Discover the Norbert Brunner-Lienz Exhibition: Im Spiegel der Psyche, Exploring Art and Psychology

This exhibition by Norbert Brunner-Lienz explores the psyche through a cycle of drawings and an experimental audio piece. It delves into themes of anxiety, loneliness, and sexuality, using symbolic furniture and deconstructed language to create complex visual and auditory narratives.

The exhibition 'Im Spiegel der Psyche' by Norbert Brunner-Lienz is centered around the artist's engagement with language and its transformation into visual and auditory art. Brunner-Lienz's work deconstructs psychological, iconographic, mythological, and fantastical elements, creating complex linguistic images that explore new relationships between icon, index, and symbol. The exhibition features a cycle of drawings and an experimental audio piece, where the text of the audio work forms the basis for the narratives depicted in the drawings. The core theme is the psyche, interpreted in a multifaceted way. In Brunner-Lienz's drawings, a bedroom with its furniture is depicted, creating a sense of unease and evoking themes of anxiety, loneliness, and sexuality. The furniture is presented as animated protagonists in a sleepless situation, imbued with stories and charged with iconographic elements, wordplay, and mythological references. Human extremities are depicted as hinges or corners of the furniture, and even the walls and furniture possess hands and feet. The recurring blue-and-white striped motif on the furniture, reminiscent of pajamas, suggests a space dedicated to sleep that paradoxically prevents it, allowing repressed impressions and anxieties to surface and reassemble. The exhibition also incorporates symbolic elements such as a bomb in the bed, an exploding mountain massif, and references to classical mythology and art history, including works by Leonardo da Vinci and Sigmund Freud.

Ticket information and booking are available via a link to an external ticketing platform. The exhibition is open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM. General museum admission details are not explicitly stated as separate from exhibition entry, implying exhibition access may be included with general museum entry or require separate ticketing. Visitors are directed to an official ticket shop for purchases.