Marius Glauer

March. 2025 – Wait a Minute is the first museum solo exhibition of German-Norwegian artist Marius Glauer, on show at the Francisco Carolinum in Linz, Austrian museum for modern contemporary art and photography. In his work, Glauer explores the realm between photography and sculpture. His experimental assemblages create hyperreal worlds of illusion and sculptural still lifes, uncoupled from aesthetic traditions and with a futuristic radiance.

In a world flooded with digital images, the artist challenges us to stop, to focus our inner camera. Glauer’s pausing of time uncovers the sensuality of lifeless objects and reveals the ambivalence of artificiality and nature, reality and fiction. With this positive confusion, he traverses the material forms of contemporary photography. His displays resonate between photograph, sculpture, installation, and environment. In his works, artistic styles, eras, objects, and dating overlap, nestle against their new aesthetic surroundings, and embody the pluralistic perspectives of photography on reality.

Says Susanne Watzenboeck, curator of photography and contemporary art at the Francisco Carolinum, on the exhibition: “If photography can capture temporality in images, time becomes a phenomenon of surface. Epochs, forms, and genres overlap. A moment, conserved like a fossil, extracted from the flow of time.”

Marius Glauer’s works of art resemble a seashell, capturing time and returning it to life in a new form.

We can read the time that has passed based on the surface of the shell, in its grooves. A lifetime solidifies into material, becomes visible, measurable, tactile – Glauer’s art manifests a densification. He reinvents his sujets completely, creating not only depictions but objects. Even when he photographs simple rose petals fallen to the ground, he turns them into a monumental frieze – the sheer size transforming the motif, composing a new world.

In tandem with the exhibition Wait a Minute – Marius Glauer, the museum publishes an illustrated catalogue with contributions by Alfred Weidinger (director of Francisco Carolinum and CEO of OÖ Landes-Kultur), Susanne Watzenboeck (curator of Francisco Carolinum) and Charlotte Sarrazin (curator of Fondation Beyeler).