Galerie Sophia Vonier

Julia Brennacher does not shy away from repeatedly questioning topoi of painting, as they have been pushed forward especially since modernist abstraction, and the associated complex legacy of this medium, and making proposals for its updating. The artist is less concerned here with an expansion of painting through the addition of other materials or a display – on the contrary, she uses on the contrary, she consciously uses almost classical materials such as canvas, stretcher frame, and paint – but rather a reduced, persistent questioning of the medium itself. Structural logics and categories are not only implicit in Julia Brennacher’s painting, but are reinterpreted in her painterly experimental arrangements. Color and contour, transparency and opacity, illusionism and objecthood, chroma and contrast, chance and composition, figure and ground – these paradigmatic pairs of concepts that mark the basic conditions of painting are also at issue in Julia Brennacher’s works. from text by Georgia Holz „Julia Brennacher. Painting that looks beyond the edge of the picture“

Born 1983 in Innsbruck, lives and works as an artist and freelance curator in Innsbruck 2002 – 2007 studies of art history at the University of Innsbruck 2008 – 2010 Visiting student at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Herbert Brandl 2010 – 2016 Curator, Taxispalais, Innsbruck Member of the Tiroler Künstler:innenschaft Scholarships, purchases by public authorities 2020 Acquisition of the Collection of the Province of Tyrol 2020 Working scholarship of the province of Tyrol 2019 Purchase of the collection of the city of Innsbruck Exhibitions (selection) 2021 RLB Studio, Lienz (upcoming) 2020 JULIA – Brennacher + Haugeneder, Gallery Sophia Vonier, Salzburg 2020 Spatial Encounters, Platform 6020, Innsbruck 2019 Purchases of the city of Innsbruck, Plattform 6020, Innsbruck 2018 Benefit exhibition, Imperial Hofburg Innsbruck, Innsbruck 2018 Melange, LEX, Austrian Cultural Forum, Brussels 2018 Playground, House of the Regions – Representation of the European Region Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, Brussels 2018 THE ABSTRACT SPACE – Anna-Maria Bogner, Julia Brennacher, Simona Obholzer, styleconception.openspace, Innsbruck 2017 Unfinished Business, Kunstraum Pettneu, Pettneu 2012 Studio, Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck

In Spring 2019, Sophia Vonier opened a gallery space initially showcasing emerging local artists at a prime location in Salzburg’s city center – right next to the venue of the Salzburg Festival. Drawing on her experience in the art world, the gallerist’s choice of young generation and mid-career artists now reflects an understanding of sophisticated artistic positions inspired by current discourse with an eye for their artistic qualities and skills. Maintaining a focus on female painters from Austria, the gallery is open to experiments in other media, featuring sculpture, print making and photography in a comparable contemplative aesthetics. Implementing a sustainable structure as well as comprehensive support for artists, collectors, and art professionals, Galerie Sophia Vonier addresses a heterogeneous audience of international art enthusiasts, also reaching out to young collectors. Stimulating exhibitions accompanied by texts by emerging curators and researchers make the gallery program an essential part of Salzburg’s cultural scene and attract international aficionados.