We warmly invite you to celebrate with us in the presence of the artist.
7pm Speeches (with translation in Austrian Sign Language)
→ Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs and Science
→ Michelle Cotton, Artistic Director Kunsthalle Wien
Diego Marcon’s works draw on different cinematic vocabularies, shifting between genres from musicals to melodrama; from horror to slapstick comedy. La Gola (2024) is structured by a series of letters between two correspondents, Gianni and Rosanna, who are each absorbed in their own narrative. The film moves between the poetic and the revolting as Gianni describes the successive courses of an exquisite banquet while Rosanna chronicles the progressive decline of her mother’s health.
The Kunsthalle Wien presents Marcon’s first solo exhibition in Austria.
La Gola was commissioned by Kunsthalle Wien, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève for BIM’24, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Sadie Coles HQ, London and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York; with support from the Fonds d’art contemporain de la Ville de Genève (FMAC) and Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain de Genève (FCAC).
The exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien is realized with the kind support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Vienna. The support is provided on the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo.
The accompanying publication is supported by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity within the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council programme (2024).
