Vienna, March 31 – May 28, 2017, http://www.q21.at/ Curator: Sabine Winkler, Artists: Antoine Catala, Xavier Cha, Florian Göttke, Femke Herregraven, Hertog Nadler, Micah Hesse, Francis Hunger, Scott Kildall, Barbora Kleinhamplova, Tom Molloy, Barbara Musil, Bego M. Santiago, Ruben van de Ven, Christina Werner
Vienna, May 11-12, 2017, https://www.akbild.ac.at A small exhibition in the Academy sculpture studios. It was one room with a glass wall. Inside were 3 works: A sticker with a text/visual poem pasted on the glass (Zorn), a disassembled glove (Zorn) and a medium-sized painting (Bobek). At first it felt quite empty and like… “That’s it,…
Vienna, May 12 – 14, 2017, https://www.akbild.ac.at A two-day show by students of Daniel Richter (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) and Olaf Metzel (Academy of Fine Arts Munich). Strangely I could not find any list of artists participating or layout with artist’s names. Does it relate to the old academy concept that you are a…
Vienna, April 25, 2017, http://depot.or.at/ Based on the title of the lecture, I was expecting something along the lines of science and technology studies or media archeology. Yet it proved to be much more complicated.
Vienna, April 4 – June 18 (Moulene) – June 25 (Barba + Faruqee), https://www.secession.at/ It has been five years since my last visit to the Secession. I had some memories and some preconceptions about this space. The art there was not easy. It was very conceptual. And the curators/director seemed to have a liking for…
Vienna, April 22, 2017, http://www.graetzlgalerie.at/ An evening with two sound performances. The space appeared as multifunctional and probably doubles as an office or exhibition room during non-performance times. The atmosphere was friendly and warm. Audience and the performers all shared the same space side by side.
Vienna, March 15 – April 29, 2017, Kunsthalle Extergasse Link The exhibition was an iteration of an artwork selection that has been previously exhibited at the DDR-Radiozentrum in Berlin, a place with a specific architecture and history (East German Radio Studio). Now the artworks have been moved over and setup again in one large exhibition…
Vienna, 12:00-15:00, March 17, 2017, http://tracingspaces.net The Tracing Spaces project is investigating the urban fabric of an old freight train station (Nordwestbahnhof in Vienna) that is going to be closed down in the near future. The project falls into an area between site specific art, anthropology and urban architecture research. The initiators of the Tracing…
Vienna, November 25, 2016 – April 17, 2017 (Koller), March 17 – June 18, 2017 (Black), March 17 – October 22, 2017 (Knebl), http://www.mumok.at Attending the opening of the “Oh..” show was well worth it. It was astonishing to what lengths a museum can go in attempting to attract audiences, especially the younger generations. The…
Vienna, February 21–May 14, 2017, http://www.tba21.org Oceans as a metaphor for the immateriality and fluidity of labor in global capitalism – this could be the tagline of the exhibition. Allan Sekula was from the 1960’ generation, and kept his critical leftist position throughout his career as an artist employed in academia. His territory of choice…