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The Manifesto
We have merged the identities of Erwin Proell and Arnulf Rainer into one "Erwulf" and thus
elevated to an art object because we were looking for a way that would be effective in terms of media
to draw attention to the unedifying intertwining of politics and cultural management. We have succeeded.
By introducing Erwulf to Baden and wrapping him around the pillars of the Arnulf Rainer Museum.
We have received a lot of encouragement, but we believe that not everyone has understood us yet.
That was just the birth. Erwulf is subject to the laws of evolution. Erwulf has grown.
He now knows that something new only emerges where the norm ends and disorder begins.
Erwulf was intended as a kind of caricature, but he has become independent.
Its basis of existence is the great longing for a contemporary cultural policy;
this is our driving force, and at the same time a social need.
Erwulf asks himself: How utopian is an innovative art scene in the region?
Are operettas and musicals really the only way to get a hearing from municipal coffers?
Is the flower watercolor the answer to the cultural thirst of the urban border area?
Are vernacular rhymes all we have to say? Everything is automatically art if it's a local celebrity
escaped?
Does the spa guest determine the cultural program? Is silence sacred? Are uncomfortable people also promoted?
Will scholarships and funding be awarded transparently at some point?
And how utopian is an innovative cultural policy in Lower Austria?
The beginning was the Arnulf Rainer Museum. This is Erwulf's nursery.
Erwulf would like not only representatives of the elite to be invited to an exhibition opening there
to show off and suck each other's asses.
Erwulf wants a lively cultural scene there, people who paint, write, take photos and make art.
Erwulf travels to do this. And is constantly reinventing itself. That is why he translates text into image and image into music.
Erwulf transposes art forms so that everyone can understand why he is there. And why not.
We tell its evolution. She is unstoppable.

This is Erwulf

Paul Landl
Born 1966 in Vienna. Photographer. Apprenticeship with Viennese advertising photographers.
Since 1993 own studio in Baden near Vienna. Photo reports and advertising assignments in Central and South America,
People and portrait photography in the USA, Africa, China and Turkey.
Since 1997 intensive occupation with art photography with the aim of showing unconscious photographic worlds,
whose allure is based on irritation and amazement.
The works should touch the thinking viewer emotionally, with the mystical dream world and the justified
Doubts about one's own method are always perceptible.
www.landl.cc

Max Neuman
Born 1986 in Frankfurt am Main. Painter, action artist. Studied fine arts at the Hochschule für
Fine arts in Brunswick.
Everything that is round enough to create dynamic movement is at the center of his work, as a subject and
as a tool. Spheres serve as color carriers, from glass marbles to massage balls, the images are created under
full physical effort. Max Neumann gives the spheres impulses that create a movement that is not direct
can be influenced. The work of art arises from the tension between deliberately set action and
uncontrollable reaction.
www.max-neumann.com

Herwig Peschka
Born 1970 in Vienna. 1991-1993 Advertising Academy in Vienna. painter, graphic artist.
1996-2001 stay in California USA, Australia, South Africa. Foundation of a fashion line.
Exhibitions at home and abroad.
Influences: pop art, realism and expressionism. Style: Paint multiple images into each other,
Information overlay, analytical fine-tuning of colors from different groups
and combining colors with the same color weight.
The human eye does the rest by itself.
www.h-peschka.com

Gertrude Klemm
Born 1971 in Vienna. author. Until 2004 biologist and hygienic expert.
2003 to 2005 three prizes in the FM4 literature competition "Wordlaut", publications in anthologies.
Rigorous professional reorientation: writing pedagogy, copywriting, journalistic work. Freelance writer since 2005.
In June 2006 debut with the short story collection "Höhlenfrauen".
2008 Recognition Prize of the City of Baden for Literature. Center of life and work in Baden near Vienna.
2010 "Mother on Paper" at arovell. Focus of work: prose, commentaries.
www.gertraudklemm.at

Erwulf
Created in 2010 in Baden. Conceived primarily as a protest note, around the pillars of Arnulf Rainer
Museums looped, taken down, returned and mailed to the obvious addressees.
Spontaneous metamorphosis into art association and visionary alternative art form.
Belonged to the state of Lower Austria in July, united in August, intensive, successful search for territory.
Renovation of Kanal39 as a gallery, venue and experimental laboratory. Opening in October.
Erwulf could be the solution.
www.erwulf.at

The future
"An experimental laboratory with its own momentum..."
Paul Landl
"A room of one's own."
Virginia Woolfe
"Finally realizing my interdisciplinary project on the intestines of handbags!"
Gertrude Klemm
"An artist is lost when he finds himself."
Max Ernest
"Basel. biennale. You know!
Herwig Peschka

www.erwulf.at