Hugo Canoilas: CLOSE/D artistic explorations in neighboring environments
Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna, Austria, 28.06.–31.10.23

Hugo Canoilas, Belvedere, 2023, Photo: Iris Ranzinger
Through its CLOSE/D project, Kunst Haus Wien has chosen to enter into a dialogue with its neighbourhood and the city as a whole. Twelve artistic interventions in the public space feature ecological perspectives on the present and the future. A free programme of events invites visitors to participate in and around the TRÖSCH III Community Centre.
Over a period of four months, the Museum will be taking a broader look at its immediate surroundings and its social environment through an outdoor exhibition, adopting a neighbourly approach in the process: twelve artistic positions will feature in the public space, opening up diverse ecological perspectives on the present and the future. The invited artists will engage in a dialogue with the Earth and the atmosphere, with the flora and fauna, the Danube Canal, the urban infrastructure and architecture, and with neighbours, [...]
Yu Ji, Flesh in Stone #1, 2012, Cement and iron, Courtesy the artist How are our bodies impacted by changes in the environment around us? This question is at the core of Chinese artist Yu Ji’s sculptural and installation-based practice. Yet, rather than focusing explicitly on the tensions that often underlie this relationship, Yu Ji (b. 1985, Shanghai, China) asks us to re-examine the ties between our bodies and the built environment, offering the possibility that these connections are transformative. In her first US museum solo exhibition, A Guest, A Host, A Ghost, OCMA presents the first ten works in her ongoing series Flesh in Stone (2012–ongoing), where different-sized cement casts of the human body are presented in fragments, as parts of a larger whole. Alongside these intimate cement works, the exhibition includes three of her Refined Still Life lithographs (all 2020)—ghostly, fugitive images of landscapes printed onto curved plates of stainless steel. Fragmented and [...]
Installation view, Galerie Martin Janda, Art Basel 2023, Photo: Andrea Rossetti Booth L20, Hall 2.1 Private Days: June 13 & 14 ERWIN BOHATSCHYu Ji: A Guest, A Host, A Ghost
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, USA, 23.06.–22.10.2023
ART BASEL 2023
15.06.–18.06.2023
Public Days: June 15 – 18
Galerie Martin Janda is exhibiting at Art Basel 2023. We are showing works by:
HUGO CANOILAS
ADRIANA CZERNIN
SVENJA DEININGER
WERNER FEIERSINGER
NILBAR GÜRES
JAKOB KOLDING
JÚLIUS KOLLER
MANGELOS
ASIER MENDIZABAL
JAN MERTA
ROMAN ONDAK
TANIA PÉREZ CÓRDOVA
RAINER SPANGL
MLADEN STILINOVIĆ
CHIN TSAO
SHARON YA'ARI