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Ville Laurinkoski
Untitled (Vienne)

Date and time

Thursday, 5.6.2025
19:00

Location

Kunsthalle Wien
Karlsplatz

Performance
Ville Laurinkoski: Untitled (Vienne), performance at Kunsthalle Wien 2025, © Natascha Unkart
Ville Laurinkoski: Untitled (Vienne), performance at Kunsthalle Wien 2025, © Natascha Unkart
Ville Laurinkoski: Untitled (Vienne), performance at Kunsthalle Wien 2025, © Natascha Unkart
Ville Laurinkoski: Untitled (Vienne), performance at Kunsthalle Wien 2025, © Natascha Unkart
Ville Laurinkoski: Untitled (Vienne), performance at Kunsthalle Wien 2025, © Natascha Unkart

Untitled (Vienne) is a performance by artist Ville Laurinkoski taking place on the opening night of Burn The Diaries, Read Them Out Loud, unfolding as a fractured score of historical memory, erotic residue and political melancholia. The work layers voice, sound and presence into a performative montage – part confessional, part theoretical – set against the backdrop of Vienna as both city and dreamscape.

Cushioned by an eclectic and dissonant soundscape – musical fragments, pornographic audio debris – the performance incorporates text and gesture in a shifting exploration of identity, memory, and spectacle. The score draws heavily from Guy Hocquenghem’s writings, weaving political and intimate registers.

Against the public – among the crowd – Laurinkoski sets a stage of fragmented repetitions: a patterned pair of pajamas, MDF panels standing in for privacy or repression, bedroom spaces as metaphorical and literal ‘backstage’ zones. The performer – a figure, a puppet, a social type – inhabits the spectacle of “the homosexual” as both trope and trap: pathologized, mythologized and theatricalized. Untitled (Vienne) considers what it means to perform a figure that is constantly in question – at once abject, ornamental, critical, and yearning.

 

Free admission

 

Ville Laurinkoski (b. 1996, Finland) is a visual artist and performer. Alongside studies at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, Laurinkoski completed the Maumaus Independent Study Programme in Lisbon. Laurinkoski has exhibited at Nikolaj Kunsthal, Copenhagen (2025); the Museum of Finnish Architecture and the Design Museum, Helsinki (2024); Galleri Elverket – Pro Artibus, Ekenäs, Finland (2024); Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023); and Amos Rex, Helsinki (2020). His performances have been presented at O—Overgaden, Copenhagen and Art Hub Copenhagen (both 2024); and Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2023 and 2024), among others. Laurinkoski is a member of the artist collective Jennifee-See Alternate. Laurinkoski lives and works in Copenhagen.