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9 – 21 August 2025 ZEICHENSÄTZE & SPRACHRÄUME (SETS OF SIGNS & SPACES OF LANGUAGE) Exhibition at Galerie Petra Seiser, Schörfling, Lake Attersee, Austria. Inspired by Günter Brus’s Bild-Dichtung — a poetic fusion of language and image — this group exhibition brings together works by Günter Brus, Nikolaus Gansterer, Anya Belyat-Giunta, Erich Gruber, Zenita Komad, and Dominik Steiger. From Brus’s William Blake-inspired picture-poems to Komad’s text-infused collages and Belyat-Giunta’s dreamlike bodies, the show explores drawing as a space where thought, language, and image meet. Nikolaus Gansterer’s work continues this tradition by diagramming the transitions between what can be said, what can be shown, and what can be drawn. Deeply influenced by Wittgenstein, he develops a personal visual grammar—one without fixed rules, constantly rewriting itself and shaped by the dialectic of ambiguity—to articulate the subtle processes of thinking, feeling, and perceiving. In his drawings, thought becomes visible as it unfolds, embracing ambiguity as a resource and inviting viewers into an active process of sense-making.