

Mira Gakjina – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
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.

Elfie Semotan – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
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.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Brook Andrew
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.

Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman. Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims
The artists Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman talk about their exhibition and eponymous film Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. Their work traverses and interconnects different times and places to reveal the planetary scope and historical depth of pressing geopolitical issues.

Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Martin Walkner guide through the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska
We had an in-depth conversation with the North Macedonian artist duo Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska on their work for the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. For their installation All Things Flowing they picked seemingly contrasting works from the collection of MoCA Skopje by two very influential North Macedonian artists – Aneta Svetieva and Dushan Perchinkov. They reacted to this choice with two new works of their own to explore the local art history and to reimagine the story of MoCA Skopje in an essayistic way.

Siniša Ilić – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
Siniša Ilić proposes a recontextualization of the city of Skopje in his spatial installation titled Filigran. His work connects eight abstract sculptural objects from MoCA Skopje’s collection with his own drawings, collages, and moving images, placing them on platforms of varying heights.

Artist talk with Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman
Lama El Khatib and Sam Nimmrichter talk to the artists Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman about their exhibition Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. Defying universalist norms of thought established by the European Enlightenment, Neuman and da Silva counter the linearity of history and the separation of space to interrogate the presence of colonialism now, here, with us.

Gülsün Karamustafa – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
Gülsün Karamustafa exhibits her painting Window and the sculptural installation The Monument and the Child. Together with a small selection of works from the MoCA Skopje, which all came from a private donation, they are presented in an imaginary family room. Watch the video to learn more about her selection.

Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska – No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
In their spatial installation All Things Flowing, Yane Calovski and Hristina Ivanoska introduce a new way of looking at the history of MoCA Skopje. For their work, they studied the architectural designs for the construction of the museum. They developed a motorized sculptural installation and a large-scale typographic mural in dialogue with works from the MoCA Skopje collection by two Macedonian artists: the painter Dushan Perchinkov and the sculptor Aneta Svetieva.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Tijana Lazović
Artist and filmmaker Tijana Lazović shows in the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022 two videos about the loss of a close friend. In the podcast, she talks about her artistic practice and how her interest in science influences her artistic work, and goes on to talk about growing up in Belgrade and moving to Vienna.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Elfie Semotan
In this episode, Elfie Semotan talks about her photo series of Skopje for the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. The podcast revolves around the question of how to portray a city and how, as an artist, you should keep reinventing yourself over time in order to realize interesting projects.

Alexandru Cosarca – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
Alexandru Cosarca is a tireless protagonist in the Viennese performance scene who, among other things, initiated the collective format WERISTdICHTER? in 2017. As a host, he brings together artists to negotiate queerness, gender roles, exclusions, and longings in a joyful, yet all the while political way.
His merchandising booth in the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022 brings community-building into the exhibition space and is a tribute to the 106 contributing artists.

Gleb Amankulov – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
In the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022, Gleb Amankulov shows a series of temporary assemblies referring to the precarious conditions of art production. In an critically engagement with the respective exhibition site, he makes objects from found, bought and furnished elements, which after their temporary display return to the market or to their respective owners to reclaim their lives as domestic objects.

Julius Pristauz – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
For the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022, Julius Pristauz developed the exhibition design together with the architect Muamer Osmanovic. He shows the sculpture bad light (piercing), which was part of his diploma exhibition, the photograph a stage without the performer (01) and the performance between floors with Cæcilie Heldt Rønnow. Pristauz uses a variety of media and formats, repeatedly exploring the construction of identities, as well as tensions between private and public spheres.

Laure Prouvost. Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama
Laure Prouvost talks about the homage to grannies and her multimedia installation. Together with Sam Belinfante (light and sound designer of the exhibition), she developed a performance involving soprano Patricia Auchterlonie. Her collaborative practice is also evident in the video, for which she invited both of them to participate.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Raphael Reichl
Raphael Reichl talks about his video installation in the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022. The film juxtaposes two parallel pathways of globalization on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The boom in so-called ecotourism is constantly creating new construction sites for hotel complexes. The hard-labor experience of the construction workers collides with the images of cute baby turtles on their first journey into the sea.

Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Martin Walkner guide through the exhibition Laure Prouvost. Ohmmm age Oma je ohomma mama.

Tijana Lazović – Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
Tijana Lazović‘s films in the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022 are a touching testimony to a deceased friend. Sans Soleil portrays the persistence of memory as a flow through a personal image archive, mixed with found material from the internet. Soleil is its abstract counterpart, showing damaged film footage.

Ramiro Wong – Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
Ramiro Wong’s installation in the exhibition Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022 inhabits a performative space that evokes one of his earliest childhood memories of internal armed conflict in Peru from 1989. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in the transart class with Nita Tandon.

Juliana Lindenhofer – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
Juliana Lindenhofer talks about her sculptures in the exhibition, which are made of synthetic materials and industrial waxes. Starting from an initial idea, she draws a sketch and then removes herself to give space for chemical reactions.

Kunsthalle Wien Podcast: Gülsün Karamustafa
In this episode, Gülsün Karamustafa talks about her contribution to the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. We discuss our contemporary conception of solidarity and the relation of past natural disasters to more recent ones.

Trailer Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims
The artist duo Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman’s exhibition is centred around the coproduction and presentation of a new work: Ancestral Clouds Ancestral Claims. Parts of the film were shot in the Atacama Desert, the place with the clearest and driest air on the planet and home to the world’s largest radio telescope, which observes the skies. Against this backdrop, the film probes an alternative experience of the world that, rather than primarily seeing, overlooking, and enlightening, is guided by other senses and practices.

Vanessa Schmidt – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
We visited Vanessa Schmidt at her studio. Her spatial installations display domestic settings in an abstracted, bare, and anachronistic manner.

Charlotte Gash – Unfreezing the Scene. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2022
We went to see Charlotte Gash‘s studio. The artist combines critique of the mundane with her own personal experiences of the art world to create narratives and counternarratives that open up discussions around working as a contemporary artist.
Charlotte Gash is played by Charlotta Öberg

No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection – Audioguide
This audio guide leads in eight short episodes through the exhibition No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection. Starting with an intro, you will learn more about the MoCA Skopje, the artists Brook Andrew, Yane Calovski & Hristina Ivanoska, Siniša Ilić, Iman Issa, Gülsün Karamustafa, and Elfie Semotan, as well as the context of the exhibition.