With the exhibition “Beyond the Garden,” which opens on April 24, 2026, at the Galerie Stadtpark and runs from April 25 to June 13, 2026, Claudia Losi presents a multifaceted artistic exploration of the relationships between the individual, society, and the narrative conceptions of a “natural place.”

Her works, which often incorporate participatory elements, feature various narrative levels—personal, cultural-historical, anthropological, and philosophical-existential—that are subtly interwoven. Losi works with a constantly expanding body of narratives, which she embeds in her reflections on nature and ontology and links together. Here, the individual subject does not stand isolated from others, but appears, articulating itself through the narrative, the imaginary, and the remembered, in relational connection with them.

In the multi-panel tapestry “Beyond the Garden,” the artist interprets and distills thoughts and images gathered over the years from hundreds of interviewees regarding their conception of a “natural place.” In the process, not only does an intratextual dialogue of these narratives and descriptions take place, but the subject also transitions in a gentle, even natural way into the idea of a timeless collective, a community, an exemplary form of “humanity.” In the installation of the work, however, Losi does not simply present the results of her research, but rather integrates specific sections of the textile wall piece into a spatial-installative structure. This coalesces into a kind of biotope that seems to have grown rather than been created, forming a perceptually open rather than a fixed form. In analogy to the dialectic of subject and collective or society, Losi thus also creates, with regard to the exhibition form—the installation of the work—a subtle convergence with that central idea of forest, ecosystem, and the natural, which is implicit in her work. Moving beyond essentialist notions of nature and the subject, Losi is primarily concerned with the interdependence and conditionality of those concepts and ideas that are constantly rearticulated and reshaped in human existence and action, in coexistence and intersubjective alignment, in speaking, writing, remembering, and image-making.

Collaborative exhibition by Galerie Stadtpark and AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich

Exhibition opening: Fri, April 24, 2026, 6.30 p.m.
Exhibition dates: April 25 – June 13, 2026