Bernard Frize, Arpan, 2025; acrylic and resin on canvas, 120 x 120 cm

The Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder represents a living tradition of exploring contemporary art. Since the 1950s, it has been located in thecentre of Vienna. Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, the gallery’s director since 1978 and owner since 1987, exhibits artists who represent international positions ofabstraction and concept-based art in the areas of painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, video and new media art. The gallery’s program revolves around promoting a new visuality and discursiveness of art that is firmly rooted in the present day. The gallery’s early focus on the most prominent representatives of minimal art and post-minimalist, abstract, and conceptual art was expanded to include various forms of painterly expression and later artistic reflections on biopolitics and digital media.