22. März – 31. Oktober 2019

Die elfte Ausstellung im Otten Kunstraum in Hohenems ist Roland Stecher gewidmet. Seit 1988 gestaltet er Rauminstallationen für Galerien, Museen und Kulturhäuser sowie Kunst am Bau Projekte und Entwürfe für den öffentlichen Raum. Auffallend ist sein ausgeprägtes Interesse für die Linie im Raum, die im Dialog mit der Architektur oder mit ihresgleichen Spannungen und Überschneidungen erzeugt.

Seit fünf Jahren entwickelt Roland Stecher in seinem Atelier in Götzis/Vorarlberg mithilfe von Farben, Formen und Spannungen eine neue Bildsprache, die bislang nur wenigen Eingeweihten bekannt ist. In seinen großformatigen Zeichnungen auf Holztafeln spielen Konzentration und Verdichtung sowie Grenzen, aber auch Auflösung eine zentrale Rolle. Die aus Kreissegmenten entwickelten, gleichsam filigran wie kraftvoll wirkenden Arbeiten sind durchdrungen von Konzentration, sie vereinen Zeit und Geschichte in sich und sie eröffnen den Betrachterinnen und Betrachtern einen scheinbar schwerelosen Raum. 

Roland Stecher sucht nach der Entstehung der Form, sein Interesse liegt genauer gesagt an jenem Punkt, an dem sich Formen bilden. Indem er eine Linie in Beziehung zu oder in Berührung mit einer zweiten bringt, entsteht etwas Neues, völlig anderes. Ganz im Sinne von Aristoteles ist das Ganze mehr als die Summe seiner Teile. In der neueren Philosophie spricht man von Emergenz und bezeichnet damit das Phänomen, dass sich manche spontan und unvorhersehbar auftretenden Eigenschaften eines komplexen Systems nicht allein aus seinen Teilen erklären lassen.

Katalog

Im Verlag für Moderne Kunst erscheint ein reich bebilderter Katalog mit Beiträgen von Ingrid Adamer, Gerald Futscher, Roman Lichtenecker und Wolfgang Mörth in deutscher und englischer Sprache.

Samstag, 14. September 2017

Als Hommage an Gottfried Honegger wurde im Otten Kunstraum eine Ausstellung eröffnet, in der frühe Malereien sowie Skulpturen, Collagen und Grafiken aktuellen Reliefs gegenübergestellt werden. Kuratorin Dr. Ingrid Adamer führte in die Ausstellung ein, im anschließenden Dialog mit Dr. Guido Magnaguagno und Ruedi Christen, zwei Wegbegleitern von Gottfried Honegger, wurden den zahlreichen Besucherinnen und Besuchern die Persönlichkeit und das Wirken des 2016 im hohen Alter von 98 Jahren verstorbenen Künstlers lebendig nähergebracht.

Dienstag, 21. April 2015

Kann Geometrie mehr sein als Ordnung und Strenge? Wie viel Poesie steckt in geordneten Strukturen und Gesetzmäßigkeiten? Kuratorin Dr. Ingrid Adamer führte in die Ausstellung mit Werken von 14 internationalen Kunstschaffenden ein. Zur Eröffnung eigens aus Holland angereist war die Künstlerin Marie-Antoinette Courtens, die ebenso wie der Vorarlberger Bildhauer Armin Rupprechter gerne auf Fragen der BesucherInnen einging.

Tuesday 29 April 2014

The exhibition Eight without Object offers exciting insights into the multi-facetted spectrum of non-objective art. The numerous visitors at the opening showed great interest in the diverse approaches to non-objectivity an took advantage of the opportunity to speak to the artists with roots in Vorarlberg.

Monday 25 November 2013

Landesrat Harald Sonderegger invited numerous artists and persons engaged in the cultural sector to the Otten Kunstraum in Hohenems for the last cultural get-together of the year. Following an introduction by art collector Wilhelm Otten, curator Ingrid Adamer gave a tour through the current exhibition Transcriptions. Six Artists from Moscow.

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Based on the works in current exhibition Transcriptions. Six Artists from Moscow, students of the Marienberg in Bregenz developed interdisciplinary works such as paintings, postcards, texts, and spatial installations. These successful works as well as a performance were admired by the students´ teachers and parents at the presentation. The spatial installation by the students can be seen until the end of the exhibition on 5 December 2013 in the foyer.

Saturday 5 October 2013

Numerous visitors showed great interest in the remarks of curator Ingrid Adamer and Wilhelm Otten on the works in the second part of the exhibition Transcriptions. Six Artists from Moscow. Musical accompaniment was provided by the pianist René Frühwirth and Hans Reinhardt.

Thursday 5 September 2013

On the occasion of the opening of the second part of the exhibition "Transcriptions. Six Artist from Moscow", Wilhelm Otten welcomed the artist Elena Preis, Vasily Kandinsky´s grandniece, who travelled to Hohenems from Moscow to attend this event, as well as the art historian and Kandinsky expert Jelena Hahl-Fontaine. Numerous visitors used the opportunity to view the abstract works of the Russian artists Oleg Kudryashov, Vasily Pavlovsky, and Elena Preis.

Tuesday 23 April 2012

Alexander Konstantiov, Valery Orlov, and Alexandra Mitlyanskaya travelled all the way from Moscow to celebrate, together with numerous visitors, the opening of the first part of the exhibition “Transcriptions. Six Artists from Moscow” at the Otten Kunstraum. The guests were impressed by the diversity of the works by the artists who are connected to the spiritual heritage of the Russian Avant-Garde, yet who “transcribe” this by means of their choices of technique and forms of expression. Photographs are shown in the foyer of the Otten Kunstraum, and the former oil tank is the venue for an impressive installation.

Saturday 6 October 2012

 
95 year old Gottfried Honegger embraced the opportunity to come to Hohenems from Zurich in order to take part in the ORF Long Night of the Museums at the Otten Kunstraum and to speak to the visitors. “La Viseur”, the game developed by Honegger in order to help children develop creative vision, met with great interest. This stimulating form of creating one´s own pictures captured the attention of many adults, and several teachers took advantage of the offer to borrow “Le Viseur” free of charge for use in their classes.

Tuesday 12 June 2012

The opening of his current exhibition at the Otten Kunstraum became a celebration of Gottfried Honegger. The private museum invited numerous guests on the occasion of the Swiss artis´t´s 95th birthday.
The many visitors enjoyed the reliefs and sculptures from Gottfried Honegger´s most recent creative period. The new book, Gottfried Honegger, 34699 Tage gelebt. Eine autobiografische Skize, published by Limmat Verlag Zürich and a publication of the Otten Kunstraum, was also presented on this evening. Among other things, the remarkable talk given by the artist on this special occasion is printed in this book. The presentation of the sculpture edition “Z 231” in cooperation with the Rotary Club Vorarlberg met with overriding public interest. Gottfried Honegger provided the design for the sculpture free of charge. The piece was then accordingly produced in an edition of 20 pieces. The proceeds from the sale go to “Tischlein deck dich” in Vorarlberg.

Saturday 5 May 2012

Numerous visitors attended the “Open House” and took the opportunity to meet the artist Karl-Heinz Ströhle and become acquainted with his works. Together with Wilhelm Otten and Ingrid Adamer, the artist guided visitors through the exhibition and gave insights into the process of producing his works. The dancer Tom Hanslmaier presented a choreography developed exclusively for the Otten Kunstraum. In the performance “Gregor Samsa” he interacted intensely with Karl-Heinz Ströhle´s flexible sculptures.

Tuesday 27 September 2011

The opening of the multi-media exhibition in the Otten Kunstraum attracted a large number of art lovers. Karl-Heinz Ströhle, who represents one of Austria´s most interesting artistic positions, shows paintings, video works, and seemingly fragile objects made of spring steel strips in the private museum in Hohenems. Ströhle impressively demonstrated how flexible and versatile his chosen medium is by putting the sculptures into gentle motion before the eyes of the viewers. The artist, who lives in Vienna, created the commissioned work “drop” on the occasion of the exhibition. The sculpture, 3.9 meters high, will remain installed in the Otten Kunstraum´s outdoor space.

Saturday, 26 March 2011

Numerous visitors took advantage of the opportunity to explore and discover, together with curator Ingrid Adamer and Wilhelm Otten, the visual relationships between textiles created in various cultural areas for many different reasons and non-objective works from the Otten Collection.

Saturday, 2 October 2010

The Otten Kunstraum presented its third exhibition, “Beauty as Necessity. Weavings and Paintings from the Otten Collection” on the Long Night of the Museums. In addition to hourly guided tours through the exhibition, world music by “Majimaz” rounded off the evening at the Otten Kunstraum.

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Art Therapy in Hohenems", the work of Heilgard Bertel and Mariann Linsi, the Atelierhaus Spitzenegg and the Otten Kunstraum invited guests to a lecture by Dr. Bettina Egger. The internationally renowned art- and psychotherapist placed her lecture, "Art and Art Therapy - Ways to Inner Order", in the context of the exhibition of works by Gottfried Honegger and his call that art have a social-political mission.

Saturday, 21 March 2009

Several works have been changed and rehung in the opening exhibition and were presented in a new constellation to the public for the first time. As a special attraction: Alexander Konstantinov's "Haus unter der Linde" was inhabited by fire.