Image: Kunstmuseum Waldviertel, Schrems
Das Kunstmuseum Waldviertel in Schrems is dedicating its 2026 exhibition year to ‘Magie des Schönen | Warlamis – W.A. Mozart’, a long-running presentation that opened on March 21, 2026 and is scheduled to continue through January 10, 2027. According to the museum’s exhibition page, the project centers on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and on a visual world created by museum founder and artist Makis E. Warlamis around two decades ago.
The museum describes the exhibition as a presentation of large-format works that combines painting with sound impressions, video, installations and dance. The curatorial emphasis is on the interaction between music and image, allowing visitors to move between artistic forms rather than encounter the material as a single-medium display. The museum says the exhibition is intended to immerse audiences in both painting and music.
The year exhibition is framed through a specific local narrative as well. The museum notes a novella by Eduard Mörike in which Mozart is said to have stopped in Schrems in 1787 on his journey to Prague; on that basis, the museum frames the show as Mozart returning to Schrems for his 270th birth anniversary. The website presents this as part of the concept behind the 2026 exhibition.
Makis E. Warlamis, identified by the museum as a multi-talented artist and the institution’s founder, is central to the project. The museum says he transformed Mozart’s universe into an impressive pictorial world some 20 years ago, and that this body of work now anchors the year exhibition. The display is presented not as an isolated hanging of paintings but as an expanded artistic environment built from related media and performance elements.
The institution is also using the exhibition year to connect programming across age groups. On its website, the museum says the exhibition offers a basis for introducing people of all ages to art and that workshops for young and old accompany the presentation. The exhibition page further says numerous events deepen the experience, both locally and internationally, and that this cosmopolitan flair runs through the whole of the museum’s 12,000-square-meter site.
Several of those events have already taken place. The museum’s summer newsletter listed a ‘Die Zauberflöte’ workshop for adults on August 8, 2026, from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, in which participants finished an unworked overtone flute into a playable instrument; the fee of €55 included the flute. That session, and a sculpture workshop for children on July 29, have now passed. Still listed for the weeks ahead are a creative course on August 26, a family painting session in the sculpture park on August 29, garden days in the sculpture park on September 19 and 20, and an afternoon of literature and music on September 27.
Das Kunstmuseum Waldviertel presents itself as more than an exhibition venue, describing its 12,000-square-meter site as including the sculpture park, café and IDEA design shop. The museum gives daily opening hours of 10:00 to 18:00 for July and August, and lists the year exhibition as running until January 10, 2027.
