We are pleased to invite you to our upcoming exhibition “WAYS OF SEEING.”
The opening will take place on April 1, 2026, starting at 6:30 PM at Salz Vision Gallery (Salzgries 8, 1010 Vienna). Works by the artists Dorota Sadovská and Wolfgang Walkensteiner will be on display.
“Ways of Seeing” unfolds from the recognition that perception constitutes a formative act through which images acquire presence. In “In Search of Lost Time”, Marcel Proust articulates vision as an operation that reshapes reality by reactivating what appears distant or lost within the immediacy of experience. The exhibition adopts this premise and situates both artistic positions within a shared inquiry into how images generate meaning through the act of viewing.
Dorota Sadovská works with iconographic constellations that belong to a deeply sedimented visual tradition. Her Madonnas, Pietàs, and sacred figures carry centuries of theological, cultural, and painterly memory. These forms and narratives confront the viewer with the weight of inherited imagestructures. Wolfgang Walkensteiner develops painterly fields in which light and surface articulate a perceptual encounter. In his own reflection, the image unfolds as a phenomenon of light and mist, a surface that reveals its gaze and establishes a reciprocal relation with the viewer.
Placed in dialogue, both practices examine the image as an active site of perception. Sadovská activates historical form as a living structure within the present. Walkensteiner constructs painterly situations in which per-ception itself becomes visible as process. Together they propose that images operate as temporal strata in which cultural memory and immediate experience converge. Seeing emerges as a historically shaped and materially grounded act through which the past acquires existence in the present.
The opening will take place on April 1, 2026, starting at 6:30 PM at Salz Vision Gallery (Salzgries 8, 1010 Vienna). Works by the artists Dorota Sadovská and Wolfgang Walkensteiner will be on display.
“Ways of Seeing” unfolds from the recognition that perception constitutes a formative act through which images acquire presence. In “In Search of Lost Time”, Marcel Proust articulates vision as an operation that reshapes reality by reactivating what appears distant or lost within the immediacy of experience. The exhibition adopts this premise and situates both artistic positions within a shared inquiry into how images generate meaning through the act of viewing.
Dorota Sadovská works with iconographic constellations that belong to a deeply sedimented visual tradition. Her Madonnas, Pietàs, and sacred figures carry centuries of theological, cultural, and painterly memory. These forms and narratives confront the viewer with the weight of inherited imagestructures. Wolfgang Walkensteiner develops painterly fields in which light and surface articulate a perceptual encounter. In his own reflection, the image unfolds as a phenomenon of light and mist, a surface that reveals its gaze and establishes a reciprocal relation with the viewer.
Placed in dialogue, both practices examine the image as an active site of perception. Sadovská activates historical form as a living structure within the present. Walkensteiner constructs painterly situations in which per-ception itself becomes visible as process. Together they propose that images operate as temporal strata in which cultural memory and immediate experience converge. Seeing emerges as a historically shaped and materially grounded act through which the past acquires existence in the present.
