Ingrid Wiener
Gobelins, Films and Dreams

1 MAY until 1 AUG 2026
Opening – 1 MAY 2026, 6-9 pm

We are delighted to announce the third solo exhibition at the gallery by the artist Ingrid Wiener, who was born in Vienna in 1942. Entitled Gobelins, Films and Dreams, the exhibition brings together a selection of her more recent tapestries, some of her ‘dream drawings’, as well as videos, records and books. To complement these works, we will show a film by Oswald Wiener from 2015.

This film, which takes the weaving as an artistic practice of his partner Ingrid Wiener as its starting point, was discovered in the estate of the writer and cyberneticist, who passed away in 2021. It is being shown in the gallery for the first time. To reflect on Ingrid Wiener’s earlier life, we will also highlight her long-standing connection to (West) Berlin. In the 1970s, together with Oswald Wiener and their friend, the Austrian artist Michel Würthle, she co-founded the legendary artists’ venues Matala, Exil and Ax Bax. The exhibition will feature records from this period, which visitors will be able to see and listen to. These records represent part of Ingrid “Monsti Wiener”’s work as a musician and singer in Berlin clubs, including her collaborations with the Austrian artist Valie Export and others. In addition, a selection of rare copybooks from the nineties by Dieter Roth and Ingrid Wiener will be on view. These document the Roth-Wiener tapestries produced collaboratively by Dieter Roth and Ingrid Wiener between 1974 and 1998. They will be presented alongside Videobriefe (video letters, published in 2003 by Barbara Wien), a film documenting the artists’ exchange while working on their third tapestry, which was produced in Dawson City. After extended periods in Dawson City, Canada, between 1985 and 2012 – where Ingrid and Oswald Wiener ran the Claims Café – the artist now lives in southern Styria. The videos Yukon Quest (1986) and northwest passage (1988) offer a view back at her live in Canada.