Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

The renowned Galerie Naechst St. Stephan presents international positions of contemporary art.
Focussing Abstract Painting, Minimal Art, Concept Art, Installation, Video, Photography

The Galerie nächst St. Stephan represents a living tradition of exploring the art of the modern era. It has been located since the 1920’s in the same place in the center of Vienna at Grünangergasse 1.

DIRECTORS: Rosemarie Schwarzwälder

With the exhibition: Zeichen, Fluten, Signale - neukonstruktiv und parallel ("Signs, Waves, Signals - Reconstructive and Parallel") Rosemarie Schwarzwälder presented a program in 1984, which featured basic elements that have proven relevant in numerous solo and group exhibitions up to the present. International positions of abstraction and concept-based art in the areas of painting, sculpture, installations, photography and video have maintained a continuous presence in the program of the gallery.

"It became taken for granted that nothing relating to art could be taken for granted any longer." (T.W. Adorno)

Modern or contemporary art today needs discourse. Organizing symposia and independent publications is part of the gallery’s self-image.

Issues of the development of art, international cultural comparisons and the validity of aesthetic criteria have been addressed in publications.

- Abstrakte Malerei aus Amerika und Europa / Abstract Painting of America and Europe, Brice Marden, Gerhard Richter, Helmut Federle, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien/Klagenfurt 1988

- Kulturen — Verwandschaften in Geist und Form, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien 1991

- Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese / Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien/Klagenfurt 1992