Marianne Lang: In a state of flux — Bildraum 07, June 3–August 6

• Indoor
• Drawing
• Ongoing
• Philosophy of nature
• 7th district

The Work

Marianne Lang's drawings operate in a field where stable orders become unstable and systems set themselves in motion. She's interested in the moments when structures tip — when transitions between control and openness, between continuity and rupture, become visible. The work traces what happens when seemingly controlled systems follow their own processual logic and shift into the open.

There's a philosophical weight here. The exhibition questions a fundamental assumption: that nature is the thing outside culture, the non-made, the thing that resists control. Lang's work suggests something different. Nature isn't an object to observe from a distance. It's a process — a dynamic system of shared conditionedness in which the human is inseparably embedded. Fragility, transformation, and becoming are the central categories.

Bildraum 07

Bildrecht is Austria's collecting society for visual artists. Bildraum 07 is their exhibition space — a small, serious gallery that operates outside the commercial circuit. It's the kind of place that doesn't announce itself loudly. The work on the walls is what matters.

The opening was Tuesday June 2, with a conversation between Elsy Lahner (deputy chief curator of contemporary art 1945–present at the Albertina) and the artist. If you missed it, there are two Artist-Is-Present events where you can spend time with the work and the artist directly.