On selected Tuesday evenings, artists from the exhibition Come as You Are. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2023 and our art education team meet for a joint discussion on their artistic practice. After the 20-minute talk, there will be an opportunity to take a tour of the exhibition together.
This program is free of charge and no prior registration is needed.
The artist talk will be held in German.
Valentin Hämmerle’s site-specific diploma installation LIGHT YELLOW GAZE 9201-104 *** demonstrated his acute awareness of the principles of stage design and evident pleasure in their transgression, while opening his practice toward multiple artistic media. Critically reflecting on the basic tenets of his discipline, he turns to other formats and languages, such as those of sculpture and painting, but without losing his sense of space in relation to bodies in motion.
In his installation to iron a curtain, Hämmerle cites the materiality of his graduation project: pressed polylactic acid panels create a surface that simultaneously conceals and reveals. The foundations of stage design intertwine with the principles of painting and allude to the ambivalences that also underpin the curatorial framework of the exhibition.