Salzburg
ELEKTROHALLE RHOMBERG
On now
- Set free within a loose net of valuation and recycling, we encounter Paul Riedmüller's (*1989 in Graz) inexhaustible world of images. In manifold chains of association, painted motifs of the most varied digital provenance line up and overlay one another. These at times colour-manipulated subjects, pairings and layerings make clear that after centuries of a canonised art history, and in the face of digital ubiquity, there is no motif left that mere selection could not render worthy of being pictured. In constant repetition, variation and also spontaneity, Riedmüller feeds AI hallucinations, 3D models and clip art into his chain of reuse, overlaying one layer of editing, meaning and chance with the next. This same logic returns in the exhibition's title, Rogue-lite. The term denotes a video-game genre whose premise follows the principle of so-called meta-progression: while every run begins anew, certain gains accumulate across the individual runs and make future runs stronger. The results of each run – or, for that matter, of each act of image-editing – condense into a new point of departure that carries within it what has already been achieved. - Niklas KoschelDescription
Rogue-lite
Until 31 Oct 2026
Recent past exhibitions
- In. Corri.. and Door..., Philip Emde (*1976 in Mannheim, lives and works in Cologne) resists the epilogue of a classical retrospective. The term feels too definitive for an oeuvre in which past, present, and possibility do not unfold sequentially, but exist simultaneously. Instead of looking backward, the exhibition bets on simultaneity. Memories, familial origins, artistic developments, and new experiences enter into dialogue with one another, forming a continuous present. The Steiff animals are far more than recurring motifs within Emde’s work. Over decades, the artist has amassed an extensive collection and arranged them throughout his studios. His paintings and installations emerge from these figures. Sometimes they sit on shelves, sometimes they appear individually, and sometimes they encounter one another in carefully composed constellations. Elephants, frogs, monkeys, leopards, and crocodiles populate his pictorial world as active characters in a complex, emotional topography. – Elisa Mosch Having exhibited extensively on an international level, the artist's work is widely represented in renowned private and institutional collections.Description
Philip Emde, Corri, and Door
Ended 5 Sept 2026