Liminal Spaces

One piece here has a string with a small bead at each end. Pull it and the little angel disappears while the devil stays, or the other way round. It is Über mein Leben, a pull picture from 2023, painted shortly before the artist's eyesight faded. You can't tug it: it hangs in a vitrine.

Fride Wirtl-Walser, now 94, gave her reverse-glass paintings to the museum in 2025, and 38 of them fill a studio show in the basement. She paints on the back of the pane, so you look at empty buildings, dreamlike landscapes and ghostly figures through a cool, glossy surface. Long before the internet used "liminal spaces" for empty malls at night, she was painting them on the back of glass.

Tabula Rasa's critic found it well worth seeing and called the €12 catalogue important for research on the technique. It's included in regular admission: €7, €1 on Sundays, free under 18. A free German-language tour runs on 12 November at 6pm.