The Austrian-American Art Exchange

The Austrian Art Exchange brought Tyrolean artists to New Orleans to exhibit their work at the UNO Fine Arts gallery once a year. At the same time, artists from New Orleans went to Innsbruck to exhibit at the city’s Andechs Gallery.

In the Fall of 2000, the City of Innsbruck and and the University of New Orleans launched an arts exchange program. Tyrolese artsists display their work every Fall at the UNO St. Claude Gallery, and several graduates of the UNO Fine Arts department exhibit their work every summer in the City of Innsbruck's Andechs Gallery.

Short artists-in-residence stays have been added to familiarize the artists with the artictic communities in both cities. The UNO Department of Fine Arts has been Center Austria's partner from the beginning of this successful and popular exchange . In Innsbruck, Mr. Horst Burmann from the city's Cultural Office handled the exchanges from the beginning until his retirement. Since 2013, Mrs. Natalie Pedevilla has taken over the coordination of the arts exchange on the Innsbruck side. Mrs. Kathy Rodriguez, the director of the St. Claude Gallery, is in charge of coordinating the exhibits in New Orleans.

Austrian Artists at UNO

2016: Andrea Lüth and Katharina Hinterlechner.
2015: Anemona Crisan, Birgit Pleschberger
2014: Katharina Cibulka, Nicole Weniger
2013: Charlotte Simon, Daniela Span
2012: Ina Hsu, Wolfgang Wirth
2011: Zita Oberwalder, Marcus Schatz
2010: "Leaves from Innsbruck", serigraphische Mappe zum 10-Jahres-Jubiläum
2009: Elisabeth Schutting, Ursula Groser
2008: Thomas Riss, Alexandra Maria Heinz
2007: Roland Maurmair, Philipp Haselwanter
2006: Maurizio Bonato, Ewald Spiss
2005: keine Ausstellung (Hurricane Katrina) 
2004: Hubert Flattinger
2003: Michaela Niederkircher, Marco Szedenik
2002: Nora Schöpfer, Christine Pöschl
2001: Andreas Paulic, Günther Gstrein
2000: Arno Schmid, Martina Tscherni

American Artists in Innsbruck

Valerie Corradetti
Natalie Claurin
Kathy Cacioppo
Jessica Goldfinch
Dan Tague
John Davis
Aristides Logothetis
Alex Podesta
Chris Jahncke
Maxx Sizeler
Srdjan Loncar
Laura Gipson
Rachel Jones
Jeff Rinehart
Natalie Rinehart
Monica Zeringue
Aaron McNamee
John Fields
Ryn Wilson
Kevin Baer
Wendell Brunious
Peter Hoffmann