SOMMER.FRISCHE.KUNST
Between Waters: Circulation, Reflection and Imagination.
02.07. – 30.08. 2026
Panta Rhei – everything flows. In Bad Gastein, this idea becomes immediately tangible: the waterfall as the town’s ley line, the hot springs, the vertical topography, the constant interplay between nature and the built landscape. This year’s theme, ” Between Waters,” of the summer.fresh.art. festival encourages thinking in terms of transitions, circulation, and spaces of resonance.
The international artist-in-residence program responds to the unique energy of the location. Artists work on-site, developing their own pieces and shaping their engagement with Bad Gastein in situ. An exhibition of international artistic positions by Julius von Bismarck, Micha Leinkauf, and Joana Serrano Rivas is on display on the ground floor of the power plant. In the Radon Pavilion on the Kaiser Wilhelm Promenade, the renowned artist Nives Widauer presents her “River Runners”: textile works that combine natural movement, materiality, and poetic precision.