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A special kind of seeing

An artwork can function like the lens of a microscope. By adjusting the focal length, lighting and contrast the viewer may see different aspects of an object. Once you have calibrated it to highlight one thing, you can take a step back and let someone else take a look. This person will see exactly what you saw. It is not like pointing at something in a landscape, having to explain what it is you noticed and then hoping that the other person might focus on the same thing as you. You are not bound by the vagueness of language. The person you are showing something to has the focus already set on that minute detail you wanted him or her to see.

Why am I soft in the middle? - 10 fragments of crisis
30. April - 10 May 2025

Crises are universal. Everyone experiences moments of uncertainty, doubt, and inner turmoil. In artistic practice, these moments often run deeper—when the value of one’s own work comes into question, when self-doubt lingers, and the fluctuating visibility becomes a constant challenge.

The title of the exhibition is borrowed from Paul Simon’s song ‘You Can Call Me Al’. While the song reflects, somewhat ironically, on a midlife crisis and a sense of disorientation, the title here points to the fragility and uncertainty that often accompany both artistic and existential states of crisis.

This exhibition opens a space for works that emerged in times of personal or artistic upheaval, or that reflect on the inner experience of navigating such states.

It is about the struggle with identity, about moments of loss, vulnerability, and quiet resistance. The works on view are rooted in deeply personal conditions, yet, at the same time, they hold something universally familiar.

Especially now, in a time of global instability, it feels more urgent than ever to make room for the personal. What does an existential shift feel like for someone whose medium is expression? How does uncertainty, rupture, or inner conflict take shape in visual form? The exhibition brings together ten artistic positions that reflect both the depths and the quiet hopes accompanying an artistic existence.

With works by Anja Ronacher, Anna Witt, Bernd Oppl, Emma Kling, Imre Nagy, Linus Riepler, Lorenz Kunath, Matthias Ramsey, Sophia Tabatadze and Xenia Hausner

Dear Sister, Where Are We From?
26th and 27th of April 2025

The exhibition "Dear Sister, Where Do We Come From?" is an artistic collaboration between three sibling pairs: Nora and Antonia Eckhart, Hannah and Alexander Gratzer, and Magdalena and Matthias Ramsey.

The show presents painting, film, and light installation — interwoven with questions of origin, memory, and artistic connections.

What can art tell us about shared roots? How do familial bonds shape our forms of expression?

Would you like to learn more about my work?
Here are some texts and links:

- This must be the place (English) -> Artist Statement by Matthias Ramsey

- Serpents and Sediments (English) -> Artist Statement by Matthias Ramsey

- Tinatin Natsvlishvili über die Arbeiten von Matthias R. Ramsey (German) -> PDF

- Tracing the Ethereal curated by Rosa Sancarlo at Parat, Zürich (Englisch) -> Kubaparis

- Von Rabenreihern und Reiherraben (German) -> Media Scholarship of the Nationalparks Austria