In an in-depth interview, we talk to Anna Spanlang about filmmaking, the potential of collaborative work with different artists, the lack of diversity in the Austrian media landscape, and what this might have to do with the worrying increase in femicides.
In the new edition of the Kunsthalle Wien Podcast we talk to artist Nora Severios about her artistic work, nettle arms, animals that scratch themselves and why she enrolled in a boxing club. Nora Severios is part of the exhibition Handspells, Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021, in which she is represented with two works.
In Cho Beom-Seok‘s documentary Prägung [Imprint], we meet a blind protagonist who tries to transform the small balcony of his apartment into a “paradise”. Through the dialogues and intimate and associative sound compositions, the viewer is introduced to a world that reveals more about human existence than it seems at first glance.
For this podcast on the cinematic work, currently on view in the exhibition Handspells, the artist dares to experiment with omitting the images of the film in order to reduce our experience to the auditory: we are following the audio description for the blind and visually impaired. Sounds, dialogues and music form a sonic space that allows a singular intimacy and closeness that seems only accessible through this path.
In this episode different members of the Kunsthalle Wien art education team choose one particular work from Ines Doujak. Geistervölker to share their personal insights into the exhibition.
In the second part of our interview with The Golden Pixel Cooperative, we talk to Simona Obholzer about the artificial generation of nature, Marlies Pöschl tells us how Austria’s entire cultural history could be stored in a vegetable patch, and we wander with Lisa Truttmann through images of landscapes into which new technologies are cutting ever deeper.
What is the value of your smartphone after dissolving it in acid and why are we running out of sand on this planet sooner rather than later? Find out more on this and the works on display in Space for Kids – Footprints in a Sea of Data by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Katharina Swoboda and Nathalie Koger in the first part of our double interview with The Golden Pixel Cooperative.
Kathrin Stumreich works investigate and decode hidden power and control mechanisms embedded in technology. For this purpose, the artist conjures up the fictional character Crystal Tesla, the alleged illegitimate daughter of Ted Kaczynski.
Cybersounds unfolds paradigmatic moments of cybernetic thinking throughout history, politics, financial models, and cultural phenomena. From the Bolshevik proto-cybernetic in pre-revolutionary Russia through the post-cybernetic hippie movement to digital capitalism: this podcast series thematizes the emergence of meta-sciences, the appropriation of feedback systems, and the creation of models for the anticipation of systemic risk.
“Is Film a weapon or bullshit?”
Želimir Žilnik born 1942, lives and works in Novi Sad, Serbia. He has written and directed numerous feature and documentary films. Artistically his works fluctuate between documentary and fictional storytelling. From the very beginning he focused on contemporary issues, featuring social, political, and economic assessments of everyday life. The exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien titled Shadow Citizens opens up several thematic channels into the vast body of Zilnik’s work and tries to illuminate the cultural roots these extraordinary films stem from. We had the chance to interview Želimir Žilnik last November. With this conversation we want to offer a glimpse into his thoughts on filmmaking and his artistic strategies
In the newest episode of our Kunsthalle Wien Podcast artist Camila Sposati talks about her project Phonosophia – now on view in Cybernetics of the Poor. Sposati creates musical instruments made from clay, that are music more than sound producers.
The current Kunsthalle Wien Podcast features an extensive interview with Constanze Ruhm. She is talking about her work CRASH SITE / My_Never_Ending_Burial_Plot, on show in the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. The video installation is part the series “X Characters,” in which Ruhm explores female characters in film history from a queer-feminist point of view.
In the newest podcast episode artists Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska & Vanja Smiljanić talk about their contribution to Cybernetics of the Poor. Drawing on the culture of LARPing (live-action role playing games) from a site-specific and feminist perspective, they discuss how they aim to change the cybernetically managed conventions and the operating modes of normative gender-specific behavior by proposing another kind of role play.
The latest edition of the Kunsthalle Wien podcast is dedicated to the exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. We speak with artist and theorist Axel Stockburger on the topic. In the multi-part interview he elucidates the concept of cybernetics, draws connections from the thermostat up to artificial intelligence, and describes his contribution to the exhibition, which investigates the Austrian perspective on cybernetics.
In the last podcast featuring „… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” artist Andreas Siekmann talks about his work “Heads” that addresses the implications of economic developments and processes of gentrification and privatization.
In the new KISS podcast we meet conceptual and media artist Margot Pilz and talk about her works and actions she used to fight for increased women’s representation, right to self-determination, and collective emancipation – like in her “Hausfrauendenkmal” from 1979 which she restaged as part of KISS.
In the second KISS podcast artist Eva Egermann talks about her project “Hold off, but hold me”, in which she shows banners and posters with texts by author Ianina Ilitcheva at various locations in Vienna’s public space, including the Central Garden and Mariahilferstrasse.
For our current KISS podcast we meet artist Johanna Tinzl to talk about her work. Employing a variety of mediums, it is based on a sensitive and often collaborative examination of particular histories, which she connects to collective memories and to politically driven processes of representation.
For the first podcast featuring the exhibition project KISS we meet artist Thomas Geiger, who for his “Festival of Minimal Actions” at Reumannplatz in Vienna-Favoriten reperforms works by different artists dealing with the possibilities and impossibilities of physical interaction, affection, intimacy, and romance in public space during periods of pandemic. (in German)
In the current podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” artist Selma Selman talks about her drawing series “Superpositional Intersectionalism” as an attempt to expose and neutralize preconceived notions of what constitutes opposites and contradictions.
The sound piece “The Devil and the Uncle” accompanies Ines Doujak’s installation “The Devil Travels” on show in the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace”. The artist’s works investigate gender stereotypes and neocolonial exploitation against the backdrop of a complex world economy.
In the new podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” artist Victoria Lomasko talks about how she found the idea for her new work “Underwater” that invites viewers to enter the intimacy of the deep waters: she not only draws events but also the emotions present and felt therein.
In the current podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” artist Vlatka Horvat talks about her installations that assert themselves in the room as obstacles or as riddles of sorts, directing and choreographing movement trajectories and thought processes.
In the current podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Milica Tomić talks about her work “On Love Afterwards” which draws on history as a process of discontinuity by using methods of montage to juxtapose different histories of resistance.
In the current podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Saddie Choua talks about using popular culture in her work layering fiction, literature, music, and theater into spatial situations to tell stories.
In the new podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Jessika Khazrik for the Society of False Witnesses talks about about her installation “VRLAMXXAB8ND“, which deals with a very personal incident that happened to her just two months before the exhibition opened in March 2020.
In the fourth podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Wendelien van Oldenborgh talks about how Film was not just something to reflect on, but also activating behaviour.
In the third podcast featuring the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” Oliver Ressler talks about activism for climate protection and criticism of capitalism, as well as the protest movements he has accompanied with his camera for years.
The second podcast of the exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace” features artist Monika Grabuschnigg talking about her series “Crash (Simulation)” and also includes additional voices commenting on the works and the wider context of the show.
A new podcast series gives you first hand insights into the exhibited works of the current exhibition “… of bread, wine, cars, security and peace”. The artists themselves talk about their artistic practice, issues they encounter along the way and overall thoughts on what matters to them today.
In the second edition of the Kunsthalle Wien Podcast we met artist Andreas Fogarasi during the set-up of his exhibition. After a conversation about the concept of his show, we walked through the city and talked about urban transformation processes.
The first edition of our Kunsthalle Wien Podcast takes you on a journey to the exhibition Time is Thirsty. In a conversation with curator Luca Lo Pinto, we chat about the possibility of a trip through time, why it would be boring to show only artworks from 1992 – the founding year of the Kunsthalle Wien – and which artwork he would preserve for eternity. Florence Bonnefous of Galerie Air de Paris as well as the artists Sissel Tolaas and Jason Dodge also provide insights into their contributions to the exhibition.
The multi-part exhibition project “Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017” explores the potentials of publishing – in the form of books, magazines, journals, artistic interventions, websites – as a particular medium and context both to circulate information, knowledge – and to produce art.