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Erwin Hauser, Vice President of the Lentos Friends Association, donated his art collection of almost 3,000 works to the city of Linz and Lentos in 2024. In doing so, he has enabled the museum to undergo its greatest expansion since the foundations were laid in 1953 with the acquisition of the Wolfgang Gurlitt Collection.

Lentos is presenting the first solo museum exhibition of the Austrian artist Georg Pinteritsch (*1986). His works display an unmistakable visual language: Art-historical symbolism, Christian
iconography and elements of our everyday visual culture are interwoven into seemingly surreal narratives. Fundamental themes of human existence form the heart of his oeuvre and reveal intimate pictorial spaces in which the past, present and future coalesce to create an intricate whole.

What is it that motivates girls nowadays and what role models have been handed down to us from the past? Contemporary art often deals with images of girls in socially motivated contexts: coming of age, self-improvement trends – often in interaction with social media – fluid genders, issues surrounding diversity, interculturalism and inclusion.