SKULPTURINSTITUT

  • Welcome to the Skulpturinstitut

    Everything we see could also be otherwise.

    Everything we are able to describe could also be otherwise.

    There is no order of things a priori.

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

     

    We consider ourselves as an open space in which class, discourse and exhibition come together and intertwine.

    We are interested in the circumstance of sculpture, its environment, its materials, its structure, its form and the relations that emerge.

    We understand sculpture as a tool to discuss society and vice versa.

    We strive to sharpen our perception through the attempt to verbalize what we see, in a consequent manner.

     

    The Skulpturinstitut was founded by Hans Schabus in the framework of a course at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2014 the Skulpturinstitut is run as a project by the Department Sculpture and Space.

TUE 12 MAR 2024

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Julia Znoj

    The presentation will be held in English.

     

    Julia Znoj (born 1990 in Bern) lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Zurich University of Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Unhinged (2023), with Anna Walther, Sharp Projects, Kopenhagen;  Rabattierei (2023), Kunstraum Satellit Thun; She is in it not not at all (2022), Kunstraum Schwaz; Ghost Decider, 2022, Swiss Institute NYC, (Group); aquadrome bubblepad (2021), Unanimous Consent, Zurich; Chord Progression (2021), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; The Prompter´s Clutch (2018) with Carina Emery, Vin Vin Gallery, Vienna; Anguish Immersed in Silane Chains (2016), Taylor Macklin, Zurich.

     

    https://juliaznoj.com

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TUE 05 DEC 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Daniel Ferstl

    Daniel Ferstl’s works defy categorization on various levels: painting meets sculpture, high meets low brow, classic composition meets kitschy extravaganza in the choice of motifs and materials. Pop cultural references range from 70s and 80s cult movies to contemporary gamer and meme culture. In his recent works, colorful fabrics are stretched onto frames with stuffed textile elements sewn onto them, giving the works a three dimensional quality. The painterly gesture is only present as a mediated remainder in the printed patterns of the fabrics Ferstl chooses for his backgrounds. On an immediate affective level, the silky, shiny, fluffy works are imbued with the kind of “cruel optimism” that keeps us attached to the dreams that deep inside we know might crush us in the end.

     

    Daniel Ferstl, Austrian, born 1982, lives and works in Vienna, studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Christian Ludwig Attersee. Exhibitions including at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2015), New Jörg, Vienna (2015), Ve.Sch, Vienna (2015), Belvedere, Vienna (2016), Belmacz Gallery, London (2017 and 2019), Foundation, Vienna (2018), Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (2020), Austrian Cultural Forum, London (2020), Wonnerth-Dejaco, Vienna (2022), Belvedere 21 (2023), Albert Contemporary, Odense (2023), L21, Palma de Mallorca (2023).

     

    www.instagram.com/daniel_ferstl

    www.danielferstl.com

     

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TUE 07 NOV 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Barbara Kapusta

    Barbara Kapusta, born 1983, lives and works in Vienna. Her work is characterized by a long-standing preoccupation with the relationship between the body and language, and between materiality, language and architecture. Her textual works ground a very physical artistic practice that demonstrates that all things are endowed with agency, that all things in the linguistic-physical world are relational and queer, diverse and vulnerable. In her recent immersive four-channel sound installation The Fragiles Kapusta unfolds a science fiction narrative, reporting from an apocalyptic future telling of the grim consequences and entanglements of past and present ideologies. But speaking from an imagined future also raises the question of how we organize our community. How can we live together in the midst of disagreement, difference, and ambivalence?

     

    Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Fragiles, Klosterruine Berlin (2023), WORDS DON’T GO THERE, Kunstverein Braunschweig (2023), The Palace of Concrete Poetry, Writers’ House, Tbilisi, (2022); Let your () do the talking, NAK Aachen (2022); Futures, Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022); Lo(l) – Embodied Language, Kunsthaus Hamburg (2022); Dissolving Matter & Value, Lothringer 13, Munich (2021); Enjoy, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna (2021); Europa Antike Zukunft, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz (2021); The Leaking Bodies Series, Gianni Manhattan Vienna (2020); Dangerous Bodies, Kunstraum London (2019), Hysterical Mining, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019), Empathic Creatures at Ashley Berlin (2018).

     

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THU 02 NOV 2023

  • Remembrance, 7:45 pm
    Kördölör: In this heart

    Meeting place Desider-Friedmann-Platz, 1010 Wien.

    At Desider-Friedmann-Platz, a terrorist attack began shortly before 8 p.m. on November 2, 2020, and ended almost 10 minutes later at Ruprechtsplatz.

    We want to encounter the silence in the period of the attack.
    We want to remember all the victims and those affected with the connection of voices of the choir Kördölör.

     

    Kördölör is a choir founded in 2009 and based in Vienna's 2nd district with members from the fields of art and culture.

TUE 10 OCT 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Valentin Carron

    In conversation with Oliver Zybok.

    The conversation will be held in French, German and English.

     

    Valentin Carron was born in 1977 in Martigny, Switzerland, where he lives and works. He studied at Ecole Cantonale des Beaux-Arts, Sion, CH and ECAL / Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, CH.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Vienna, AT (2023); Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, CH (2021); Le Consortium, Dijon, FR (2020); Mauvoisin Dam, Valais, CH; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, FR (2018); Galerie Art & Essai Université Rennes, FR (2018); Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, CH (2016); Lübeck Kunstverein, Lübeck, DE (2016); Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH (2014); Fondation Louis Moret, Martigny, CH (2014); Palais de Tokyo in Paris, FR (2010); and he represented Switzerland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale de Venezia, Swiss Pavilion, Venice, IT in 2013.

     

    Oliver Zybok is a German art historian and curator. He is deputy director and head of collections at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, DE.

     

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TUE 03 OCT 2023

  • Opening, 6 pm
    Fabian Fink: Vier Stunden

    Space, endless expanses. In the swamps of Dornlockda the dark ruler stirs, the production of androids will continue to receive no attention, new materials are made from old matter, many drones are shot down and the next season is sure to come. It is no mistake to question things again, even if amply considered, but at some point a sediment should settle out of the whole mishmash in which one no longer sinks. I still have to take turns. The interval has slowed down and sometimes I have to remind myself not to neglect the sculpture.

     

    The central work in this exhibition is a series of four female figures carved from oak, each carrying a bell. After having produced some sculptures that can be described as furniture and many other commissioned works, I wanted to carve these bodies to emphasize my preference for classical sculptures. In the working process, I tried to work on all of them at the same time, as simultaneous as possible. I was interested in repetition and reproduction, as well as trying to work economically, and my perception of time.

    Then there is a diamond connection, also a theme that has preoccupied me for decades, and a small leftover commissioned work that I like.

     

     

    Fabian Fink, born in Salzburg in 1979, lives and works in Vienna. He trained as a wood sculptor at the School of Sculpture in Hallein and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He was artist in residence in Paris (2008), Yogyakarta (2012), Berlin (2014), Varanasi (2015) and Beijing (2016).

     

    Paulusplatz 5, 1030 Wien / Austria
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TUE 16 MAY 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Katrin Plavčak joined by Nicholas Hoffman

    some kind of musical lecture

     

    Katrin Plavčak (1970) is an Austrian artist who lives in Vienna again after 16 years in Berlin. She studied painting with Sue Williams at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, graduated from the Academy of Social Work and is engaged in painting, music and sculpture.

     

    Since winter 2017 exists the band "Kinky Muppet" (Katrin Plavčak git / voc, Nicholas Hoffman bass + baritone / voc, Oliver Stotz drums) which released their first album on the label "plag dich nicht" in March 2020 and record their next record in April 2023.

     

    From 2012 to 2014 Katrin Plavčak was part of the feminist artist group ff and together with Caro Bittermann and Claudia Zweifel she built the website www.thehistoryofpaintingrevisited.weebly.com - a growing archive of female painters from art history.

     

    Since October 2023 she is professor for painting and drawing at the abk - Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart.

     

    Her work and projects have been shown recently, among others at Kunstverein Heilbronn, DE; Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva; Nye Jordal Amfi Ice Hockey Stadium, Oslo; Sternenpassage Museumsquartier Vienna; Kunstverein Eisenstadt; Kingston University, London; Kommunale Galerie Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin; Secession, Vienna; Museum moderner Kunst, Vienna; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; La Galerie - Centre d'Art Contemporain de Noisy-Le-Sec, Paris; Steirischer Herbst, Graz; Villa Merkel, Galleries of the City of Esslingen; Deutsche Bank KunstHalle; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin.

     

    Nicholas Hoffman, born in Canton, Ohio, is a visual artist and musician who lives and works in Vienna. In his practice he uses the playful, melancholic and absurd realities of everyday life and translates them into drawings, collages, radio plays, performances and pieces of music. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

     

    www.katrinplavcak.net

    https://kinkymuppet.klingt.org

    https://plagdichnicht.bandcamp.com/album/chicken-permit

    https://nicholashoffman.at/



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FRI 12 MAY 2023

  • Opening, 7 pm
    Dino Zrnek: Floaters

    Dino Zrnec (*1983) born in Zagreb, lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb as well as expanded pictorial space at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and VSUP Prague.

    His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Technical Museum Nikola Tesla - Zagreb, Industrial Art Biennial - Labin, Kunsthaus Graz project space, Vin Vin gallery - Vienna and Apoteka - Vodnjan.

     

    Dino Zrnec works with the medium of painting, which is often developed through an observation on household objects and then extended into spatial context. His work is regularly made as a reaction to site specific features of the space and develops itself around mechanisms of the painting medium.

     

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TUE 18 APR 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Birke Gorm

    Collecting archaic, easily accessible, often accidentally found material such as jute, terracotta, wood, and metal is characteristic of the work of Birke Gorm. Her sculptures convey a raw, appealing immediacy whose multilayered levels of meaning can be decoded upon closer inspection. By re-appropriating domestic labour processes — acts that have historically connoted unpaid work by women — the artist shows the potential, contained in the production and circulation of everyday objects, for the dismantling of patriarchal gender hierarchies.

     

    Birke Gorm (b. 1986, Hamburg) lives and works in Vienna. Recent solo and duo exhibitions include 'dead stock' at MAK, Vienna (2023); 'routes and routines’ at Martina Simeti, Milan (w. Marie Lund); and ‘full stop' at Politikens Forhal, Copenhagen (2021). Upcoming and recent group exhibitions include Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin; Museum Sønderjylland, Tønder (both 2023); mumok, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, and Kunsthalle Vienna (all 2022).


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TUE 21 MAR 2023

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Chin Tsao

    Chin Tsao’s (曹晶) practice encompasses sculpture, installation, music, performance, and new media. She is fascinated by material artificiality as a narration of human memory and history. Tsao's ceramics and porcelain works are inspired by historic styles such as Rococo and Art Deco. In her works, she creates an anachronistic setting to address the historic events between the East and the West, as well as the hybridization of the past and the future. Their appearance overlaps in our perception of time with the shifting identities of a post-globalized culture.

     

    She obtained her MFA at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her works were exhibited at Kunsthalle WIen (AT), Nevven Gallery (SE), Galerie Martin Janda (AT). She has performed at Rote Bar/ Volkstheater Wien (AT) and mumok (AT). She also curated a series Vienna based event EPHEMEROS which aims to support emerging artists and queer-feminism community.

     

    She now lives and works in Vienna

     

    https://chintsao.info

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TUE 13 DEZ 2022

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Liesl Raff

    Liesl Raff's practice is characterized by a semiotics of materials that start where words supposedly fail. Through continuous experimentation and a strong sensitivity for different materials, Raff's sculptures negotiate the beauty and fragility of physical togetherness, by showing it and making it tangible. In using an anthropomorphic formal language, dealing with seriality and process-based work, the artist not only deals with bodies and relationships, but also movements such as minimalism, process art and Arte Povera with a contemporary revision.

     

    www.lieslraff.com

     

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TUE 29 NOV 2022

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Jojo Gronostay

    Jojo Gronostay (*1987 in Hamburg) lives and works in Vienna. Gronostay’s practice deals with questions of identity and representation, platforms, recycling and the in-between. His work explores the political and economic structures between Europe and Africa and with platforms such as DWMC, he also created a structure for himself to intervene in these cycles. Thereby examining concepts such as economy or value as well as the exchange of people and goods between the two continents.

     

    Gronostay studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Beaux-Arts in Paris.

     

    https://www.jojogronostay.com

     

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THU 10  NOV 2022

  • Opening, 6 pm
    427 COLLECTION

    Like any living space, the gallery’s office gradually sprouted with abandoned, forgotten, misdelivered, bartered works of art that have grown into the 427 Collection that will travel for the first time, to Skulpturinstitut in Vienna. Consisting of sketches, drawings, paintings, video and sound works, sculptures and objects, photographs, and other mediums, the collection presents itself as an ever-shifting organism with possible continuations and mutations. 427 Collection aims to explore what it means to exhibit a number of artworks that often appear in the collection in a rather processual and spontaneous manner. Hopefully, the exhibition should tell more about 427 and its actions, attitude, and approach to exhibiting art, and maintaining an open mind to the ideas of artists as ridiculous, absurd, or ambitious as they sometimes might seem.

    427 (or 427 Gallery, or Four To Seven) opened its doors on April 2014 in a small living-room kind of space before it moved to a slightly skewed version of a white cube gallery space. It was opened by artists Kaspars Groševs and Ieva Kraule-Kūna (2014-2015), later joined by Marta Trektere (2016-). From the start, the aim of 427 has been to encounter new adventures in art by collaborating with curious and daring local and international artists who 427 have met through conversations, shared late nights, common peculiarities, and love for “unfelt feelings”. Over the course of eight years almost 60 exhibitions have been organised, not to include parties, readings, lectures, concerts, flash tattoo events and also the shows curated by 427 at various spaces in Riga and abroad (Polansky Gallery, Brno (2019); Salon de Normandy by The Community, Paris (2020); P/////AKT, Amsterdam (2020); City Surfer Office (SUMO Prague 2022), Prague a.o.).


    Invited by Luīze Nežberte

     

    Opening: 10 November 2022, 6 pm
    Exhibition: 11-13 November 2022
    Opening hours: 4-7 pm

     

    Fotos © Gabriel Huth

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WED 25 OCT 2022

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Lukas Thaler

    Lukas Thaler, born in 1989 in Hall in Tirol, lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Kunstverein Siegen, Kunstverein Eisenstadt, Galerie Janda, Vienna, White&Weiss Gallery, Bratislava, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Daihatsu Rooftop Gallery, Vienna, Bruch & Dallas, Cologne, EXILE, Vienna, In Spite Of, Porto, Ed.Varie, New York City, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Sans titre (2016), Paris, MUSA, Vienna, Guimarães, Vienna, Celine, Glasgow, Ginny, London, Material Artfair, Mexico City, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Club Pro, Los Angeles, Drop City, Newcastle, One Work Gallery, Vienna, Ve.sch, Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Vienna.

     

    Lukas Thaler runs the curatorial project MAUVE together with Titania Seidl. He teaches at the Vienna University of Technology at the Institute for Art and Design.

     

    https://lukasthaler.com/

     

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WED 11 MAY 2022

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Lucia Elena Průša

    Lucia Elena Průša, born in 1985 in Germany, lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, at E.N.P.E.G in Mexico City and at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, Germany. She is a fellowship recipient of the Bundesatelier at Wattgasse in Vienna (2020-2026).

     

    Exhibitions: Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin (2022), MAK, Vienna (2021), Simian, Copenhagen (2020), Essex Street Gallery, New York (2020), Swiss Institute, New York (2019), Kunsthalle Bratislava (2019), Belvedere 21er Haus, Vienna (2019), Gärtnergasse, Vienna (2018), Pina, Vienna (2018), Riverside, Basel (2017), Sophie Tappeiner Galerie, Vienna (2017), Travesia Cuatro Galeria, Guadalajara (2017), FUTURA, Prague (2016), Oslo 10, Basel (2016), JTT Gallery, New York (2016), FRANZ JOSEFS KAI 3, Vienna (2016), Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna (2015), Vesch, Vienna (2014).

     

    www.luciaelenaprusa.com

     

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TUE 10 MAY 2022

  • Book presentation, 6 pm
    Samuel Schaab: Modifications

    The monograph “ Modifications“ is an associative book

    about the works of Samuel Schaab from the last years.

    Published by Salon für Kunstbuch.

    With texts by Karolina Preuschl, Ferdinand Schmalz, and Samuel Schaab.

    Designed by Anna Liska.

     

    8:30 pm

    Sound  Performance  -  Our problem is collective

     

    with:

    Sixtus Preiss (Drum(s))

    Karolina Preuschl (Voice / X )

    Samuel Schaab (Electronics / Air)

    Ferdinand Schmalz (Butter)

     

    + a special drink by Hans Jürgen Hauptmann

     

     

    Samuel Schaab (*1981) lives and works in Vienna. He studied media art with Bernhard Leitner at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Art & Media at the ZHdK Zurich. His works are found at the intersection of visual art, light, sound & performance. He combines site-specific spatial installations with sculpture, sound and performance.

    samuelschaabfrequenz.com

     

     

    The entropy of objects

     

    Their mere presence causes a fog of quiet anomalies to settle around every form in the room. Even if no intended use has been specified, or even an incorrect one,

    everything still has a purpose.

    The nagging feeling that you have to sneeze is provoked by possibility.

    Clarity and obscurity are borne on legs that are planning something unexpected.

    Use and wear end up in a queasy stomach. They lie there like stones, revealing fractures both rough and polished. The structure of the whole is recognizable and inscribes itself in the tales told by a furrowed countenance.

    The pineapple smokes too much.

    The popcorn flies on an accurate trajectory in no particular direction.

    Randomness chooses carefully.

    (Karolina Preuschl)

     

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    Grafik © Anna Liska

    Foto © Samuel Schaab

     

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TUE 22 MAR 2022

  • Exhibition opening, 6 pm
    Anne Wundrak: No freedom without ties

    Performance „Ich habe Durst – wer will von mir trinken (Mitteilung des „Koordinatensystems Anne Wundrak“), 7 pm

     

    "No freedom without ties" is a sculpture, my version of a freedom statue.

    The Statute of Liberty is a personification of an abstract word. I wanted to free the word of its abstraction.

    Art makes possible what is impossible in reality. Because one can not be in two directions at the same time.

    Because I am I, I am not at peace. But in my sculpture.

     

    Anne Wundrak, born 1978 in Berlin, completed an apprenticeship as a wood sculptor at the Berufsfachschule für das Holzbildhauerhandwerk in Munich, studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH) within the Erasmus program. Since 2007 she has been working as a freelance artist, since 2013 she has been a staff member at the Volksbühnen-Kantine am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin. In 2020 she completed training as a mediator (at Streit Entknoten GmbH, Berlin) and has been a member of the association BetterPolice since 2021.

     

    Exhibition: 23–27 March 2022, 24h visible from outside

    Opening: 22 March 2022, 6 pm

    Performance „Ich habe Durst – wer will von mir trinken (Mitteilung des „Koordinatensystems Anne Wundrak“), 7 pm

     

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WED 16 MAR 2022

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Dino Zrnec

    Dino Zrnec, born in 1983 in Zagreb, lives and works between Zagreb and Vienna. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Zagreb, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM) in Prague.

     

    Exhibitions: Vin Vin gallery, Vienna, Apoteka, Vodnjan, Lucie Drdova gallery, Prague, Industrial Art Biennial, Pula, Renata Fabbri gallery, Milano, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Zagreb, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Institute for Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Kunsthaus Graz, Ve.sch, Vienna.

    www.dinozrnec.com

     

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WED 10 NOV 2021

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Yuki Higashino

    Yuki Higashino, born in 1984 in Japan, lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from Städelschule, Frankfurt, in 2010.

     

    Solo and two-person exhibitions: “something about pictures” with Kim Schoen, Rampe, Berlin, “Mladen Bizumic & Yuki Higashino”, Galerie kunstbuero, Vienna, “The Dying Style: Zurich”, Kunstraum luke, Zurich, “The Dying Style”, Contemporary Art Factory, Kyoto, “Perspectives”, Urgent Paradise, Lausanne.

     

    Group exhibitions: David Zwirner, New York (online), Carriage Trade, New York (online), Last Tango, Zurich, Le BBB centre d’art, Toulouse, The Living Art Museum, Reykjavík, MAMOTH, London.

     

    He will screen his new film at Mumok, Vienna, later this year.

    www.yukihigashino.com

     

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FRI 29 OCT 2021

  • Finissage, 6 pm
    Mume: Mano-Vuelta / Juan Pablo
    Macías

    Finissage of a week-long workshop.

    The process can be followed on site from October 22–29.

     

    MUME (Museo Mexicano/Mexican Museum) is a nomadic anti-museum by artist Oscar Cueto that seeks to create alternate narratives in the decolonial and global migration context, presenting collaborative projects between international curators and artists in Austria. This time, MUME together with Skulpturinstitut present Mano-Vuelta, a project by Mexican artist Juan Pablo Macías.

     

    Mano-Vuelta consists in turning an art space into a corn brewery under the principle of collaboration and mutual help (mano-vuelta/hand-turnover). Through solidarity, common work and generosity, this processual piece attempts to rescue the sense of community that has been hijacked by abstract representations such as productivity, exchange value and democracy.

     

    The work of Juan Pablo Macías (Mexico, 1974) is a research on anarchism as a critique of representation and takes many forms. Editorial projects, poetry, video, installations, performance, serve as fields to signal the encounter between power-knowledge and insurrectional-knowledge, or between the system of representation and affectivity.

     

    His work has been shown in Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Casino Luxembourg, Maison Rouge Paris, Confort Moderne Poitiers, Villa Romana Florence, tranzitdisplay in Prague, National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow. In Mexico City at Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Museo de Arte Moderno (MAM), MUCA, Museo Carrillo Gil, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros (SAPS), Museo Amparo in Puebla. He was part of Istanbul, Jakarta and Second Yinchuan Biennials and a resident at Fondazione Ratti in Como, Database in Carrara, Guilmi Art Project in Abruzzo, La Stanza della Seta in Sicily and Thread Senegal / The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation. His work is part of the collections of Museo Amparo (MEX), Collezione la Gaia (IT), Nomas Foundation (IT) and Colección Adrastus (ES), amongst others.

     

    Oscar Cueto was born in Mexico City (1976), lives and works in Austria. He holds a Master of Arts of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Cueto's work elaborates narrative exercises and reflects on the mechanisms that construct the notions of history, knowledge, memory and identity. These projects are developed flexibly in a wide variety of techniques, ranging from drawing to performative installations that can be walked through, manipulated or played with to provoke audience participation. His work has been constantly shown in Europe, USA and Mexico and is part of important collections such as Jumex in Mexico City, Vienna Museum, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Museum of Latin American Art in Los Angeles and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Since 2017 Cueto has been inviting curators and artists to Austria to collaborate on his nomadic anti-museum MUME (www.oscarcueto.com/MUME.html).

     

    Photos 1–4 © Juan Pablo Macías

     

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AUG-SEP 2021

  • Forestwalk
    Zwischen Wasserspeicher und Obelisk

    Hohenberg, Niederösterreich, Walkingtrail No. 33

     

    Luisa Berghammer / Filippo Contatore and Susanna van Grinsven / Jonathan Dellago / Kirils Ēcis and Luīze Nežberte / Marie Yael Fidesser / Kurt Fritsche / Mathilde Heuliez / Gabriel Huth / Rothraut Huth / Georg Obermeissner / Magdalena Stückler / Elisabeth Süß

     

    Under consideration of walking as an artistic practice and new perspectives towards the rural area, seven students of the department Sculpture and Space show their work and invited seven further colleagues to implement works on a public walking trail in Lower Austria.

     

    Back in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic, Skulpturinstitut released a map for a Vienna City walk. It was based on the idea to capture a rare collective shift of perspective. But we also thought that it would pass by as sudden as it appeared. Today, 16 months later, we find ourselves on a pandemic roller coaster and its further course remains unclear.

     

    The pandemic however could not lock down nature and after years of debating climate change, it is ironically also the pandemic that has generated a broader interest in nature and its environment.

     

    The works can be seen on the first section of the walking trail No. 33

    from the village of Hohenberg up to Gschwendthütte; further details and the location of the works can be seen on the map.

     

    Organized by Ludwig Kittinger

     

     Map1Marie Yael FidesserOhne Titel (Ca-y-été & Gegenbild, Mont Ventoux), variation Bergerhöhe, performance by Luisa BerghammerPerformance, 2021 2Filippo Contatore and Susanna van GrinsvenTo walk With, 2021  3Jonathan DellagoSchere, Stein, Drehspaltkeil, 2021  4Kirils Ēcis and Luīze Nežberte'I and Thou', 2021  5Marie Yael FidesserOhne Titel (Ca-y-été & Gegenbild, Mont Ventoux) Variation Bergerhöhe, 2021  6Kurt FritscheHocker, 2021  7Mathilde HeuliezZone, 2021  8Gabriel HuthGroße Wippe, 2021Kleine Wippe, 2021  9aRothraut HuthSchmarrn, 2021  9bRothraut HuthSchmarrn, 2021  10Georg ObermeissnerTausch (Brombeerstrauch, Farn, Ahorn, Hartriegel), 2021  11Magdalena StücklerTausch (ausgestochene Wiese), 2021  12Elisabeth SüßPolsterpatentperformance, 2021  13Luīze NežberteResin Worker, 2021  <>

THU 25 MAR 2021

  • Talk/book presentation, 5 pm
    Durch die Kette sehen / Ingrid Wiener, Michaela Leutzendorff-Pakesch

    The artist Ingrid Wiener will be in conversation with Michaela Leutzendorff-Pakesch, the editor of the monograph INGRID WIENER Durch die Kette sehen (Seeing through the warp), about the development of her weaving art and her varied work and life practice.

     

    The talk will be held in German and live-streamed via the following link:

    https://youtu.be/5ZBCpVzU38Q

     

    The event takes place in cooperation with the exhibition Stoffe im Raum (Fabrics in Space), which was coordinated by Ulla Rossek, in cooperation with the Art Collection and Archive of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    After the talk, we invite you to the Sala Terrena in the university gallery at the Heiligenkreuzer Hof, where the monograph is being presented and the exhibition Stoffe im Raum will also be accessible. Please be aware of the current safety measures on site such as wearing an FFP2 mask at all times and keeping a two meter safety distance to others.

     

    Ingrid Wiener was born in Vienna in 1942, she studied textile design at the Höhere Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Textilindustrie in Vienna. From 1958 to 1960 she took part in performances and experimental films of the “Wiener Gruppe”. From 1964 to 1970 she initiated and weaved the first Hundertwasser tapestries together with VALIE EXPORT. From 1971 to 1984 she was the co-owner and head chef of the artist bars “Matala”, “Exil”, “Ax Bax” in Berlin and later of the “Claims Cafe” in Dawson City, Canada. A series of photographs was taken there in the arctic tundra, shot from the own plane. Between 1974 and 1997 an artistic collaboration with Dieter Roth existed, which resulted in numerous tapestries, among other things. In 1988/1989 the VHS cassette Videobriefe (video letters) by Ingrid Wiener and Dieter Roth came out. As Monsti Wiener, Ingrid Wiener released several vinyl records together with VALIE EXPORT. She did numerous singing and cooking performances. Her first film came into being in 1986. Over the decades Ingrid Wiener practiced weaving everywhere she lived and manufactured numerous tapestries. Since 1995 she also has been working on imaginary images in dreams carried out in watercolors.

     

    Ingrid Wiener has had solo exhibitions at Museum Hartberg, Hartberg (2020), Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2019), Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin (2019), the Jagla-Ausstellungsraum, Cologne (2018), the Kunsthaus Mürz, Mürzzuschlag (2012), in the Charim Galerie, Vienna (2008), in the Neue Galerie Graz at the Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (2006), with Edizioni Morra, Naples (2001) and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Austria, Italy, France, Germany, China, Canada and Switzerland. Together with Dieter Roth, she has had exhibitions at MAC, Marseille, the Secession, Vienna, Schaulager, Basel, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, MOMA, New York, among others.

     

    Michaela Leutzendorff-Pakesch studied theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna and acting at the Dramatisches Zentrum. She worked for a long period of time at the theater and works as an art manager and curator, currently for a tiny art space in southeast Styria. In 2014, together with Ingrid Wiener, she organized the cooking concert Heisse Ohren as part of steirischer herbst. At the beginning of 2020 she curated the exhibition INGRID WIENER northwest passage for the Museum Hartberg, last autumn she published the monograph INGRID WIENER Durch die Kette sehen.

     

    Photo © Oswald Wiener

     

WED 09 DEC 2020

  • POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE – Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Lukas Thaler

    Lukas Thaler, born in 1989 in Hall in Tirol, lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Daihatsu Rooftop Gallery, Vienna, Bruch & Dallas, Cologne, MUSA, Vienna, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna, Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck, fait gallery NEM, Brno, Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, EXILE, Vienna, Parallel Vienna, In Spite Of, Porto, Guimarães, Vienna, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague, Museum Gardens, London, Material Artfair, Mexico City, Fettes College Edinburgh, Palais Schönborn-Batthyány, Vienna, One Work Gallery, Vienna, Ve.sch, Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Vienna.

     

    https://lukasthaler.com/

     

    Due to the COVID-19 distancing rules the number of seats is limited. We kindly ask you to make a reservation including your contact information until Dec 8th via info@artistlectureseriesvienna

     

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WED 11 NOV 2020

  • POSTPONED TO A LATER DATE – Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Liesl Raff

    Liesl Raff, born in 1979 in Stuttgart, lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.

     

    Due to the COVID-19 distancing rules the number of seats is limited. We kindly ask you to make a reservation including your contact information until Nov 10th via info@artistlectureseriesvienna

     

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SUN 20 SEP 2020

  • Release/Readings, 5 pm
    Speed - Boredom and Despair

    Release event will take place on 20. September, 5 pm–9 pm, at Stadtpark.

    Coordinates 48.2029, 16.3788.

     

    Readings will start at 7 pm by:

    Eva Engelbert

    Rogine Moradi

    Nana Dahlin

    Georg Thanner

     

    I just have to be on top of it, working a little bit harder, being a bit more disciplined. These days I am trying to get so bored that something new can happen. I have heard being bored is the negative space where ideas are born. And I need more ideas.

    Text: Demian Kern

     

    „Speed“ is a publication created by Julia Steinbach and Laura Hatting.

     

    Participating artists:

    Chiara Bals

    Nana Dahlin

    Gabriele Edlbauer

    Eva Engelbert

    Julia Goodman

    Samuel Linus Gromann

    Demian Kern

    Ensi M.

    Rogine Moradi

    Saskia Te Nicklin

    Ljubomir Popovic

    My Sjöberg

    Georg Thanner

     

    Photo © Albin Bergström

     

MAR-MAY 2020

  • City walk
    Ganz Wien / da da da da

    Restrictions on movement in public places began in mid-March and were lifted in early May.

    During this time we experienced our relationship with the city, our surroundings, our friends and fellow human beings in a new and different way; our perspective shifted.

    Before these echo spaces disappeared artists living in Vienna were invited to tell us about a public place that they particularly observed during this time.

    These collected places are now available as a city walk.

     

    Aljoscha Ambrosch / Udo Bohnenberger / Olivia Coeln / Karoline Dausien / Andreas Duscha / Veronika Eberhart / Karine Fauchard / Julia Goodman / Nicholas Hoffman / Konrad Kager / Eric Klaering / Angelika Loderer / Stefan Lux / Marit Wolters / Josef Zekoff

     

    Map

     

    Map Aljoscha Ambrosch, Turning LoopWehlistraße 309, 1020 Vienna Excerpts from Dissonante Perspektiven by Hans Ulrich Reck (Kunstforum 263 Rebellion and Adaptation) Here translated from German: …The movement at the border to the overloading of perceptual abilities as well as the existential need for decision-making, the flow of things, signs, to prepare an end to perceptions, in order to establish situations, in which the processes can no longer be open, that marks a principle of restlessness……The characteristic of this is a researched development of visually formulated ideas or actions which presuppose the opening of the senses, restlessness and complexity,but not yet dealt with reflection. Such fully trusts the experience and the richness of the everyday……Only there is restlessness undogmatic and happy, post-apocalyptic and possibly life-affirming, where it does not aim at something real or unconditional behind things…  Udo Bohnenberger, Leisure Pandemic 2020Donaukanal - shore in front of the Court of Audit, 1030 Vienna You all know… just send the employees and assistants into short-time work and look for a little rest. After a hard day of working in the studio, you want to let your mind wander… for once no annoying calls from curators, collectors, gallery owners, museums and institutions… just that!Olivia CoelnDonau-Auen National Park, Lobau, Dechantweg 10, 1220 Vienna During the past weeks I have perceived more smells than usual when bathing in the Donau-Auen. Apart from the various animal, insect and plant scents, I came upon more leftovers, sweet liquids, urine and non-animal faeces. That may sound questionable, but I liked the density and complex mix of these different aromas in Vienna's jungle.Karoline DausienTuchlauben 2, 1010 Vienna Rolex - Corona - krone.at - luxury - lockdown - Graben - precious building site - gallery light - neighbours - Chanel, Louis Vuitton - Valentino, Zanoni - Switzerland - time - Hotel Corvinus  - Has Roger Federer benefited from the corona virus? Andreas DuschaStand 37, Karmelitermarkt,1020 Vienna Sun 9.00-17.00Good internetToilet around the corner  Veronika EberhartRebhanngasse, 1200 Vienna Embeded between houses from various epochs and a fascinating wall that changes its composition every three meters lies Rebhanngasse. Behind the wall freight wagons and the Vienna Northwest Railway Station. It is hard to see because the wall is about two meters high, but sometimes there is something to hear. In front of the wall, wild grass and plastic containers filled with sand. Depending on which direction you look, views of the Danube Tower or Kahlenberg. Suitable for sunset. Karine FauchardSchmelzbrücke, 1150 Vienna There is a special place next to my apartment: a bridge, the Schmelzbrücke or Schweglerbrücke. Made of green steel, it reminds me a lot of Auguste Eiffel's buildings.In addition to the charm of the arches covered with graffiti, metallic curves and light effects in the evening, there is a wonderful feeling and a panorama of Vienna West station and also the "West".During these weeks, the view of the tracks was fascinating: Everything was calm and quiet. Like a model train that has not get been turned on.  Julia GoodmanKillis Getränke, Fenzlgasse 9 , 1150 Vienna Homesick for New York, I thought I'd copy my grandparents' long-standing tradition of a daily cocktail hour. Luckily, I discovered my new favorite drink: the Last Word. 22.5ml fresh lime juice, 22.5ml gin, 22.5ml green chartreuse, 22.5ml maraschino liqueur, shaken with ice, double strained, served up, and garnished with a maraschino cherry. Nicholas Hoffman The Friedrich Engels Platz Underpass Amphitheatre-chenLocated under the street of Friedrich Engels Platz, 1200 Vienna This corner of Vienna is in no danger of disappearing anytime soon, but its quality as a public performance venue will probably be overlooked. Poetry readings, stand up comedy, dance routines and live music are all possible on this little stage; the tunnels natural reverb carrying sound particularly well into the modest seating arrangements, which are already equipped with social distancing barriers.  I dragged my wife and daughter here multiple times to test some stand up comedy or strum a tune in the deserted theatre, the muffled sound of empty busses above dissipating into the twilight.Konrad KagerPhillipshof, Phillipsgasse 8, 1040 Vienna A community building from the 1920s with a beautiful, large, partly green courtyard and with old trees.Hours of reading interesting texts, observing various squirrels with binoculars and interacting with residents through the windows. (Among other things, very much with the resident who has the Austrian flag as a curtain in the window.) The place is of course open to the public and is used as such.  Eric Klaering48°11'50"N   16°26'25"E Living in the Stuwerviertel - on the Island of Matzo - the Green Prater is a place I happily visit any time.My walks, on foot or by bike, often lead me to one of the many meadows in this protected landscape reserve that gave the Prater its name.Despite the great rush to the green and open spaces during the spring of the far-reaching restrictions, I usually find peace and seclusion on the Grafenwiese. Angelika LodererPionierinsel, 3400 Klosterneuburg Actually it is a place that I would never give away because it is so beautiful and still relatively untouched. A tiny sand island that borders the Danube and lets you dream of how Vienna (and the surroundings) was when it knew no fields and cities and the Danube was not straightened. Stefan LuxNußberggasse, 1190 Vienna In the afternoon of April 4, 2020, I walk through Vienna Grinzing. On the deserted Nußberggasse I notice a small movement zone secured by many grids. I record this front yard as a corona sculpture.  Marit WoltersDonauinsel, view in the direction of Kagran/UNO-City A business tower, the seat of the UN, a platform for the people - the embodiment of great ideas and utopias in a built form.When the pandemic hit Europe, everything started to stand still, suddenly a social discourse was possible, which is otherwise not possible in the steady forward drive of world history - about the value of the individual and the how-we-want-to-live-together. It was a brief pause, summary, dreaming, demanding, before the moment passed and the bathers returned to the stands on the Danube.  Josef ZekoffAltes AKH, Spitalgasse/Sensengasse, 1090 Vienna Daily tour across the fallow at the Narrenturm.Vis-à-vis tennis players constantly smashing balls onto the back wall of the National Bank.Hoping for a breakthrough. <>

     

WED 18 MAR 2020

  • CANCELLED – Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Anna Witt

    Anna Witt's artistic practice is performative, participatory and political. Witt creates situations that reflect interpersonal relationships and power relations as well as conventions of speaking and acting. Passers-by in public spaces or specifically selected people and groups are often directly and physically involved into her experimental setups. The tasks range from the repeated imitation of specifically coded gestures to the development of complex choreographies and open up possibilities of individual articulation and authorship to the participants. With curiosity and empathy for her opposite, Anna Witt tries to activate the individual's ability to act, which she understands as a necessary condition for community and society. Again and again, she examines questions of subject formation: how we become, who we are, what we do, what we believe in, what we fight for, and how this social self is related to social, political and economic conditions.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Belvedere 21, Vienna, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Kunstraum München, Munich, Simultanhalle Köln, Cologne, Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, GfzK – Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Marabouparken Museum, Stockholm, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Salzburger Kunstverein/Kabinett, Salzburg, o.T – Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Luzern, Lothringer13 - Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz.

     

    Awards: Otto Mauer Award (2018), Art Award Europe's Future (2015) and the BC21 Art Award from Boston Consulting and Belvedere Vienna, (2013).

     

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TUE 28 JAN 2020

  • Presentation/Talk, 6 pm
    For the birds: Claudia Märzendorfer

    For the birds is an art project in public space. A group of visual artists, authors, architects and musicians were invited by Claudia Märzendorfer to build a bird house. From the individual contributions, an aeronautical Werkbundsiedlung was created in the garden of the psychiatric department of the county clinic Hollabrunn.

     

    Participants are: Azra Akšamija & Dietmar Offenhuber / Dave Allen / Sam Auinger + katrinem / Miriam Bajtala / Udo Bohnenberger / Catrin Bolt / Ruth Cerha / Regula Dettwiler / Elektro Guzzi / Judith Fegerl / Grete, Toni, Nicole / Maia Gusberti / Anne Hardy / Rosa Hausleithner / Johannes Heuer / Edgar Honetschläger / kozek Hörlonski / Rudi Klein / Simona Koch / Lotte Lyon / M&S Architects - Uta Lambrette / Claudia Märzendorfer / Maja Osojnik / art collective RHIZOM / Peter Sandbichler / Hans Schabus / Toni Schmale & Wally Salner / Ferdinand Schmatz & Annelie Gahl / Ed Schnabl / Susanne Schuda / Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch / Carsten Stabenow - tuned city / Andreas Strauss / Sophie Thun / Viktoria Tremmel / Anita Witek / Werner Würtinger

     

    Claudia Märzendorfer (initiator), Jeanette Pacher (accompanying the project), Katrina Petter (KÖR Niederösterreich) and artists of the project will talk about the genesis of the project.

     

WED 11 DEC 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Andrea Witzmann

    Andrea Witzmann, born in 1970, works in Vienna. She studied at the Vienna University of Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Fotohof Salzburg, Salzburg, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna, Camera Austria, Graz, Tokyo Wonder Site, Shibuya, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York

     

    www.andreawitzmann.com

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since 2010.

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WED 13 NOV 2019

WED 16 OCT 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Leopold Kessler

    Leopold Kessler, born in 1976, lives and works in Vienna. He studied sculpture in Munich and Vienna, where he graduated in 2004. His work deals with psycho-social phenomena that gain a political dimension in public space. The implementation of his works is carried out through unannounced interventions, objects, installations or/and videos.

     

    Solo exhibitions: Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Secession, Vienna.

     

    Group exhibitions: Broad Art Museum of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, de Appel, Amsterdam.

     

    Participation in the Singapore Biennale (2011), the 10th Lyon Biennale and the Manifesta 5 in San Sebastian.

     

    www.leopoldkessler.net

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since 2010.

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    Photo © Leopold Kessler, still from food track 2

     

THU 26 SEP 2019

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm
    (if words become violent I)

    Positions in a room, eyes slightly tinted red, boiling lobster, searching for what has been lost.

    One turns vibrant, few become dark, we consider:

     

    shut eyes wide.

     

    The girl with no face turns around and asks:

    >Can you hear me?<

    The lobster replies:

    >The water is cold.<

     

    Sophie Marie Csenar, born in 1995 in Vienna, studies Sculpture and Space at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Elene Gabrichidze, born in 1992 in Tbilisi. Studied at the Center of Contemporary Art. Ex-member of female art group “New Collective”,  Streetart and online art duo “Print on Eye”. Started writing poetry in 2018.

     

    Qeu Meparishvili, born in 1995, is working and living in Tbilisi. Qeu studied at Tbilisi State University of Cinema, dropped out and resumed her studies at CCA- Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi.

     

    Lisa Sifkovits, born in 1993, lives and works in Vienna. Studies in the department for Sculpture and Space at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2017. Worked as freelance book designer.

     

    Organised by Selma Klima.

     

    Exhibition 27–30 September 2019

    Opening hours 3–6 pm

    And on request amilkslm@gmail.com

     

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WED 11 SEP 2019

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm
    No x in nixon: Antonio Della Corte & Vika
    Prokopaviciute

    The mouth opens and excretes a wet bubblegum that gives witness to the mountainy landscape of the last chew. Flop.

    Slowly expanding while distorting proportions embrace the space and hit a vitrine.

    ,Hi what if we coexist for some time?‘

    A swirl contracts the mass and sucks it in an abandoned pipe. Bye.

     

    Antonio Della Corte, born in Naples, Italy, lives and works in Naples, where he runs Tarsia, space for contemporary art incorporated in a plant and flower shop.

     

    Vika Prokopaviciute, born in Vilnius, Lithuania, lives and works in Vienna. She studied painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Emily Watlington, born in Richmond, Virginia, US, lives and works in New York. She is assistant editor at Art in America.

     

    Leena Lübbe, born in Itzehoe, Germany, lives and works in Vienna. She studies at the Sculpture and Space department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    This exhibition is part of the series 'If Lines Ran Parallel' organized by Leena Lübbe

     

    Exhibition 12–16 September 2019

    Opening 11 September 2019, 6–10 pm

    Opening hours 13–15 September 2019, 3–6 pm

    and on request at leena.luebbe@gmail.com

     

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WED 12 JUN 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Melanie Ebenhoch

    Melanie Ebenhoch, born in 1985, lives in Vienna.

     

    Solo exhibitions: Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2019), VIS, Hamburg (2018), For Seasons, Zurich (2018), Kevin Space, Vienna (2018), Galerie Tobias Naehring, Leipzig (2018), Hester, New York (2016), Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam (2014), MAUVE, Vienna (2013), PA/////KT, Amsterdam (2013).

     

    Group exhibitions: Über das Neue, Belvedere 21, Vienna (2019), Comfortable hole bye, 4649, Tokyo (2019), Body, L’Inconnue, Montreal (2018), Schmaltz, Guimaraes, Vienna (2018), Wiener Raum, curated by Eva Maria Stadler and Lukas Kaufmann, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (2018), Bar du Bois, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2016), Me Me Me, Well Well Well, Vienna (2014), The Research and Destroy Department of Black Mountain College, W139, Amsterdam (2012).

     

    http://melanieebenhoch.com/

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since 2010.

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WED 15 MAY 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Toni Schmale

    Toni Schmale, born in 1980 in Hamburg, lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions 2018-2015: Queer Stories, tranzit/sk, Bratislava, MOUNTAIN ENERGEI, Gallery Har-El, Printers & Publishers, Jaffa, Sexy & cool. Minimal goes emotional, Kunsthalle Tübingen, HOT HOT HOT, Secession, Vienna, the good enough mother, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, Spiegelnde Fenster, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Work it, feel it!, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Bingo, ASPN Gallery, Leipzig, 56th October Salon, Belgrade Biennial, The Pleasure Of Love, Belgrade, SEPP AUER / TONI SCHMALE, Christine König Gallery, Vienna, SUPEREGO, nGbK, Berlin, KÖR, In the Still of the Night, Esterhazypark, Vienna, The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennale, Kiew, Selftimer Stories, MUSAC, Leon.

     

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THU 30 APR 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm
    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Francis Ruyter

    Francis Ruyter, born in 1968 in Washington DC, art studies in New York City, more than 30 solo exhibitions worldwide. His work is included in The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Le Consortium, Dijon and many other public collections.

    Ruyter has been active in Vienna’s art community since 2003, producing and presenting more than 30 exhibitions of artists at Galerie Ruyter and other spaces. He was a guest professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 2011-12 and is a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the Vienna Secession.

     

    His exhibition Hurricane/Time/Image opened on 10 April at Franz Josefs Kai 3. He will discuss the work in this exhibition during his presentation. Hurricane/Time/Image sandwiches his new works with a flash retrospective of his germinal work from the 1990s. Curated by Mohammad Salemy, it will consist of drawings, paintings and objects, dated from 1990–94 and 2015–19 as well as new display treatments including projections and reproductions of the archival source material.

    The exhibition is meant to disrupt narratives of artistic, aesthetic and career developments as well as social conditions surrounding the production of art and the subjectivity specific to Ruyter. It suggests that the chaotic force of technology is always at work throughout an artist’s oeuvre, rearranging the relationship of past, present and future into new constellations. Rather than using the recent works to make a new sense out of Ruyter’s earlier practice, it brings to light embedded concerns, themes and motifs which have been resonating in the artist’s practice since the early stages of his career.

     

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MON 08 APR 2019

  • Screening, 7:30 pm
    As Long as We Go East

    On a journey across Europe, starting in Rennes and finishing in Saint-Petersburg, a team of young documentarists spontaneously and poetically engage with an experience of culture, languages and borders. The camera follows Tao, a blooming artist travelling by the means of her skateboard.

    Along the way they make insightful encounters and live unique experiences, through a variety of colours, landscapes, creative initiatives and incredible movements coming to sight progressively during their journey. This summer tale reflects an individual challenge, generated by the experience of various encounters, bringing out a single poetic line, a movement. Under the humble wheels of a skateboard hides a tribute to the old continent. Overall, questioning the individuality, the mass, and moreover, us, the European youth.

     

    Directed by Mehdi Rondeleux

    After the screening there will be an open discussion with Mehdi Rondeleux.

    Event organized by Sophie Csenar

     

    Sophie Csenar born in 1995, lives and works in Vienna. She currently studies at the department Sculpture and Space at the University of applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Mehdi Rondeleux, after finishing his studies in editing, started to work as an editor for different TV programs such as 28 minutes on Arte or Dimanche + and Le Grand Journal on Canal plus. He directed his first documentary project in 2013. AZAR, a series of portraits about todays Algerians acting for environment. He co-directed two years later KAK IGRA, a short film documentary focusing on the French judo team during the world championships in Russia. AS LONG AS WE GO EAST is his first feature-length film.

     

    Top Kino, Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Wien

     

     

WED 13 MAR 2019

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Josef Dabernig

    Josef Dabernig, born in 1956, lives in Vienna. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, his working concept dissolving into different media with a focus on film.

     

    Participations: Manifesta 3, 10, 49 and 50, Venice Biennale, 9th Gwangju Biennale.

     

    Festival participations: Locarno, Mar del Plata, Melbourne, Oberhausen (2016 Profile), Rotterdam, Toronto, Venice. Nomination for the European Film Award in the category Short Film  for Hypercrisis in Venice (2011).

     

    Exhibitions: Revisioning LIDL Sports Week, M HKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (2018), Yesterday, Today, Today, Kunstraum Buchberg (2018), Ist Eros der eben jetzt von mir beobachtete Planet?, Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin (2018), VIKTORIA, hunt kastner, Prague (2017), Box with the Sound of Its Own Making, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest (2017), Complexity, Contradiction and a Decorated Shed, Significant Other, Vienna (2017), My sweet little lamb, Galerija Nova, Zagreb (2017), Stabat Mater, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2017), Inner Lives (of time), National Gallery, Prague (2016), River Plate, Lulu, Mexico City (2016), The School of Kyiv, Kyiv Biennial (2015).

     

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WED 27 FEB 2019

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    If Lines Ran Parallel: Anna Hostek & Vanessa Schmidt

    It is a precarious game to set people up based on one’s subjective evaluation of personalities and who might or might not get along with one another. On the other hand, introducing people is an opportunity to create new connections, like the touching of synapses in the brain that build new neural networks. Bringing together the artists Anna Hostek and Vanessa Schmidt is an attempt to harness such an event.

    I wonder how a little bit of 'gaga' gets along with theatrics; how the personal can be intertwined with staged sceneries and romanticized codes. While the working processes are different, both artistic practices intersect in the longing to unveil the misconceptions in images we have of different women.

     

    Anna Hostek, born in 1995 in Vienna, lives and works in Vienna. She received a BA in TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she currently studies at the Sculpture and Space department.

     

    Vanessa Schmidt, born in 1990 in Frankfurt am Main, lives and works in Vienna. She studies at the Painting department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Leena Lübbe, born in 1989 in Itzehoe, lives and works in Vienna. She studies at the Sculpture and Space department at the University of applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Organized by Leena Lübbe

     

    Exhibition 28 February–4 March 2019

    Opening 27 February 2019, 7–10 pm

    Opening hours 2 March 2019, 3–6 pm

    and on request at leena.luebbe@gmail.com

     

    Photos © Flavio Palasciano

     

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WED 16 JAN 2019

WED 12 DEC 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Josef Bauer

    Josef Bauer, born in 1934 in Wels, lives in Linz, works in Linz and Gunskirchen. 1956 - 1964 Kunstschule der Stadt Linz/presently University of Art and Design Linz (Kunstuniversität Linz). Exhibiting internationally since 1962.

     

    Solo exhibitions: Galerie im Griechenbeisl, Vienna, Neue Galerie Joanneum, Graz, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Landesgalerie, Oö. Landesmuseum, Linz, Museum Angerlehner, Thalheim near Wels, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Galerie Unttld Contemporary, Vienna, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Studiogalerie der Kunstsammlung, Linz.

     

    Selected group exhibitions: Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Landesmuseum Münster, Kunstmuseum Leipzig, Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA), Perth, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Landesgalerie, Linz, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Oö. Landesmuseum, Linz, MUSA, Vienna, MUSA, Brno, National Portrait Gallery, London, 21er Haus/Belvedere, Vienna, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Kunsthalle, Krems, Neue Galerie, Graz, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Gallery Lisa Cooley, New York, Galerie Charim, Vienna, Galerie Krobath, Vienna, Gallery Simone Subal, New York, Art Cologne 2017, Dom Museum Vienna.

     

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WED 14 NOV 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Thea Moeller

    Thea Moeller, born in 1985 in Hannover, works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (2008–2010) and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2010–2014). Participated in the Lenikus Artists in Residence Program in Vienna (2014/15) and the MAK Schindler Artists and Architects-in-Residence Program in Los Angeles (2015/16). She curated exhibitions at the Café Adria in Vienna, and especially at the Kunstverein Ve.Sch, which she has been co-running since 2013. Since 2017 she teaches at the Art University Linz.

     

    Selected single and two-person exhibitions: Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna (2018), Venice 6114, Los Angeles (2016), Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2015), Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen (2015).

     

    Selected group exhibitions: Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna (2018), BALTSprojects, Zurich (2018), Westwerk, Hamburg (2018), SCAG, Vienna (2017), operativa arte contemporenea, Rome (2017), Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Shabla, Bulgaria (2015).

     

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WED 24 OCT 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Nicolas Jasmin

    Nicolas Jasmin, born in 1967 in France, lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Pseudonym N.I.C.J.O.B. (1996 to 2006).

     

    Selected exhibitions: mumok, Vienna, Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s studio, Grenoble, Gesso, Vienna, Van Horn, Düsseldorf, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Markhof 2, Vienna, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, wellwellwell, Vienna, 0gms Gallery, Sofia, Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Beijing International Art Biennale, COCO, Vienna, Secession, Vienna.

     

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TUE 25 SEP 2018

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Urlaub

    Gondola. Valet Parking. Actual this opulent style is not really my thing, but it fits with the overall concept. I miss the wraparound terrace and the water games, which I always liked to watch from my flat on the 2nd floor.

    There is a song that could have this title. He sings it but in reality it's called something else, it's named after a small, otherwise nondescript place and is about a Sunday car ride in Italy.

     

    Karoline Dausien, born 1986 in Bremen, lives and works in Vienna. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Monica Bonvicini and Julian Goethe and at UdK Berlin with Manfred Pernice.

     

    Gregor Hildebrandt, born in 1974 in Bad Homburg, lives and works in Berlin.

     

    Demian Kern, born 1990 in Bietigheim-Bissingen, lives and works in Vienna.

     

    Leena Lübbe, born 1989 in Itzehoe, lives and works in Vienna. She studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Hans Schabus.

     

    David Peschka, born 1990 in Linz, lives and works in Vienna. Diploma at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Henning Bohl (2017).

     

    Evelyn Plaschg, born 1988 in Gnas, lives and works in Vienna. She studies at the Academy of fine arts Vienna with Julian Goethe and earlier with Gunter Damisch, as well as at the ENSBA Paris (2015/16).

     

    Vanessa Schmidt, born 1990 in Frankfurt am Main, ives and works in Vienna. She studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna with Henning Bohl.

     

    Alexandra-Maria Toth, born 1982 in Vienna, lives and works as a writer in Vienna. She studied International Development Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Vienna.

     

    Organized by Rachel Fäth

     

    Exhibition 26-27 September 2018

    Opening 25 September 2018, 7–10 pm

    Opening hours 27 September 2018, 2-6 pm

    and on request at rachel.faeth@gmx.de

     

    Photos © Joakim Martinussen

     

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WED 04 JUL 2018

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    An Intersection Does Not Exist if Lines Run Parallel: Hanna Kucera & Denis Kudrjasov

    Go inside and look for the guy with the apple juice and you will find him. Tall, blond. He sits in the corner next to the ice cream counter, I mean cake display. I’ll be a little late.

     

    Hanna Kucera, born 1996 in Hildesheim, studies at the HFBK Dresden and currently at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Denis Kudrjasov, born 1994 in Tallinn, studies at the HFBK Hamburg and currently at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    The act of connecting two people from the outside, who simultaneously, spend a short period of time in the same city is a central key to the exhibition series „An intersection does not exist if lines run parallel“. Having not known each other previously, the possibility to show their work together, generates a potential 'of the unknown' as a process to be explored during the exhibition.

     

    Organized by Leena Lübbe

     

    Exhibition 5–8 July 2018

    Opening 4 July 2018, 7–10 pm

    Opening hours 8 July 2018, 2–6 pm

    and on request at leena.luebbe@gmail.com

     

    Photos © Flavio Palasciano

     

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WED 13 JUN 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Soshiro Matsubara

    Soshiro Matsubar a, born in 1980 in Japan, lives and works in Vienna. He is co-director of XYZcollective since 2011.

     

    Selected solo & two-person exhibitions: Sleeves of Desire II, Brennan&Griffin, NY (2017), there's hell in hello but more in goodbye., LambdaLambdaLambda at Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw (2017), Sleeves of Desire, XYZcollective,Tokyo (2016), ParamountRanch3, XYZcollective, LA (2016).

     

    Selected group exhibitions: Post-Formalist Painting, statements, Tokyo (2017), Madame, Justice, Vienna (2017),  Apropos l’Hiver, Bel Ami, LA (2017), By the lakeside: organized by Yui Yaegashi, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2017), SAYONARA Jupiter, 356mission, LA (2017), Commodus Operandi, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago (2016), Stealing Eyes (Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Imprisoned, Jailbreak) cupsule, Tokyo (2016), I'm sorry please talk more slowly, Hikarie, Tokyo (2015), PLUGGS, Karma International, Zürich (2014), XYZcollective at Brennan&Griffen - Man&Play, Brennan&Griffen, NY (2014), The Way of PAINTING, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo (2014).

     

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TUE 15 MAY 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Bernhard Brungs

    Bernhard Brungs, born 1974 in Bielefeld. Studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Organized the Kunst Klub Köln with Svenja Deininger and Marcus Broecker.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Gallery Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, Kunsthalle CCA Andratx, Mallorca, PH Projects, Berlin, Producer Gallery, Hamburg.

     

    Selected group exhibitions: Kino International, Berlin, Gallery Michael Haas, Genegenbach, Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf; Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Balice Hertling Gallery, Paris, Gallery Hilger Contemporary, Vienna.

     

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WED 18 APR 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Nora Kapfer

    Nora Kapfer, born 1984 in Munich. Studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Malmö Art Academy. Kapfer has participated in the residency program of WIELS Contemporary Art Center in Brussels (2016).

     

    Selected exhibitions: Galerie Lars Friedrich, Berlin (2018), Etablissment d’en face, Brussels (2017), Riverside, Bern (2017), Loggia, Munich (2017), Real Positive, Cologne (2017), WIELS Contemporary art centre, Brussels (2017), Garret Grimoire, Berlin (2016), Muda Mura Muri, Vienna (2015), Nousmoules, Vienna (2013).

     

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WED 21 MAR 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Lisa Holzer

    Lisa Holzer, born in 1971 in Vienna, lives and works in Berlin and Vienna.

     

    Recent solo & two-person exhibitions: I come in you, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (2018), Fiac with Galerie Emanuel Layr, Paris (2017), I come in you - The Party Sequel (Berlin), Galerie Gillmeier Rech, Berlin (2017), Be a funny mom, Hester, New York (2016), Men what a humble word, Lira Gallery, Rome (2016), The Composing Rooms, Berlin (2015), Keep All Your Friends, Rowing, London (2015), Frieze, Focus Section with Galerie Emanuel Layr, London (2014), I did love you once, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (2014).

     

    Recent group exhibitions: Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt (2018), Galerie Gillmeier Rech, Berlin (2018), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2017), MAK, Vienna (2017), Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich (2017), Seventeen Gallery, London (2016), Emanuel Layr, Vienna (2016), Centre for Style, Melbourne (2015), 21er Haus, Vienna (2015), Good Press Gallery, Glasgow (2015), Rowing, London (2015), New Museum, New York (2015), Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz (2015), Shanaynay, Paris (2014), Rowing, London (2014), dingum, Paris (2014), Galerie Kamm, Berlin (2014).

     

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MON 26 FEB 2018

  • Midissage, 7 pm/slideshow lecture, 8 pm

    Mittelbau

    The place could be flippantly described as one in which the mere means—sick of eternal waiting—could hold forth on their own: for which reason the “holder” enjoyed pride of place. The posed questions struck their poses throughout the entire space. The slideshow had realized ahead of time the vital nature of its performance. And the everyday narrative? It had left its daily litter all over and was thus constantly in the way.

    Translation: Christopher Roth

     

    Gabriele Edlbauer, born in 1988, lives and works in Vienna as a freelance artist. She graduated from the sculpture class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Edlbauer has worked as a university assistant since 2013, formerly at the University of Art and Design Linz and currently at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Anna Hofbauer, born in 1981, lives and works in Vienna as a freelance artist. She studied stage design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2016, she has been a senior artist at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In 2017, she taught at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts.

     

    Roland Kollnitz, born in 1972, lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna. He completed his studies in sculpture at the Academy (today’s University) of Applied Arts Vienna. He has been teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2001.

     

    Antoine Turillon, born in 1982, lives and works as a freelance artist in Vienna. He completed his studies in photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2014, he has been a member of the mid-level artistic teaching staff at the University of Art and Design Linz.

     

    MITTELBAU curated by Eva Engelbert and Georg Petermichl

    Anna Hofbauer liest Bora Ćosić „Die Tutoren" is a slideshow by Anna Hofbauer on midissage  night at 8pm.

    Midissage: 26 February 2018, 7 pm

    Exhibition: 22 February-4 March 2018

    Hours: 1 March 2018, 6:30-8:30 pm and by appointment (eva.engelbert@uni-ak.ac.at)

     

    Photos © Peter Mochi

     

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WED 31 JAN 2018

  • Presentation/Lecture, 6 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Ute Müller

    Ute Müller , born in 1978, lives in Vienna. Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and at the Royal College of Art London. Founding member and co-editor of "Black Pages".

     

    Selected exhibitions: Künstlerhaus Graz, Taxispalais – Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Établissement d’en face, Brussels, Kunsthalle Wien, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Tyrolean Künstlerschaft – Kunstpavillon Innsbruck, Gallery Kunstbuero, Vienna, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, 21er Haus, Vienna, Pigna Project Space, Rome, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Galerie Dana Charkasi, Vienna, Künstlerhaus Wien, NJP Art Center, Seoul.

     

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TUE 12 DEC 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Johannes Schweiger, talk with Tanja Widmann

    Johannes Schweiger , born in 1973, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Together with Wally Salner he co-operated at the design brand ____fabrics interseason until 2011 and has been co-responsible for exhibitions at various exhibition venues, including Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 3rd Berlin Biennale, Manifesta7, Alto Adige, at the Institute of Visual Arts Milwaukee, Kunstverein München, Kölnischer Kunstverein and the Grazer Kunstverein. ____fabrics interseason presentetd its collections twice a year during Paris fashion week between 2002 and collaborated with international press and sales agencies within the EU, USA and Asian market.

    From 2012 on Johannes Schweiger has been engaged with solo projects and showed his work amongst others at pro choice, Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst MUMOK, Vienna, Museum der Moderne MdM, Salzburg, KM-/Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, school, Vienna and at nousmoules, Vienna.

    Since 2009 he lectures at the University of Art and Design in Linz, further at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and he is currently a research assistant/lectureship at the University of Technology in Dortmund.

    Together with Susanne Schneider he established Wiener Times („The reference in contemporary bolstering“) in 2016. He lives and works in Vienna.

     

    Tanja Widmann is an artist and writer. She lives and works in Vienna.

     

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WED 15 NOV 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Josip Novosel

    Josip Novosel, born in 1988 in Zagreb, lives in Tegernsee, Germany and Planina Gornja, Croatia. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a participant of 300 Years Rhadamanthys Foundation.

    Selected exhibitions 2017: Letzte Chance, Lothringer_13_Florida, Munich, Josip Novosel & Aaron Ritschard, Riversidespace, Worblaufen, 3000 Years Rhadamanthys Foundation, Easyupstream, Munich, Tempo/63rd-77th Steps/ Online.

     

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TUE 17 OCT 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Andreas Fogarasi

    Andreas Fogarasi, born in 1977 in Vienna, lives in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as well as at the ENSBA Paris and Le Pavillon / Palais de Tokyo Paris.

     

    Fogarasi works in the border area of sculpture and documentary practice, with a focus on questions of space, architecture and materiality, as well as the role of the cultural field in social and urban transformation processes.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Gallery of the City of Bratislava, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, GfzK – Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Trafó, Budapest, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Grazer Kunstverein, as well as in the Hungarian pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale, where he was awarded the Golden Lion for the best pavilion.

     

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    Table lamp for Artist Lecture Series Vienna, Tristan Griessler, 2017

FRI 15 SEP 2017

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Digesting Notes

    A transforming piece of cloth, dusty bodies and floating stairs. The sum of these parts is foolhardy, but the positions are clearly contoured: lustfully dancing along the edge of the cliff.

     

    Kitsum Cheng, born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin. She graduated from Simon Fraser University Vancouver and Städelschule Frankfurt am Main.

    Gerrit Frohne-Brinkmann, born in 1990, lives and works in Hamburg. He graduated from HfbK Hamburg.

    Michaela Schweighofer, born in 1983, lives and works in Vienna. She graduated from Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Before that she studied English Literature, Psychology and Philosophy at Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

    Philip Pichler, born in 1985, lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from HfbK Hamburg and University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

    Digesting Notes is organized by Philip Pichler.

     

    Photos © Philipp Köster

     

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MON 04 SEP 2017

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Dreaming Dictionary 3

    A foundation with eroded walls crumbles slowly away. Traces of construction and remnants rest in the corners. Wires and pipes protrude from the floor, the recurring rain filling the pipes. Their ever-open mouths cut the wind – two high tones and one deep tone create a drone chord.

     

    Anna Holtz and Tim Hartmann

     

    Series organized by Eugen Wist

    http://dreamingdictionary.org

     

    Photos © Philipp Friedrich

     

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WED 14 JUN 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Benjamin Hirte

    Benjamin Hirte was born in 1980 in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He lives in Vienna. Hirte works in the fields of sculpture and text and organizes exhibitions. Participant of the Schindler Residency Program in Los Angeles. Award from the Ponto Foundation (2016) – the prize includes an exhibition at the Museum für moderne Kunst Frankfurt (MMK 3). Selected individual and group exhibitions include the MAK, Vienna, Grazer Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Christian Andersen Gallery, Copenhagen, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna.

     

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WED 31 MAY 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Herwig Kempinger, talk with Ruth Horak

    Herwig Kempinger was born 1957 in Steyr. Studied at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna (1976 - 1980), Lecturer for media art at the Academy of Applied Arts Vienna (1984 - 1994). Outstanding Artist Award for Artistic Photography of the Federal Ministry of Education and Art (1987), Austrian Art Prize for Artistic Photography of the Federal Ministry for Education and Art (1992), Cultural Prize of the State of Upper Austria for Artistic Photography (2006), Prize of the City of Vienna for Fine Arts (2010). Since 2013 President of the Vienna Secession.

     

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WED 26 APR 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Marlene Hausegger

    Marlene Hausegger (b.1984 in Leoben, Austria) studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the École des Beaux Arts in Montpellier. She is particularly interested in the hidden limitations and restricted possibilities of social situations, which she primarily discovers in the public realm. The results of this work are often temporary interventions and installations - as well as the accompanying drawings and videos which are notable for their formal lightness, cryptic humour and visual power. (Text by Liquid Frontiers)

     

    Selected exhibitions: Aeromoto, Mexico City (2017), Kyoto Experiment Art Festival, Japan (2016), Biennial Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina (2015), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havanna, Cuba (2015), Stedelijk Museum, s´Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands (2013), Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna (2017/2012/2011), Steirischer Herbst (2015/ 2010), rotor, Graz (2014/2010), Museum LENTOS, Linz (2010).

     

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WED 15 MAR 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Henning Bohl

    Henning Bohl (b.1975, Oldenburg, Germany) currently lives and works in Hamburg and Vienna. He studied at the Kunsthochschule, Kassel and at the Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main where he completed his studies in 2004.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston (2015), Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Berlinische Galerie (2013), Pro Choice, Vienna (2012), Kunstverein Hamburg (2011), Artpace, San Antonio, Cubitt, London (2010), Grazer Kunstverein, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (2009), Oldenburger Kunstverein (2008).

     

    Selected group exhibitions: Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2013), Kunstverein Reutlingen, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015), Bar Du Bois, Vienna, Bergen Kunsthall, ICA London (2014), Kunsthalle Bonn, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2013), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (2012), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Seattle Art Museum (2011), Kunstverein Schattendorf, Kunstverein Hannover, CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2010), White Columns, New York, Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen (2009).

     

    Bohl is Professor for Painting at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.

     

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WED 15 FEB 2017

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Ground Score

    Myles Starr  /  Chloe Stead  /  Daniel Stubenvoll

     

    Reading Chloe Stead 7:30 pm

     

    The authenticity of mimicry, good and bad kitsch, to be or not to be naco, and unexpected parallels: suddenly pensioners on a North German island and teenagers hanging around Frankfurt Central Station are wearing the same label. Myles Starr, Chloe Stead and Daniel Stubenvoll in very different ways all work with unstable codes and elusive phenomena that communicate value.

     

    Myles Starr is born in 1987, lives and works in Vienna, attends the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna since 2015, recently studied Economics and Asian Studies at City College New York.

    Chloe Stead, born in 1988, is a writer and art critic, lives and works in Berlin. She attended Goldsmiths University London and HFBK Hamburg.

    Daniel Stubenvoll is born in 1984, lives and works in Frankfurt a. M. and attended Kunsthochschule Kassel.

     

    Philip Pichler is born in 1985, lives and works in Vienna. He attended the University of Appllied Arts Vienna and HFBK Hamburg.

     

    Ground Score is organized by Philip Pichler.

     

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WED 18 JAN 2017

  • Presentation/Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Judith Fegerl

    Judith Fegerl 's artistic work focuses on the symbiotic connection of people and machines, of body and technology, of space and time. She produces organically grown material by inorganic means and thus initiates a poetic interplay between science and art. The human body serves as the raw material source and as a resonant body which is exposed to sensory experiences. Electric current, both as a metaphysical source of energy and as a metaphor of industrialization, and as a precondition for the lifestyle of our modern society, is used strikingly to bring life to the objects and to take them back again to make energy visible and perceptible. (Christiane Krejs, 2010)

     

    Exhibitions (Selection): Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Kunstverein Leipzig, Kunsthalle Wien (2016), Kunsthaus Glarus (2015), Fine Art Society, London (2014), Museion, Bolzano, Art Basel (2013), MMoMA, Moscow (2012), Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns (2011), Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna (2010).

     

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THU 08 DEC 2016

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Dreaming Dictionary 2

    Finally, a place with people after one of those sloppy marches. A few bodies give heat to a big, bare room. Each one more or less already filled with beer. Their collective breaths create a moisty warmth while outside it's foggy and cold. A sodden, greasy face tells an endless joke.

     

    Birke Gorm

    Philipp Köster

    Rosa Rendl

    Hans Schabus

    Dan Vogt

    Kathrin Wojtowicz

    Julia Znoj

     

    Series organized by Eugen Wist

    http://dreamingdictionary.org

     

    Photos © Philipp Friedrich

     

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WED 07 DEC 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7:30 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Nicola Pecoraro

    Nicola Pecoraro was born in 1978 in Rome. He lives and works between Vienna and Rome. Through a mainly sculptural practice, his work revolves around the manipulation of materials, and the resulting shifts in the information it can contain and deliver.

     

    Pecoraro studied Graphic Design at Central St. Martins, London, and received a MA in Sonic Arts from Middlesex University, London. He was co-publisher of Nero magazine (2008-2014).

     

    Selected solo exhibitions include: Ermes - Ermes, Rome, Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Fondazione 107, Turin, collicaligreggi, Catania, Ve.Sch, Vienna, S.A.L.E.S., Rome, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, MACRO, Rome.

     

    His work was shown in several group exhibitions including: Ermes - Ermes, Milan, Giorgio Galotti, Turin, Icastica festival, Arezzo, Kunsthalle Vienna; MAXXI, Rome, collicaligreggi, Catania, Nomas Foundation, Rome, La Maison Rouge, Paris, MACRO, Rome, Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome.

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

WED 16 NOV 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Lone Haugaard Madsen

    Lone Haugaard Madsen was born in Silkeborg (Denmark). She lives and works in Copenhagen and Vienna. From 2001 to 2004 Madsen studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and from 1997 to 2002 at the Det Jyske Kunstakademi Århus.

     

    Selected solo exhibitions: Fox, Vienna (2016), Galleri Bianca D’Alessandro, Copenhagen, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin (2014), Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2013), Galerie Nicolas Krupp, Basel (2012), Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin (2009), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (2008).

     

    Selected Group exhibitions: Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (2015), Semper Depot, Vienna (2015), Galerie Thoman, Vienna (2014), Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, 21er Haus, Vienna (2012) , Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2010), Ve.Sch, Vienna (2009).

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

MON 07 NOV 2016

  • Lecture/book presentation, 8 pm

    Richard Dailey - Unplugged Yellow

    Richard Dailey is an American writer, artist, and independent film maker based in Paris. His films have been screened at the London Independent Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival (London), New Filmmakers Film Festival (New York), Cannes Independent Film Festival, Africa World Documentary Festival (St. Louis), La Peniche Cinema (Paris), Jonkoping Film Festival (Jönköping), E.S.R.A. (Paris), as well as Les Voûtes (Paris).

     

    At the Skulpturinstitut he will present his new book Unplugged Yellow. Artists, collectors and punks in a 1979–80 novel about a love triangle on the Lower East Side, Haiti, Paris and Timbuktu. An art-world novel in memoir form: Zachary, a contemporary art collector with roots in the flea markets, and FleX, an eccentric and self-destructive artist, are both in love with Rachel, a model from Haiti. Zachary is instrumental in creating FleX’s meteoric career, even as he impregnates Rachel. The resulting chaos is corrupt, funny, and eventually catastrophic.

    https://opiumbooks.com/unplugged-yellow/

     

THU 27 OCT 2016

  • Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Heinrich Dunst

    Heinrich Dunst was born in Hallein, Austria. He lives and works in Vienna.

     

    A selection of his recent solo exhibitions include: Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (2015); KOW, Berlin and Vienna Secession (2014); Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Scharzwälder, Vienna (2013).

     

    Selected Group exhibitions: Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz; Kunsthalle Krems; Nationalgalerie Prag (2016); Galleria Collicaligreggi, Italy; Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna; 21er Haus, Vienna; Kunsthalle Mainz, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany (2015); MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2014); Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria (2012).

     

    Selected performances: TBA21 Augarten, Vienna; Národní Galerie v Praze, Trade Fair Palace, Prague(2016); 21er Haus, Vienna; Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz, Austria;  Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria (2015); Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Departure, Viennafair; Generali Foundation, Vienna (2013).

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

FRI 07 OCT 2016

  • Autumn School, public workshop, 9 am - 5.30 pm

    Erika Balsom, Giuliana Bruno, Ursula Frohne, Volker Pantenburg, Vinyl -terror & -horror

    Re-Mediating Cinematic Experience

     

    Workshop 2, FWF Project A Matter of Historicity - Material Practices in Audivisual Art

    organized by Kristina Pia Hofer, Eva Kernbauer and Marietta Kesting, University of Applied Arts VIenna with Erika Balsom (King's College London, United Kindgom), Giuliana Bruno (Harvard University, USA) Ursula Frohne (Westfälische Wilhelms-Univesität Münster, Germany), Volker Pantenburg (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) and Vinyl - terror & -horror (Artists, Berlin).

     

    9:00-10:30 Giuliana Bruno, Material Encounters: Surface Tension, Screen Space

     

    10:30-11:30 Erika Balsom, Unreproducible: Cinema as Event

     

    11:45-12:45 Volker Pantenburg, Aggregate States of the Moving Image

     

    14:30-16:00 Ursula Frohne, The Materiality of Memory in Contemporary Video Installations

     

    16:00-17:00 Vinyl -terror & -horror, Performance and discussion

     

    17:00 Wrap-up

     

    The multiplicity of screening situations afforded by contemporary audivisual technologies and exhibition practices has expanded cinematic experience in its social, spatial and sensory dimensions. Galleries and museums presently offer ample space to engage with outmoded formats like analog projectors and 16mm film, while current digital video and cinematic formats invite a renegotiation of their medium specificity and material relations, and artistic approaches to audiovisual media's performative charge. In this workshop, we ask how these re-mediations connect to the production and communication of history and media archaeologies, and the possibility of documentation and recording in art and experimental film. Our focus lies on the productive tensions building up between the reproducibility of film as material and its unreproducibility as event or performance, between the intangibility of digital projection and social encounters in installative environments.

     

    www.amatterofhistoricity.net

     

THU 06 OCT 2016

  • Autumn School, morning lecture, 9-10 am

    Elisabeth Oberzaucher

    Urban Space – Where Anonymous Space Can Turn Into Neighbourhoods

     

    Urban space design has to satisfy various needs at the same time. A downtown setting generates pressure to make its space useful for economic purposes and for transport. City councils are keen to make urban settings unique by adding an element of art to them. Between considerations of functionality and art, there remains little room for addressing matters of usability and human behavioural tendencies. In this talk, I will challenge the prioritisation of economics in design decisions. Urban space is much more than an empty room between more relevant areas. It is the place where urban dwelling can grow into a socially coherent form. In order to fulfil its critical role of establishing a sustainable social structure, public space needs to be designed to invite social interaction. Human evolutionary history can instruct us into how to achieve this goal. This lecture will outline core elements of human landscape preferences that allow for inclusive urban design.

     

    Elisabeth Oberzaucher studied zoology and anthropology at the Universities of Vienna and Würzburg. Her research themes are nonverbal communication, evolutionary aesthetics, and human-environment-interactions. Her research is informed by evolutionary theory. She is the scientific director of Urban Human, tenured lecturer at the University of Vienna, researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Technology, Work, and Culture, and the editor in chief of the “Human Ethology Bulletin.” Starting in October 2016, she will be professor for gender studies at the University of Ulm. Her book Homo urbanus will be published early 2017 by Springer.

     

WED 05 OCT 2016

  • Autumn School, morning lecture, 9-10 am

    Jakub Szczęsny

    The 4th S is the Symbolic

     

    The usual antinomy of pragmatic versus symbolic is strongly embedded in art theory, literary history and in the teaching system. The binary perception of the two “oppositions” is thus an academic or cultural simplification: our contemporaneity as well as our European past suggest that there's no socio-technical tool more useful than the symbolic. It is perfectly visible in today's “engineered history,” skillfully created and disseminated by various political powers of radically different societies, from Russia and China through to Europe and both Americas. The practice of shaping symbolic meaning grows in importance when embodied as commemoration and participation. Architecture, public art or mere monument-making achieve a new-found importance for past-oriented powers who treat cities as their battle-grounds and as starting points for media-run propaganda. How can we unravel these manipulations, unveil the weaknesses of these constructs and propose our own symbolic strategies?

     

    Jakub Szczęsny is the first Polish architect whose work (“Keret House”) has been included in the collection of MoMA in New York. His practice is oriented towards interdisciplinary projects in various scales - from urban masterplans and  buildings (like the sport hall in Bieruń, the new Polish Ministry of Digitalization, and Podkowa House), to private interiors, furniture and clothing. In 2008 he started working on installations for public spaces in Europe, Middle East and Western Australia, both within the Centrala Designers Task Force and in collaboration with other artists. He is collaborating with a range of international NGO's (IASKA, Musagetes, Anadolu Kultur, IDEAS Louisville), institutions (Warsaw Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Polish Jews and the Castle of Contemporary Art), and with the private sector (GE appliances, BMW Poland, Simple House). His main interests relate to the matter of memory and its interpretation, especially in reference to local history and social relationships. His favorite strategy uses a pretextual practicality of design and architecture in order to unveil symbolic meanings hidden by either banality or the conscious oblivion of city dwellers. Jakub teaches as visiting lecturer in FAU Sao Paulo, GSAPP New York, Warsaw School of Fine Arts, Department of Design and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. He lives in Warsaw, Poland.

     

TUE 04 OCT 2016

  • Autumn School, morning lecture, 9-10 am

    Volker Kirchberg

    Legitimizing Museums as an Agent of Social Change?

     

    It is an ivory-tower concept  of museums to declare for themselves an existence outside of society, and to insist on their autonomy and self-determination. At all times, they are dependent on societal factors, be it the political climate or socio-demographic shifts. Agreeing to this obvious fact, museums must then become more actively oriented to their social surroundings. It is the task of museums to assimilate to these surroundings and to make themselves able and ready to shape their environments actively and self-confidently. Basing myself on sociologist Robert Merton’s classification of institutions as either ‘conventional,’ ‘ritualistic,’ ‘innovative’ or ‘rebellious,’ and having extensively reviewed the literature on museums as potential social agents, I classify museums into eight types: 1) the responsive museum, 2) the engaging museum, 3) the participatory museum, 4) the legitimate museum, 5) the community museum, 6) the inclusive museum, 7) the new museum, and 8) the contesting museum. I will provide references and examples for all eight classes of agent-oriented museums. At the end of these remarks I will return to Merton’s classification and range the eight classes of museums accordingly. I will then ask – based on the literature and the examples – what museums can be classified as ‘conventional,’ ‘ritualistic,’ ‘innovative’ or ‘rebellious,’ and have there been changes within the international museum landscape in recent years and among national museum associations? My lecture will end with a request to museums to become more socially reflective and active with respect to the urgent needs of our contemporary lives.

     

    Volker Kirchberg is Professor of Arts Organization and Director of the Institute of Sociology and Cultural Organization at Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany. His interests are the sociology of the arts, organizational sociology, and cultural sustainability, focusing on the interfaces of art and the city and on the social functions of museums. He received his PhD (1992) in sociology from the University of Hamburg, and a post-doctoral habilitation degree in sociology from the Free University Berlin (2003). He was an assistant researcher in urban studies at the University of Hamburg until 1989, and held a research fellowship on urban arts consumption at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Baltimore until 1994. In Hamburg he founded the Basica Research Institute, and taught as an adjunct professor in sociology and cultural studies at several universities in Germany. From 2000 to 2004 he was a tenure-track assistant professor for sociology at William Paterson University in New Jersey.

     

MON 03 OCT 2016

  • Autumn School, morning lecture, 9-10 am

    Hans Schabus

    From Lassnitz to Vechte

     

    For a sculptural project an old train steel truss bridge was transported from south-eastern Austria to north-western Germany. The enormous size of the bridge – 3.8 x 5.6 x 25.5 meters – defines the greatest dimensions of a single transportable object over a highway. The bridge at Lassnitz had to be replaced by a new one due to increasing load capacities. Instead of being recycled, the bridge travelled 1,500 km via heavy-duty transport over six nights to reach its future location. On the new site the isolated steel bridge has become a sculpture that crosses the river Vechte. This lecture will be about the development of the entire project as part of a sculptural program along the river Vechte.

     

    www.raumsichten.org

     

    Hans Schabus was born in 1970 in Watschig, Austria. From 1991 to 1996 he studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Since 2014 he has been Professor at the newly founded Department of Sculpture and Space at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 1992 on his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. He lives and works in Vienna.

     

THU 04 AUG 2016

  • Book presentation, 7 pm

    Anna-Sophie Berger, Lucia Elena Prusa - Pandora Vienna Release

    Anna-Sophie Berger and Lucia Elena Prusa wrote a story about a fictional character called Pandora. At the occasion of the Vienna Release of Pandora, Melanie Ohnemus will be reading from the book. The book will be available for purchase. Anna-Sophie Berger and Lucia Elena Prusa are artists based in Vienna.

     

    www.anna-sophie-berger.com

    www.luciaelenaprusa.com

     

FRI 08 JUL 2016

  • Opening, 7 pm

    Jim Brown, Robert Schwarz, Black Pages

    Performance and Fanzine Release

     

    Jim Brown (James Carrington Brown IV) is an American Artist currently living in Los Angeles California U.S. Browns work explores the processes which promote the human psyche to transcend the boundaries which limit its potential.

    His body of work is unrestrained by medium or a prescribed discipline, although the majority of his work centers around sound. Working in abstract and conventional formats, Brown's compositions create formulaic patterns to enhance the potential for individual and collective consciousnesses to achieve a state of positive feedback by using sound as the primary stimuli.

    Other variables that Brown often implements to assist in governing this process are visual and sculptural works which carry a central expression rooted from psychological research that will engage and assist in the transcendental experience.

    Browns deep involvement with Native American Indian ceremony is highly influential in his work.

    Jim Brown is the the first person to have been given permission and formal teaching by deconstructionist artist; Raphael Montanez Ortiz, to perform Ortiz's Piano Deconstruction Concert. Brown first performed the composition outside in an open meadow in the Santa Monica Mountains of Malibu California and then again at the renowned gallery Blum & Poe in Los Angeles California which was curated by artist Dave Muller in part of  Muller's Three Day Weekend performance series  / 2 pianos. After receiving great reviews and much attention Brown returned to study with Ortiz in which time the legendary artist instructed Brown to take and make the work his own and move it further in its development. The piano deconstruction performance by Jim Brown at the Skulpturinstitut on July 8 2016 will be the first time that Brown will perform the work with the new constructs in the sound evolution of the original Raphael Ortiz Piano deconstruction concert. On this occasion Brown exclusively invited the Austrian artist Robert Schwarz to electroacousticly extend his performance.

     

    http://holloys.com/

    http://r-schwarz.tumblr.com/

     

    BLACK PAGES is an often releasing artist-fanzine in an edition of 300 copies.

    BLACK PAGES comes in the format A5, including 20 pages, printed in black&white.

    BLACK PAGES invites one artist to collaborate and renames after his/her forename.

    BLACK PAGES continues with issues #67 - #69 featuring Benjamin Hirte, Barabara Kapusta and Marius Engh.

    BLACK PAGES is a project by Vienna based artists Ute Müller, Nick Oberthaler and Christoph Meier.

    BLACK PAGES is available at 21er Haus (Vienna), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), Salon für Kunstbuch (Vienna), Secession (Vienna), Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), WIELS Center for Contemporary Art (Bruxelles), Kiosk (Ghent), Sunset Résidence (Lyon), Florence Loewy (Paris), Institut d'art contemporain (Villeurbanne), do you read me?! (Berlin), OMMU Distribution (Athens), Inc. livros e edições de autor (Porto), Andreiana Mihail Gallery (Bucharest), Ooga Booga (Los Angeles) and Printed Matter (New York).

    BLACK PAGES is funded by the Federal Chancellery of Austria and Wien Kultur.

     

    http://www.blackpages.at/

     

THU 09 JUN 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Titania Seidl

    Titania Seidl was born in 1988. She lives and works in Vienna. In addition to her artistic practice she teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Together with Daniel Ferstl and Lukas Thaler she runs the art space MAUVE.

     

    Exhibitions (selection): Club Pro, Los Angeles; Drop City, Newcastle; ____Tim Nola, Vienna; we are hercules, Munich; MUSA, Vienna; mo.ë, Vienna; wellwellwell, Vienna; AIRY, Korfu; Collection Lenikus STUDIOS, Vienna; Je regrette, Berlin; Vane Gallery, Newcastle.

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

THU 12 MAY 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Anna Artaker

    Anna Artaker studied philosophy and political science in Vienna and Paris as well as art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is an artist and currently Elise-Richter-Research-Fellow at the Academy in Vienna where she is preparing her habilitation project MEDIUMS OF HISTORY. Artaker’s works have been internationally exhibited – recently at the New Museum in New York, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London or the mumok in Vienna – and have been awarded several prices like the Hilde-Goldschmidt-Award or the National scholarship for artistic photography. Furthermore Artaker was artist in residence in Mexico City and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and lecturer at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart and at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen.

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

THU 14 APR 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Thomas Baumann

    Thomas Baumann was born 1967 in Altenmarkt, he lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. Baumann studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Secession, Vienna; Wien Museum Karlsplatz, Vienna; Kunsthaus, Graz; Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel; Kunsthalle Basel; Kunstverein Bonn; Museum Bochum; PAN Neapel; Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; Kunstverein Ludwigsburg; Museum Sift Admont, Styria; Festival der Regionen, Upper Austria; OK Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz; Museum Moderner Kunst, Carinthia; Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin; Neue Galerie, Graz; Slought Foundation, Philadelphia; Kunsthaus Basel Land, Basel; Museum des 21. Jahrhunderts, Belvedere Vienna; für Zeitgenössische Kunst Winzawod, Moscow; Muescarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest; Museum Würth, Erstein; Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna; Renaissance Society, Chicago

     

    Selection of film festivals: AVE Arnhem; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Filmfestival Rotterdam; Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Diagonale Graz; Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Stuttgart; International Filmfestival, Barcelona; Viennale, Vienna; Diagonale, Graz

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

THU 10 MAR 2016

  • Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Anne Speier

    Anne Speier was born in Frankfurt and currently lives in Vienna. She teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Last year she exhibited "Smuggeler" at Neue Alte Brücke Frankfurt, "Seeing the Contemporary" at Galerie der Stadt Schwaz and "Feeling the Contemporary" at Silberkuppe Berlin. She has participated in group exhibitions, among others at Künstlerhaus Bremen, wellwellwell Vienna, MOT International Brussels, Treize Paris and Black Bridge Offspace Beijing.

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since its founding in 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

SAT 20 FEB 2016

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Coperto

    7.30 pm Performance by Peter Fritzenwallner

     

    Sculptors have to build on sand, but sometimes underneath the sand is a very cozy ground like this one made of polished concrete. Puddles of epoxy resin and traces of black coal powder covered the basement most of the time. Back then, the fridge was filled with molding yoghurt, that had passed its expiration date long ago. “ONE MORE OBJECT” Jan de Cock wrote in capital letters with a blue textmarker on the walls of the Skulpturinstitut two months ago. The letters have been overpainted in the meantime. In Pompeii scientists found words scratched into the walls of an excavated toilet. Those short slogans were made by someone unknown and still sound so fresh they could be from last week. It is a good question whether the neighbours could hear the Jawbone's rasping bass late at night. I guess the music still is stored deep inside the walls and will tumble out eventually between some very exclusive products of a yet anonymous boutique that is possibly moving in soon.

     

    Before its move the department Sculpture and Space invites artists to participate in the show COPERTO at Skulpturinstitut. From the beginning of March we will be located on Paulusplatz 5 in the third district, next to where Franz West had been working for decades. He was invited because he was faster than us.

     

    Victoria Braith  /  Dana Degiulio  /  Dejan Dukic  /  Peter Fritzenwallner  /  Johann Groebner Marlene Hausegger  /  Christian Ingemann  /  Julia Kolbus  /  Emanuel Mauthe  /  Michèle Pagel Peter Sandbichler  /  Fabian Seiz  /  Susanne Strasser  /  Franz West

     

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THU 21 JAN 2016

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Christoph Bruckner

    Christoph Bruckner born 1975 in Amstetten, lives as a writer, art theorist and visual artist in Vienna, 1998-2004 studied art at the Academy of fine Arts in Vienna, 2006 Award for young art from the city of Vienna, since 2009 publishes literary and theoretical texts in magazines, anthologies and catalogues, since 2011 teaches three-dimensional design at the Vienna University of Technology.

     

    The artist run program Artist Lecture Series Vienna exists since 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

THU 03 DEC 2015

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Hugo Canoilas

    Hugo Canoilas was born 1977 in Lisbon, Portugal, he lives and works in Vienna.  Canoilas studied Fine Art at the Escola Superior de Arte e Design in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal and at the Royal College of Art, London.

     

    Solo exhibitions and projects this year include: The sun in darkness, Weingruell Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany; Someone a long time ago now, curated by Sophia Hao. Cooper Gallery, Dundee, UK; Dinosaur paintings, LA contemporary, Workplace gallery, Los Angeles, US.

     

    Selected group exhibitions and projects include: Dio Horia in Mykonos, curated by Marina Vranopoulou, Dio Horia, Greece; Import Export, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna; Dromosphere, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy; Cold places, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna; Granpallazzo, curated by Ilaria Gianni. Palazzo Rospigliosi, Zaragolo, Rome, Italy; Destination Wien, curated by Anne Faucheret, Luca Lo Pinto, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Kunsthalle Vienna; Ciao!, Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy; Lesen, curated by Ingeborg Strobl. Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna; and Time and mode, curated by Paulo Mendes and Emília Tavares, Pavilhão 31, Lisbon, Portugal.

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is a project curated by Ezara Spangl and Rainer Spangl since 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

THU 12 NOV 2015

  • Presentation/Lecture, 7 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Roland Kollnitz

    Roland Kollnitz born 1972 in Klagenfurt, he lives and works in Vienna. Kollnitz studied sculpture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He worked in the Studio of Franz West from 1994 until 2000. Since 2001 Kollnitz teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the Secession, Vienna.

     

    Selected exhibitions: Zacherlfabrik, Vienna; Austrian Cultural Forum, Prague; Gallery Grita Insam, Vienna; Ve.sch, Vienna; MUMOK, Vienna; Gallery Catherine Bastide, Brussels; Gallery Hohenlohe, Vienna; Neue Galerie Studio, Graz; Gallery Heimer und Partner, Berlin; CAT open MAK, Vienna; Kunstverein Kärnten; Selected group exhibitions: Korea Kulturhaus, Vienna; Forum Stadtpark, Graz; 21er Haus, Vienna; Caja Blanca, Mexico City; Kunstverein Nürnberg; MMKK, Klagenfurt; Secession, Vienna

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is a project curated by Ezara Spangl and Rainer Spangl since 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

     

    For the situation of Artist Lecture Series Vienna the lecture piece emerged as a setting

    Skulpturinstitut 13 - 21 November 2015

     

    Photos © Roland Kollnitz

     

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THU 22 OCT 2015

  • Lecture, 8 pm

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna / Anna-Sophie Berger

    Anna-Sophie Berger creates objects that connect individual perception and intimate use with questions of material reality as part of a socio-economic circulation and consumption. Populating body as much as space, they freely traverse sites and systems of value physically as much as through image. While preserving this mobility they complicate a reading as discrete objects encompassing elements of material transience such as decay, malleability or modularity. Symbolic of the complexity of human desire her works address the ambiguity of a sensual need to yield and a conscious effort to resist.

     

    Anna-Sophie Berger (b.1989) studied fashion design and trans-disciplinary art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has held solo exhibitions with JTT, New York; 21er Haus, 21er Raum, Vienna; Ludlow 38, New York; and Mauve, Vienna. She has been included in group exhibitions with Tanya Leighton, Berlin; Clearing, Brussels; 247365, Brooklyn; Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien KM-, Graz; Futura, Prague; Cura Basement, Rome; Mathew Gallery, Berlin; and Utopian Slumps, Melbourne. Her work has been reviewed in Artforum, frieze d/e, Kaleidoscope and Mousse Magazine. Berger lives and works in Vienna.

    www.anna-sophie-berger.com

     

    Artist Lecture Series Vienna is a project curated by Ezara Spangl and Rainer Spangl since 2010.

    www.artistlectureseriesvienna.com

     

    Photo: Artist Lecture Series Vienna

MON 21 SEP 2015

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    dreaming dict cc

    Maria Cozma

    Philipp Friedrich

    Laurids Oder

    Johanna Odersky

    David Peschka

    Evelyn Plaschg

    Titania Seidl

    Jumpei Shimada

    Emmanuel Troy

    Eugen Wist

     

    invited by Eugen Wist

     

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FRI 05 JUN 2015

  • Concerts, 5 pm

    Music and Space

    within the exhibition Import Export

    organized by Rafaella Isnit and Susanne Schwarz

    Nordbahnhofgelände next to the high poplar

     

    Sweet Sweet Moon, that’s first and foremost Vienna based multiinstrumentalist Matthias Frey. While his debut EP was shaped by a rather traditional guitar singer songwriter approach he has now accomplished to integrate his great skillset creating almost orchestral arrangements live on stage merly relying on a violin and his favourit sidekick – the loop pedal. For his studio recordings Matthias Frey also plays the drums, guitar or accordion himself.

    http://www.siluh.com/artists/sweet-sweet-moon/

     

    David Obenaus alias Voodoo Jürgens presents independent songs – "Miles away from mainstream or A-sides. From the Indian snake charmer´s song to the singing Marlboro cowboy." (Self portrayal)

     

    DJs: Andras Eichstaedt alias Stand / Benedikt Fritz and Josef Freistetter alias Tasteofunk

     

SAT 30 MAY 2015

  • Exhibition opening, 3 pm

    Import Export

    17 artists are invited to realize a work on the compounds of the former freight railway station Wien Nord. As an equivalent all 17 positions of the class sculpture and space take part in the exhibition. Import Export wants to activate this fallow location set between a turbulent history and sparkling future promises, before it becomes subject to construction measures of urban developement.

     

    Steffi Alte  /  Udo Bohnenberger  /  Cäcilia Brown  /  Hugo Canoilas  /  Ines Doujak

    Eva Engelbert  /  Peter Fritzenwallner  /  Matthias Gabl  /  Philipp Gehmacher  /  Marcus Geiger

    Rafaella Isnit  /  Ludwig Kittinger  /  Jakob Klima  /  Philipp Köster  /  Roland Kollnitz

    Axel Koschier  /  Sonia Leimer  /  Thea Möller  /  Franz Mussner  /  Flora Neuwirth  /  Laurids Oder

    Sarah Ortmeyer  /  Philip Pichler  /  Hans Schabus  /  Leander Schönweger  /  Susanne Schwarz

    Eva Seiler  /  Misha Stroj  /  Emil Wetter  /  Eugen Wist  /  Kathrin Wojtowicz  /  Hannes Zebedin

     

    31 May - 12 July 2015

    Nordbahnhofgelände

    Meeting point at "Gasthaus zur Alm"

    Innstraße 16, 1020 Vienna

     

    Map

    https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zwssw_9xAlnM.kyQYA4XMfUME

     

    Events

    26 June - guided tour: 3 pm, U1 Praterstern, exit Lassallestraße

    03 July - video tour

    12 July - guided tour "Finnisage": 3 pm, tram station "Am Tabor"

     

     

    Steffi Alte, Railbaord SL-1, 2015Udo Bohnenberger, seven necks of the fool, 2015Cäcilia Brown, Geräucherte Treppe, 2015; Mülltonne, 2015; Mistkübel, 2015Hugo Canoilas, And the new, unknown to me, 2015Ines Doujak, Ohne Titel, 2015Eva Engelbert, Modell Populus, 2015Peter Fritzenwallner, Plötzlich diese Übersicht! marker No.1-No.34, 2015Matthias Gabl, Keine Hoffnung - Kein Seil zum Erhängen, 2015Philip Gehmacher, Flagge, 2015Marcus Geiger, 2015Rafaella Isnit, P3x3, 2015Ludwig Kittinger, Zwischen Knochenkette und Schwimmbad, 2015Jakob Klima, Ohne Titel, 2015Philipp Köster, Entrée (90s D.), 2015Roland Kollnitz, Punto del Caffe, 2015Axel Koschier, Ohne Titel, 2015Sonia Leimer, Ohne Titel, 2015Thea Möller, NOIR, 2015Franz Mussner, PM10, 2015Flora Neuwirth, Früchtestillleben mit einem Amazonenpapagei, 1824/2015, 2015 (1995)Laurids Oder, Succession, 2015Sarah Ortmeyer, Rapid, 2015Philip Pichler, wetter, 2015Hans Schabus, Sturmglocke, 2015Leander Schönweger, Zwiegespräch, 2015Susanne Schwarz, LIFTED, 2015Eva Seiler, below the BQE, across from Libro and McDonalds, 2015Misha Stroj, Das Meer oder la liberación (del mar de Mondrian), nach Jusep Torres Campalans, über den berichtet wird von Max Aub, was wiederum verbreitet wird von Luis Camnitzer in Conceptualism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation!, 2015Emil Wetter, Schmelzofen, 2015Eugen Wist, calisthenic dreaming, 2015Katrin Wojtowicz, Ohne Titel, 2015 Hannes Zebedin, Ein Stück Kohle aus der Nähe von Dhanbad, Indien. Werttransfer auf einem wertverändernden Areal, 2015<>

TUE 28 APR 2015

  • Lecture, 7 pm

    Hotel Charleroi

    BAUBESPRECHUNG

     

    In November 2014 the 5th edition of HOTEL CHARLEROI - LA FORCE DU CHANGEMENT took place. The department Sculpture and Space participated in the event by organizing a table tennis tournament. On occasion of the in-turn invitation, HOTEL CHARLEROI will bring along a gift for the hosts and invites a guest lecturer, Georg Petermichl (b 1980, Austria). Together they will try to find answers to pending questions, that the project over the last five years has raised. Colored images will be projected.

     

    HOTEL CHARLEROI (founded 2010, Belgium) is an applied research project, which deals with the post-industrial Belgian city of Charleroi. During the last five years the artists Adrien Tirtiaux

    (b 1980, Belgium), Antoine Turillon (b 1982, France), and Hannes Zebedin (b 1976, Austria), annually organized artist residencies and public events in different neighborhoods and buildings of the city. For the invited artists and HOTEL CHARLEROI the city serves as a lab for Art in Public Space, in order to reflect the changeful restructuring and make up possible scenarios of the local and global future of cultural policies.

     

    The lecture wil be held in German.

     

SUN 19 APR 2015

  • Tournament, 3 pm

    Stanislaus Medan

    Registration: 3 pm or raumtennis@gmail.com

    Start: 4 pm

    Dress code: White shirt and shorts

     

    Organized by Stanislaus Medan

     

    The tournament RAUM TENNIS will be played with table tennis rackets built by Stanislaus Medan. The table tennis culture by the end of the 19th century provides a basis for the tournament. "Raum-Tennis", a new sport at that time, served as a field of research for both, technicians as well as artists. Over the following decades the rackets were produced in a wide range of forms and materials (vellum, sandpaper, cork, aluminum, leather, rubber foam, etc.). As a parlor game of the english society it competed with typical games such as billiards and backgammon. In recent years table tennis developed into a mere action sport, the free, experimental and artistic approach became circumstantial. Newly developed table tennis rackets, consisting of different materials and simultaneously antagonizing the effectiveness of the game, will play an important role through undermining the efficiency-oriented structure of the tournament. Marble, stone and iron breaks.

     

    Stanislaus Medan, born in 1988 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna. He is studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is a member of the Viennese table tennis association WTTV since 2013.

     

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TUE 16 DEC 2014

  • Talk, 7 pm

    Manisha Jothady, Christoph Meier, Franz Part, Hans Schabus

    Please, never say: That's boring, I already know it.

    That is the greatest catastrophe of all! Keep on saying:

    I have no idea, I'd like to repeat the experience.

    Heinz von Förster

     

    On the occasion of Franz Parts exhibition Schule, Manisha Jothady will moderate a talk between Christoph Meier, Franz Part and Hans Schabus on variations of repetition in art, teaching and society. What is a replica? Why is reproducing so important? What about the authorship? Are we moving in circles? What makes us leave the house?

     

    During the talk, photographs by Hannes Böck will be projected, showing Franz Part's replicas within the school building.

     

    The talk will be held in German.

     

    Manisha Jothady (b. 1971) is an independent art critic based in Vienna. Apart from contributions in daily papers and art magazines her writings were published in exhibition catalogues and artist monographs. In 2013 and 2014 she served as a project manager of the gallery festival "curated by_vienna" organised by departure, the creative unit of the Vienna Business Agency.

     

    Christoph Meier (b. 1980) lives and works in Vienna. He graduated from the TU Wien with a degree in architecture as well as from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied under Heimo Zobernig. Recently his works were presented in solo exhibitions at Galleria Collicaligreggi, Catania, Italy; Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany and he has participated in several group exhibitions including the Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; the Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, Italy; the 21er-Haus, Vienna; and the Frac Auvergne, Clemont-Ferrand, France. He is co-editor and co-founder of the artist fanzine Black Pages.

     

    Franz Part was born in 1949 in Vienna and grew up in Raabs an der Thaya. In 1975 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where he studied under Walter Eckert and Rudolf Hausner. Since then his works were i.a. exhibited at Galerie Gabriel, Vienna; Galerie Statpark, Krems; Galerie Schnittpunkt, Steyr; Neue Galerie, Vienna; Schneiderei, Vienna and the Kunstverein Horn, Horn. Franz Part worked as an art teacher at the BG and BRG Waidhofen an der Thaya since 1975. There he installed the replica museum that stretches across the entire school building. Furthermore he is a member of the Galerie Stadtpark, Krems and served as its chairman during the 1990s.

     

TUE 18 NOV 2014

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Franz Part - Schule

    Franz Part is an artist. Until recently he was teaching art at the secondary school BG and BRG Waidhofen an der Thaya, Austria. Throughout a period of almost 30 years he reproduced milestones of art history from the 20th century. Works of key figures like Beuys, Duchamp and Man Ray. In this manner he mediated contemporary art while at the same time involved his students in those production processes. Part and his students placed the replicas in the hallways, staircases and common rooms of the school. As a consequence the school building turned into one of the largest and most comprehensive displays of 20th century modern art. His students thank him by pursuing creative jobs way above average. On the occasion of the newly founded Department Sculpture and Space at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Skulpturinstitut shows works out of Franz Parts exceptional collection.

     

    Franz Part was born in 1949 in Vienna and grew up in Raabs an der Thaya, Austria. In 1975 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna where he studied under Walter Eckert and Rudolf Hausner. Since then his works were i.a. exhibited at Galerie Gabriel, Vienna; Galerie Statpark, Krems; Galerie Schnittpunkt, Steyr; Neue Galerie, Vienna; Schneiderei, Vienna and the Kunstverein Horn, Horn. Franz Part worked as an art teacher at the BG and BRG Waidhofen an der Thaya since 1975. There he installed a replica museum that stretches across the entire school building. Furthermore he is a member of the Galerie Stadtpark, Krems and served as its chairman during the 1990s.

     

    The exhibition is on view from November 19th, 2014 throughout January 16th, 2015. For further information please contact info@skulpturinstitut.at or +43(0)664 8260728.

    Our opening hours are Thursday, Friday 2–6 pm.

     

    All replicas on view date between 1985 and 1995.

    Photos © Stefan Lux

     

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MON 03 NOV 2014

  • Lecture, 7 pm

    Chris Sharp

    Manners of matter

     

    In addition to presenting his curatorial practice, Chris Sharp will consider issues such as medium specificity, three-dimensionality, the human body, images and (im)materiality. The lecture will be illustrated by a series of recent exhibitions, notably Manners of Matter, Salzburger Kunstverein/Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France (2014); Le Mouvement, co-curated with Gianni Jetzer, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2014); and The Registry of Promise (2014–15) various venues.

     

    Chris Sharp (b. 1974, USA) is a writer and independent curator based in Mexico City, where he runs, with the artist Martin Soto Climent, the project space Lulu. Together with Gianni Jetzer, he co-curated the 12th edition of the Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, entitled Le Mouvement, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and he is currently curating the cycle of exhibitions The Registry of Promise, at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Le Parc St. Léger, Pogues-les-Eaux, France; Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; and De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Holland. He is editor-at-large of Kaleidoscope magazine, a contributing editor of Art Review, and his writing has appeared in many magazines and on-line publications including Artforum, Fillip, Afterall, Mousse, Metropolis M, Spike, Camera Austria, artpress, Art-Agenda, and others.

     

    The lecture will be held in English.

     

TUE 24 JUN 2014

  • Lecture, 7 pm

    Sonia Leimer

    Space junk

     

    Sonia Leimer is interested in the concrete physical space and its relationship to artistic production. In her work she interrogates our perception per se, which we conceive through our individual, historical and media-driven experiences. Based on a conceptual approach she combines details from film and architecture using minimalistic vocabulary. The implicit connotations of the used materials are being transformed during the working process. The categories of space and time, as well as the meaning of matter in the context of its conceptual treatment, are extensively being examined in Sonia Leimer's artistic practice.

     

    The lecture will be delivered in German.

     

    Sonia Leimer, born 1977 in Meran, Italy, lives and works in Vienna. She received her education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    Exhibitions (selection): 2014 Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich; LAMOA, LA Museum of Art Los Angeles; Austrian Cultural Forum London / New York; 2013 5th Moscow Biennale, Wien Museum, ABC Berlin; 2012 Artothek, Cologne, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Museion, Bolzano, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; 2011 Kunstverein Basis, Frankfurt/M.; 2010 BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Triennale Linz; 2008 Manifesta 7, Rovereto; 2006 Kerava Museum, Helsinki.

     

    The students of the Skulpturinstitut are invited to develop performative interventions which are presented in the course of the evening of the various events. This time the performance will be presented by Joseph Knierzinger from the department of Digital Art / Ruth Schnell.

     

TUE 27 MAY 2014

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Ein Plan reicht uns nicht aus

    Linda Berger

    Sebastian Doplbaur

    Georg Feierfeil

    Peter Hoiß

    Nana Mandl

    Lukas Matuschek

    Julia Rohn

     

    All participating artists are students of the Skulpturinstitut and derive from the departments Digital Art / Ruth Schnell, Photography / Gabriele Rothemann, Graphics and Printmaking / Jan Svenungsson, Painting, Painting and Animated Film / Judith Eisler as well as Transmedia Art / Brigitte Kowanz at the Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art.

     

    Photos © Peter Hoiß

     

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MON 12 MAY 2014

  • Reading / Talk, 7 pm

    Jakob Lena Knebl

    There are more things

     

    An evening in spring. A novel by Jorge Luis Borges. Objects. Desire. Objectophilia. At what point a thing becomes a sculpture and how does it relate to me? We are handles. The life of things. I do not exist. But what calms me down is: Reality is just another fraud amongst many.

    A reading? Presentation for sure! I take my new cup with me. Somebody fixed it long time ago. Metal staples hold the crack in the porcelain together. Mary Shelly. I love her.

     

    The reading and talk will be held in German.

     

    Jakob Lena Knebl was born in 1970 in Baden, Austria. The artist was educated at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Fashion / Raf Simons) and at the University of Fine Arts Vienna (Textual Sculpture / Heimo Zobernig). Recently Knebls works and performances were presented at the following exhibitions (selection): There are more things, Tiroler Künstlerschaft, Innsbruck, Austria; Look at me, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland; Sculpture me, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria; Schwule Sau, Morzinplatz, KÖR, Vienna, Austria; An eye on a Disposition of a Cloud, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Erfinde dich selbst, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; The only performances that make it all the way, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria. S/he lives and works in Vienna.

     

THU 27 MAR 2014

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Wir gehen mit dem Kopf

    0946010

    Nicoleta Auersperg

    Nouria Behloul

    Stephan Genser

    Stephanie Kaiser

    Josef Knierzinger

    Gudarz Moradi

     

    All participating artists are students at the Skulpturinstitut and derive from the departments Stage and Film Design / Bernhard Kleber, Digital Art / Ruth Schnell, Graphics and Printmaking / Jan Svenungsson, Painting, TransArts and Transmedia Art / Brigitte Kowanz at the Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art.

     

    Photos © Peter Hoiß

     

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MON 27 JAN 2014

  • Lecture, 7 pm

    Thomas Edlinger

    On the occasion of the current exhibition Episode einer Fortschreibung by Werner Würtinger, Thomas Edlinger gives a lecture titled

     

    Who owns the city?

     

    On the history of public art in Vienna and its present in Istanbul.

     

    From the drop-sculpture to performative installations, from the temporary intervention to urban district development from below, from the research on urbanism to the aesthetics of demonstrations: The institutionalization of public art corresponds the differentiation of its forms and purposes. Public art takes place in urban spaces, which - as Michel de Certeau concisely puts it - are not just spaces, which you do something with, but also spaces, which do something with you.

     

    This lecture will be held in German.

     

    Thomas Edlinger works as a radio host, journalist, writer and occasionally as a curator. From 2002 to 2004 he served as a curator at the O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, and from 2004 to 2006 at Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz. From 2009 onwards he was a lecturer at the Institute of Fine Arts and cultural theory at the Kunstuniversität Linz, currently he serves as a lecturer in information design at the FH Joanneum in Graz. Recent exhibitions include: Hauntings – Ghost Box Media, Medienturm Graz, in collaboration with Christian Höller, 2011; Vollmilch. Der Bart als Zeichen, Kunstmuseum Lentos, Linz, 2012. Recent publications: In Anführungszeichen. Glanz und Elend der Political Correctness, in collaboration with Matthias Dusini, 2012. Thomas Edlinger lives in Vienna.

     

    The students of the Skulpturinstitut are invited to develop performative interventions which are presented in the course of the evening of the various events. Linda Berger, studying at the Department of Graphics and Printmaking / Jan Svenungsson, shows her performative intervention EINE HOCH ZWEI at the beginning of this evening, followed by Julia Rohn, student of the Department of Photography / Gabriele Rothemann, who as well prepared a performative intervention titled RA.

     

MON 13 JAN 2014

  • Lecture, 7 pm

    David Quigley

    On the occasion of the current exhibition Episode einer Fortschreibung by Werner Würtinger, David Quigley delivers a lecture titled 7 scenes - Werner Würtinger.

     

    The lecture is composed of the following scenes:

     

    1) We do not know what sculpture is.

    2) I asked her if a sculpture ever gave her goose bumps--if it was possible to be so moved by a sculpture that one would get goose bumps or start to cry…

    3) On an article from 1967 by Theodor W. Adorno on Fritz Wotruba

    4) 2 texts by Marc Adrian

    5) Stephen Mathewson on the Sankei Stereo Entertainer Organ

    6) On conviviality, post-conviviality, Otto Kobalek and a cover

    7) Reflections on the death of the meta-level (reading the "American Sculpture" issue of Artforum from June 1967)

     

    During the lecture a selection of slides from Werner Würtinger's archive Arbeiten von StudentInnen, 1980 - 2003 will be projected. The slides archive documents works of students from 1980 until 2003 and consists of approximately 8.000 pieces. The slides archive is a loan from the University Archive of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. With special thanks to Dr. Eva Schober and Heimo Zobernig.

     

    David Quigley serves as professor for cultural theory at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart. Recent lectures include The History of Art #1 at the Galerie 5020, Salzburg, The History of Art #2 on vinyl at the Kunstverein Baden, The History of Art #3 in the course of the Sommerakademie Salzburg, as well as lectures at the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; at the University of London; at the Kunstverein Hamburg; the Secession, Wien and at the Künstlerhaus Salzburg. He published a monography on Carl Einstein and has contributed articles to Afterall, Spike Art Quarterly, Multitudes, as well as various articles in catalogues and books. David Quigley lives in Vienna.

     

    The students of the Skulpturinstitut are invited to develop performative interventions which are presented in the course of the evening of the various events. Nicoleta Auersperg is student of the TransArts Department and shows her performative intervention Materialwaage prior to the lecture. After the lecture Stephanie H. M. Kaiser presents her die Mann Studie. She is a student of the Department of Painting.

     

MON 16 DEC 2013

  • Talk, 7 pm

    Brigitte Huck, Kathrin Rhomberg, Werner Würtinger

    Brigitte Huck and Kathrin Rhomberg discuss aspects of social and sociopolitical actions within artistic approach with Werner Würtinger. The talk is titled Pendelbewegungen and will be held in German.

     

    Brigitte Huck is an art historian, curator and critic. She worked at the Dept. of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York; as a curator at the MAK, Vienna and serves as expert at the Dorotheum, Vienna. Since 1993 she works as a freelance curator in Vienna. She curated projects for the São Paulo Biennal, Brazil; museum in progress, Vienna; Public Art Lower Austria, Austria; KÖR, Vienna; kunstzürich, Zurich; Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna; BAWAG Foundation and BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; evn Sammlung, Maria Enzersdorf. She writes for ARTFORUM, Parnass and springerin. She is a corresponding member of the Wiener Secession.

     

    Kathrin Rhomberg studied art history and classical archaeology and worked as a curator and exhibition organizer at the Wiener Secession, Vienna. From 2002-2007 she was the director of the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Recent curatorial projects include Petrit Halilaj, Kosovan Pavilion, 55. Venice Biennale, 2013; Christoph Schlingensief. Fear of the Core of Things, BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht, 2012 and Galerija Nova, Zagreb, 2012; 6. Berlin Biennale, 2010; Roman Ondák – Loop, the Slovak and Czech Pavilion, 53. Venice Biennale, 2009; Ion Grigorescu. In the Body of the Victim 1969–2008, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2009. Additionally, Rhomberg works as a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

     

    The students of the Skulpturinstitut are invited to develop performative interventions which are presented in the course of the evening of the various events. Prior to the lecture Peter Hoiß shows Kinetik #1 from his ongoing series of work Die Gerade Linie. Peter Hoiß is student of the Department of Photography / Gabriele Rothemann at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

     

TUE 26 NOV 2013

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Werner Würtinger - Episode einer Fortschreibung

    A cigarette packet is a sculpture

    is a church is a foil.

    A church is a sculpture

    is a costume is a photo.

    A sculptor is an architect is a poet is a bohemian

    is a costume designer is a sculptor.

    Werner Würtinger is Otto Kobalek is Fritz Wotruba.

     

    Art is essence of its sociopolitical surrounding. In his work Werner Würtinger opens and expands its potency from diverse positions and perspectives. He seeks to increase cultural communication.

     

    Werner Würtinger was born in Hallein, Austria in 1941. He graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Class of Fritz Wotruba) in 1964. As a member of the Secession he initiated the Junge Szene ("New Scene"), an exhibition series at the Secession, focussing on young Austrian artists. From 1995 until 1999 he was president of the Secession. Additionally he was teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna from 1975 until 2003. In recent years he participated in exhibitions at the Secession, Vienna (2002), Kölnischer Kunstverein (2003), Cologne, and Galerie 5020, Salzburg (2006). He lives and works in Vienna.

     

    Photos © Peter Hoiß

     

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WED 05 JUN 2013

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

    Aufstellung

    The participants in this group exhibition are students at the Skulpturinstitut during the summer semster 2013

     

    Johanna Binder

    Emanuel Ehgartner

    Simon Goritschnig

    Flora Hauser

    Camilla Hägebarth

    Lukas Janitsch

    Oliver Kowacz

    Philipp Köster

    Cornelia Lein

    Maria Mäser

    Benjamin Nachtigall

    Gert Resinger

    Janine Schranz

    Simon Sramek

    Céline Struger

    Thomas Streitfellner

    Julia Tazreiter

     

    The students derive from the departments Stage and Film Design / Bernhard Kleber, Digital Art / Ruth Schnell, Photography / Gabriele Rothemann, Graphics and Printmaking / Jan Svenungsson, Painting / Johanna Kandl, Painting and Animated Film / Judith Eisler, TransArts and Transmedia Art / Brigitte Kowanz at the Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art.

     

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THU 24 JAN 2013

  • Exhibition opening, 7 pm

     

    The participants in this group exhibition are students at the Skulpturinstitut during the winter semester 2012/2013

     

    Kerstin Borchert

    Bartosz Dolhun

    Melanie Ender

    Philipp Friedrich

    Peter Fritzenwallner

    Marie-France Goerens

    Michael Heindl

    Alfred Lenz

    Marta Masternak

    Matthias Noggler

    Hannah Rosa Öllinger

    Manfred Rainer

    Karl Salzmann

    Konrad Strutz

    Anna Vasof

    Eugen Wist

    Reinhold Zisser

     

    The students derive from the departments Stage and Film Design / Bernhard Kleber, Digital Art / Ruth Schnell, Photography / Gabriele Rothemann, Graphics and Printmaking / Jan Svenungsson, Painting / Johanna Kandl, Painting and Animated Film / Judith Eisler, TransArts and Transmedia Art / Brigitte Kowanz at the Institute of Fine Arts and Media Art.

     

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