Hugo Canoilas, Carved Sea Shell, 2021, high fluid acrylic on linen
In the first edition of Space Uncurated, MLZ Art Dep and Wiener Art Foundation present, in collaboration with Martin Janda Gallery in Vienna, a dialogue between the artists Nilbar Güreş, Turkish of Kurdish origin, and the Portuguese artist Hugo Canoilas. The depths of the ocean, a generating place unknown to our eyes, is the starting point for Hugo Canoilas in his search for a new pictorial space. In the exhibition 'At the extremes of good and evil' (Mumok, Vienna, 2020) Canoilas shows us a unique, living and ephemeral gesture. The painting, angled horizontally on the floor, offers a change of perspective that can also be understood metaphorically as a deviation of social experience and behaviour. In 2022, Hugo Canoilas had a solo exhibition entitled 'Sculptured in darkness' at Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian in Lisboa. Created for the 31st Biennal of São Paulo, Wildness is an iconic photographic work that captures [...]
Chin Tsao 曹晶 (*1989 in Taipei, Taiwan) graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2021 and was subsequently awarded the Kunsthalle Prize 2021. Her works have been exhibited at Kunsthalle Wien (AT), Nevven Gallery (SE) and Galerie Martin Janda (AT). She has performed at the Rote Bar/Volkstheater Wien (AT) and mumok (AT). She is currently represented by Galerie Martin Janda in Vienna and has also curated the event series EPHEMEROS, which aims to support emerging artists and the queer feminist community.
Chin Tsao's works include video, ceramics/porcelain, music, performance and creative writing. She explores the characteristic features of different media and utilises their inherent expressive power to evoke inexplicable perceptions and associations. In her projects, the different media are intertextual, but also carry their own context, narrative and history.
In her past exhibitions, she has explored a range of themes including the queer [...]
MAK Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, 13.12.2023–20.05.2024
Nilbar Güreş, Red, Old Woman, Yellow, Black Eyes, Brown, Pride Belt, Blue, Drilled Ears, Silver, Carpet Seeds, Blue, Teenage Acne, 2014, installation, fabric, indigenous skirts, Courtesy Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
HARD/SOFT: Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art brings together two seemingly contrasting materials.
While textiles are associated with warmth and flexibility, ceramics formed from soft clay radiate a cool fragility. Yet both media bring to life an aesthetic language that shifts between hard, soft, unwieldy, and flowing. The materials, shapes, and significance of the selected works reveal a broad spectrum of ambiguity, vagueness, and simultaneity.
The exhibition showcases the work of around 40 artists from Austria and all over the globe, whose artistic practice draws on craft techniques such as embroidery, knotting, and weaving, as well as sculpting, wedging, and firing. The sculptures, installations, and painted works, which also include embroidered images, patchworks, and tapestries, show a vast range of artistic and interdisciplinary approaches that combine visual and applied arts, architecture, music, and digital space. These pieces offer an insight [...]
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States, 11.11.2023–10.03.2024
Július Koller, U.F.O.-nautická Kultúrna Situácia 1.,2.,3. (U.F.O.), 2002, colour photographs
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Charting a generation of artists invested in experimentation, the Walker-organized exhibition features artworks rarely seen in the United States. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working during this time encountered different conditions for daily life and art-making, confronting varying degrees of control and pressure exerted by state authorities. Embracing conceptual or formal innovation and a spirit of adventurousness, Multiple Realities sheds light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony.
Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, [...]
Plattform 6020, Fördergalerie der Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, 04.11.2023–05.01.2024
Werner Feiersinger, Untitled, 2010, steel, lacquer, plastic, 70 x 80 x 60 cm
Galerie Plattform 6020 will open the exhibition "Kunstankäufe der Stadt Innsbruck 2023" on Friday, 3 November at 7 p.m. as part of this year's "Premierentage 2023 - Wege zur Kunst" with artworks by 14 Tyrolean artists and at the same time celebrate its 5th anniversary at its new location in the Innsbruck City Library.
The gallery itself has been in existence since 1991 and moved from the Galerie im Andechshof to the new city library in November 2018. Since then, a total of 30 exhibitions with 138 artists have been shown in the new 100 m2 gallery space. On this evening, we will celebrate the 5th year with a pleasant atmosphere, jazzy sounds and good entertainment.
Another highlight of the evening is the presentation of the Josef Franz Würlinger Prize for the highest quality exhibition of the year in the gallery.
Maurizio Bonato, Irene Dapunt, Elisabeth Eiter, Werner Feiersinger, Robert Gfader, Vanja Krajnc, Yara Lettenbichler, Simona Obholzer, [...]