Wachau Routes is intervening in the State Gallery of Lower Austria – on display until January 2027

On 13 June, the final presentation of our arts-based research project, Wachau Routes, took place at the State Gallery of Lower Austria in Krems. Through a selection of works from recent years, we intervene in the existing exhibition, ‘On the road. A journey into the collection’, entering into a dialogue with historical paintings of the Wachau region from the state collections.
Films, photographs, postcards and drawings provide new perspectives on landscape and movement. In speech bubbles, galvanized plants tell stories about the past and future of the railway, and its relationship with nature and people. One film features Herbert Ursprunger, an architect and landscape architect who was commissioned in the late 1950s to integrate the Wachau road into the landscape. Iris Andraschek has altered Ursprunger’s 1950s photographs and incorporated them artistically into the film. In the 2024 video installation ‘fragments’, Hubert Lobnig reworks a silent historical film about the Wachau from 1913, relating it to a scene filmed in 2023. In the leaflet ‘Blick in die Gemälde’ (A Glance into the Paintings), Daniela Lehner and Roland Tusch highlight the traffic routes in selected paintings, encouraging an alternative way of viewing the collection. These and other works can be visited until January 2027.
We would like to thank Gerda Ridler, Artistic Director of the State Gallery of Lower Austria, for this fantastic opportunity to showcase our work at the gallery. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to the entire team at the State Gallery for their support with the planning, set-up, communication and organisation of the event. Two further leaflets have been produced for this exhibition, designed by graphic designer Karin Holzfeind, whom we thank for her professional contribution; this completes our series of 14 leaflets.

Interventions at the State Gallery of Lower Austria
13 June 2026 – 10 January 2027