Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien

11 06 - 08 09 Keren Cytter – Selection & Darja Bajagić – Unlimited Hate

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24 06 2017 — 07 09 2017

Abstract Hungary

The issue of abstract art, which is always being updated, is being brought up again as part of an extensive exhibition of current Hungarian art, in order to take a closer look at more recent art and its effects in the face of heightened challenges. Abstract art in Hungary has a significant place in art history. It’s linked to artists such as Lajos Kassák and Victor Vasarely, as well as to artists who are active today, such as Imre Bak, Dóra Maurer, and István Nádler. In turn, these well-known artists are followed by outstanding middle and younger generations; their works are more strongly divergent in terms of content and form, and are still comparatively unknown.

Representing a broader narrative blueprint, "Abstract Hungary" features around twenty artists and their works, the majority of which are being shown for the first time in Austria. They’ll be interpreted by looking critically at the way the artists deal with their own approaches, as well as through current and past events in (art) history. Here, “abstraction” also plays an overriding role, in the sense of being an open-minded, productive attitude that goes beyond practiced formalisms; it can be understood as an art historical, discursive factor that is critical of time, as well as an element that links the participating artists. In an era with a complicated political, social, and economic environment, abstraction per se points beyond the local, seeking a distinct international language so that beyond all linguistic divides its connecting strengths in specific can be discussed.

The comprehensive exhibition will be accompanied with a catalogue and a side program.

Curators: Sandro Droschl, Áron Fenyvesi

Supported by the Embassy of Hungary – Collegium Hungaricum Vienna, NOW Esterházy Contemporary

Real Hungary – Der Esterházy Kunstpreis Opening: 27.06 2017, 18 Uhr Location: Collegium Hungaricum Vienna, Hollandstraße 4, 1020 Vienna www.becs.balassiintezet.hu/

Part of www.cmrk.org

Read more http://www.km-k.at/en/exhibition/abstract-hungary/text/

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Lecture by Rainer Fuchs – Seeing Images, Hearing Voices

Rainer Fuchs photo: mumok photo archive

08 09 2016  6pm

"Keren Cytter’s films don’t offer a conventional kind of narrative cinema. Rather, they pursue the grammatical and media rules governing the ways that films are constructed. Most of her films are about the human relationships between her protagonists, as well as the way that the media industry and society mark our memories and emotions. In the process, images and language don’t intertwine or affirm each other. Instead, they are separate and overlap each other in strands of images and texts. Images and voices don’t swallow each other up, but remain independent, and can be perceived in the ways that the films construct order and make connections. In addition, the plots of Cytter’s films always refer to the film, rather than to specific kinds of action. By reflecting on media and with her poetic, experimental understanding of text, Cytter refers to a film/literary tradition that can also be found here at home, for instance, in the films by Ernst Jandl." Rainer Fuchs

Rainer Fuchs studied art history, history and philosophy at Graz and Vienna. He is Deputy Director and head of exhibitions at Museum of Moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna (mumok).

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Lecture by Kathy Noble – Got to be Real

© Kathy Noble

01 09 2016       6pm

The lecture will focus on the use of performers and performance in Keren Cytter’s work. The characters in Cytter’s videos and live performances are a mix of friends, fellow artists, actors and dancers, many of whom reappear repeatedly over the years. Although each work is scripted, there is a collaborative act that occurs during each work’s making, where the character’s “real” and “performed” selves merge purposefully. Alongside this, Cytter is an auteur “performing” multiple roles herself; of director, camera person, editor, choreographer and writer —yet during making she also leaves much to chance, acting as a kind of voyeur onto the situations she has masterminded.

Kathy Noble is a curator and writer based in London, currently working with the Institute of Contemporary Arts to curate “Art Night,“ a new festival of site-specific works, including Alexandra Bachzetsis, Linder, Joan Jonas and Jason Moran.

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Lecture with Antonio Grulli –Crosswords

Antonio Grulli Foto: Luca Bolognese.com

07 07 2016  6pm

The lecture will focus on the use of language and poetry in Keren Cytter´s work. During her career the artist based a large part of her work on writing, not only as screenplay in videos, theater plays and performances, but also in an ongoing process in publishing books, magazines, text based projects and poetry happenings. In the artist's work words become a tool of disquiet and critical analysis to be used against human passions and relationships.

Antonio Grulli (born 1979 in La Spezia) is an art critic and independent curator living in Bologna. Grulli has curated a large amount of exhibitions, has just been part of the 2016 Oslo Open Festival in Norway (osloopen.no), and in June 2016 he will be one of the participants of “The First Summer Fest of Western Liberation”, a festival curated by Keren Cytter in Zurich.

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Lecture by Natalia Sielewicz – Red Is the Coldest Colour

Natalia Sielewicz photo: Bartek Wieczorek

30 06 2016     6pm

The primary subject of this talk will be Darja Bajagić's exploration of issues around the representation of sexuality, violence and eroticism within social media, understood here as a platform for art and sexual expression, and as a potent vehicle of image appropriation and exploitation. Russian mail order brides, amateur porn stars from Eastern Europe, lesbian vampires, missing girls and “les femmes castratrices” occupy Bajagić's wicked visual universe where the online content morphs and mutates into a beautiful nightmare. This talk will consider how, in search of new models for representing and transgressing the body in the era of digital dematerialization, Bajagic questions her own place in culture, history and the visual codification.

Natalia Sielewicz is an art historian and curator currently working at the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Most recently she curated “Private Settings. Art after the Internet,” one of the first global surveys tackling the impact of communication technologies and datasphere on contemporary art and identity politics and “Bread and Roses. Artists and the Class Division” (with Łukasz Ronduda), exploring the ways through which artists define their status and position in the realm of an ever-widening economic gap. 

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Curator's Talk with Sandro Droschl

Sandro Droschl Foto: MK

23 06 2016  6pm

The precise and pointed work of artists like Keren Cytter and Darja Bajagić implicates an intense challenge in the process of curating their complex solo exhibitions. Both artists represent „strong“ conceptual positions, which by no means are afraid of controversial approaches to current phenomenons of society, but articulate their distinct ideas in a sensitive way. The present architecture of the Künstlerhaus allows the creation of a pavilion-like environment, where on two levels, one respective artistic position is presented with site-specific constructional and conceptual stagings. A major concern of the institution is the realization and presentation of new works, publications and auxiliary program accompanying the exhibitions. In the frame of a curator’s guided tour through these exhibitions, Sandro Droschl will introduce Keren Cytter’s and Darja Bajagić’s projects and discuss open questions.

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Darja Bajagić – Unlimited Hate

Darja Bajagić, Untitled, 2016

11 06 2016 — 08 09 2016

Opening: June 10, 2016, 6pm

For her first institutional solo, Darja Bajagić (born 1990 in Podgorica, Montenegro, lives in New York City) turns to the murky terrain where real and staged violence bleeds one into the other with an ease that is both unsettling and inexorably alluring. This has been a key undercurrent in a practice that to date spans painting, sculpture, video, and installation. Heeding the lure of the fringes, the artist culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure on-line forums and hidden chatrooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web. She handles these disparate source materials with a dose of humor, working them into densely layered compositions that are at once confrontational and poetically fragile. Through these, she explores laden questions of embodiment, viewership, and visual power relationships—all the while interrogating our driving need to make images accountable.

The exhibition shows new works and will be accompanied by a publication and side programs. Curated by Sandro Droschl.

Homepage: http://www.km-k.at/en/exhibition/darja-bajagic/text/

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Important informations:

Press talk:  June 10, 2016, 12:00 noon Opening: June 10, 2016, 6pm

Free Shuttle Service on the day of the opening Departure Vienna June 10, 2016, 3pm, opera bus stop, Bus 59a Departure Graz June 10,2016, 11:30pm < rotor >, Volksgarten

More CMRK openings on June 10, 2016: 7pm Grazer Kunstverein 8pm Camera Austria 9:30pm < rotor > www.cmrk.or

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Keren Cytter – Selection

Keren Cytter, Untitled, 2016, photo: Tomer Aluf

11 06 2016 — 08 09 2016

Opening: June 10, 2016, 6pm

Keren Cytter (*1977 Tel Aviv, lives in New York) captures and explores human relationships, particularly the performed behaviours and interactions of everyday life. Working with narrative, Cytter plays with humorous, absurd, and deconstructed dialogues, which at times mix fictitious situations with real-life. For this summer exhibition the artist presents a selection of video works and a selection of drawings embedded in the reconstructed exhibition space. In addition, Cytter produces a new video commissioned especially for the exhibition. The video OBJECT, influenced by images circulating on the Internet, describes ever-changing social structures that will be shot in Cytter’s apartment and backyard in New York.

Curated by Sandro Droschl.

A novel written by the artist accompanies the exhibition (Sternberg Press, Berlin).

The exhibition is generously supported by the AVL Cultural Foundation (Graz).

Homepage: http://www.km-k.at/en/exhibition/keren-cytter/text/

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 Important informations:

Press talk: 
June 10, 2016, 12:00 noon

Opening:
 June 10, 2016, 6pm

 Free Shuttle Service on the day of the opening
Departure Vienna June 10, 2016, 3pm, opera bus stop, Bus 59a
Departure Graz June 10,2016, 11:30pm 
< rotor >, Volksgarten

More CMRK openings on June 10, 2016:
7pm Grazer Kunstverein
8pm Camera Austria
9:30pm < rotor >

www.cmrk.org 

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Lecture Marc Matter: Henri Chopin and the editorial experiment: the revue 'OU'

Henri Chopin / William S. Burroughs poster from "OU 38/39" (1971) Designed by Henri Chopin using text-excerpts from William S. Burroughs’ "Electronic Revolution" (silkscreen), photo: Marc Matter

Tomorrow – 14 04 2016  6pm

Using many examples of sound and visuals from the zone bordering writing, art, and music, in which language is employed as a material for artistic experiments and, above all, plays a role in acoustic and conceptual approaches, the media artist Marc Matter provides some insight into his research into the multimedia art magazine “OU.” The revue “inclassable” came in an elaborately designed portfolio format, with space for literary, visual, and sound experiments, and was published by the Paris-based sound poet, artist, and publisher Henri Chopin from 1964 to 1974. It contained contributions in various forms: posters, loose sheets, sculptural and object-like bricolage, and vinyl records by artists and authors such as Bernhard Heidsieck, Paul de Vree, Sten Hanson, Ake Hodell, Hugh Davies, Bob Cobbing, François Dufrêne, John Cage, Tom Phillips, Michel Seuphor, Ben Vautier, Jiří Kolář, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Annea Lockwood. Marc Matter was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1974 and is a media artist, primarily in the field of audio, as well as a founding member of the artists’ group Institut fuer Feinmotorik (Institute for fine motor skills).

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Nana Mandl – shuffle repeat

Nana Mandl, sometimes i feel like love might win (Detail), 2015 mixed media on digital print on canvas, 190 × 130 cm, courtesy the artist

Opening: April 15, 6pm

16 04 2016 — 29 05 2016

The artist Nana Mandl (born 1991 in Graz, lives in Berlin and Vienna) elaborates, in her bright material collages, possible visual realisations of present-day media challenges and overloads. The exhibtion "shuffle repeat" features works shown for the first time in Graz, sometimes very tactile collages unifying elements of painting with forms of communicative, representational advertising, fashion, and social media. Some of the artist’s earlier works ("graveyard I", "life and death", "maybe a love stick", "follow the spaceship, donkey", all 2012) still sounded out in analogue ways these levels of representation in exhibiting the works (on drawing paper, for instance, partially protected by glass, set against different wall textures and employing photographs). 

In the artist’s images shown on the upper floor of the side wing of the Künstlerhaus, der Halle für Kunst & Medien all of the isolated levels of showing visual elements now come together, opulently and laden with information and reinforce references to the circulation of images and the speed of this circulation. They seem as if they haven’t yet found their final form, as if one could watch them as they take on their shapes, and at the same time one can see how strongly they rely upon this state of being circulated and reproduced. 

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:: Tonight, 6pm :: Opening: Sighs Trapped by Liars - Language in Art // Concert & Lecture IAN SVENONIUS

Photocredit: Natalie Häusler, we are getting a little bit too close here (still life), 2012, Courtesy Supportico Lopez, Berlin

The exhibition 'Sighs Trapped by Liars – Language in Art' is devoted to poetry’s relationship with art. Although this relationship is certainly a long-standing and productive one, it was continually subjected to radical scrutinisation by the artistic avant-gardes of the twentieth century. From the Futurists to the Dadaists, the Surrealists to the Lettrists, acts of overcoming syntax were always favoured methods for exposing linguistic effects or creating an awareness of problems related to representational character. Based on a work title by the English artists’ group Art & Language, the exhibition is characterised by current issues of poetics such as its potential fields of agency and productive fractures in the visual sphere. Which works presented here reflect a history of the artistic-poetic experiment? Which works pursue a poetic-sculptural practice from the mediatic distortions of writing itself? What exactly changes when words from the visual sphere are exposed to the art world?

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Acitve? Passive?

Lecture by Kathrin Busch about passivity, in addition to the exhibition “VOL. 19″ of Klaus Scherübel. The show runs for 2 more days! Go for it!

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Ästhetik der Deaktivierung.

Ein Vortag von Kathrin Busch, am 25 02 um 18:00 @kuenstlerhauskm

Effizienz, Produktivität, Leistungsdruck & ständige Verfügbarkeit prägen die heutige Zeit und den Arbeitsbegriff. Für das “Nichts-Tun" gibt es keinen Platz – Zögern, Zweifeln und Faulheit werden verurteilt. Demgegenüber widmet sich Kathrin Busch (UdK, Berlin) in ihren Forschungen der Passivität. Welchen kulturellen Wert kann Passivität haben? Worin liegt das Potenzial von Passivität?

In einem Vortrag setzt Kathrin Busch ihre Forschungsergebnisse in Bezug zum Werk des Künstlers Klaus Scherübel, wobei Passivität als überaus wichtiger Bestandteil des schöpferischen Prozesses angesehen wird.

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Next event: Talk with Nicolaus Schafhausen on Feb 11, 6pm

During a talk with Sandro Droschl, Schafhausen will comment on the video works of Melanie Gilligan presented in the exhibition “The Common Sense Substitution” and discuss issues around the topic of the economic crises and its politics.

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Klaus Scherübel - VOL.19

Die künstlerische Praxis von Klaus Scherübel (*1968 in Bruck/Mur, lebt in Montreal) basiert auf einer Untersuchung unterschiedlicher kultureller Produktionen, die von der visuellen Kunst über Literatur bis hin zur Mode, Kino und dem Theater reichen. In seinen Arbeiten, die site-spezifisch oder seriell über lange Perioden produziert werden, nimmt Scherübel verschiedenste Rollen an – Künstler bei der Arbeit, Herausgeber, Produzent und Darsteller einer Sitcom, Sponsor etc. –, um die Funktion von KünstlerInnen im Bereich gegenwärtiger kultureller Prozesse zu hinterfragen. Ab 30.01. ist sein neuer Werkkomplex “VOL. 19″ im Künstlerhaus Graz zu sehen!

Homepage des Künstlers mit Informationen zu seinen bisherigen Projekten:

http://klausscheruebel.com/

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Melanie Gilligan

Ab 29.01. zeigt die kanadische Künstlerin ihre neuen Arbeiten “The Common Sense” und “Substitution” im Künstlerhaus. Die Videos von Gilligan ziehen die Betrachter_innen in einen Sog. Ein gruseliges Schau-Vergnügen, das  nicht nur der bloßen Unterhaltung dient sondern auch Fragen über Ökonomie und das Zusammenleben aufwirft. Einen kleinen Vorgeschmack bietet ihr Multi-Episoden-Drama “Popular Unrest”, alle Folgen sind auf der gleichnamigen Homepage verfügbar! See you!

http://popularunrest.org/

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Upcoming exhibitions

Melanie Gilligan - The Common Sense Substitution

 30 01 2016 — 03 03 2016   // opening 29 01 6pm

                                         Klaus Scherübel - VOL. 19

 30 01 2016 — 03 03 2016   // opening 29 01 6pm

COME JOIN US AT THE OPENING on Friday, 6 pm !