The Landesgalerie Burgenland opens the fall with two strong artistic positions: Ralo Mayer's exhibition 47 Stoffe is dedicated to the invisible narratives hidden in things, materials and spaces. At the same time, Linda von Alten is showing her poetic-figurative paintings in the Kabinett, which use bold colors and archetypal female figures to combat numbness and dreariness. Together, the two exhibitions create a dialog between material and figure, fragment and vision, science and poetry.
From October 25, 2025 to January 25, 2026, the Landesgalerie Burgenland invites you on a double journey of discovery: Two exhibitions, which at first glance could not be more different, interact to create an exciting dialog about what sustains, moves and surrounds us.
With 47 Stoffe, Vienna-based artist Ralo Mayer explores the complexity of matter. For him, "fabric" is not only a material, but also a repository of stories and a projection surface for what has not yet been told or thought. His expansive show brings together ceramics, photographs, meteorites, films and textile surfaces as well as literary texts and closed ecosystems. The starting point for his artistic research are places where utopias and crises intertwine: the experimental Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert, the glittering but ephemeral illusions of Hollywood or the history of space travel. Mayer's works open up spaces for fragments that elude a linear narrative and invite the audience to think about the "not-yet-told" - as a reflection on our shared present and possible futures.
Linda von Alten
While Mayer sets off into the vastness of material, history and science fiction, Linda von Alten turns her gaze inwards in the gallery's cabinet - to the human, the archetypal. Her painting is a poetic, powerful counter-image to a frozen, colorless world. With expressive brushstrokes and vibrant colors, she conjures up female figures of mythical presence: wise, courageous, divas. They rise from oceanic seas of blossoms, self-confident and dreamy at the same time, as embodiments of a different state that signifies hope, freedom and new beginnings. Von Alten, herself a biologist, combines the experience of nature, female archetypes and a deeply humanistic vision in her paintings.
As different as the artistic approaches may appear, together they open up a fascinating perspective on the relationship between man and the world. Mayer weaves materials and stories into open systems full of possibilities, while von Alten uses color and figure to offer new perspectives on womanhood, nature and society. Both positions are united by the desire to lend the visible a deeper dimension: to make the fragmentary visible, to break open the hardened, to imagine what is to come.
The Landesgalerie Burgenland thus once again demonstrates the diversity of contemporary art's response to our present - experimental, poetic and always with an open view of what is yet to come.
October 25, 2025 to January 25, 2026
https://landesgalerie-burgenland.at
