About

Maximiliane Baumgartner’s artistic work emerges against the background of a broad examination of different forms of (counter-) public spheres and their historical contexts within an urban space. Her works are akin to creative action fields, often generated in collaboration with others. She is particularly interested in the use of painting as a social field of action. With the title of her exhibition at Kirchgasse, Baumgartner refers to Gustav Gräser, an artist and important figure in a reform movement that developed and practiced alternative models of life in Southern Germany and Switzerland …