Eduard Bäumer, Ernst Caramelle, Richard Hirschbäck, Max Klinger, Alfred Manessier, Kurt Moldovan, Helga Müller-Eiterer, Hans Müller, Zoran Music, Martin Rasp, Alois Riedl, Rixdorfer Druckwerkstatt, Anton Thuswaldner, Walter Vopava, Max Weiler and Robert Zeppel-Sperl.

II. 1983 – 1992

16. 5. – 21. 6. 2003

Iris Andraschek, Michael Blank, Luca Coser, Gunter Damisch, Jakob Gasteiger, Ferdinand Götz, Alfred Haberpointner, Ilse Haider, Thomas Jocher, Ulrike Lienbacher, Christian Macketanz, Drago J. Prelog, Arnulf Rainer, Werner Reiterer, Wilhelm Scherübl, Josef Schwaiger, Karl Heinz Ströhle, Gerlinde Thuma, Eva Wagner, Ulrich Waibel, Johanes Zechner, Leo Zogmayer.

III. 1993 – 2002

19. 9. – 25. 10. 2003

Franz Josef Altenburg, Thomas Baumann, Maria Baumgartner, Franz Blaas, Erwin Bohatsch, Stefano Cagol, Carole Chaine, Georgia Creimer, Canan Dagdelen, Gertrud Fischbacher, Heinz Frank, Amina Handke, Julie Hayward, Judith Huemer, Bele Marx & Gilles Mussard, Stephen Mathewson, Andrew Phelps, Barbara Reisinger, Lilo Schrammel, Klaus Stephan, Elmar Trenkwalder, Norbert Trummer, Gerold Tusch, Sebastian Weissenbacher, Elisabeth Wörndl.

IV. with the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts

8. 8. – 13. 9. 2003

An exhibition of works by 30 artists who had taught there between 1973 and 2002, and whose works had been shown in the Gallery:

Wander Bertoni, Joze Ciuha, Werner Otte, Josef Zenzmaier, Max Rieder, Rudolf Hradil, Gotthard Graubner, Heinz Cibulka, Corneille, E.R. Nele, Janez Lenassi, Günther Schneider-Siemssen, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Hermann Nitsch, Nancy Spero, Leon Golub, Ingeborg Lüscher, Milan Knizak, Tone Fink, Jacobo Borges, Katharina Sieverding, Jim Dine, Adriena Simotová, Gerhard Rühm, Susanne Tunn, Siegfried Anzinger, Giulio Paolini, Zhou Brothers, Dorothee von Windheim, Ilya Kabakov.

The exhibitions were held concurrently in the Gallery and the Studio.

We showed paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and ceramics lent by the Rupertinum and the Carolino Augusteum Museum and some from the collection of the Province of Salzburg or from private collections, but mostly works lent by the artists themselves.There were works by as many as possible of more than 80 artists who had exhibited in the Gallery over the three decades, with the addition of recent works.

Eduard Bäumer, Hans Müller

Dietgard Grimmer, Dr. Othmar Raus

Walter Vopava, Anton Thuswaldner

Martin Rasp, Alois Riedl

Helga Müller-Eiterer

Georgia Creimer

Georgia Creimer

Georgia Creimer