Galerie Dantendorfer
Rankgasse 11
1160, Vienna
Austria
Presentation of the gallery
Galerie Dantendorfer is a space for discovery and dialogue. It is not the apparent, but the unknown, that connects the artists represented by our gallery.
Our focus lies on contemporary Austrian and European art with a distinctive, often multimedia visual language – ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and experimental forms of expression.
At the heart of our work is an inclusive program that promotes diversity and creates space for artistic visions that question boundaries and open up new perspectives.
Within the gallery space, there is also a working studio (currently used by artist Christine Mayr), which can be visited by appointment – a vibrant space of creation and exchange.
The gallery has been second-generation run since January 2025.
Présentation de l'artiste en focus
Welt-Anschauungen
This two-person presentation brings together Austrian artists Marianne Lang (b. 1979) and Kurt Hüpfner (1930–2022), whose works explore how humans perceive and position themselves within the natural world from markedly different generational perspectives.
Lang’s recent Windwurf series shows forests growing toward a bright central axis, creating images that can be hung in either direction. Their shifting orientation challenges fixed viewpoints and our desire to stabilize nature. Her earlier Timevault drawings depict cave tunnels that open toward light, functioning as metaphorical thresholds between past and future, interior and exterior. Together, they reflect Lang’s precise, contemplative approach to environment and perception.
Hüpfner’s postwar landscapes, shaped by his childhood during WWII, confront nature through heavier, more forceful marks. His dark trees and mountains—rendered in coal, chalk, and pencil—compress memory, trauma, and survival into expressive terrain.
Shown together, Lang and Hüpfner reveal how nature becomes a shared language through which different generations inscribe experience, from healing and orientation to conflict and its aftermath.
