Ausstellung "Zeitlinien"

Works by Billi Thanner. Art in the Cabinet: Madita Kloss

Exhibition duration: March 2 to April 6, 2026
Opening hours: Sunday from 2:00-5:00 PM and Monday from 12:00-3:00 PM

BILLI THANNER “Time Lines”
Billi Thanner gained international recognition, among other things, with the "Heavenly Ladder," which attracted great attention in Vienna, Münster, and Paris. The installation takes up the Old Testament motif of the connection between heaven and earth and has developed into a symbol of hope and peace. With "Infinity of Light," she realized her most monumental project to date in December 2025 in public space at the Votivkirche in Vienna. A lying figure eight, the sign of infinity, spanned approximately 99 meters high between the towers of the neo-Gothic church. Here, too, light becomes a trace, a connection of time, space, and imagination. “Time Lines” is more than a spatial neon setting. At the beginning of her path as an artist, as Thanner describes it herself, she was never interested in the moment itself. Her attention was always directed towards the in-between spaces, those frequencies between two states, what happens when it seems that nothing happens. She does not understand these in-between spaces as emptiness but as zones of the not-yet-formed, as areas where something already palpably exists before it becomes visible. The moment between two thoughts, between perception and meaning, that is where reality arises for her. This attitude also shapes the exhibition in the Gallery Schloss Parz. The neon lines are not boundaries but traces of perception. They do not show things but transitions. The space does not arise from volume but from relationships between: closeness and distance, memory and expectation, what has been and what is sensed.

Time as a State
Thanner decided early on to locate everything in the now: the past could no longer be lived, the future was only a concept. It remained a field of overlays that she initially painted as lines and layers on canvas, without knowing that she was trying to grasp time itself. She does not understand time linearly but as a shifting state. Her works do not capture it but make its unstoppable nature palpable. Light becomes central; what we see has already passed, even sunlight reaches us with a delay. Grieskirchen, February 2026 In the exhibition, an early canvas work and a new spatial work meet for the first time. “For me, this is not a contradiction but the same idea in two states: painted earlier, today in space," says the artist. Time lines do not appear as an image but as a trace: as what remains. Thus, Thanner’s works revolve around identity and visibility. Neon is both an emotional memory and a political symbol. From the tension between personal closeness and public setting emerges an energy that activates space and perception.

Art in the Cabinet:
MADITA KLOSS “The First Sister” With a deeply personal narrative, Madita Kloss presents herself at the Gallery Schloss Parz. Her exhibition in the cabinet titled “The First Sister” is dedicated to the memory of her deceased sister. At the center appear the three sisters, recurrent like an inner image that cannot be pushed away, hovering between the past and the possible. In her works, Kloss poses the question of who the sister would be today; she explores this possibility, senses her longings, and delicately sketches the contours of that world trip that once lay as a promise in the future. In this way, Kloss resists forgetting: calmly and reflectively, with a clear imagery that transforms personal grief into a touching yet objectively articulated artistic engagement. At the same time, the artist dedicates herself to the tentative learning of a reconciliatory approach to death and the quiet acceptance of loss. Her images tell of how pain slowly transforms, how a delicate form of closeness emerges from grief. In this quiet movement lies a gentle reconciliation with finitude, which does not forget but preserves.