> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Postcard Arrived. The Silence Came with It - Ramesch Daha at TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/ramesch-daha-taxispalais-kunsthalle-tirol-innsbruck/ - Published: 2026-04-07T03:46:08.000Z - Updated: 2026-04-07T08:04:37.000Z - Description: TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol presents Ramesch Daha: Mein Österreich, postcard murals and archive work trace Austria's history. Curated by Nina Tabassomi - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition **Ramesch Daha: Mein Österreich - TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol** **Artist:** Ramesch Daha **Exhibition:** Mein Österreich **Venue:** [TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol](https://www.taxispalais.art/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Innsbruck, Austria **Dates:** March 14, 2026 \- June 7, 2026 **Opening:** March 13, 2026, 7pm - free admission **Address:** Maria-Theresien-Straße 45, 6020 Innsbruck **Curator:** Nina Tabassomi **Photography:** Vincent Entekhabi, Günter Kresser **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy the artist / TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol **Contact:** [presse@taxispalais.at](mailto:presse@taxispalais.at) ## TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol Presents *Mein Österreich* in Innsbruck Recognition is not the same as understanding. An image can be entirely familiar and still withhold something, not because it is coded, but because familiarity is itself a condition that discourages looking carefully. When images are manufactured to be recognized and circulated as greetings, the act of looking back at them begins to require a different set of questions. ![Ramesch Daha Tirol 1934 mural blue postcard installation TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol Innsbruck exhibition view 2026](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-tirol-1934-mural-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Tirol 1934, 2026 Acrylic on wall, variable dimensions Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Courtesy the artist Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![Ramesch Daha Tirol 1934 blue mural hikers alpine landscape TAXISPALAIS Innsbruck exhibition view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-tirol-1934-blue-mural-hikers-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Tirol 1934, 2026 Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-tirol-1934-children-mural-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Tirol 1934, 2026 Exhibition view, **TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol**, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi National imagery operates on the assumption that the viewer already agrees. Mountains, hikers, snow-covered valleys: these postcards propose an Austria that is scenic, serene, and untroubled, a proposition sent across the Habsburg Empire before anyone asked what it was designed to conceal. The postcard's cheerfulness is not accidental. It is a selection. > *Ramesch Daha copies without interpreting. In that restraint, something surfaces, not meaning, but proximity. The hand traces; the original is not overwritten but held.* **TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol** occupies a former Habsburg post office in Innsbruck, the institution that once moved postcards through the empire now hosts an exhibition that returns to the postcard as material and problem. [**Curated by Nina Tabassomi**](https://www.phileas.art/curatorial-exchange/ninatabassomi?ref=catapult-platform.art), *Mein Österreich* opens March 14, 2026, and runs through June 7\. It is [**Ramesch Daha's**](https://ramesch-daha.com/?utm%5Fsource=ig&utm%5Fmedium=social&utm%5Fcontent=link%5Fin%5Fbio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQMMjU2MjgxMDQwNTU4AAGnZXiIUAirVNkIsOFM2dEu7MtoRL3B6DPRTmb%5FCGzqF2QBi9HleQTpJd0U0iA%5Faem%5F4e3x49Q1%5FAsQ47LZ2BKzVw) first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, the country where she lives and works. ![Ramesch Daha Mein Österreich exhibition view black walls installation TAXISPALAIS Innsbruck archive works](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-mein-oesterreich-exhibition-view-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026-01.webp) Ramesch Daha, Mein Österreich, 2026 Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![Ramesch Daha Mein Österreich exhibition view black walls installation TAXISPALAIS Innsbruck archive works](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-sigmund-klein-1942-series-archive-documents-installation.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Mein Österreich, 2026 Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi The monumental series *Tirol 1934* takes over the light-flooded white galleries: large-scale murals applied directly to the walls in electric blue, derived from historical Tyrolean postcards. Daha traces each image line for line, a hiking figure, mountain peaks, a greeting in script, using acrylic in what she describes as "blueprint"-painting. The precision of the copy is exact; what changes is the context it is now held in. Texts added to the murals note the testimony of contemporary witnesses to Austrofascism in Tyrol, from the same decade as the postcards. The blue holds the cheerful source image and its undercurrent without collapsing either into the other. ![Ramesch Daha concentration camp map painting aerial layout geometric composition grey black red detail](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-concentration-camp-map-painting-series-2017-01.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Paintings of the concentration camps Series #01–03, 2017 Acrylic on canvas ![Ramesch Daha camp map painting with red annotation The Camp architectural abstraction aerial view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-the-camp-map-annotation-painting-2017-02.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Paintings of the concentration camps Series #01–03, 2017 Acrylic on canvas ![Ramesch Daha concentration camp diagram painting coordinates red marking abstract spatial structure](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-camp-structure-diagram-coordinates-painting-2017-03.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Paintings of the concentration camps Series #01–03, 2017 Acrylic on canvas The inner galleries hold a different atmosphere. *Paintings of the Concentration Camps* (2017), three large canvases presenting aerial views of camp layouts in acrylic, reads as architectural cartography before it resolves into something more specific: geometries painted in muted greys, coordinates stamped in the lower corner. The same careful hand, the same refusal to dramatize. Nearby, the *Sigmund Klein 1942* series gathers archival fragments across dark-painted grounds: photographs, identity documents, forms, a portrait. These concern Sigmund Klein, Daha's step-grandfather's father, murdered in a concentration camp in 1942\. The materials are reproduced rather than presented as originals; they are held in spatial relationship to each other on a black support, each one redrawn. ![Ramesch Daha Sigmund Klein 1942 series archival documents photographs framed black background](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/Ramesh-Daha-artist.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Sigmund Klein 1942 Series #01–04, 2019 Mixed media on paper Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-sigmund-klein-birth-certificate-blueprint-2019-taxispalais-2026-1.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-sigmund-klein-1942-document-portrait-framed-black-wall-2019.webp..webp) ****Ramesch Daha** (left), Sigmund Klein: Birth Certificate, 2019 Blueprint and acrylic on paper Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi **\- Ramesch Daha** (right) Sigmund Klein 1942 #05, 2019 Mixed media on paper, 100 x 70 cm Courtesy the artist Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, 2026 Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![- Ramesch Daha (right), Box of Tools #1 and #2, 2019 Wooden box, tool](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-box-of-tools-wooden-archive-objects-2019-taxispalais-2026.webp) \- ****Ramesch Daha** (right), Box of Tools #1 and #2, 2019 Wooden box, tools, glass Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Günter Kresser ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-tools-series-01-18-archive-drawings-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha,** Tools Series #01–18, 2019 Aquarelle, graphite on paper Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Günter Kresser ![Ramesch Daha paintings from the archive grid installation postcards photographs documents black wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-paintings-from-the-archive-series-01-60-grid-installation-2019.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Paintings from the Archive Series #01–60, 2019 Acrylic on canvas Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi The sixty small acrylic paintings of *Paintings from the Archive* (2019), arranged in a dense grid on the black interior wall, carry the accumulative logic of this practice to its clearest expression: a field of individually painted archive items, each one re-made, that reads as neither memorial nor catalog. The Video *1933 man sagt nichts* (HD, 2:56 min) completes the exhibition's timeline, holding the year before Austrofascism was formalized as a fact that could, at the time, still be not spoken of. ![Ramesch Daha 1933 man sagt nichts video installation dark room TAXISPALAIS Innsbruck exhibition view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-1933-man-sagt-nichts-video-installation-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha,** 1933 man sagt nichts, 2026 Video installation Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi ![Ramesch Daha 1933 man sagt nichts video still burning object flames close-up](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-1933-man-sagt-nichts-video-still-fire-burning-object-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha,** 1933 man sagt nichts (Video Still), 2026 HD digital video, color, sound Courtesy the artist Austria, in 2026, presents Daha's work to an institution embedded in the history the exhibition addresses. The TAXISPALAIS was a post office; postcards shaped what Austria sent as its self-image; Austrofascism is documented history but not uniformly processed memory. Daha's method, copying rather than interpreting, reproducing without claiming ownership of what she finds in public and private archives, holds these timelines in a single frame. She insists that remembering is a phenomenon that occurs in the now. The viewer is left to decide whether the now is ready for that. ![Ramesch Daha paintings from the archive installation grid black wall TAXISPALAIS Innsbruck exhibition view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/04/ramesch-daha-paintings-from-the-archive-installation-view-black-wall-taxispalais-innsbruck-2026.webp) ****Ramesch Daha**, Paintings from the Archive Series #01–60, 2019 Acrylic on canvas Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck Photo: Vincent Entekhabi What her hand produces is not resolution. It is evidence that the act of copying was necessary in the first place. [**Instagram of Ramesh Daha**](https://www.instagram.com/rameschdaha/?ref=catapult-platform.art) [**TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol on Instagram** ](https://www.instagram.com/taxispalais/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **About Catapult** This is an artist interview published by Catapult — an independent editorial platform for contemporary art, based in Vienna. We publish exhibition reviews, artist features, interviews, and critical context, with a focus on emerging and mid-career practices from Europe and beyond. [catapult.art](https://www.catapult-platform.art/) Want to be featured? 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