Occasionally, however, they allude to conditions that a globalized and casualized working world brings with it; often it relates to the highlighting of "the share of those without a share". Their visual references are mostly photos created during their travels in highly diverse world regions and political milieus. These materials, however, are not hyperrealistically transported into painting by Johanna Kandl, but instead are mainly transformed with tempera paint into very finely graduated, coloristic spectacles in which the midday heat of southern lands appears to shimmer.

From a journey to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the Kandls and the film-maker Arne Hector brought back video material, the first version of the film "Das Sommerhaus - Rasim und Elnur Babayev" which is now shown in the gallery. It is a homage to the painter Rasim Babayev (1927 - 2007), whom the artists had already visited in the 1990s. Babayev created interesting and very distinct work with surreal, magical and also erotic representations - beyond and in spite of "socialist realism".

Helmut Kandl has been interested for many years in the anonymously painted and sprayed textures and pictures, in graffiti in the public realm, that demonstrate the protests of a variety of movements and walks of life. He presents countless photos of these, completely forthrightly and seemingly randomly on large wooden panels.
One of the highlights of the exhibition is Helmut Kandl's series "The Populist" about the most well-known Austrian politician of the 2000s. The viewer is invited to look at these with astonishment and laughter...