Irene Maria Ganser & Stefan Oláh

5.3. – 4.4.2026

Galerie Rauminhalt

Schleifmühlgasse 13, 1040 Wien

Irene Maria Ganser is an Austrian artist who works with objects, materials and installations. Her practice focuses on natural processes, time and transformation. By using found materials, often with historical significance, she makes change visible and gives hidden stories a new form.

In Stefan Oláh’s work, too, change is not treated as a visible process, but as an epistemic shift. In his series on the Natural History Museum in Vienna, he focuses on the conditions of scientific perception. A depot image from the basement of the NHM shows wooden boxes containing sediment from the excavation of the Venus of Willendorf  (1908), whose contents are still being re-examined today. It is not the object that changes, but the strategies for understanding it.

Stefan Oláh, who lives and works in Vienna and Upper Austria, is one of Austria’s most important architectural and cultural photographers. He has been shaping architectural photography for decades with monographic publications. His serial works tell of the cultural significance of buildings, and he continues to develop contemporary photography as an artistic practice.