30th anniversary of Galerie Gugging
ERRINNERUNGEN BEGEBNISSE VORKOMMNISSE
Galerie gugging celebrates its 30th anniversary with an anniversary exhibition, from June 6 to October 6, 2024, featuring masterpieces by 40 international artists including Misleidys Castillo Pedroso.
Since 1994, galerie gugging has been exhibiting works by the residents of the House of Artists (Haus der Künstler), founded in 1981 by Dr. Leo Navratil as a sideline to the Gugging Psychiatric Clinic, and taken over in 1986 by Dr. Johann Feilacher. Opened in 2009, this exhibition space has gained international renown, and also presents outsider artworks by other artists around the world.
After a troubled childhood and a turbulent adolescence, August Walla was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was finally admitted - along with his mother - to the Gugging hospital, near Vienna, in 1970. Resident of the Haus der Künstler (house of artists), he will remain there for the rest of his life. Expressing himself through photography, installation, diversion of objects and typing of manifestos, writing and drawing have become inseparable in his work. A key figure in art brut, collected by David Bowie, Walla is present in a number of collections around the world, including those of the MoMa (New York) or the Milwaukee Art Museum (Wisconsin).