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Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Wolfgang Brunner guide through the exhibition Rajkamal Kahlon. Which Side Are You On?
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Curator’s tour: Zdenka Badovinac
Curator’s tour: Zdenka Badovinac
Curator Zdenka Badovinac guides through the exhibition Sanja Iveković. Works of Heart (1974-2022) and shows works from the 50-year career of the artist, who deals with gender issues and political topics.
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Rajkamal Kahlon. Which Side Are You On?
Rajkamal Kahlon. Which Side Are You On?
Rajkamal Kahlon talks about works presented in her exhibition Which Side Are You On?. The artist radically alters colonial images so that her subjects, made into curios by the colonial books’ photographers and authors, reassert their individuality and dignity.
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Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Wolfgang Brunner guide through the exhibition Sanja Iveković. Works of Heart (1974–2022).
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Katrina Daschner. BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!
Katrina Daschner. BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!
An enviroment of the senses and the sensual: Katrina Daschner introduces her solo exhibition BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders. The show, carefully put together by guest curator Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu, encompasses works from the 1990s to the present.
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Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Wolfgang Brunner guide through the exhibition Defiant Muses. Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France.
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Nicole Fernández Ferrer – Defiant Muses
Nicole Fernández Ferrer – Defiant Muses
Statement by Nicole Fernández Ferrer, director of the Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, in the context of the exhibition Defiant Muses. Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives of 1970s and 1980s France. The Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir was created in 1982 by Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig and Ioana Wieder. The feminist activists aimed their cameras at the preservation and creation of audiovisual documents concerning the history of women, their rights, fights and creations.
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Anna Spanlang – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
Anna Spanlang – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
“I want to encourage viewers to question the messages that are constructed through images.” Anna Spanlang
In her work CEREAL / Soy Claudia, soy Esther y soy Teresa. Soy Ingrid, soy Fabiola y soy Valeria, on view in the exhibition Handspells, Anna Spanlang uses archival material from almost 11 years. She searches for poetic aesthetics in everyday situations recorded on her mobile phone, creating connections between the private and the public.
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Chin Tsao – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
Chin Tsao – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
In the exhibition Handspells, Chin Tsao shows several sculptural works as well as a video installation and a photograph. The sculptures refer to both the contexts of chinoiserie and Art Deco, moments of cultural exchange between Europe and the Far East in the 18th century. With her video work, the artist tries to find a new perspective on the complex relations between technology, culture, economy, and the body, which make our current techno-culture.
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Nora Severios – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
Nora Severios – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
“My works are inspired by observations of nature and mythological narratives – by attempts to explain our world.” Nora Severios
Spun from animal and plant fibers, flax, angora rabbit wool, banana fiber, mulberry silk, and more: Nora Severios provides insight into her works, working methods and the relationship between humans, (wild) animals and domestication.
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Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Tour in Austrian Sign Language
Eva Böhm and Wolfgang Brunner guide through the exhibition Do Nothing, Feel Everything.
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Curator´s tour: Laura Amann
Curator´s tour: Laura Amann
What does it take to process what is happening around us, to heal, and maybe even to grow? Follow Laura Amann through the exhibition Do Nothing, Feel Everything, on view at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz. The curator introduces works by Tony Cokes, Patricia Domínguez, Shana Moulton, and more.
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Jojo Gronostay – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
Jojo Gronostay – Handspells. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2021
Jojo Gronostay´s works pose questions about hierarchies (between the Global South and the Global North and between “high” and applied arts), identity (his own and the collective), power, and value. In his video, he introduces the artworks on view in the exhibition Handspells. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2021.
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Cho Beom-Seok – Handspells. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2021
Cho Beom-Seok – Handspells. Kunsthalle Wien Prize 2021
“If I sum up my documentary Prägung [Imprint] in two words, hate and violence come closest – although both terms hardly appear in the film, neither as themes nor concrete situations.” Cho Beom-Seok
Cho Beom-Seok shares insights into his documentary Prägung [Imprint] (2021) as well as his search for and limitations of images.
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Curator´s tour: Aziza Harmel
Curator´s tour: Aziza Harmel
Follow Aziza Harmel through the exhibition Do Nothing, Feel Everything, on view at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz. The curator introduces works from Yesmine Ben Khelil, Niklas Lichti, Tom Seidmann Freud, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Sophie Carapetian and Jakob Jakobsen and Rahima Gambo.
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Kunsthalle Wien x MUK Wien: Geistervölker – Journey of Thoughts
Kunsthalle Wien x MUK Wien: Geistervölker – Journey of Thoughts
On the basis of their lectures in the exhibition Ines Doujak. Geistervölker students from the Master of Arts Education program at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna embarked on an associative journey of thoughts through the exhibition. The resulting video clip is an audiovisual collage of musical and performative interventions that arose from the engagement with Ines Doujak‘s artistic works.
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Klaus Speidel: How do you approach a contemporary art exhibition?
Klaus Speidel: How do you approach a contemporary art exhibition?
In the final episode of Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics, Klaus Speidel speaks about approaching and understanding contemporary art, especially in comparison to old art.
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Klaus Speidel: Wie schreibt man über Kunst?
Klaus Speidel: Wie schreibt man über Kunst?
Klaus Speidel, author of the texts of the exhibition guide to Ines Doujak. Geistervölker, explains in the fifth episode of the web series Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics his approach to writing about art and the role of the artist’s intention.
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Klaus Speidel: Is there a meaning behind the choice of material?
Klaus Speidel: Is there a meaning behind the choice of material?
Klaus Speidel takes up the sculpture Bauhütte (Monumental Instability) (2018) by Ines Doujak to talk about the relationship between material and artwork.
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Klaus Speidel: Was hat es mit den Preisen und dem Wert von Kunst auf sich?
Klaus Speidel: Was hat es mit den Preisen und dem Wert von Kunst auf sich?
In the third episode of the web series Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics, Klaus Speidel talks about the art market and how prices and value of (art)works are determined.
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Klaus Speidel: What turns ordinary things into art?
Klaus Speidel: What turns ordinary things into art?
In the second episode of the web series Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics, Klaus Speidel focuses on Ines Doujak´s work series Boutique (2012 – ongoing), and how the textiles and objects on display are more than art pieces pretending to be clothes.
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Klaus Speidel: Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics
Klaus Speidel: Is the emperor naked? Contemporary art for skeptics
Are you skeptical concerning contemporary art, find it difficult or know people who do? This web series is for you. Philosopher, art critic and curator Klaus Speidel not only explains Ines Doujak’s work, on show in the exhibition Geistervölker, but also openly discusses difficulties and criticism.
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Artist tour Ho Rui An
Artist tour Ho Rui An
“I wanted to bring the essay to the ground – in a way to counter the loftiness of the visions represented in it.” Ho Rui An on The Long Boom
Artist Ho Rui An presents two of is artworks, on show in his solo exhibition The Ends of a Long Boom at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz.
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Curator´s tour Miguel A. López
Curator´s tour Miguel A. López
“A monument to care and solidarity.” Miguel A. López
Curator Miguel A. López introduces two works by Cecilia Vicuña: a collage called Árbol de manos [Tree of Hands], 1974, as well as a monumental dyed-wool installation called Burnt Quipu, 2018.
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Zapantera Negra & Chto Delat in conversation with WHW
Zapantera Negra & Chto Delat in conversation with WHW
On the occasion of the opening of And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?, we had the opportunity to speak with members of the collectives Chto Delat and Zapantera Negra about social movements and the urgency of the current political moment. The connection of art, political movements and engagement for political solidarity is an important part of both their artistic practices.
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Amanda Piña & Anna Witt in conversation with Laura Amann
Amanda Piña & Anna Witt in conversation with Laura Amann
Laura Amann, Amanda Piña and Anna Witt talk about the necessity of overcoming inscribed colonial ideas of value, as well as about the need to comprehend the connection of aesthetic and modern colonial discourse and narrative.
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My View tour with Imayna Caceres
My View tour with Imayna Caceres
Follow Imayna Caceres on her My View tour of And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers? In her practise, the artist, writer and researcher is interested in the makings of communities in more-than-human worlds, who engages with forms of knowledge that exceed modernity and Western knowledge.
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Chto Delat – And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?
Chto Delat – And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?
The collective Chto Delat [What Is to Be Done?] presents their contributions to And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?: a textile map and a film based on the collective’s interactions with the Zapatista Army of National Liberation while visiting the Mexican state of Chiapas.
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Guided Tour: Averklub Collective. Manuš Means Human
Guided Tour: Averklub Collective. Manuš Means Human
Zbyněk Baladrán, Laďa Gažiová and František Nistor guide you through the exhibition Manuš Means Human. They are part of the Averklub Collective, a loosely organized group of artists, theorists, and activists. Its core is constituted by several residents of the Chanov housing estate, which is considered to be the largest Roma settlement in the Czech Republic.
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Sharing and Responding – Panel 4
Sharing and Responding – Panel 4
On April 23 and 24, the symposium Sharing and Responding took place in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the context of our exhibition Cybernetics of the Poor. Over two days and four panels, cybernetic structures in language and art, planning and surveillance were under discussion . Concept by Ana de Almeida, Anke Dyes, Nina Kerschbaumer and Inka Meißner.
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