final Galeria Nowhere 2015, Österreich

galeria nowhere artists

After the Nomadic Village we took a week off to gather our strenghts for the final leg of our project: Touring the Galeria Nowhere through Austria.
We visited some nice and prestigious spots. This was possible mostly thanks to:
a) friends & supporters
b) not bothering about permits & legality anymore

Again we had a lot of the rewarding moments and felt that we touched and inspired people. If just we could feed & drive on that...

Now we arrived at the fantastic Schmiede where we will immerse in different kinds of nerdism and work towards 2015's finissage of the Galeria Nowhere. See you there!

in front of the Esterhazy Castle, Eisenstadt (Thanks to Conny!)

attracting audience at 36 degrees

on the road in Dürnbach, thanks to Michi & Gildo!

roadside in Dürnbach

illegal exhibition in front of the Opera, Graz

what if inspiring people could fill up the tank....

view of the townhall

@Schmiede, finally with our own street

City Lights, final days at the Village

final day at the Village

Hooray, it has been accomplished; another fantastic Nomadic Village on Hohe Wand. We are happy-sad-exhausted! Thanks for being there and see you all next year, somewhere on the road.
Our next stop with the Galeria Nowhere will be on 29th of August, Stallungen Schloß Esterhazy, Eisenstadt, 9-12 a.m.
Our journey will continue till end of September. We will show the Galeria Nowhere in Graz, Styria and at the legendary Schmiede in Hallein.

frau mag rosa pink and susza

the horvath gang

thanks to all the nice visitors

citylights

the captain being sad about the village being over

a memory from 2014

final days at the village

our lovely village

Final days, and we are working hard on our beautiful sculpture of the Village.

For saturday we are inviting you for evening cocktails at 8, and together we'll watch as the sunlight disappears and our city lights start to show. Then you can snug up in our comfy cinema van Lufka, enjoy the Galeria Nowhere with works from the last 4000 km, write a love letter to an anonymus person, discover beautiful land- and huge mural-art and listen to stories from the road.
You are welcome to bring a tent and stay in the Village for the night.

tinski and her mural, nicely integrating marissa's flowers from last year

peter at work

the mayor at work

some mostly welcome shade

more worlds

different worlds meeting

world #4

 This year there is a meeting of many worlds in the Nomadic Village...

peter and world #6

our annual soldier

home planet

oscar and peter on top of the world

aerial view of the Village

village life

fresh from the road: peter's home

elaine at work

peter!

tina making sure...

return

our homebase, Dreistetten, Austria

We managed to return back home and what's the prominent feeling? We want to return to so many places!

The longest itinerary in years brought us to a load of amazing people and places. We still can't believe the plentitude of intense experiences, strong impressions, great surprises and gratifying activities we have been through; how uplifting it can be to meet strangers and become friends; in how many ways our core interest is interpreted by different artists; how nice it is to have a bit of soap opera of people's drama along the way, but also a distraction.

It is reassuring how our grand set up held together. Only two small fixes on appr. 4000 km, and the big break down only happened when we arrived back in the garden at our homebase. Nice vehicles!

Now it is time to take that huge amount of inspiration and look ahead. We will make a final exhibition at the end of the coming Nomadic Village, and take it on a tour through Austria. We'll work our view of the plentitude of impressions into an exhibition tinski and the Captain are having in Vienna in December. And we'll happily plan a future in which the Nomadic Village will return to:

-small but dangers and CMAK in Cerkno

-Žiga and the fantastic location at the abandoned pool in Vrhnika

-Metelkova

-Srdjan andBiljana, and their tranquil garden in Subotica

-KleinHouse, also Subotica

-finally Art Klinika, maybe we'll just illegally exhibit in Novi Sad's public space

-a thousand places and people in Romania we didn't have enough time to stay 
 with

-Conny in Wurmloch who, like so many other people in Romania, made us feel
 welcome

-Mircea, Crinu and all the other pilots from Brasov

-Ulric, we'll meet in Amstelveen soon
-Lis, with whom we are sure our paths will cross again. And again.

-Francisca, our first artist in a mobile residency, once we find a way to go to
 Chile

-Andrew and Caitlin, who just got themselves a mini coach!

Thanks for being on the road with us! We are off now for the final Nomadic Village on Hohe Wand. Hooray!

a memorable meeting with some pilots in Brasov

driving back home

ulric roldanus: home sweet home

article by ulric roldanus

at home around Brasov

Ending my pilgrimage by bycicle from Medjugorje to Csiksomlyo/Miercurea Ciuc meant staying some days in the Nomadic Village itself, as they were hosting my project, so to say.
So after a first encounter with Tina and Klaus in Sighisoara, I set up my tent for the last few days in the 'Village' now based on the hills just outside of Brasov. And here we found time and space to share our thoughts on Nomadism, creativity, art-projects and other smaller issues that can occur in our lives.
For me it was a time to rest a bit physically, but at the same time my head and heart continued at full speed developing new ideas for art-works and collecting some basic materials for them as well.
And now that I'm almost at the end of the line here, I must say that I'm also looking forward to returning to my studio to complete my contribution to the Nomadic Village in a different way, by making pieces for the Galeria Nowhere.
Although the track up to here -espescially at first- felt quite rough by times, arriving on these hills in Romania and settling in in the Village feels indeed as Klaus said: "Home sweet home!"
Ulric's blog from the road: www.ulricontheroad.blogspot.ro
Ulric's homepage: www.roldanus.com

ulric at home, daily cow visits

scenic...

galeria nowhere @ wurmloch

exhibiton day

the village kids teaching us a card game

feeling appreciated: galeria nowhere @serbia

 

galeria nowhere in front of the townhall of sombor

We know that a small group of creative people can change the world.
In fact, they are the only ones so far, who have done it …
Credo of KleinHouse, our host in Subotica

After a series of spontaneous shows of the Galeria Nowhere travelling exhibition in a field and next to a cemetery in Croatia and in a squat in Slovenia, we arrived in Serbia with an exhibition program professionaly arranged by our friends Biljana and Srdjan (see previous post).
The only downside was that we had to get up at 6 a.m. for the show in Sombor, but the prestigeous location (permit thanks to Kulturni centar Laza Kostic Sombor) in front of the townhall more than made up for it. Upsides there were plenty; great audience (a lot of!), great spots, press, tv and more... plus a very rewarding feeling of being appreciated by people who invest themselves into alternativ arts and culture much the way we do. Actually we were made to feel much like the small creative group of people mentioned in KleinHouse's credo above.

Here are two links with more pictures of the exhibition in Subotica.
Galeria Nowhere @ KleinHouse on HétNap (photos: Szerda Zsófi)
and on GradSubotica

very open & interested people

@ KleinHouse, subotica

great audience

one interview after the other

coffe & cake as usual

galeria nowhere in front of KleinHouse

exhibition view

our host at KleinHouse, #likeminded

night show @the canal, sombor

    thanks also to the Austrian Cultural Forum of Belgrade for their support!