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The collection is the heart and the soul of our museum. The basic idea underpinning this presentation of the museum’s collection is restoring the chronological sequence of works, which will allow visitors to get to know the most important movements and styles of art history from the 19th century to the present in the original. In addition to this, we are putting the focus on artists who have a special relationship with Linz and the Lentos, such as VALIE EXPORT and Herbert Bayer.

As part of the Anton Bruckner Year 2024, the exhibition is dedicated to the aspect of communal singing from the perspective of contemporary art. The collection brings together around 20 national and international figures for whom singing is a fundamental point of reference within their artistic practice.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Cardinal König Art Prize, the exhibition showcases works by previous prizewinners.

The exhibition Cache presents works by Tabea Borchardt, Anne Glassner, Claudia Larcher, and Katrin Mayer in the Lentos reading room. As recipients of working scholarships from the VALIE EXPORT Center for 2023/24, the four artists developed projects that engage with archival and activation processes, the physicality and writing practices of feminist art, media-based artistic transmissions of knowledge, and the complex temporal relationships of tradition and transmission.