The exhibition Fragmentarisch / Fragmentary brings together three artistic positions—Petra Fohringer, Michael Lauss, and Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer—that deal with fragmentation as an aesthetic, spatial, and conceptual principle in different media.
In Petra Fohringer’s case, fragmentation appears in the form of painting: her images oscillate between suggestion and omission, surface and dissolution. What is visible is never complete, but remains in an uncertain state between becoming an image and fading away. Through thickly applied layers, transparent overlays, and sudden breaks, a painterly way of thinking emerges that avoids narrative and interprets the fragment as an open space for thought. Her images exist in the tension between trace and absence, surface and dissolution.
The artistic works of Michael Lauss and Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer examine the concept of the fragment in installation, sculpture, and context-dependent space. Traces, interventions, temporary constellations, and architectural references create places where we can pause and reflect; breaking points that result in new connections. Here, the fragment does not mean incompleteness, but rather the conscious creation of partiality, resistance to completeness, poetic strategy, and a call for open perception. In Veszprém, a city characterized by historical layers and cultural transitions, this exhibition becomes a space of resonance between matter and spirit.
The exhibition opens with a new variation of the live performance “HADES2.0 – a river full of bones” (“HADES2.0 – a river full of bones”) with an escalating / recitative dance between life and death. This tour de force becomes a surreal fever dream in which pop culture, associative poetry, Greek mythology, and “accordion noise” (noisy accordion music) come together. The mutated accordion sound sequences pass through filter cascades, evoking the theme of oscillation between life and death—moving away from their origins to create alienated layers of noise and performance. These condense into a huge, atmospheric monster of thought, culminating in an archaic, overflowing living sculpture.