Galerie nächst St. Stephan

Galerie nächst St. Stephan is an art gallery in Vienna, Austria that was founded by Monseigneur Otto Mauer in 1954 on Grünangergasse next to the Stephansdom, where it is still located today.

As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Gertie Fröhlich was in a unique position to introduce her peers to Mauer.

For example, she initiated and curated the first "Weihnachtsausstellung junger Künstler" [Christmas Exhibition of Young Artists]—which became a recurring event at the gallery.

He created a platform for artists like Herbert Boeckl, Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl, Markus Prachensky, and Arnulf Rainer to exchange ideas about art.

The Viennese Actionism presented performances, and in 1975 Valie Export hosted the exhibition "Magna," which focused on female creativity.

Since then, she has consistently pursued two goals: to recognize current trends in art, and to approach these from a thematic, historical, and cultural point of view.

Neokonstruktiv und parallel" (Signs, Floods, Signals: Neo-Constructivist and Parallel) 1986: "Abstrakte Malerei aus Amerika und Europa" exhibition and project juxtaposed two generations of artists from two continents and featured Helmut Federle, Imi Knoebel, Gerhard Richter, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, and Robert Ryman.

[4] 1988: Jean Arp, Josef Albers and John McLaughlin, on the other hand, put the abstract artists represented by the gallery in a historical context.

[5] 1992: "Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese" brought together two generations of European and American painters who engage with forms of contemporary abstract art.

Following the tradition of Otto Mauer's international art talks, the Galerie nächst St. Stephan held symposiums for these exhibitions.