AG18 Gallery _ HOUSE of Awe 01: Entrance / the hallway _ Wien

HOUSE of AWE

Käthe Schönle & Olga Titus

curated by Paula Marschalek

Special Artist Guest: Birgit Graschopf

16.10.2025 – 21.11.2025

„House of Awe“ ist ein Ausstellungsprojekt mit Werken von Olga Titus und Käthe Schönle, kuratiert von Paula Marschalek. Als Special Artist Guest ist Birgit Graschopf eingeladen.

Die Ausstellung lädt dazu ein, Spannungsfelder zwischen Nähe und Fremdheit, Schutz und Begrenzung, Tradition und Transformation zu erkunden – und die Kraft künstlerischer Zusammenarbeit erlebbar zu machen. Der Begriff „Haus“ dient dabei als Leitmotiv: gedankliche wie physische Räume entstehen, die Geborgenheit, Sicherheit, Zuflucht und Erinnerung thematisieren, gleichzeitig aber auch von Brüchen und ambivalenten Bedeutungen erzählen.

Die Künstlerinnen bündeln ihre Kräfte, um kollaborativ neue Arbeiten zu entwickeln, die sie im Sinne eines Gesamtkunstwerkes präsentieren. Dabei hinterfragen sie auf spielerische, kritische Weise künstlerische Produktion und Präsentation. Es treffen unterschiedliche Arbeitsweisen und Ansätze aufeinander, analog wie digital. Dabei überschneiden sich Fragen nach Identität, Frau- und Menschsein, die Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen und kulturellen Strukturen steht im Zentrum.

Veranstaltungen in der Ausstellung
Am Fr, 24.10.25, 18h laden wir gemeinsam mit dem Verein Diversoviel ein

zu Art, Talk & Eat - "Unterwegs sein & Ankommen“

Am Sa, 15.11.2025, 11-15h laden wir ein zum Network Event "Female Force in the House"

AG18 Gallery - Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna

Öffnungszeiten

Mi - Fr, 15 - 19h, Sa, 11 - 16h oder nach Vereinbarung mit Galerie

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House of Awe is an exhibition project featuring works by Olga Titus and Käthe Schönle, curated by Paula Marschalek. Birgit Graschopf has been invited as a special guest artist.

The exhibition invites visitors to explore the tensions between closeness and strangeness, protection and limitation, tradition and transformation – and to experience the power of artistic collaboration. The concept of ‘house’ serves as main idea: mental and physical spaces are created that deal with thoughts about safety, refuge and memory, while also visualizing ruptures and ambivalent meanings.

The artists join forces to collaboratively develop new works, which they present as a Gesamtkunstwerk. In doing so, they question artistic production and presentation in a playful and also critical way. Different working methods and approaches come together, both analogue and digital. Questions of identity, womanhood and humanity overlap, with the focus on the examination of social and cultural structures.

Events in the exhibition

Art, Talk & Eat Friday, 24 October 2025, 6 pm: together with Verein Diversoviel

Networking event ‘Female Force in the House’ Saturday, 15 November 2025, 11 am - 3 pm

AG18 Gallery - Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna

OPENING HOURS:

Wed – Fr 3 - 7 pm, Sa 11am - 4pm

Visits outside of opening hours possible by appointment

T: +43 1 2935126

M: +43 699 1236 9480

office@ag18gallery.com

AG18 Gallery _ structures & emotions _ Wien

structures & emotions

Group Show
JC Bright / Nina Gospodin / Zhanina Marinova / Käthe Schönle

04.04.-17.05.2025

Structures give us stability and orientation. However, structures can also restrict and limit us, blocking development and freedom. Emotions tell us what is important to us and give us the energy to strive for it – and to use structures or break out of them in the process. It is precisely this positioning that the artists are concerned with in the works for this exhibition.

For them – and for the viewer – non-representational art opens up tensions, perception and experience detached from habitual thinking in fixed categories. In this way, it opens up spaces for new sensory experience and reflection.

Nina Gospodin’s works are characterised by the modular use of templates that are constantly transformed into new constellations and figurations. This enables the realisation of paradoxes – of continuums, connections with opposing poles that cannot be resolved, but between which different positionings and thus states are possible.

In her colourful works, Zhanina Marinova explores perceptions, thoughts and feelings that fundamentally and mostly unconsciously determine human existence. In doing so, she also imaginatively invents her own reality and consciously enters into paradoxes into which life repeatedly drives us without reflection. In her works, she balances between knowledge and vision, planning and chance, control and intuition – without tipping to one side or the other.

Colour and ‘loose’ geometry are at the heart of JC Bright’s art. He makes colour the entry point of his work, ‘with the hope that they will be perceived before anything else.’ Using primary colours as the basis for his vibrant abstract paintings, he explores themes such as tradition, cultural heritage, family relationships, lived experiences and indigenous values.

For Käthe Schönle, non-representational paintings are visualisations of inner states. They emerge from the confrontation with external circumstances. The pictures depict relationships. They are a dynamic dialogue between colours and layers, forms and lines, edges and empty spaces. Without an obvious anchor in the figurative world.

‘Structures and Emotions’ invites you to immerse yourself in transcendental experience – which, as Kant argued, makes the realisation of experience possible. Non-representational images are, as Gerhard Richter puts it, ‘fictitious models, because they visualise a reality that we can neither see nor describe, but whose existence we can infer.’

AG18 Gallery - Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna

OPENING HOURS:

Tue – Fr 3 - 7 pm

Sa 11am - 4pm

Visits outside of opening hours possible by appointment

T: +43 1 2935126

M: +43 699 1236 9480

office@ag18gallery.com

AG18 Gallery _ Pleased to meet you _ Wien

PLEASED TO MEET YOU

Group Show
Famakan Magassa / Alfred Rottensteiner / Käthe Schönle

Curated by: The DODO Project

OPENING _ Thursday, Feb. 1st 2024 - 6pm

02.02. - 26.03.2024

Art is a meeting zone. Whether sewing machine and umbrella meet on the dissecting table, Nanas cavort in the Tuscan garden or a painting is viewed by a person. This exhibition brings together the works of three artists and the various ways of reading and interpreting them. In the contact between the different artworks and their cosmos, there is room for new chains of association. In this structure, every line, every fold is a shared space of possibility - a shared space.

Kunst ist eine Begegnungszone. Ob da nun Nähmaschine und Regenschirm auf dem Seziertisch aufeinandertreffen, Nanas sich im toskanischen Garten tummeln, oder ein Gemälde von einer Person betrachtet wird. In dieser Ausstellung begegnen sich die Werke dreier Künstler:innen, und die damit einhergehenden diversen Les- und Deutungsweisen. In den Berührungen der unterschiedlichen Kunstwerke und deren Kosmen ist Raum für neue Assoziationsketten. In diesem Gefüge ist jede Linie, jede Falte ein gemeinsamer Möglichkeitsraum – ein Shared Space.

AG18 Gallery - Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna

OPENING HOURS:

Tue – Fr 3 - 7 pm

Sa 11am - 4pm

Visits outside of opening hours possible by appointment

T: +43 1 2935126

M: +43 699 1236 9480

office@ag18gallery.com