The exhibition Fragmentary / Töredékes brings together three artistic positions – Petra Fohringer, Michael Lauss, and Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer – who each explore the fragment as an aesthetic, spatial, and conceptual principle through different media.
In Petra Fohringer’s work, fragmentation appears within the painterly form: her paintings shift between suggestion and omission, between surface and dissolution. What becomes visible is never complete but remains in an ambiguous state between emergence and fading. Through thick layers of paint, transparent overlaps, and sudden breaks, she develops a painterly approach that avoids narrative and understands the fragment as an open space for thought. Her works exist in the tension between trace and absence, surface and dissolution.
Michael Lauss and Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer address the idea of the fragment within installation, sculpture, and context-responsive spatial settings. Traces, interventions, temporary constellations, and architectural references create spaces for reflection – points of rupture that generate new connections. Here, the fragment is not a sign of incompleteness but the conscious creation of partiality: a resistance to wholeness, a poetic strategy, and an invitation to perceptual openness. In Veszprém, a city characterised by historical layers and cultural transitions, this exhibition becomes a resonant space between the material and the spiritual.
The exhibition opens with a new version of the Schwei(s)z Explosiv Group (Patrik Huber and Stefan Mittlböck-Jungwirth-Fohringer) live performance “HADES2.0 – a river full of bones”: an escalating, recitative dance between life and death. This tour de force evolves into a surreal, feverish dream, where pop culture, associative poetry, Greek mythology, and accordion noise converge. The mutated accordion sound sequences pass through cascades of filters, evoking the oscillation between life and death — drifting away from their origin to generate alienated layers of noise and performance. Condensing, they form a vast, atmospheric monster of thought, culminating in an archaic, overflowing living sculpture.
