Exhibition Opening
January 21^st, 2026, 7pm
Opening Performance: » – . ! : (voices: Mzamo Nondlwana, Aaron Josi Sternbauer, Crystal Wall; accordion: Jakob Steinkellner), 7:30pm

In her work, Lisa Großkopf takes aim at the striving for perfection. She highlights a troubling worldview: one that ascribes responsibility for life’s happiness primarily to the individual, while largely ignoring essential variables such as structural inequalities and social disadvantages. Großkopf confronts the neoliberal ideal—where health, beauty, and contentment are viewed as things to be maximized solely through diligence and discipline—with the reality of hyper-capitalist societies.

At the intersection of literature and visual arts, Sarah Rinderer focuses on dealing with language itself, its pauses, gaps and in-between-spaces. By making seemingly silent punctuation marks audible together with voice performers or by sending a message into the past through semaphore gestures, she explores the conditions that make communication possible – across spatial and temporal distances, different sign systems, codes and beyond words.

Lisa Großkopf (b. 1989, Vienna) studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the University of Arts Linz. Her extensive exhibition history includes presentations at Lentos, Belvedere 21, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, and Kunsthaus Graz, as well as recent participation in the Ars Electronica Festival. Her work has taken her internationally to cities such as Budapest, Tehran, Düsseldorf, Bratislava, Amsterdam, Kassel, and Jacksonville, and has included solo exhibitions in Prague, Ljubljana, and Chongqing.
https://lisagrosskopf.net/

Sarah Rinderer (b. 1994, Bregenz) studied Fine Arts/Experimental Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Arts Linz. She presents her concept-based works and texts in exhibitions, anthologies, and literary magazines, among others at Galerie 422 Gmunden, Bank Austria Kunstforum, the Mahler Forum for Music and Society in Klagenfurt and in flugschrift N°45 sektorenfeuer. Most recently, she received grants for studio residencies abroad, such as Barcelona, Athens, Reykjavík and Paris, as well as a start stipend for literature (BMWKMS, 2024).
https://www.sarahrinderer.at/

Opening hours
21. January 2026 – 06. February 2026
Wednesday – Friday, 3 – 6pm

Exhibition Opening
November 19th, 2025, 7 pm

In her works, Schmid loves to play with time: Temporality as a theme is reflected in different forms throughout her series of works. She is particularly interested in perception and influencing viewers’ everyday ways of seeing and creating something that goes beyond human perception. Her work focuses on historical image-making processes, the potential for representing landscape, and the historical development of cinema. She describes her practice as “going back to the past to rethink the present”: by exploring the fundamental conditions of capturing and projecting (moving) images, she places the medium itself at the center of her inquiry, allowing its full potential to unfold.

„We no longer notice what is extraordinary in daily life. The artist Viktoria Schmid, however, takes this as her material. Schmid manages to draw out the fascinating potential in the interweaving of light and time. She makes traces of light visible and turns them into the central focus of how she deals with time and space. While we generally only pay secondary attention to the play of shadow and light, she manages to draw attention back to these phenomena and she does so with impressive reduction.“ (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)

Viktoria Schmid is a visual artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of cinema and exhibition space. Her work has been presented both nationally and internationally at exhibitions and film festivals, including Belvedere 21 in Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz, Toronto International Film Festival, Viennale Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and FID Marseille, among others. Schmid has a background in music: starting at an early age as a DJ and later as a drummer. She studied filmmaking at the Friedl Kubelka School, holds a BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Vienna, and completed a Master’s degree in Time-Based Media at the University of Art and Design Linz in 2014. She has been recognized with several awards, including the Achievement Award for Visual Art in Lower Austria (2019), the Austrian State Stipend for Photography (2022), and the Austrian Short Film Award at Vienna Shorts (2023). She was an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony (Lithuania) in 2019, ISCP (New York City) in 2020/2022 and at the Cité des Artes (Paris) in 2025.

Picture: Detail of „For Madelon Vriesendorp“, Series of four cyanotypes on paper, each 28 x 36 cm, 2023

https://www.viktoriaschmid.com/