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Galerie Sophia Vonier

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Galerie Sophia Vonier

Focussing on Austrian and international contemporary art, Galerie Sophia Vonier hosts exhibitions of

23/06/2026

*Call: AiR @ Schloss Wiespach x Schmiede Hallein*

Galerie Schloss Wiespach x Schmiede

We are happy to announce a new cooperation in the making: an artist in residence opportunity in the framework of Galerie Schloss Wiespach (Hallein), Galerie Sophia Vonier (Salzburg) and Schmiede Hallein.

For September 2026, visual artists are invited to apply for an Artist-in-Residence opportunity at Schloss Wiespach — a chance to work in a unique setting while becoming part of a wider exchange between artistic practice, place, and community.

Who can apply?
Visual artists working across disciplines and media.

Residency period September 2026, including the Schmiede26 period.

Send Application to [email protected]
Subject: AiR – Schloss Wiespach x Schmiede
deadline: July 30th, 2026
Submission requirements: Portfolio plus motivational letter

Selection will be made by an independent jury.
Applicants will be notified early August, 2026.

More information via: https://schmiedehallein.com/archives/4947

11/06/2026

by | Bettina Willnauer is open to the public 🏘️🦢

| Barbara Horvath wrote in her accompanying exhibition text:
“(…) In their pictorial worlds, observations of the everyday are intertwine with imaginative, dreamlike elements. As you walk, it seems, fixed boundaries dissolve: reality and fiction begin to flow into each other. Birds, plants, animals, human figures and fragments of landscapes appear as memories or projections. They are condensations of perception, snapshots of a moving consciousness. Shoes that mark paths through cities, animals that appear as companions or opposites, plants and mushrooms that spread out and permeate spaces, all this forms an open dynamic structure. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
CPH, 2026
handtufted textile work, sheep wool
40x35cm, on wood
unique piece

The Swan Lake, 2026
handtufted textile work, sheep wool, mohair
40x30cm, framed
unique piece

📷 stoltenberg

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05/06/2026

|

writes in her text accompanying the show:
“With Thomas Bernhard, walking is not just locomotion, but a way of thinking. Step by step, an inner monologue unfolds, which ignites with the movement, increases, falters and starts again. For him, walking means exposing himself to the world and moving away from it at the same time. It is a rhythmic process between control and loss of control. A similar distinction is made by Francis Alÿs: “A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.”

The exhibition ‘While Walking’ by Bettina Willnauer in the Galerie Sophia Vonier in Salzburg connects to this thinking figure and translates it into textile picture spaces. Their hand-tufted wall work does not arise from a fixed pictorial concept, but develops procedurally. Starting point are drawings or loose sketches, which are transformed in the course of the work. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
Invisible Touch of Nature, 2026
hand tufted wall work, sheep wool, mohair, on stretcher
62x52 cm
Unique piece

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📷 portrait .arnet
📷 work Stoltenberg

SophiaVonier

27/05/2026

🩴🥿👢

| ‘s first exhibition at the gallery is open to the public.

writes in her text accompanying the show:
“With Thomas Bernhard, walking is not just locomotion, but a way of thinking. Step by step, an inner monologue unfolds, which ignites with the movement, increases, falters and starts again. For him, walking means exposing himself to the world and moving away from it at the same time. It is a rhythmic process between control and loss of control. A similar distinction is made by Francis Alÿs: “A journey implies a destination, so many miles to be consumed, while a walk is its own measure, complete at every point along the way.”

The exhibition ‘While Walking’ by Bettina Willnauer in the Galerie Sophia Vonier in Salzburg connects to this thinking figure and translates it into textile picture spaces. Their hand-tufted wall work does not arise from a fixed pictorial concept, but develops procedurally. Starting point are drawings or loose sketches, which are transformed in the course of the work. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
all my shoes walking in NY, 2026
hand tufted wall piece, sheep’s wool
160 x 65 cm, framed

DM for portfolio

📷 .stoltenberg

20/05/2026

by | is open to the public 🍎🌳🌧️

| wrote in her accompanying exhibition text:
“(…) In their pictorial worlds, observations of the everyday are intertwine with imaginative, dreamlike elements. As you walk, it seems, fixed boundaries dissolve: reality and fiction begin to flow into each other. Birds, plants, animals, human figures and fragments of landscapes appear as memories or projections. They are condensations of perception, snapshots of a moving consciousness. Shoes that mark paths through cities, animals that appear as companions or opposites, plants and mushrooms that spread out and permeate spaces, all this forms an open dynamic structure. (…)”

Bettina Willnauer
Big Apple I, 2026
handtufted textile work, sheep wool
115x105cm, framed
unique piece

DM for price information

10/05/2026

•Upcoming•

the first show with | will open on May 16, 2026 from 11am to 3pm at the gallery.

The exhibition will present recent hand turret unique textile works by the Vienna based artist and will be accompanied by a text by |

08/05/2026

| ‘s second solo show at the gallery is on view until May 16, 2026.

| wrote:
„ “Poem” is the title of another significant series of works whose source material is 25 years old. Yellow squares created during her student years form an existing body of work that is now
being overwritten. The artist collages private interiors of public figures from digital archives or
other found footage of natural events, condensing them
into a striking whole. In doing so, she addresses moments that are preserved in their status yet embodied as a process—as printmaking, as layering, and as a blend of history and the present. The motifs of demolition, disruption, and naturally occurring disruptive factors do not address the possibility of natural disasters, but rather the artistic treatment of memory and the process of its reproduction.“

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Installation view 📷 .stoltenberg

14/04/2026

‘s second solo show at the gallery is on view until May 9, 2026.

writes in his accompanying text:
„Three peculiar objects (Obscure objects)—once forgotten and now stranded once more— serve as the opening and anchor of an exhibition that views the personal perspective as both a principle and a method. As a passionate collector and attentive finder, Elisabeth Schmirl perceives objects as found pieces situated in metaphorical waiting rooms. Through the artistic transformation of these objects, which are now reflected within the exhibition space, the artist exposes visitors to kaleidoscopic visual conditions and viewing techniques. Elisabeth Schmirl’s work moves
between object art, photography, and printmaking without seeking to make a distinction between these media the focus of the work. What remains is not the question of the integrity of artistic media, but a sensually interwoven relationship between viewer and image, one that literally generates manifold reflections.“

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📷 .stoltenberg

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