Werner Feiersinger, Untitled (Pula), 2022, colour photograph mounted on dibond
Werner Feiersinger, sculptor and photographer, is showing photographs of utopian projects of industrial architecture and landscape design in Istria under the title Korzo. »The many industrial buildings – high-rise buildings, petrochemical plants, ships, coal storage facilities, port buildings, steel structures – tell of the history and development of these places, but also of the failure of political ideologies and utopias. The associated political background subtly resonates as a parallel narrative.« (Feiersinger)
Tangente – Festival for Contemporary Culture, St. Pölten, Austria, 01.05.–06.10.2024
Werner Feiersinger (Collaboration with Eva Grubinger), Two Friends, 2010, rafting boat, steel, concrete
For Tangente festival, Joanna Warsza, curator for fine arts, and Lorena Moreno Vera, associated curator for fine arts, are developing an exhibition in collaboration with the river. From 1 May to 6 October, the work of twentythree artists can be seen along the waters of St. Pölten.
You can see the locations of the artworks on Google Maps.
The existence of all living organisms depends on water. When we drink a glass of water, this water flows through us back into the world. With every sip, we enter into a cross-species exchange with various living beings, but also with meteorological, cultural, ecological and geophysical technologies. Our bodies are largely made up of water; it is both a source of life and a deadly element, bringing both salvation and danger. It can also mark a border or be a sign of pollution, a carrier of time, memory and change, of colonial exploitation or [...]
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria, 02.02.–09.10.2024
Werner Feiersinger in Breaking Down Walls! The Collections, exhibition view, Museum der Moderne Salzburg 2024, Courtesy Museum der Moderne Salzburg, photo: wilbild/Herbert Rohrer
The Museum is taking the 20th anniversary of its site on the Mönchsberg as an opportunity to place a focus on increasing the visibility of the collections entrusted to it. For most of the year, two levels on the Mönchsberg (1 and 3) will be used for four exhibitions from the collections, though strictly speaking these are two exhibitions that will be modified halfway through their run to create new presentations with new focal points. The concept and content of these four parts are revealed in their titles.
The exhibitions for the anniversary year are presented by the Museum der Moderne Salzburg in cooperation with the Generali Foundation.
The exhibition Breaking Down Walls! reflects on the insights of the intellectual movement known as the spatial turn, which emphasizes the vital importance of space or the conception of space as an analytical instrument. Its focus is not just on the static space of geometry but on space as a phenomenon shaped, [...]
