History

2023

Nina Ansperger is the new artistic and scientific director of museum gugging as of January 1, 2023. She starts with her first exhibition "gugging inspires.! from bowie to roth" (30.3.2023-24.9.2023)

2022

With "brut favorites.! feilacher's choice", Johann Feilacher opens his last exhibition as artistic director of museum gugging. With Louis Soutter, Mary T. Smith and Judith Scott, he presents works that have accompanied and impressed him for decades.

2021

15 years of museum gugging
museum gugging celebrates 15 years of existence. With "gugging.! classic & contemporary", the presentation of artists from Gugging is repositioned. The exhibition "visualized dreams..." shows the touching success story of Ida Buchmann, Johann Korec and Johann Fischer.

2016

10 years museum gugging

On June 5, 2016 museum gugging celebrates its 10th anniversary. For over a decade now, the museum has provided a unique exhibition venue for the work of the Artists from Gugging  at its place of origin, while serving as a forum for international Art Brut and other art genres.

2013

Many artists working in the realm of Art Brut and Outsider Art are represented at the 55th Venice Biennale.

2011

The House of Artists undergoes enlargement and renovation.

2007

Closure of the Maria Gugging Psychiatric Clinic.

2006

Opening of museum gugging

On June 28, 2006 museum gugging opens with great interest from the public and media. It was conceived and developed by the artistic director of the museum Johann Feilacher together with Nina Katschnig, today the head of galerie gugging. Now works by the Artists from Gugging  have a permanent stage, directly on site where the works are created.

(Photo © Josef Bittner)

2001

Opening of the atelier gugging, an open studio.

1997

The gallery moves to the former children’s section of the hospital, built in 1896, which now houses the museum, gallery, and studio.

1994

Founding of galerie gugging, a gallery owned by the Artists from Gugging .

1993

Opening of the first Outsider Art Fair in New York.

1990

Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded to the Artists from Gugging .

1989

John Maizels founds the art journal Raw Vision in London.

1988

Completion of the eastern façade of the House of Artists.

1986

Johann Feilacher succeeds Navratil. Feilacher transforms the Centre for Art and Psychotherapy into a residential community for artists, thus establishing the House of Artists. The label “patient” is erased: The focus is now on the person and artist.

1983

Psychiatrist and artist Johann Feilacher (*1954) becomes Navratil’s assistant.

The Artists from Gugging  begin painting the southern façade of the future House of Artists building.

Exhibitions of works by the Artists from Gugging in museums in German-speaking parts of Europe.

1981

The vacant Pavilion 11 in Gugging becomes the “Centre for Art and Psychotherapy”.

1976

Official opening of the Collection de l’Art Brut by Dubuffet, which he gave to the City of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1971.

1972

Curator Harald Szeemann exhibits the work of Adolf Wölfli at documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany.

1970

First sales exhibition at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna.

1969

Navratil corresponds with the founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet, and Dubuffet confirms that the Artists from Gugging  belong to the Art Brut movement.

1965

Navratil publishes his book Schizophrenia and Art.

1954

Psychiatrist Leo Navratil (1921–2006) conducts drawing tests with his patients for diagnostic purposes at the Maria Gugging Psychiatric Clinic.

1945

The French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) begins to develop his new concept of Art Brut (raw art). He speaks of a primal art which attests to a deeply personal formal language and often comes into being spontaneously, outside the framework of academic or art theory education.

1922

Psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn (1886–1933) publishes his book Artistry of the Mentally Ill.

1921

Psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler (1882–1965) publishes his monograph A Psychiatric Patient as an Artist on the life and work of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930).

1889

The Maria Gugging Psychiatric Clinic was founded.

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