Open Studio Days 2023

SILK Fluegge is an artist collective for urban contemporary dance and art. In the work of the collective visual art, room design, theatre, dance, performance, and robotics act together to create rooms, times, and ways of experience. The pieces of the choreographer Silke Grabinger are participative, interactive, site-specific, and re-interpret the space of the theatre. Thereby she deals critically with social phenomena, artistic paradigms, and the role of the audience.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 3-6 pm – Performance

Fragmentary excerpts from the installative performance “SPOTSHOTBEUYS”.

Sunday, 12.11., 1-4 pm – Artist Talk

The utopia of modern man – free association on robotics, AI, art, nature, culture
Welcome: Mirjam Angerer-Geier, curator
In conversation:

• Fahim Amir, philosopher
• Silke Grabinger, Performance Artist, Artistic Director, Founder SILK
• Stephanie Meisl/s.myselle, Media/Concept Artist, CO-founder D#AVANTGARDE

Afterwards: Excerpt from the performance “SPOTSHOTBEUYS”

Spot shot Beuys brings the urban-contemporary dancer Silke Grabinger together with the robot dog “Spot” and, against the background of Jospeh Beuys’ performance I like America and America likes me, processes the current relationship between man and technology. Although the dog is no longer symbolically the wild nature like the coyote, but rather the result of the most advanced culture, the relationship to it is not dissimilar. Only the role of mediation between dog and man now imposes itself in its independence. In the process, the roles must be questioned all the more – who controls whom and who must be tamed by whom?

In cooperation with Zirkus des Wissens and Boston Dynamics Spot of the Institute of Robotics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Christoph Höschele Born in 1976 in Metz/France, lives and works in Vienna Studied visual media design in Vienna, studied electronic media in Tallinn/Estonia. Christoph Höschele's works move in the field of tension between public/social space and media. They take up local events and combine them with forms of media art, performance and installation. His works have been exhibited in Austria and abroad (UK, Estonia, Ukraine, Germany, Spain, Greece).

EVENTS

Saturday 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Studio Essling

Christoph Höschele’s studio is a special place between Lobau and the drive-in cinema, consisting of a 600m2 outdoor area (for land art and installations), an indoor space (media and video art) and a bar with campfire (discourse/socializing/BBQ/drinking).
While a variety of his work will be on view, there will also be works by invited guest artists. As Höschele’s works often function in public/social spaces, Studio Essling is a perfect display. A journey to the end of Vienna to the last studio before the city limits.

Miriam Hamann studied TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In her sculptural works and often large-scale (light-)installations she explores the question of how our reality is structured. In doing so, she refers to scientific and technological phenomena that shape our understanding of the world. In some of her current works, for example, she reflects on the measuring of the Earth or the measurability of time and its normative concept. Miriam Hamann took part in several artist-in-residence programs as well as national and international exhibitions and received various grants and prizes.

In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, Weger understands painting as a performative act. In doing so, she constantly questions the boundaries and roles of the medium within an art context increasingly shaped by new media. The specific dimensions of her image carriers and their placement in space and architecture often give rise to installations that always question painting as an object. The connection between pictorial object, space, installation and performance is an essential concern of her work.

EVENTS

Sunday, 12.11., 4 pm – Artist Talk

In conversation with curator and museum director Lena Ganahl (Klocker Museum, Tyrol), the artist’s work and its context will be discussed in relation to the current discourse on painting. Issues of feminism in the art world, value and commercialization will be addressed. The 30-minute dialogue will be followed by a Q&A session in which the audience can participate in an open discussion.

Ramiro Wong (Lima, Perú 1987) is a research-based transdisciplinary artist. His work is interested in translation, representation and the politics/policies of invisibilization as imprinted and narrativized onto the languages of installation and performance. In both its time-based iterations and its object-based aftermath, Wong’s work is not meant to illustrate a circumstance, but to trigger an action—prompting a conversation in which each participant becomes witness to the experience of the other.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Performance

For the time of the Open Studio Days, Ramiro Wong will activate his installation in the VIENNA ART WEEK exhibition “House of Inciting Passion” to perform Rehearsals for a theater of hospitality. The work is a part of a broader series called Celebrations, a site specific project that seeks to start conversation about our differences, backgrounds and beliefs by intersecting, comparing, and contrasting one another’s stories using the comfortable and quotidian element of a meal.

2017 - 2022: Studied Painting and Animated Film at University for Applied Art Vienna Polarity, contradictoriness and identity - these are terms I mainly deal with. Objects that surround us have typical characteristics by which we recognize them. Thus everyday objects carry a certain self-evidence in themselves. In my works I would like to turn the characteristics of the objects into the opposite, in order to bring them on an artistic level. Through alienation, the objects gain both new aesthetics and identities. In painting, I am interested in consumerism, polarity and identity in a socio-critical context, as well as women's movements.

EVENTS

During and after the Open Studio Days a program of concerts, readings and sound performances will be presented in the studio, for which various artists have been invited.

Saturday, 11. 11., from 5 pm – Guided Tour & Concerts

17:00: Guided tour through the Soho Studios Ottakring Haus with Ula Schneider from the Soho Studios Team

19:00: Marco Yolo & DBG

20:30 h: PAENIC

Sunday, 12. 11., from 6 pm – Reading, sound performance & concerts

18:00: Reading by Gunda Zagerl &Sound performance “The echo of painting” by Baurjan Aralov

19:00 h: binary_boy

20:30 h: KiND

Aldo Giannotti, born in Italy, has been living and working in Vienna since 2000. Giannotti’s main interest lies in the interrelationship between physical and symbolic space. At its core lies the idea, that there is an intimate connection between the way a space is arranged and the tendency to behave in a particular way within it. His work has been presented in various contexts and institutions in Austria and internationally, such as: Albertina, Vienna / Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck / DonauFestival, Krems / Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna / LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz / Kunsthaus Graz / Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz / Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen / MAMbo Bologna and more

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Performative Interventions

In connection with showing drawings connected with the topic of “Looping” i will perform an ongoing series of instrumental live music session using a “loop” machine recorder.

Marit Wolters is a German sculptor and works mainly with sculpture and installation. In her site specific practice she examines the aesthetic potential of architectural materials, processes and structures and their interaction with social and ecological systems. For the past several years she has focused on the origin of materials used in construction and their transformation during land forming processes. She has been honored with several grants and prices, such as the Staatsstipendium of Austria and the Erste Bank Mehrwert Award

Kerstin Bennier's (°1976, Salzburg, Austria) work can best be classified as conceptual art. The choice of materials is always made according to criteria that the work imposes on itself. As a result, her works have become increasingly multimedia in recent years. The works are based on her subjective perception of events and encounters in her life. From this she develops the concepts that underlie the installations and objects. She creates spaces that play with the perception of words. Most of the time, the first impression is almost sweet, but on closer inspection, the works make you think. She says herself: "I want to trigger emotions in the viewer.“

On both days an insight into the production of her new work series "same same but different..." is offered. An attempt to artistically work through the effects of the war in Ukraine on innocent civilian victims - based on available figures and data from the UN. The work will be an installation of Polaroid photo formats reproduced to scale. Each image will be unique in its own right. The technique used is marbling with ink on paper. The preliminary end of the work will be when the number of pieces reaches 7,155. This provisional figure is based on the official number of civilian deaths according to UN statistics, as of 5.2. 2023.

Repetition plays a central role in Jari Genser's artistic work: he paints pictures that always show the previous picture in the process of its creation. An endless series: pictures of pictures of pictures, like two mirrors facing each other, showing an ever smaller mirror image. Genser works site-specifically, placing his workspace at the center of his artistic interest. In this way, the workplace becomes a part of the work that is created during that time. The objects in it, whether lying around by chance or deliberately staged, form a network of references that is both introspective and interdisciplinary.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. – WORK

Jari will devote himself to his daily work and NOT interact with visitors (unless in breaks, maybe). Visitors can take on an observing position.

Sunday, 12.11. – LIFE/Artist Talk

Jari will seek the conversation with visitors and be there for a drink and a chat.

On Sunday at 5pm Jari has invited fellow artist Daniel Domig for an Artist Talk in his studio, in which they will talk about Leidenschaftslose Malerei (Painting without Passion).

Please register here.

Under the title ‚A Day in the Life‘, Jari Genser wants to explore the complexity of the daily work of artists beyond conservative notions of “passionate” art. In a performative-documentary setting, visitors are confronted with the everyday work of artists by getting a view that is as genuine as possible. Inspiration is for amateurs, a well-known artist once said, the rest of us just show up and get to work.

Sophie Dvořák studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and at the Glasgow School of Arts in Scotland. She has won several prizes and awards, for instance the Theodor Körner Prize in 2012, the Artist Award of the City of Vienna in 2016, and the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts in 2020. In an artistic practice spanning conceptual drawing, collage, sculpture and collecting, Dvořák is dealing with questions referring to space and territories and their representational codes, history and perception. She creates artworks and installative arrangements representing abstract fictitious illustrations of world(s) and knowledge and interpretations of history and spatial relations.

Ana Loureiro is a visual artist living and working in Vienna. She graduated in Fine Arts - Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto University and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna during her last graduation semester. For an extensive period of time, Loureiro’s artistic practice focused on the analysis of the relationship between spaces and their inner memories. Nowadays, the artist has begun to approach in her artworks subjects related to the complexity of communication and consequently presents the creation of her own codes to convey different ideas.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Participative visit

I would like to introduce to the visitors the concept and some of the works that I am currently developing.
The idea for the open studio days is to create in my studio a communication booth where the visitors can communicate by using different objects provided to them and register by polaroid photo the compositions. Then, they will also have the possibility to share it on an Instagram account created for that purpose and keep the photo as a mémoire.

Sami Mandee graduated from the Art and Photography class at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2021. The works of the Kurdish-Austrian artist deal with translation processes through image, sculpture and video, exploring the relationship between meaning and its substrate, figure and ground, signifier and signified. In this playful and often humorous interrogation of language, Mandee creates poetic and didactic works. His practice is based on art historical research. The subjects of the research consist of characters and historical narrative methods, whose far-reaching rhizomes the artist ties into a knot.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Exhibition

The temporary project WEST has been revitalizing the former WU in Vienna’s ninth district since March 2022, offering space for temporary studio spaces, studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks. Parallel to the Open Studio Days, the exhibition Stille Post. The Answer. as a continuation of the exhibition Stille Post, which was shown in the context of Foto Wien 2023, will take place at the venue.

Rychèl Thérin (b. 1984) is an artist of Māori and Jérriais descent, working with installation, assemblage and lens based media to explore themes of genealogy, inheritance and place making. Thérin grew up in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Jersey in the Channel Islands (GB). She graduated from the University of the Arts London: Camberwell College of Arts BA Painting programme in 2007; and after having her first child, she gained a Masters of Māori Visual Arts with Distinction from Massey University, New Zealand in 2012. Thérin exhibits across Europe, Great Britain and New Zealand.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Exhibition

The temporary project WEST has been revitalizing the former WU in Vienna’s ninth district since March 2022, offering space for temporary studio spaces, studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks. Parallel to the Open Studio Days, the exhibition Stille Post. The Answer. as a continuation of the exhibition Stille Post, which was shown in the context of Foto Wien 2023, will take place at the venue.

Rainer Prohaska lives and works in Vienna and studied experimental media art at the Angewandte. He is particularly interested in phenomena and objects of everyday life, which he puts into an art context in a humorous way and in an adapted form. Since 2002 he has been realizing projects that artistically address issues of ecology and sustainability. Furthermore, there is the long-term art project 'MS-FUSION - AiR', which explores the Danube region together with guest artists. Exhibitions: Biennale di Venezia, 798 Beijing, Himalaya Museum Shanghai, Moskau Biennale, MOCAK Krakau, MAK-LA, ACF New York, Albertina, KUNST HAUS WIEN, Luminato Toronto, donaufestival...

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 1-6 pm – panels

13:30 – 14:30 . Panel 1

“PASSIVELY WATCHING THE WORLD CRUMBLE OR ACTIVELY ENGAGING IN THE PROCESS?”

Panel Discussion

Sabrina Rosina, Alexandra Graupner & Tomas Zierhofer-Kin

Modeartion: Kilian Jörg

Despite its omnipresence in public discourse, we would argue that there is surprisingly little art that is engaged with our ecological predicament in creative, radical and enabling ways that go beyond mere doom-kitsch, romantisization of Nature or moral exhibitionism. In this panel bringing together curators, artists and philosophers, we want to discuss examples and ideas that show us a way forward.

15:00 – 16:00 . Panel 2

“THE CARS WE LIKE”

Dialogue

Kilian Jörg & Rainer Prohaska

Going beyond “mere” critique of the current automobile-centered system, Kilian Jörg and Rainer Prohaska try to hack the car-system from within by inventing serious and dada-esque vehicles that follow a simple paradigm: it is no longer the environment that has to adapt to our vehicles, but our vehicles that have to become as fluid as our environments. In an open dialogue they will discuss the broader horizon of changing mobility patters by means of artistic research. 

16:30 – 17:30 . Panel 3

“ABOUT FUTURAMA LAB”

Questions & Answers

Asked by the audience & answers by members of the “Futurama Lab Collective”

Presentation of the NPO FUTURAMA LAB, based on its core mission and associated collaborative projects. 

Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – panels

13:30 – 14:00 . Panel 1

“FUTURAMA LAB . PARTICIPATIONS . PART 1”

Keynote speech

By LAB founder Rainer Prohaska

General presentation of procedures around collaborative projects for 2024.

14:30 – 15:30 . Panel 2

“FUTURAMA LAB – PARTICIPATIONS . PART 2”

Presentations

Members of the “Futurama Lab Collective” 

Concrete details about partcipatory projects in 2024:

“Esistenza Integrale” . Brotfabrik Wien

“Un Vol De” . Museumsquartier Wien

“MS-FUSION” . Danube region between Linz & Sulina

16:00 – 17:00 . Panel 3

“LET’S BE REALISTIC AND THINK THE IMPOSSIBLE!”

Dialogue

Christina Gruber & Sabrina Rosina

A self-critical reflection and utopian outlook on the role of art, its changing status in society and in how far the category of „art” needs to dissolve and mingle with other categories (activism, politics, building, engineering, logistics, critique, transport, etc…) in a sustainable society. 

Julia Maria Gruber’s artistic practice primarily focuses on social and political (in)visibilities and how different realities of life fit into social norms or are pushed out of them. With her work she visualizes the possibility of a diverse and inclusive future in the form of photographs, video works and installations.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Exhibition

The temporary project WEST has been revitalizing the former WU in Vienna’s ninth district since March 2022, offering space for temporary studio spaces, studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks. Parallel to the Open Studio Days, the exhibition Stille Post. The Answer. as a continuation of the exhibition Stille Post, which was shown in the context of Foto Wien 2023, will take place at the venue.

Elodie Grethen’s body of work ranges from conceptual photography and performance to installation: Focusing on the notion of corporeality, intimacy and gender, she uses her practice to reflect the construction of social identities and to investigate the relationship between individuals and society.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Exhibition

The temporary project WEST has been revitalizing the former WU in Vienna’s ninth district since March 2022, offering space for temporary studio spaces, studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks. Parallel to the Open Studio Days, the exhibition Stille Post. The Answer. as a continuation of the exhibition Stille Post, which was shown in the context of Foto Wien 2023, will take place at the venue.

Anne Glassner is a Vienna-based visual artist and performer. Her performances, videos, installations, and drawings bear witness to intense observations of recurring, everyday, and merely supposedly banal actions, which she rethinks in conceptual and creative ways, thus eliciting deeper secrets from them. Characteristic of Anne Glassner's approach are the constant questions about self-perception and the perception of others, as well as about the intersections of intimacy and the public sphere. Anne Glassner studied art history at the University of Vienna, art education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Exhibition

The temporary project WEST has been revitalizing the former WU in Vienna’s ninth district since March 2022, offering space for temporary studio spaces, studios, workshops, seminars, events, exhibitions, symposia and talks. Parallel to the Open Studio Days, the exhibition Stille Post. The Answer. as a continuation of the exhibition Stille Post, which was shown in the context of Foto Wien 2023, will take place at the venue.

Alexandra Tatar is a visual artist and researcher living and working in Vienna since 2011. In her artistic practice, she takes the space called Central and Eastern Europe as her artistic terrain and focuses on systems and interdependencies which have historically shaped these spaces. Her research on subjectivity and power axis builds on previous works, in which she dealt with visual culture’s influence on identity construction. She is recipient of the Art Start Scholarship of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2018 and kültüř gemma! scholarship in 2021. Her work has been exhibited at thealit Bremen, MNAC Bucharest and FLUCA – Austrian Cultural Pavilion Plovdiv amongst others.

EVENTS

Sunday, 12.11., 5 pm – immersive Guided Tour

As part of the Open Studio Days, Alexandra Tatar and Lena Violetta Leitner invite interested visitors to Lena Violetta Leitner’s studio. Here the artists give an insight into their laboratory created together with parasitic more-than-human actors. This laboratory is part of their project “Becoming…” – a place of experimentation, unfolding, transformation, deconstruction emerges.

On Sunday, 12.11. at 5 pm the artists will lead an immersive Guided Tour through the laboratory.

“Becoming…” is supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (Ma7) and BMKÖS.

Born in Africa, lived in India, now in Vienna. I work in the media sculpture, installation, painting. The current work is called Weltentraum Venus and is presented on small sized canvas. Venus has been the inspiration for the 16th century art of Tizian. My figures relate to today´s Venus found in newspaper ads. Venus is full of passion and plays with various animal depictions. They go into a symbiosis like in a dreamworld. A passionate invitation is sent and received, both ways.

The visitors are invited to create and co-create their own fantasies in correlation to the paintings on view in the studio.

Hannah Stippl is an artist and philosopher, radical in the original sense of the word, rooted and connected to the earth. Her artistic work combines painting and horticultural installation with artistic research. Central themes are the questioning of the common concept of nature, the analysis of ancient myths and the critique of a patriarchal/dualistic worldview. Personal experiences of living matter as blending, rotting, and metamorphosing are not only possible, but necessary for survival. Biophilic knowledge travels through time as a stowaway in wallpaper patterns, myths, and other peripheral areas to become visible in artistic states of becoming.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 4-6 pm – Workshop

The workshop “Patterns/Passion” offers the opportunity to explore a new artistic technique: Various pattern rollers from the extensive collection are available to try out.
The first “hand printing apparatus with self-inking” was patented in 1879, a welcome method to replace expensive wallpaper. Until the 1970s, the pattern rollers enjoyed great popularity and a variety of patterns were produced, until they fell victim to the white wall and now only appear behind built-in cabinets or at flea markets. For Hannah Stippl, these patterns are the basis of her works.

Lena Violetta Leitner invents, intervenes and cooperates. Her works move between fiction and fact, humor and seriousness, subtlety and conspicuousness. They are usually created in intensive research and in close exchange with artists, designers and scientists. This results in participatory installations, but also performances with plants, electronics and text. She is fascinated by plants and their socio-political dimension, especially the connections between science (especially biology), language and society. As director of the Integration Center for Migrated Plants (IZMP), she decides on the right to stay of foreign plants.

EVENTS

Sunday, 12.11., 5 pm – immersive Guided Tour

As part of the Open Studio Days, Alexandra Tatar and Lena Violetta Leitner invite interested visitors to Lena Violetta Leitner’s studio. Here the artists give an insight into their laboratory created together with parasitic more-than-human actors. This laboratory is part of their project “Becoming…” – a place of experimentation, unfolding, transformation, deconstruction emerges.

On Sunday, 12.11. at 5 pm the artists will lead an immersive Guided Tour through the laboratory.

“Becoming…” is supported by Stadt Wien Kultur (Ma7) and BMKÖS.

Sattva Giacosa is a Venezuelan photographer based in Vienna. Her work moves between social documentary and fine art photography, focusing on social issues such as migration, labor, representation and feminism. She uses the camera as a tool to reshape time and transform events, capturing herself and her surroundings to address feelings of displacement, questioning representation and the role of photography. She works intensively with narrative using photography as a means of communication and as a way to revisualize stories.

The starting point for my work is my own experience as an immigrant in Europe, but my projects go beyond the individual and address the social structures in which we are all involved and the politics of the image. In addition, I reflect on the history of the photographic representation of Latinx, which in many cases has rarely gone beyond the racial stereotype. In my own visual production I am not content with mere critique, but open a space for the imaginative, the dreamlike and the utopian. During the Open Days I would invite visitors to an open discussion about decolonizing photography.

Ina Loitzl works in the sector textile, CUTOUTS and animation.

EVENTS

… – Talk

“Art is my daily bread”

Bread and water is served to symbolize “art as the daily bread”. Ina Loitzl smears the visitors buttered bread. The small cut strips are stamped with “ART = BREAD” or “ART is my daily bread” and thus the question is raised how one can pay their bills from many mostly free actions and services in the art sector.

Karin Maria Pfeifer (*1966) is a freelance visual artist and moves in the multimedia space of video, graphics and spatial installation. In her artistic questioning, she is often concerned with boundaries and their transgression, whether social-feminist, emotional or temporal. In her works, Karin Maria Pfeifer juxtaposes the past as an anchor point with an uncertain present. Once the memory of old objects from the 60s and 70s is an unexpected constant in the room. Another time it is about the fleeting present time, when photos taken from a moving car only vaguely hint at the passing landscape in their blurriness.

Karin Fisslthaler works as an artist, filmmaker and electronic musician. Many of her videos, works on papers and installations stem from her response to the way the media portrays the human body and how that affects notions of identity, gender roles and communication. Found material is the primary source, which she collects, deconstructs and rearranges. In her Musical solo project Cherry Sunkist she produces experimental electronic pop music, in which she creates her very own, incomparable style out of a vast variety of musical elements, ranging from New Wave, sound collages and catchy partly punk-inspired vocals.

Sula Zimmerberger (*1970) has been working for several years not only in the media of painting and drawing, but also increasingly in photography and video. The question of reality and its conscious changeability has accompanied Zimmerberger's work for several years. Central themes are identity, nature and change. Sula Zimmerberger takes up motifs from porcelain figurines and objects more associated with kitsch and neo-romanticism, alienates them artistically, processes and duplicates them, and then brings them to new life in collage-like images.

David Muth lives in Vienna, Turku and Salzburg. He completed his studies with focus on media art at Middlesex University, London. Muth predominantly works with music, video, photography and text. His projects have been exhibited, screened and performed internationally, notably at the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal; Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, Helsinki; Ars Electronica, Linz; ISEA2006, San Jose; LeCube, Paris; Laboral Center for Art, Gijón; and in the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid. Institutions he has taught at include the Royal College of Art (from 2005 to 2015) and Goldsmiths University of London (from 2007).

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., from 4 pm – Musical Intervention

Having spent quite some time in Finland over the last few years, I would like to dedicate the late afternoons from 4pm onwards to play some music from this country: ranging from minimal electronica (e.g. releases from the label “MUU for Ears”, which are also including some of my own work) to classic Finnish pop à la Seija Karpiomaa.

The Open Studio Days are hosted together with Gerhard Himmer.

Christian Rothwangl (born 1993, Bruck an der Mur, Austria) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the Slade School of Fine Art London, as well as the HFBK Hamburg. The artist lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Rothwangl's new series of works shows large-format canvas paintings and collections of drawings that deal with themes from queer culture and human relationships by deconstructing common orders. They can be located between figurative and abstract painting.

In immersive installations and self-portraits, Christiane Peschek explores various forms of digital consciousness through poly-sensory experiences that encourage self-reflection and self-awareness. In a phygital „hyper-now,“ Peschek designs spaces in a contemporary present marked by intimacy that create dialogues between humans and technology. Rituals, retreats, retouched images, scents, and sensual, ethereal materials such as the deliberate use of wi-fi radiation and low frequencies become hybrids of virtual transformations in a post-internet reality. Peschek‘s work has been exhibited internationally, recently at Kunsthaus Graz, Museum MARTA Herford, Kunstmuseum Celle.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 9-11 am & 8-10 pm – Multi-sensory Retreat

In addition to the Open Studio Days, Christiane Peschek offers the opportunity to participate in a multi-sensory retreat.

For the Open Studio Days 2023 Christiane Peschek together with sound artist Ernst Lima conceives a multi-sensory retreat in her studio at Seidengasse 28. Based on the long-term project “OASIS – a post-body spa” the space transforms into a relaxation experience between internet-based emotion and technology. Using frequencies, w-lan radiation, sensory elements and smell, the studio transforms into a contemplation space at the end of the Anthropocene.

Participation is limited to 10 people.

Registration required at christianepeschek@icloud.com

Please note that the studio is unfortunately not accessible barrier-free!

Sara Lanner is a visual artist and choreographer. Her work addresses the body and its manifestation as social choreography and sculpture. Her performances take place in exhibition spaces, on stages and in interdisciplinary venues. Her performance "Mining Minds" (2021) was most recently shown at brut Vienna as well as ImPulstanzFestival Vienna. Sara Lanner was awarded the H13 Niederoesterreich Prize for Performance. With her performance Mother Tongue she received the Ö1 Audience Award of the Ö1 Talent Exchange 2020 at the Leopold Museum Vienna. Further Exhibitions/Performances a.o. Tanzquartier Wien, Galerie 5020, HART Haus Hongkong, Künstlerhaus Nürnberg.

Claudia Larcher is a visual artist and filmmaker who, regardless of medium, engages with architecture and history in her work. She uses photo collages, site-specific video animations, and mixed media installations to explore specific locations and their memories. Her moving images are often digital explorations of interior spaces where people are absent but still present. Her works have been exhibited internationally in galleries, cinemas, and film festivals, and she has won numerous awards including the Kunsthalle Wien Prize in 2008, the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Federal Chancellery in 2016, the Vorarlberg Cultural Award in 2018, and the Hilde Goldschmidt Prize in 2019.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Screening

Accompanying the Open Studio Days, there will be the opportunity to gain insight into video works at a screening in the studio during opening hours.

Beatrix is an artist, she lives in Vienna and works with the media of photography and associated printing techniques, installation, text, and video. Her subjects and productions run the gamut between documentation and performance, with her main interest being the relationship between the individual and society. Among others she received the Prize for innovative special projects in the new media of the State of Salzburg (2002), the Theodor Körner Prize (2010), the Bank Austria Art Prize (2012), the State Prize for the publication “COMPANY. Photographs and fragments about working” (2020) and the German Photo Book Prize (2020/21).

EVENTS

Samstag, 11.11. & Sonntag, 12.11., 3-4 pm – Talk

From bacon B’steck to weapon dirt – Presentation of the joint exhibition project by Beatrix Zobl and Thomas Abendroth with snacks, cutlery and art.

The autonomous expressive power of paint as a material and the tactile qualities of surface are the subject of Gerhard Himmer’s paintings, which are echoes of the process-based and self-referential orientation of the genre. In a kind of medium-specific selfrepresentation, his abstract compositions are devoid of any gestural brushstrokes. They generate themselves from the fundamental properties and modes of how paint reacts, its relationship to gravity and the nature of the pictorial ground. Himmer’s paintings are defined by a strong tension between control and fluidity.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., from 4 pm – Musical Intervention

The late afternoons from 4pm onwards are dedicated to playing some music from Finland: ranging from minimal electronica (e.g. releases from the label “MUU for Ears”, which are also including some of my own work) to classic Finnish pop à la Seija Karpiomaa.

The Open Studio Days are hosted together with David Muth.

My work explores our multispecies entanglements and is best introduced as eco-emancipated, posthumanist SF (String Figures & Speculative Fabulation). Learning about ecology and witnessing the rapid human-induced change in our biosphere, I developed a sense of care and response-ability as an artist and questioned my artistic practice and it's relation to living on a damaged planet. As a counter reaction to our consumerism and the remaining waste and destruction, I started to work with living organisms and recycled matter, to make bio-artworks that are not necessarily meant to last. My exhibitions show temporary organic processes and frequently invite the audience to actively take part.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Laboratory

I would like to welcome you in my Studio-Lab where we can interact and co-exist with various species; bacteria, fungi and algae. It will be very much alive indeed. Drawers full of petri-dishes with fungi feeding on polyester, SCOBY hotels or other glass jars fully fermenting will be visible, and archives with many different seaweeds. At the moment I am researching on the process of decomposing waste and toxins with fungi and bacteria (bioremediation), and on growing my own bio-materials from mycelium or bacterial cellulose.

… it inflates, it works, it expands and contracts, it's peristaltic, it's mechanical - but it is alive… Maria Grün's sculptural works cover with the human body. Specializing in silicone casting, she experiments with material and moving elements to execute the sculptural as close to the organic as possible. Driven by motors and mechatronics, the hyper-realistic body fragments move. In interdisciplinary collaborations, she expands her working methods to include video and photo works. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts in the Transarts class with a Master of Arts, M.A. (2018) and at the University of Vienna with Bakk. phil. (2009).

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Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – performative Intervention

Maria Grün shows hyperrealistic sculptures in her studio, a former car workshop, and invites Petra Gell to a joint spatial-installative intervention in her studio. “GRID – BODIES and Spatial Issues” (sculpture and spatial installation) is part of a larger-scale project and will be shown experimentally for the first time at the VIENNA ART WEEK. Their working methods converge through a joint spatial installation.

Vienna-based new media artist Ozan Turkkan works at the intersection of art, science and technology. His work is centered on experimental digital media, focusing on generative and algorithmic art, fractal geometry, digital archives, interaction, and motion as a reflection of the impermanent nature of existence, and human and social behaviour. He uses technology as a canvas to create innovative and engaging digital art installations. He likes to explore the many-folded boundaries between science, art, and new technologies and combine different media elements in a creative process.

EVENTS

Sunday, 12.11., 5-6 pm – Artist Talk

As part of the Open Studio Days, there will be an artist talk about new media art practices, mainly focusing on digitisation and the digital archives of our time.

Asta Cink is a visual artist with roots in dance and acting. She studied at Fotok and the Friedl Kubelka School of Artistic Photography with Anja Manfredi, among others. In addition to numerous exhibition activities in Austria and abroad, as well as the publication of her first book with the publishing house Fotohof Salzburg, Cink completed the course for cultural management at the Institute for Cultural Concepts 2022. In her work, she explores the boundaries between analog and digital. The mirror plays an important role here. For Asta Cink it forms the interface into the hybrid space where vanity and vanitas are explored in presence and absence. Asta Cink lives and works in Vienna.

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Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Participatory Conversation

Looking into the camera is like looking into the mirror.
The self-timer counts the seconds. Artist Asta Cink invites you to a participatory conversation about self-photography and self-inquiry in her studio. Decked out in mirror film, the perfect opportunity to explore the ME in photography and test your own limits.

My work is primarily associated with the notion of 'discovery'. The series "Land Escape" is a kind of alternative atlas in which "borders" are lines in search of a new playful coherence. Using maps, atlases and photographs, I venture the discovery of a new 'geo-graphy', continuity and separation happen simultaneously. Scientific data is mixed with emotional data to create something that is not there, the rules of the game are changed - in short, the cards are reshuffled. From my studio in Vienna, I am currently working with Austrian, Italian and French galleries and institutions.

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Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Workshop

The reconstruction of the lines connecting images and maps is the result of careful observation and a sense of composition. I would like to engage with this process with my visitors during the Open Studio Days and offer the possibility to try to explore prepared map sections and images together in order to create our own collage.

His work is an intensification of the development of performative and installation practices in Ukrainian creative centers, which consistently demonstrates the appeal to current socio-cultural issues. The works are an example of this phenomenon and at the same time reveal a comprehensive approach to the theoretical and practical component. the attention is drawn to various aspects of visual expressiveness. Capacity limited to 10 people per timeslot: - 13:00 - 14:00 - 15:00 - 16:00 - 17:00 Please register with preferred timeslot via danyilokovach@gmail.com

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11., 1-6 pm – Workshop

As part of the Open Studio Days, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in linocut and letterpress workshops and try out the techniques themselves.

Please register with your preferred time via danyilokovach@gmail.com 

On Sunday, 12.11., alongside the Open Studio Days, projects by Danylo Kovach will be shown in an exhibition at ROOMING INN Studios, Wiedner Hauptstraße 54, 1040 Vienna.

Lena Lieselotte Schuster is an artist researching in the field of Performance and Interspecies Art. In 2021, she founded the Interspecies Art Association to support collaborations between human and non-human artists. The augmented reality memorial FOREVER, which she realized in public space of Vienna, Venice, Kassel, New York and Saarbrücken, is dedicated to her dog Carlos von den Hügeln, who achieved fame as an artist during his lifetime. 
Currently, she shares her studio in Vienna with Paris van der Thunder, whose Reclining Sculptures are created performatively while lying down. Lena Lieselotte Schuster studied with Ulrike Rosenbach at HBKsaar and with Carola Dertnig at AdbK Vienna.

EVENTS

Sonntag, 12.11., 3-5 pm – Workshop

In memory of Carlos von den Hügeln, who left behind an extensive body of sculptural work, a carving class on Carlos’ collection of sticks and bite objects will be held as part of Open Studio Days.

Born 1970 in Graz Andrea Ressi studied Architecture and Fine Arts at Technical University Graz, the Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen, the University of East London and the University for Applied Arts Vienna. Her work addresses questions of transformation and production of space in processes of globalization. She uses the same image vocabulary that is affecting our ever changing perception of the contemporary world: the language of signs, logos, icons, pictograms, maps, infographics and cartographic elements. She works in various media forms such as paintings, billboards and installations in public space.

From a constantly changing perspective, I explore human conditionality and am interested in the relationship, or relationships, between subjects and objects and the spaces that unfold through these connections. I would describe my artistic approach as a practice of reflection. I am less interested in states than in the constant changes inscribed in any living organism and in shifts in meaning that accompany these changes. Besides object, video, photography, the own body - dressed in black - is again and again itself the subject of these drawings and installations.

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Sunday, 12.11., 02:30-03:00 pm – Performance

Maria Hanl & Michaela Schausberger give an insight into the currently ongoing work on the performance hciud, a performative drawing.
The current version of the performance lasts about ten minutes and will be discussed in an audience talk afterwards.

Registration is requested: perform1@gmx.net

Kodritsch from A to Z: from birds to vegetables In order to gain a better grasp of Kodritsch’s pictures or at least obtain an in-depth understanding of them we would do well to consider publishing a manual of the visual symbols he uses in his vocabulary of painting. Over the years the artist has gradually developed a subjectively determined vocabulary of motifs, symbols and signs which he deliberately selects, varies and combines with each other. According to his own personal opinion on this people should incorporate each motif “like a language”.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday 12.11.

Every visitor gets a catalogue with a portrait and a personal dedication.

Ma Jia grew up in China, studied painting at the Fine Art Academy in Beijing and sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts with Heimo Zobernig. Her artistic practice and research is based on humanity, culture and history. She is interested in the connection in between the material and the spiritual, eastern and western culture, transforming it into sculpture and painting. Since she grew up after cultural revolution, where economy was growing fast and Chinese capitalism was developing, she was experiencing a period of rapid changes. This brought her interest into the cultural and historical roots of these changes, which are related to todays global conflicts.

During the Open Studio Days visitors get an insight into last year´s production and production methods in a sculpture and painting studio.

The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is an artist, researcher and lecturer. He studied digital art at the class of Peter Weibel under whose supervision he also completed and defended his doctoral thesis on digital images. As a researcher he is working on differences between digital knowledge distribution and traditional epistemological approaches. His art operates with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force. In digital space he creates compositions from visual clichés, narrative structures, artificial intelligences, scientific fragments or political claims. He blends these into animated images, films, installations, into nft collections and into coded structures.

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Saturday, 11.11. & Sunday, 12.11. – Participative Arrangement

UNTITLED ME
Based on my installation UNTITLED ME – Forging a new Identity, 2022.

Inciting passion for a secret new identity. Participatory arrangement of the question of original versus statistical (cultural) mean. Fakes of documents of all kinds (driver’s license, savings book or vacation photo) of the audience are made via Machine Learning and then printed out. In this way, a wall full of statistical approximations of a possibly present audience is created.

Jochen Höller is a sculptor who lives in Vienna and works on conceptual text collages, book sculptures and text machines. His art is characterized by books and letters. Thousand-page-volumes are dissected and assembled into large-format collages in weeks of work. The edited books and texts are precisely selected, nothing is left to chance. His works are slow and calm, perhaps a beautiful counterpart to the fast-paced digital world of the attention-economy.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 2-3 pm – Workshop

In a workshop Jochen Höller gives insights into his method of reading with a knife.

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS In his works Alfredo Barsuglia, born 1980 in Graz, focusses on the examination and reflection of social, economic and ecologic value systems through methods of artistic inquiry. Barsuglia's stringent concepts are characterized by narrative, practically cinematically constructed, chimerical environments and/or scenarios. Using architecture as a tool for the embroilment to become order, Barsuglia orchestrates performance, painting, sculpture and video composing artificial realities and frameworks to be immediate subjects of the recipients. Alfredo Barsuglia lives and works in Vienna.

Born in India, Nita Tandon lives and works in Vienna. She studied English Literature in New Delhi, Art History in Vienna and painting under Maria Lassnig at the School of Applied Arts Vienna. She is currently in the TransArts Directorial Team. At the University of Applied Arts Vienna. “Tandon’s path led from an exhaustive engagement with conceptual avant-garde and neo-avant-garde approaches to painting to an engagement with the ‘real’ manifested as real experience subtly encoded in the artistic implementation as archaising, ritual elements, processes (…), and raw materials.” (Patrizia Grzonka, Sublime Reality Check in Nita Tandon Dimensions of the surface)

EVENTS

Samstag, 11.11., 5 pm – Artist Talk

Artist Talk about the new and the old works of Nita Tandon. A conversation in the artist’s studio with art historian and critic Patricia Grzonka.

Drinks and snacks will be served and the artist will always be present.

Alfred Rottensteiner studied fine arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, at the HfbK in Hamburg and at Central Saint Martins in London. Central to his artistic work is painting, from which multimedia spatial installations emerge. "For me, art is something totally human and a link between abstraction and a universal natural reality. In the artistic process, I actively enter into moments of being surprised. The finished work of art should then do the same with the viewer. - Surprises are the starting point for revolutions, according to philosopher Christoph Menke. - Everyday life is questioned, routines are broken up and thus an openness for the new can be cultivated.

The studio in the second basement is quite large, therefore there will be an exhibition of work spread over three large rooms.

Veronika Burger, Nora Jacobs and Nicole Sabella met in the class for performative art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. All three share a penchant for queer-feminist viewpoints, site-specific interventions, whimsical objects, handmade costumes and food. Since 2013, under the collective name Heathers production, they have dedicated themselves to the queer-feminist analysis of female characters in horror films. Characters such as the „Final Girl“ are transferred from the screen to the stage while maintaining an eerie atmosphere, appear in film exploitation formats such as teasers, trailers, featurettes or become the protagonists of a book.

EVENTS

Saturday, 11.11., 4 pm – Performative reading and book presentation

SCREAM QUEEN* AWARD 2023

The publication series Heathers’ CUT CUT CUT#1-#3 aims to expose the anti-feminist structures of horror film and open the view for something new. Supporting actors are given a platform on which they are celebrated as leading actors. With humorous insights into and findings from the research process on feminist analysis of horror films by female* directors and the thematisation of the Race-Bechdel-Wallace test.

Queer-feminist alliances (and death) as survival strategies in horror films and the collective will be marked by art historian Georgia Holz during the reading.