Inspired by the annual theme WELTEN(ER)BAUER, the two artists present their individual perspectives on the world, their artistic focus, and what is personally close to their hearts.


Judith Barfuss (1991) is an artist and photographer from Oberwölz, who explores the fragility and transience of this world.
Her photographs tell the story of the aging process in the life cycle and the decay from which new worlds emerge. Of the unmistakable beauty and poetry of natural patina.
Full of fascination and reverence, she gazes upon everyday worlds and concrete life – on silent paintings/artworks of time.


Maren Hirt (1984) is an artist and sculptor from Scheifling, who focuses on inner worlds and themes of the heart, on the precious and significant aspects of human life. She is interested in both the organic aspect of the heart and generally of the body's interior, as well as what the voice and wisdom of the heart, intuition, and emotions mean for life. Her objects and graphics illustrate parallels between the inner world and the outer world. As a counterpoint to today's superficial, technologized, materialistic, and artificial world.