Nikolaus Kratzer becomes the new director of the Lower Austria State Gallery!

Nikolaus Kratzer becomes the new director of the Lower Austria State Gallery!

Krems, Österreich - From 2027, Nikolaus Kratzer will take over the management of the Lower Austria State Gallery and lead the museum in personnel union with the collection management. This is reported by the Kleine Zeitung . Kratzer, who has headed the art collection of the Lower Austria State Collections since 2023, strives to closely link the museum to the country's extensive art collection and to develop long -term exhibition plans. His focus on the collection is seen as the key to the further development of the gallery, whereby he wants to continue the path taken by Gerda Ridler.

Gerda Ridler, who has headed the State Gallery since 2022, has managed to establish the museum as a platform for new perspectives. Under her leadership, the connection between the state gallery and the art collection was further strengthened. Julia Flunner-Schulz, the operational managing director of Kunstmeile Krems Betrieb GmbH, emphasizes Kratzer's extensive knowledge of the museum and emphasizes that he will be a valuable addition to the gallery.

about Nikolaus Kratzer

Kratzer was born in Scheibbs in 1988 and received his doctorate in 2020 at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna, where he dealt with photography and impressionism. Between 2014 and 2022, he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Museal Collections at the University of Krems. In addition, scratches curated several significant exhibitions in the Landesgalerie, including "on the way. Travel to the collection" and "Herwig Zens. No time".

For the Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden, he developed a three -part exhibition series on the occasion of Arnulf Rainer's 95th birthday. The first exhibition, "Arnulf Rainer. Nothing against everything", will be opened in November 2024, followed by the autumn exhibition "Arnulf Rainer & Art Brut" on October 18, 2025.

cultural location Krems

Krems has established itself as a major cultural city in recent years, with a variety of cultural institutions. The KREMS art mile includes the caricature museum, the "Forum Frohner" and the Kunsthalle Krems. The Lower Austria State Gallery, opened in 2019, represents the architectural highlight of this cultural institution, the design of which is more like a sculpture than a traditional building. The innovative building emphasizes a rotation around its own axis and not just as an exhibition area for the art collection of the state of Lower Austria, which includes around 100,000 works of art.

The Reporting of the ORF emphasizes that the new state gallery is an important architectural element in the city and invites visitors to deal with contemporary art. The architecture is described as spectacular and visionary.

A look at the museum landscape in Austria

The large number of museums in Austria that have been registered since 2014 underlines the importance of cultural institutions in the country. Statistics on the museum landscape are accessible via museen-in-oesterreich.at . Here museums can be filtered by federal state, type and collection reference, which enables a comprehensive overview of the Austrian museum landscape. Special attention also applies to the annual museum statistics of statistics Austria, which provides comprehensive data on visitor numbers and employment in the museum landscape.