Räume für Träume
Spaces for Dreams. How can dreams – big and small, personal and collective – be captured, made visible, and perhaps even realized? Spaces for Dreams invites people to share their wishes for themselves, their surroundings, or the future with us. Some dreams may seem utopian, others very concrete – we take them all seriously.
A mobile Office for (Un)realistic Dreams travels through Braunau, Obernberg, Ried, and Schärding. On site, dreams can be written down, drawn, or told. A local committee sorts through them: which ones are feasible? Which require creative detours? Which inspire reflection?
As a grand finale, we celebrate all the collected dreams with a performance in Palmpark, Braunau: wish cards are transformed in fire – not as an ending, but as a spark for new possibilities. A poetic-surrealistic happening with music and dance, turning dreams and visions into artistic experiences.
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The Innviertel collective kunst:dünger is known for its ‘art festivals’, which it has been organising at different locations for almost 20 years. A broad programme of installations, sculpture, painting, photography, performances, theatre projects, literature and music presents contributions and interpretations on a selected theme at each of these events. Statements critical of the system and society, philosophical positions, poetic and humorous observations and provocative perspectives direct our perceptions towards the inner and outer worlds of our time.
(Between the heavens / Meandros / e haere ea i hia / The household. Love / Gardener of Desire / Flesh to the power of 3 – the cannibalised creation / Touch Mahal / Far Thunder / Struwwelpetra reloaded / The Art of Failure / New? Radiant? Future? / The Last Reserves / Heenagschroa )
9 people are involved in the artist collective kunst:dünger 2024:
Julia Csongrady – objects, installation / Annemarie Dämon – actress and radio producer / Andrea Hinterberger – artist and art educator / Gertrud Mayrhuber – writer, theatre educator / Erich Plettenbacher – visual artist / Andreas Sagmeister – sculptor / Anita Selinger – object artist / Christine Wawrinek – artist and media designer / Franz Wawrinek – visual artist and graphic designer.
Julia Csongrady
Born in Vienna quite a while ago, I live and work in Ried im Innkreis. I often draw my means of expression from things found by the wayside in nature and from the domestic collection accumulated over generations. Objects, installations, collections, interventions in public spaces.
Creative phases mostly in the morning or late at night, which in turn, possibly corresponds to the morning I have been with the kunst:dünger group since ‘Henagschroa’ Andrichsfurt 2001 Initiator of 20gerhaus
Franz Wawrinek
Graduated from the Graphische in Vienna with a masterclass and has been involved with painting, drawing and graphic art ever since. With the co-founding of the collective kunst:dünger, the artistic spectrum expanded to include objects, installations and interventions in public space. Various exhibition participations, including Kunsthaus Obernberg 2020, Kunstsalon Linz 2021 and several participations in kunst:dünger exhibitions and art festivals since 2001. Involved in the board of the Galerie 20gerhaus in Ried i.I., member of the Innviertler Künstlergilde.
Erich Plettenbacher
Born in 1947, studied under Josef Mikl at Schillerplatz, among others. Retired art teacher with a penchant for travelling and working under foreign roofs, sheep breeding, vegetable growing. Tendency towards Velicoped, kitchen shamanism and being an outsider, general tendency towards rapture… Co-founder of the kunst:dünger collective
Christine Wawrinek
born 1954 in Ried/Innkr., lives and works in the Innviertel. Graphic and media designer. Her artistic approach is self-taught and has led to many years of experimentation in textile design and photography and to diverse forms of expression such as objects, installations, video and performance. Member of the Innviertler Künstlergilde. Co-founder of the collective kunst:dünger – with jointly realised projects and exhibitions both indoors and outdoors. Various exhibition participations. Member of the board of Kulturverein Galerie 20gerhaus / Ried since 2016.
Annemarie Dämon
born 1960 in Wels, lives in Taiskirchen. Still ‘curious to take a look behind the scenes’, experiences and insights gained from these risky glances flow into her artistic work. Loves to experiment with various creative and performing processes. Participates in exhibitions here and there as well as in theatre plays and films. Member of the kunst:dünger group since 2001 and of Ensemble d’herz@ since 2016, board member of 20gerhaus. Self-employed in the training sector, as an actress and radio producer.
Andrea Hinterberger
Freelance visual artist Studied at the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz, masterclass in textiles, graduated in 2001
Field of activity: textiles / screen printing / photography / digital art / video / graphics, painting, illustrations, poetry, performance, object and spatial design / symposia / art in architecture / many years of artistic activities and projects in social institutions, director of KUNST St. Pius Peuerbach since 1995 Solo and group exhibitions as well as performance and performance art in public and private spaces
Andreas Sagmeister
Born in Ried im Innkreis in 1966, lives and works in Raab, Upper Austria
Technical college for goldsmiths and silversmiths in Steyr, Upper Austria
Studied and graduated from the University of Art and Industrial Design in Linz under Prof. Helmuth Gsöllpointner/Master Class Metal.
Since 1993 he has been working as a freelance artist in the fields of metal sculpture, art in architecture and design. Numerous exhibitions at home and abroad. Member of IG Bildende Kunst/Vienna, Bildrecht/Vienna, skulpture network, kunst:dünger and the Innviertler Künstlergilde.
Anita Selinger
1963 born in Vöcklabruck, lives and works in Raab / Upper Austria
1998 to 2008 together with Mag. art. Andreas Sagmeister runs the studio – gallery KUNSTSTÜCK in Reichersberg / Upper Austria
1999 admission to the Innviertler Artists’ Guild
Member of Bildrecht/Vienna, kunst:dünger and Kulturverein Hörsturm.
Since 1998 active in exhibitions at home and abroad
Participation in art in architecture competitions, various realized projects.
Currently creating photographs, graphic works, felt works and textile objects.
Gertrud Mayrhuber
Self-taught artist, member of the group kunst:dünger since 2008; member of the Innviertler Künstlergilde since 2019.
Literature (poetry since her youth, prose, short stories) (scenic) readings since 1992, including at: Women’s art festival femme:os of KUPRO Sauwald/Siegharting; Kunsthaus/Obernberg; Kubinhaus/Zwickledt.
Photography (experimental approach)
Ongoing exhibitions since 2003, including at: Frauencafé Palaver/Graz; Innviertler Künstlergilde/Ried, Braunau; Galerie 20gerhaus/Ried.
Concept/object art with exhibitions since 2008 as part of the art festivals of the kunst:dünger group.
Theater and theater pedagogical work, training with Lisa Kolb/Vienna.
Various projects: acting, performance, concepts, staging, directing, workshops since 2003, including as part of the Capital of Culture/Graz; “NEULAND oder: Vorwärts zum Ursprung” – Theater Hausruck in cooperation with Ars Electronica/Wolfsegg, Linz.