Painting and Sculpture in Dialogue at the Museum Altomünster
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When painting and sculpture engage in conversation
At the Museum Altomünster, from September 27, 2026, two independent artistic styles meet: the expressive bronze sculptures of Polish sculptor Remigiusz Dulko from Oświęcim and the paintings of Aichach artist and writer Fabian Oppolzer. The exhibition Painting & Sculpture in Dialogue makes visible how art fosters encounter, memory, and cultural exchange across national borders.
Bronze as a language of body, memory, and spirituality
Remigiusz Dulko has been working with bronze for more than four decades. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, he developed a figurative, craftsmanship-precise sculpture that deals with human relationships, everyday life, sensuality, and spirituality. His works oscillate between the sacred and the profane, combining physical presence with symbolic openness.
Each sculpture is born from an idea that takes on its final form through material, shape, and craftsmanship. The dark, often warm surface of bronze creates a special spatial effect: light glides over edges, depressions, and plastic elevations, while the figures fluctuate between weight and inner movement. Thus, the observation of the work becomes an aesthetic experience that transcends mere seeing.
Fabian Oppolzer: Painting between reality and imaginative world
Fabian Oppolzer, born in 1984 in Stuttgart and raised in Vorarlberg, studied history, theology, and comparative literature in Vienna. Since 2017, he has been active as a visual artist. In his paintings, graphics, and drawings, he combines realistic portraits with dreamy, imaginative imagery where the familiar and the fantastic intertwine.
His artistic practice includes, among other things, oil painting on canvas and wood, watercolor, ink, crayon, and collage. Motifs such as self-portraits, literary figures, animals, and landscapes offer different approaches to questions of identity, memory, and human perception. The dialogue with Dulko's sculptures expands these painterly spaces to include physicality, materiality, and the presence of the three-dimensional.
Art as a cultural bridge between Dachau and Oświęcim
The exhibition also possesses a cultural-historical dimension. Remigiusz Dulko comes from the Polish Oświęcim, while Fabian Oppolzer hails from the Aichach region. Their joint presentation connects to the long-standing relationship between Dachau and Oświęcim and continues the German-Polish exchange in art.
The curation focuses on the immediate comparison of two media: here, the quiet tension of painting meets the physical presence of sculpture. Colors, forms, surfaces, and spatial axes relate to one another. The museum becomes a resonance space where historical experience, personal visual language, and cultural education converge.
Exhibition atmosphere at the Museum Altomünster
The exhibition invites visitors to let their gaze wander between surface and volume. Painterly color spaces open up next to plastic bodies; concentrated compositions encounter the tactile effect of cast bronze. It is precisely in this juxtaposition that an intense art experience emerges, transcending familiar categories of painting and sculpture.
The Museum Altomünster presents the special exhibition in the context of its collection on the history of the Altomünster monastery and the Bridgettine order. This creates a thrilling connection between contemporary art, regional history, and European memory culture.
Conclusion: Two artistic languages, one compelling dialogue
Painting & Sculpture in Dialogue promises to be an exhibition for all who wish to experience art as a sensual experience, historical reflection, and cultural encounter. The works of Remigiusz Dulko and Fabian Oppolzer open up new perspectives on material, figure, memory, and spirituality. A visit to the Museum Altomünster is particularly worthwhile to experience the impact of the works in real space directly.
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- Website Remigiusz Dulko: https://www.remigiuszdulko.pl/
- Website Fabian Oppolzer: https://www.fabianoppolzer.com/
