Sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art educator Martin Walkner guide you through the exhibition Diego Marcon. La Gola, which shows the film by the same name. Marcon playfully combines graphic accounts of cuisine and disease in an elaborate production with hyperrealistic mannequins.
Diego Marcon talks about his film La Gola, in which he explores the cinematic genre of melodrama. Two hyperrealistic dolls alternately write letters to each other talking about gastronomic delights and disease.
Discover the inspirations, techniques and behind-the-scenes stories from Diego Marcon and his team of the film La Gola.
Marina Pinsky examines the ways in which images can be read as material, spatial, and ideological models of the world. Her work July 15th, 2015 presented in the exhibition Genossin Sonne, can be interpreted as an embodiment of time.
Huda Takriti presents a work at Brunnenpassage as part of the exhibition Genossin Sonne. The new commission highlights the importance of women who fight against oppressive regimes in their struggle for freedom for themselves and society.
In the exhibition JAZZ., Oscar Murillo’s large-scale black canvases are suspended from the ceiling to create an almost labyrinthine structure, they carefully shape the space, allowing for intimate encounters with his abstract paintings.
In this episode, we talk to the exhibition designers of Genossin Sonne. Marlene Oeken and Martha Schwindling describe the challenges of designing an exhibition with many video works and answer the question of how to create a space for visitors to enjoy spending time in and immersing themselves in the artworks.
Rene Matić’s contributions to the exhibition JAZZ. take Vienna’s reaction and “outrage” to Josephine Baker’s appearance in the city in 1928 as a starting point.
Claudia Lomoschitz combines video, archival images, performance, and text to explore queer-feminist and collective practices. For the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, she developed the video work LACTANS, which deals with art-historical representations of breastfeeding.
In the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, Dorottya Vékony presents a collage of bodies and addresses socially undesirable and deliberately ignored aspects such as infertility, miscarriages, and abortion.
Curator Andrea Popelka guides through the exhibition Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. It is centered around a film dealing with the European colonial relation to the Earth in the history of neoliberalism.
Curator Laura Amann guides you through the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat. The group show questions why we are still so obsessed, offended, and scandalized by the view of naked breasts and deals with different depictions of breasts in art history, but also with related current topics.
Sign language interpreter Eva Böhm and art educator Martin Walkner guide through the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.
Mariya Vasilyeva questions identity patterns and gendered power dynamics in her digital collages, video installations and performances. She often uses her own body as a site of digital manipulation, e.g. in her video installation ALTAR 2.0 shown at the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat.
Toni Schmale‘s sculptures made of steel, concrete or rubber are often reminiscent of training or fitness equipment – as are the two works in the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat. However, they are non-functional and can be understood as a critique of the existing power structures in bodybuilding and ideas of the perfect body.
In her works, Marianne Vlaschits blurs the boundaries between the human and the cosmic, raising urgent questions about our relationship with the environment and our role in overcoming the ecological crises of our time. In the exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat she shows a painting of an imaginary, distant world.
Artist Maja Smrekar challenges established notions of social structures, domesticity, anthropocentrism, family and motherhood while speculating about possibilities for cohabitation between humans and nonhumans. For our exhibition Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat she created a site-specific installation
In this episode, we interview the artist Iman Issa about her contribution to the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. Iman Issa deals with the power of displays in relation to cultural and academic institutions. She destabilizes preconceived notions about artworks by recontextualizing and recombining objects and texts that suggest other narratives and visions of what we think we know.
Mira Gakjina is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Skopje, which was founded through a great act of international solidarity. In 1963, Skopje was massively destroyed by an earthquake, many artists donated works and the Skopje Solidarity Collection grew quickly.
For the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Elfie Semotan captured the unique character of Skopje in a photographic series. Her pictures portray Skopje’s cultural diversity – from the Ottoman Old Bazaar to the modernist reconstruction of the city after the 1963 earthquake or, as part of the Skopje 2014 project, the crude attempt to rebuild Skopje as the classicist city it never was.
We talked with artist and curator Brook Andrew about his contribution to the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. He developed a wall and an inflatable connected by a striking black and white pattern inspired by indigenous designs, questioning the exploitative dynamics of cultural appropriation.
