Open Studio Days 2024

Néphéli Barbas lives and works in Prague. She studied at the Villa Arson in Nice, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her exhibition projects were recently on view at the Decorative Art Museum in Prague (2024), Fait Gallery in Brno (2023), at the Gallery of Sculptures in Hořice (2023), Berlínskej model in Prague (2023), Karlin Studios (Prague, 2021), Studio Prám (Prague, 2021), Ancien Evêché in Toulon in collaboration with Villa Noailles (2021) and Friche la Belle de Mai in Marseille as part of Art-O-Rama 2021. She will soon be exhibiting at DING in Vienna (2024), and in BBB Art Center, Toulouse (2025).

In her wanderings, Barbas observes and picks out the details, particularities, and regularities that tend to disappear from landscapes without being preserved, archived, or given heritage status. She often aims to activate the science-fiction potential surrounding a place or object by proposing, in an archaeological manner, its unreal echo in the studio. Memory is central to her work. The urban setting, the cohabitation and juxtaposition of different styles and eras one encounters while walking down the street, are similar to the typology of memory itself. Her imaginary wanderings seek to establish a relationship between past and present, breaking away from a linear vision of time.

Mag. Arts Louise Deininger is a highly accomplished African artist renowned for her contemporary conceptual artworks. Her creative endeavors explore profound themes such as consciousness, spiritual science, metaphysics, self-development, critical thinking, and identity. She engages in a multidisciplinary artistic practice, incorporating mediums such as painting, photo collage, objects, sculpture, film, and performance. Louise's achievements extend beyond her artistic endeavors. In 2021, she was elected as Co-President of VBKOE, the Austrian Association of Women Artists. She is also the recipient of the 2019 Black Austrian Art and Culture Award.

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Since FLOMYCA, the place where the studio is located, is also an exhibition space, we will present an exhibition with works of the 3 resident artists (Guadalupe Aldrete, Derek Roberts and myself) with the support of the organisers of FLOMYCA. The central topic of the exhibition “touching the past” will be the human relationship to time, since a recurrent topic in our individual practices is the relation to our origins and ancestry.

Guadalupe Aldrete creates performative landscapes using a transdisciplinary approach, employing the media of painting, installation, performance, video, and photography with intentionality. Her current focus lies in exploring ancestral relationships among family members and the immaterial heritage passed down through generations. In her works she tries to catch glimpses of our ability to transcend, inviting us to observe our own stories and inspiring dialogue and reflection on the interconnectedness of past, present, and future.

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Since FLOMYCA, the place where the studio is located, is also an exhibition space, we will present an exhibition with works of the 3 resident artists (Louise Deininger, Derek Roberts and myself) with the support of the organisers of FLOMYCA. The central topic of the exhibition “touching the past” will be the human relationship to time, since a recurrent topic in our individual practices is the relation to our origins and ancestry.

Laura Wagner *1984 in Regensburg (DE), lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the HGB in Leipzig. Since 2022 with Janina Falkner discourse format + podcast "MAK Conversation Pieces". The works focus on current and past strategies for organizing the human cosmos. My research is based on archive material, interviews, film history and the traversal of art historical narratives. In recent years, my work has focused on architecture, staging and the right to space. This has resulted in the series "Obelisks", as well as the sculptural pair "Porzellangasse" and "Glare".

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Sharing access to knowledge

I spend a lot of time in archives. Not only to get information about people, objects and documents quickly and as efficiently as possible, but also to get a feeling for the structure of the archive itself and to stroll around. Image archives, for example, are a wonderful place to take a stroll and there are many of them. I invite all visitors to take a walk together. I would like to share my information and my experiences on research platforms and Viennese archives and look forward to a lively exchange.

Agnes Prammer (1984, Austria) works a lot with photography, installations and artist books, for which she has already been awarded numerous prizes, including the "Artist Residency Tokyo" and the State Scholarship of the BMKOES or the "Printed Matter Award" in New York. In her new works, she deals intensively with the triad of "power (abuse), control and manipulation" in various areas of our society. Johann Schoiswohl (1979, Wels) studied Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art London and Fine Art in the Department of Art and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

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Dead mountains

In their new book “Totes Gebirge” (publication date June 2024), studio colleagues Prammer and Schoiswohl explore the themes of death and mourning. Schoiswohl has been photographing in the “dead mountains” in Upper Austria since 2010. In the book, his landscape photographs enter into a dialog with Pammer’s wet plate photographs (an old photographic process on glass or metal plates from the 19th century).

Time plays an important role. On the one hand, in relation to mourning itself. It changes over time, but never linearly. But also in the photographs themselves. Prammer and Schoiswohl’s pictures seem to have fallen out of time.

Frederik Marroquín works with choreographing sculptures that are simultaneously performances and installations. He examines to what extent built and social spaces influence and shape movements. The transition between everyday life and artistic exploration is fluid. He uses the limitations and resistances of his own body as material on par with objects and drawings. He studied Fine Arts with a focus on Spatial Strategies & Sculpture and Performative Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Communication Design at the University of Mainz. Awards include the Austrian State Prize for the most beautiful books, and the Füger Prize for Drawing.

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Guided tour through the premises of the Semmelweisklinik and insights into the history of the building. The art and cultural center will be introduced, highlighting the role of the studio context in site-specific work.

Eva Grün works on the course of things and lets things take their course. She opens us perspective on a subjective narrative about the unsettling state of our time. One time, that no longer knows how to distinguish between past and future, where utopia and dystopia coexist. In doing so, she draws her ongoing enigmatic narrative further, the storyboard of a neon fiction film noir in pale gray. ( Jakob Gurschler Excerpt from: (Ab)Grün(de), (Hinter)Grün(de),(Unter)Grün(de). See…)

Gudrun Lenk-Wane's objects reveal the glow of the secondary, the charm of the recycled. They tell stories of rebirth and transformation. The works whisper of catastrophes that people have made, of power that decides over us, of existence, especially as a woman. They are the physical expression of an inner fear that takes shape, that emerges from the darkness, that forces us to look. They are an intervention in reality, an inversion of norms. Nevertheless, her works also radiate an unshakeable positivity, are a victory of the imagination over resignation.

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Performance, Sunday, November 10, 2024 I 5 pm. ~15min

with: Jolyane Langlois, Mirjam Sögner, Gudrun Lenk-Wane.

EINMISCHUNG #Atelier, is a performance installation that deals with the effects of plastic and mass-produced materials on the body and the environment. The performers enter into a dialogue with the art installation created by Gudrun Lenk-Wane.

Elena Kristofor was born in Odesa, Ukraine. With a background in architecture and photography, she is interested in the exploring of space, landscape and the notion of landscape as a sociocultural construct. Photography stands at the beginning of her working process. Based on this, Kristofor creates installations to address the border between two- and three-dimensionality – that threshold between image and space. She exhibited in Sea World Culture & Arts Center, Shenzhen, the Landesgalerie Linz, the Museum of Western and Eastern Art in Odesa, the Austrian Cultural Forum in London and Galeria Posibila in Bukarest, among others.

Farshido Larimian is an artist with a background in chemical and petroleum engineering. Farshido completed his diploma studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under the supervision of Prof. Gunter Damisch and Veronika Dirnhofer, receiving the Academy’s Prize of Recognition for his master's thesis. His artistic techniques span from collage to painting, from assemblage to installation, often incorporating found objects. His works are housed in various museum collections worldwide: from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (POL) to the SPM Museum Dubai (UAE). He was awarded a working stipend from Stadt Wien Kultur in 2020 and was nominated for the STRABAG Art-Award 2023.

In addition to showcasing his artworks, he is also an avid archivist, passionate about preserving the cultural heritage and artistic journey that informs his practice. During the event, visitors will have the unique opportunity to explore not only his artwork but also delve into the extensive collection and archive. Furthermore, Farshido will share insights into the collaborative nature of the collective 'Ringel Reih', which he co-founded with his assistant (Arya Akhoundzadeh) and dedicated team. Through this immersive experience, visitors will gain a deeper understanding of artistic processes, the interconnectedness of works, and the collaborative effort behind the scenes.

Katya Dimova (*1983), who studied printmaking, is a certified herbalist and mother of two children. In her art, she reflects on the possibility of transforming the dystopia of thoughts into an utopia. Her work explores the complex relationship between humans and nature. Dimova places significant focus on the topic of "weeds" and "neophytes". Both are often recognized as invasive species that can "suppress" or "encroach upon" native flora. Through her artistic engagement with these plants, she aims to potentially highlight ecological, social, or cultural aspects related to this theme.

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Saturday, 09.11., 1-6 pm – Workshop: Invasive neophytes?

Neophytes often pose a challenge to the local environment. But instead of simply destroying them, I want to better understand and utilize their characteristics and potential. My aim is to give participants the opportunity to see neophytes as a resource that can enrich our lives.
Through practical demonstration on how to make plant dyes from different neophytes, brief overview of neophytes and their importance in the local environment, discussion on the challenges they pose but also on their potentials, I want to inspire participants not to see neophytes as a problem.

"There are two characteristics that distinguish Christina Werner's artistic works of recent years: an interest in changes in global conditions, especially those related to current migration movements and a resurgent nationalism, and an awareness or great sensitivity to issues of representation." (Hemma Schmutz, Bilderheft 296/2017, SOLO VIII, Fotogalerie Wien)

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The Horses are Coming

Multiple crises have fuelled the rise of the right in recent years. Werner’s interest lies in the historical foundations and staged means used to spread xenophobic and inhuman ideologies.

In her studio, the new work ‘The Horses are Coming’ will be shown, which deals with the significance of animals in National Socialism. References to today’s right-wing political movements are established and contextualised. Based on an original postcard by Josef Thorak (sculptor in the ‘Third Reich’), Christina Werner approaches the subject through photography, language and collage in an installative manner.

Kathrin Stumreich works at the interface of new media, technology, sound art and visual art. In her work, she investigates and decodes hidden mechanisms of power and control embedded in technologies, often by translating technical parameters and control systems into sound and movement. Recurring themes in her work are chance, chaos and entropy in their material, social and political dimensions. She won the Marianne.von.Willemer Prize of the City of Linz for digital media (2016), the European Soundart Award of the WDR Cologne (2018), received the Promotion Prize for Contemporary Art of the Province of Tyrol 2022, and the State Scholarship for Media Art 2024.

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During the Open Studio Days, there will be Soundperformances in the studio with dust from spirulina algae and laser.

Farid Sabha: Graduated 1987 at Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna. studied painting from 1981-1987 with W.Hollegha/ C.Unger/ A.Frohner

I am showing the books that are accompanying my work since years and will try to show the importance of them to my newer colorfield paintings.

Arnold Reinthaler, *1971, Austria, studied sculpture (with Bruno Gironcoli) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and wrote his PhD in cultural theory with Thomas Macho (on the circulation of ›nomadic‹ as a notion in the art context). Reinthaler’s work addresses systems for measuring time while focussing on the subjective activities of long-lasting work processes that he translates primarily into stone, paper and the media of light. He models the notion of 'temporality' by engraving fleeting letters onto an almost anachronistic medium like granite, or by continually testing models of 'timing' with techniques of self-recapitulation. Arnold Reinthaler lives and works in Vienna.

Nana Mandl (*1991 in Austria) is a mixed media artist currently based in Vienna. In her work she explores the relationship between the digital and the material world, and how one transfers into the other. The overflow of visual stimulation and the increasing importance of the surface are recurring topics in her mixed media works. Incorporating various techniques like digital printing, embroidery and drawing she combines seemingly unconnected images to wild yet elaborate collages and thereby manages to address issues such as overload, sexualisation and identity in a playful way.

In the adjacent building, there are further studios that will open their doors. The large inner courtyard with fire bowl and seating invites you to linger and could also be used for happenings.

Visual artist, born 1984 in Wels, Austria. Focus on text, image, installation and performance with conceptual approach. Studied under Ashley Hans Scheirl and Gunter Damisch at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and art history / architecture in Vienna and Barcelona. Exhibitions, performances, residencies in Austria, Europe, USA and Taiwan. 2018-2019 one-year stay in Brussels. Since 2018 audiovisual performances with musicians. 2019 BKA Start-Scholarship and Hubert von Goisern Culture-Award. 2021 participation at the Festival of Regions at historic Salzkammergut. Lives in Vienna with the curator Fariba Mosleh and their daughters Flora and Fauna.

Grandits’ artworks represent the artist’s principles and support a diverse sociological discussion based on a contemporary and independent state of mind. Her disciplines support an aesthetic discourse extending her work theoretically, as well as, practically. At the center of Grandits' work is the medium of textiles. She takes the garment as the starting point for the new work, lets it have its say and thereby tells a story. She forms the sculptural works with a sensitivity for body language or physicality in general and its expression, thereby giving the new artworks a post-structural character.

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Art-Talk: Saturday November 9th, 2024 | 4 p.m.

Anne Avramut (curator and art publicist) & Teresa Grandits (artist)

To present Grandits’ artistic works, we invite you to an informal art talk including a small reception. We discuss, with the help of the philosophy of mind and body politics, the question of the relationship between human beings and their environment.

Leverenz understands her paintings as „spaces of possibilities“ in which there is often an existential, tragicomic and poetic underlying mood. In her works the questions remain similar. They revolve around the great themes of life, in search of our essence, our origins and futureand are always an attempt to convey an idea of ourselves.

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Screenprinting on several materials like paper, wood or textile will be offered in the studio.

My artistic work deals with transience and the processual. Traces left behind, especially by the human body, and the trace as a relic are central themes. I make reference to language, especially poetry and philosophy. I want to make the passing of time comprehensible through materials that change and react with their surroundings. The viewers are often involved in the creation of the works: They trigger movement sequences of kinetic installations or inscribe themselves with their presence in participative, process-like objects.

The sculptor Karin Frank works primarily with wood. The human figure is at the center of her artistic exploration. She sometimes paints the figures, but they always convey a certain rawness in the surface quality, which has now become one of the characteristics of her works.

m.t.litschauer is a conceptual artist and author as well as a member of the Secession. Her works in various media, techniques and forms include complex contextual projects, which f. e. were realized as body-related design series, photo series on urban and rural structural shifts, image/text-linking objects, (public) space-related installations, and research-based artist books in limited editions. Work overview + biobibliography: www.mt-litschauer.at

Some objects and publications may provide a first insight into my work and perhaps stimulate conversations.

The artists from the WUK's visual arts department open their studios. The working methods are varied: painting, drawing, object art, performance, and much more - and so the artists are also showing works on the theme - FACING TIME. This theme opens up a further spectrum of artistic approaches - from Christine Baumann's years of daily drawing production to Tobias Iszo's time-consuming, meticulously crafted objects made from various materials, Peter Fritzenwallner's performances and Amelie Goetzl's graphic works. Renè Alexander Herar offers archaeological excursions into his archive.

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Visitors are given individual tours of the studios by the artists, with food, drinks and plenty of time for stimulating conversations and discussions with:

• CHRISTINE BAUMANN
• MARIA BERGSTÖTTER
• REINHARD BLUM
• ANDREAS DWORAK
• PETER FRITZENWALLNER
• AMELIE GOETZL
• ANDRZEJ GRZONKA
• ALAM EL DIN HAMED
• RENÉ ALEXANDER HERAR
• TOBIAS IZSÓ
• VIKTORIA POPOVA
• HELMUT RAINER
• ROSA ROEDELIUS
• ANNA SCHACHINGER
• BEATE SCHACHINGER
• TOMMY SCHNEIDER
• ROLAND SIEGELE
• CHRISTOPH SRB

Eva Kelety studied photography at the Graphische and Friedl Kubelka School for Artistic Photography in Vienna.  Working as an independent photographer since 2005, she specializes in portraits and architectural photography, while pursuing her own artistic projects.  Placing emphasis on space and structure, Eva Kelety explores existential topics such as belonging, loss and impermanence. With a perceptive visual language, she creates an imagery that is both restrained as well as highly atmospheric. Her work has been exhibited in Austria and abroad, most recently at the Los Angeles Art Show in 2023.

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Saturday, November 9, 2024 – 11am – 1pm

Reflektor Photobook Breakfast

The artists of the open photo lab Lumen X at the WUK cultural centre are opening their studios. Cristin Al Shati (AT), photographer. Solargraphy. The transience and fleetingness of time, captured in an impressive way. A photographic experiment focussing on time as a central element. Kerstin Pfleger, Firmament I &II. The more than eight-hour exposure of the night sky in central France is at the same time an image of the course of the stars that night, like a love poem. Julius W. Chromecek, seconds of light. The statements "1 sec.", "2 sec."... are exposed on photographic paper according to the text, making the quantum of light immediately visible.

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We demonstrate “chemigrams”:
In this method, fixer or developer is applied directly to the photographic paper. Due to the presence of (room) light, the photo paper reacts immediately with the chemicals. To achieve different effects, we let the liquid run on the paper, apply it with a brush or cover parts of the paper.

Time has always been an important factor in photography: how long do we expose the light-sensitive layer to light, how long do we let the developer work to convert silver salts into metallic silver before we stop its work with an interrupter or fixer,…

Thaer Maarouf is a Syrian painter, holding a master’s degree in fine arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut. Maarouf's work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across e.g. Dubai, Kuwait, Singapore, Philippines, the UK, France, Spain and Germany. His art is a part of permanent collections of museums in the Middle East, Singapore and the USA. His artistic spectrum spans from drawings and paintings to installations, conceptual art, performances, and video art. Maarouf's works are described as narratives of the unseen, attempting to reveal what lies behind everyday scenes, like secrets beneath the surface, in a coded, indirect manner, constantly seeking to bend reality.

Does time expand, melt, and form again?! In this conceptual installation, I extend materials, particularly metal, as a metaphor for temporal extension and point out the ability of the human body to dissolve like any other substance. Central part of my conceptual performance is the ironing and absurd hanging process of clothes. We iron in vain. We create and discard, produce and destroy. Simultaneously. The iron represents the human instinct to control and manipulate, but as time extends, it takes another form and will not return to what it was before.

The interweaving of time and concrete places, geographies or topographies is a determining factor in my work. A recurring form is to make visible the network of relationships between ideas of use and exploitation interests over the course of time. In this way of working, I draw on archive structures or specific archive materials, collection contexts and individual exhibits, which are both the starting point and the site of negotiation for these temporal-spatial entanglements. Works such as: Aus der Nullebene, 2024, Bodenvermessung, 2023, rest und reservoir, 2022, “Dieses Museum ist frei erfunden.”, 2020.

Matthias Klos' „Soil Stories“ is an open series of works and brings together projects that illuminate the factor of time as the dimension of resonance that we have lost in dealing with the non-renewable resource of soil. By linking concrete places and topographies with archive structures and artifacts from history, Soil Stories focuses on our understanding of time with its divisions and subdivisions as a lever for soil utilization.

Jürgen Bauer deals with symbols and signs that characterise and accompany our lives. He combines the concrete with the joy of staging, interaction and imagination. His installations allow viewing from several perspectives and explore how simple interventions can influence the interpretation of form. Bauer's sculptural works can be experienced directly and touch the viewer's inner images and symbolisations when space, form and psyche intertwine. His works stimulate reflection on social norms and repetitive errors in the social system and challenge the viewer to distinguish between fact and illusion and to reconsider their attitude.

Almut Rink, visual artist, works and researches our transformative (self-)understanding of nature from a concept to an experience as an inner network of relationships. Using drawing, performance, sculpture and video, she investigates intercultural systems of knowledge that place physical-sensual experience on an equal footing with cognitive thinking. Katarina Matiasek works as an artist and curator in the fields of photography, film and sound. In numerous international exhibition projects and screenings, she examines the structural connections between archive and memory as well as between media and perception-based images.

Alina Grabovsky was born in Kiev/Ukraine in 1987 and currently lives/works in Vienna. She had numerous fellowships, residencies, solo and group exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Alina Grabovsky's oil paintings include abstract and figurative elements. Complete or undamaged objects are rarely found there. The ambiguity inherent in Alina Grabovsky's figurative representation is accompanied by complex spatial concepts. Free from concrete historical experience and logical structure, spaces open upwards, impossible perspectives appear and stage-like scenes emerge. The diversity of spaces relates to migration and alienation.

Magic Moment: The artists of the Atelierhaus Gumpendorfer Straße 113 open their doors in the frame of the Open Studio Days.

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Participating Artists:

Katja Berger, painting, mixed media
https://www.katjaberger.com/

Georg Frauenschuh, painting
https://www.georgfrauenschuh.com/

Vasilena Gankovska, painting
https://vasilenagankovska.com/

Sabine Jelinek, photography, installation
https://www.sabinejelinek.at/

Bruno Klomfar, photography
https://www.klomfar.com/

Lukas Schaller, photography, film
https://www.lukasschaller.at/

Louise Schneider, textile art
https://www.instagram.com/louise__wanda?utm_source=qr

Beatrix Zobl, photography, printing technology, installation, text, video
http://www.beatrix-zobl.net/

Michael Heindl (*1988 in Linz) studied painting at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the NCAD in Dublin. He lives and works in Vienna and Scharten (Upper Austria). In his works, he deals with the contradictions and paradoxes of human action in the face of a present that is experienced as crisis-ridden. His main themes are dealing with the threat of climate catastrophe and a capitalism that is perceived as having no alternative. His works were shown at the following venues in 2024, among others: Innsbruck Biennale 24, MSUB Belgrade, Elektrohalle Rhomberg, Picture Theory Gallery NYC, IFFR Rotterdam, Oberhausen Short Film Festival

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Film screenings of my current work series “Drawing From Nature” and the presentation of a catalog of the work “The Art Of Restless Swimming”, which was created in the course of Innsbruck International 2024, are presented.

“Art is political. Whether social announcements or a haven of peace in nature: how we treat each other does matter.” Julia Bugram (*1988 in Vienna) is an interdisciplinary artist whose oeuvre to date has found expression in graphics, objects and installations. In terms of content, she works at the interface between art and socio-political discourse. She is on the board of the feminist art network IntAkt, founded in 1977, and is a member of Künstlerhaus Wien and Saloon Vienna. With the installation “Raising Hands”, she created a participatory sculpture from a million 1-cent coins as a symbol of peace and a sign of community and solidarity. (Text by Katrin Jordan-Liesenfeldt)

“Stories” Is a snapshot - an attempt to depict and understand a part of the present and the realities of life. A small insight into the personal. What occupies our fellow human beings in these fast-moving times? People tell and share stories. They take the time to tell them - and it also takes time to listen to them and “see” other people. Seeing in the sense of perceiving. An attempt to capture fleeting and subjective moments and make them tangible. Approachable. An audio installation provides an insight via collected original sounds. Accompanied and “immortalized” by portraits of the people who were willing to share their stories.

Xenia Lesniewski is an ultra-contemporary, multidisciplinary artist. Her practice evolves in fluid transitions between painting, installation, video, performance, and collective practice. Her work operates at the interface of art and everyday life and engages with contemporary social developments and public space. Multiplicity and simultaneity manifest themselves in her cross-disciplinary and process-oriented practice. She is a co-founder and active member of the artist collective CLUB FORTUNA.

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For the Open Studio Days, Xenia Lesniewski will realize a site-specific intervention within her studio space. A constantly overflowing coffee machine as well as minimalist clock flowers open up a humorous space for reflection on the multi-layered dimensions of time and their individual interpretation.

MARIA HANL (*1969 in Upper Austria, lives and works in Vienna) is interested in the human condition, in particular the tension between the individual and society. She works with different media such as photography, installation, drawing, performance and video. Maria Hanl graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Slade School of Fine Art, London, as well as studying education, special needs education and physical education at the University of Vienna and has participated in countless exhibitions in Austria and abroad.

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As part of the open studio days, the artist Petra Kodym is a guest in Maria Hanl’s studio. The two artists reflect on social phenomena in very different ways and enter into a dialogue with their works.

• Opening: Saturday, 9 November 2024 from 1 pm
• from 6 pm: Improvisation on the alto transverse flute with Angelina Ertel
• Artist Talk: Sunday, 10.11.2024 5 pm

Artist, Performer and Designer. Magister in Transmedia Art / University for Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria

Jakob Neulinger, (*1979 VIENNA) lives and works as an artist, writer and yoga instructor in Vienna and participated both as an artist and curator in numerous exhibitions. He writes about Art and published texts inter alia in magazines such as Frieze, Spike and Spex. He is teaching at TU Vienna and was assistant professor at University of applied Arts Vienna and Kunstuniversität Linz. He was co-founder and director of the art association MAGAZIN in Vienna (www.magazinvienna.com).

There will be a showing of new works in progress.

Ma Jia studied painting in Hangzhou and Beijing before entering the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Heimo Zobernig. Originally a figurative painter, her work has evolved in recent years, incorporating more sculptural elements and marking a significant shift in her approach to painting. Some of her recent paintings utilize rolls of unstretched industrial fabrics. Ma Jia has developed a unique stamping method, pressing the paint onto the fabric without a paintbrush, giving them the appearance of mass-produced works. This technique of pressing color onto the fabric‘s surface connects with traditional Chinese woodblock stamps used for signatures and modern industrialized printing process.

In my studio i develop drafts models af my sculptures as well as i am painting and drawing there. I want to show recent works in different stages of development, from draft to model, from sketch to painting.

Marianne Lang's central medium of representation is drawing - in the broadest sense - she experiments with different techniques, materials and perspectives. A topic that always concerns her: nature. It's not just about observing nature, but about the space between nature and human being.

Juliana Herrero’s work comes from a spatial sensibility. It also becomes site-time-specific, which crystallizes mostly in fragile installations and sculptural works as immersive realities. Juxtaposing utopias with sound spaces, it expands and compresses in a variety of formats. Her work combines analogue and digital techniques. It relates to the ethereal environment, social structures in the daily confrontation with technologies, language and alternative ways of communication, playfully questioning dichotomies such as public and private, virtual and physical realms, nature and artifice. For her artistic resilience is a way to transform worlds.

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I take the chance within this beautiful opportunity to set my studio as a domestic show in which the public is invited to dive into an installation set, whose assemblage can be modified during the scope of the show. I’m coming up with existing and new serials of lines and loops (steel, brass sculptures) in combination with new sound pieces as (aparejos sonoros) expanding from those of my current planet(A)zul to further investigate sets of domesticated nature and wider natural environments. Furthermore, I also want to include a solo performance using my structures, equipment and devices in a personal approach to the circadian rhythm within the moon compass.

For thirty years, Barbara Holub’s socially and politically engaged art has linked urban development, social issues, and artistic interventions. As an accumulative process of participatory action, Holub’s projects question the role of art in society, whether in the context of art itself, in urban public space, or in relation to corporations. Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic action with the aim of questioning norms and crossing boundaries, for which she coined the term "silent activism".

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Sunday, November 10, 2024, 3:00 pm – Artist Talk

Conversation with Susanne Prinz (Director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin) and Barbara Holub

“Empathic exchange and silent activism: a conversation about art in confrontation with urban and social challenges.”

In her new studio, Barbara Holub will be showing current works on “silent activism”. These are often characterized by a certain perseverance, repetition, slowness and moments of rehearsing. Through the seemingly not “efficient” use of time they counteract the efficiency and perfection dominating our society. As such, they are also directly related to this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK theme.

The Viennese Georg Eckmayr is a multidisciplinary 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 technical images. My art (media installations & pure digital work), operates with contrasts and ambivalences, with contradiction as a productive force. The focus of my work lies on the entanglement of physical and machine-based realms and its effects on social & identity practices. In most of my works my aesthetic gestures are embedded in scientific & research approaches. My research focus is on digital culture and knowledge systems and the digital operative space.

Valentin Aigner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Human existence is characterized by uncertainties. The success model of our species lies in its ability to adapt. Based on this idea, he develops an artistic practice that allows the precarious moment to become a building material. His working method is therefore characterised by a variety of means and materials, heterogeneous and fragmentary. Reflections on decay and finiteness often play a role and so his works oscillate between props and elements of scenery, intervene in existing spaces, can be fetish or found objects, are marginal notes or formulated paintings.

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Sunday 10.11.2024 , 7pm – Reading & Concert

Ewe Benbenek & Puyan Chubak

What does a bubble bath have to do with class?

Ewe Benbenek’s text ‘Juices’ explores the poetological and political dimensions of liquids. Come along on Sunday, it will be wet. Following the reading, Puyan Chubak will combine his tombak – an Iranian percussion instrument – with objects and electronic devices. A musical experiment that moves between tradition and the present.

Julia Gaisbacher is a visual artist who deals with themes of urbanism and housing. She first studied art history at the University of Graz (M.A.) and then sculpture at the Dresden University of Fine Arts (DE) and at the Sint-Lukas School of Arts in Brussels (BEL). At the center of her work are extensive research and long-term observations that focus on architecture and the urban landscape as a human habitat. The starting point is always photography. The final works manifest themselves in the form of prints, installations, artist's books and films.

EVENTS

The book “One Day You Will Miss Me”, Edition Camera Austria, 2021 and the photo book “My Dreamhouse is not a House”, published by The Velvet Cell, 2023 will be presented.

“One Day You Will Miss Me” is a long-term project in which I photographically documented and analyzed the transformation of the city of Belgrade between 2017 and 2022 under the influence of the newly emerging luxury district Belgrade Waterfront. “My Dreamhouse is not a House” deals with one of the first social, participatory and state-subsidized housing projects by architect Eilfried Huth from the 1970s in Graz. It poses the question of whether the project still works 50 years later.

Yoshinori Niwa (Japan/Austria, Vienna) is an artist. His practice takes the form of social interventions realised through performance, video and installation. His works all bear self-explanatory, slogan-like titles, and are executed primarily on the street and in public spaces. Yuji Oshima (Japan/Austria, Vienna) is an artist working on new media projects and sound installations. His work has been presented at various venues, including Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Flux Factory, New York, USA  and Intercommunication Center, Tokyo, Japan.

EVENTS

The following works will be exhibited:

Yoshinori Niwa
Research on social intervention and performance art (working title), 2024
Research surveys of international performances and interventions in public spaces, and new drawings based on the title of performance works.

Yuji Oshima
PROTEST FONT (Inspired by Marina Ovsyannikova), 2022
This font is a digital recreation of the handwritten letters from journalist Marina Ovsyannikova’s protest poster. The font can be freely installed and used on any computer. Inspired by her courage, I created this font to spread her message and empower others to express themselves freely.

ROMAN PFEFFER was born 1972 in Vöcklabruck and studied from 1996–2001 at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna and from 1999–2000 at Kent Institute of Art and Design, Canterbury/England. In 2018 he received the Dagmar Chobot sculpture award and the Prize of the Government of Tyrol in 2013. His works have been shown in institutions and galleries such as the museum Krems/Kunsthalle Krems, Kunsthalle Tirol Taxispalais, Galerie Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Fondazione Giorgio Cini Venedig, MQ ART BOX, Vienna, LA IRA DE DIOS, Buenos Aires, Kunsthalle Wien, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg; Centre d’Art, Neuchâtel....