CHARIM FACTORY - Vienna

Charim is pleased to announce the solo exhibition ULAY Opening at Charim Galerie, Vienna: 14 October 2025, 6 pm Curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and Kurt Kladler Duration: 15 October - 19 December Ulay, born Frank Uwe Laysiepen (1943, Solingen, Germany - 2020, Ljubljana, Slovenia) is internationally recognised as a progenitor of performance art in a collaboration with Marina Abramović between 1976-88. Both before and after this collaboration, Ulay produced a significant body of solo work, beginning in the early 1970s with a distinct photo-performance practice and continuing up until his death in 2000, with large-scale photographic experiments and installations. In collaboration with the Ulay Foundation, Charim is happy to be presenting a significant selection of this work along with background material not previously exhibited. This solo exhibition at Charim coincides with the exhibition “Marina Abramović” at Albertina Modern, Vienna opening 9 October and the major retrospective exhibition “Ulay/Marina Abramović Art Vital” at Cukrarna Museum, Ljubljana opening 30 November.

We’re excited to announce Eiko Gröschl is currently artist-in-residence at Charim Factory, working on large-scale paintings until early October. Open Studio Day: 24 June, 16:00 * Eiko Gröschl (*1992 Graz, Austria), studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna in the class of Erwin Bohatsch. He lives and works in Vienna. Atmosphere is an essential element in the work of Eiko Gröschl, the time of day, the weather, the seasons. But also, the psychological and emotional aspects of such, the ephemeral feelings associated with early mornings, moonlit nights, reverie. Such aspects are generated by an intense working with his essential materials - paint thinned to the point of staining and altering the canvas, gaussian layers also altered with elements of thick impasto. Material experiments that slowly accrue to an image as much veiled as revealed. In 2026 Charim will produce his first publication.