Energie AG Oberösterreich Riedersbach Power Stations
Energie AG Oberösterreich (previously Oberösterreichische Kraftwerke AG) operates two thermal power stations on location at Riedersbach. For more details link to www.energieag.at
However, Riedersbach is much more than just a power station. Centred around the Gipshalle ("plaster hall") on the spacious premises lies the Stahlpark, centre of the art sponsorship of Energie AG Oberösterreich.

The art sponsorship project at Riedersbach comprises three key elements:
1 – The gallery at Kraftwerk Riedersbach 2:
around 8 vernissages held every year; focusses on contemporary art, primarily photography, symbolic art, digital art, water colour paintings, etc.
2 – The Steel Workshops held on the Stahlpark premises
3 – Other educational and creativity fostering seminars, and adult education:
Target group: Teachers, students, etc. The courses are offered in collaboration with various public and private institutions, particularly the Upper Austrian School Council.

The Beginnings
The Kunst im Kraftwerk ("Art at the Power Station") poject was initiated in 1988 and has since developed into a permanent fixture in the cultural landscape of the Dreiländereck ("three-country junction") in the shared border area of Upper Austria, Salzburg and Bavaria. Originally, the primary objective was to bring together the apparent opposites "art" and "power station". The dialogue (or rather, 'trialogue') between technology, economy and art cultivated at Riedersbach has been subject to constant development; it has not only transcended geographic borders, but has also helped to promote openness and tolerance in the process. Since the inception of the project, over 200 artists have presented their paintings, watercolours, sculptures and other works at Riedersbach.

Energie AG Oberösterreich as art sponsors
The idea behind the Riedersbach project was not simply to set up an art sponsorship programme. To the project leaders at Energie AG Oberösterreich, 'sponsoring' means a great deal more than simply providing financial means or furthering individual projects; it also involves providing full support for a collective undertaking. This collective undertaking is entitled "Kunst im Kraftwerk" ("Art at the Power Station"), and Stahlpark Riedersbach is its core. Here, support means enablement.
Kraftwerk Riedersbach as an enterprise provides the work hall – a very spacious atelier, as it were –, the tools and materials as well as their know-how and technical support. Being able to use the power station as a workshop allows artists to manifest their creativity in dimensions far exeeding the confines of their own ateliers.
The support of Energie AG Oberösterreich is therefore not only limited to linear art sponsoring, but extends to a comprehensive programme whose individual parts fit together to form an integrated whole, just like the pieces of a mosaic.

Energie AG Oberösterreich
Kraftwerk Riedersbach
Riedersbach 109
5120 St. Pantaleon