Peter Baldinger Exhibition

You can view Peter Baldinger’s exhibition Old Masters – New Works at Danubiana through May 3. Peter Baldinger’s painting is as diverse as the history of art itself, and in creating his paraphrases and quotations, he repeatedly draws from the rich treasury of masterpieces.

He draws the themes for his diffuse series—paintings that appear as if you were looking through frosted glass (also due to their low resolution), with oversized pixels distorting objects beyond recognition—from the works of old masters such as Raphael, Goya, Velázquez, and Titian, as well as from the works of modernist heroes such as Monet and Picasso, and even Andy Warhol.

He is equally interested in iconic portraits as primal myths of human history, such as The Fall of Man or the recurring narrative of the abduction of women and male aggression.

However, the former reporter finds his inspiration not only in the artistic sanctuaries of museums; he also notes that everything that has always moved people can just as easily be found in today’s media. For example, the depiction of violence, as seen in Goya’s early 19th-century work The Execution of the Rebels and in photographs of street clashes at the 2009 NATO summit in Strasbourg, exhibits a striking aesthetic kinship.

In Baldinger’s paintings, banal external features such as clothing or hairstyles no longer serve as a distracting element; he is fascinated by the fact that the gesture remains untouched—that across the centuries, the same patterns seem to repeat themselves in how people interact with one another.

Biography

Peter Baldinger was born in Linz in 1958 and lives in Vienna. At the age of 18, this self-taught artist, former journalist, and cultural manager held his first solo exhibition in Salzburg. Artistic residencies took him to Hungary and the United States, where he has organized numerous exhibitions in addition to those in Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Austria. His works include installations such as History Steps at the Hofburg in Vienna in 2011, Sky of Stones in 2019 at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, as well as Then is now in 2020 in Dresden and Happiness is a warm Gun at the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Also, the floral installations BeethovenBeet in the Belvedere Gardens and Amor sucht Psyche (Cupid Seeks Psyche) in the Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2010, he received the Burgenland Architecture Prize for his ceiling fresco Genesis in the Maskaron Café at the Esterházy Palace.

Regardless of the medium or context in which Baldinger finds his subject matter, he often explores it in a serial manner; the same source material can serve as the basis for works employing his various formal approaches, thereby offering us constantly shifting perspectives on a given theme. In this way, the artist expresses his desire to encourage visitors to always look at least twice before forming an opinion.

Curator: Agnes Husslein-Arco

Location: Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Čunovo, Slovakia

Date: from 31. 03. 2026 – 03. 05. 2026

Opening hours:

Monday – closed
Tuesday – Sunday from 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Entrance fee:

Adults – 12 €
Family (2 adults and 2 students) – 25 €
Pensioners (over 62 years old) – 6 €
Students – 6 €
Children (under 6 years old) – Free
Members of the Danubiana Club – Free
Disabled persons, persons over 75 years old – Free

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