PARALLEL VIENNA 2024

PARALLEL VIENNA 2024
11./12. und 21./22.09.2024

SPACE ORACLE
ongoing interactice performance by Annette Tesarek
in cooperation with Norbert Unfug/ Sebastian Pirchs AI Installation POLE OF TRASH
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Pavillon 16, basement, room 001

Foto Credits: © Andreas Schlichtner

@art_collection_schlichtner Projectstatement
Pavillon 16, basement, Room 001
Otto-Wagner-Areal
Baumgartner Höhe
(Bus 48a: Otto-Wagner-Areal)
1140 Vienna
please get your ticket online
or at the entrance

UTOPIA DYSTOPIA

The Voyager mission in 1977 attempted to gain knowledge about the planetary system and interstellar space and to establish contact with extraterrestrial life forms in order to inform them of the existence of humanity. A record with greetings in 55 languages ​​and sounds of the earth was sent along with instructions for playing it.

For PARALLEL Vienna 2024, we are equipping our exhibition as a spaceship. As with the Voyager mission, images and news from our times and past times are transported into the future.

Let’s imagine that people of the future or alien life forms encounter the Voyager probes or our spacecraft. Would the cultural property found be recognized as such and how would it be understood?  Would it be seen as evidence of intelligence and creativity, a gesture of friendship, colonial intent, or evidence of a gradual path to ruin? Would one recognize that in 1977 and 2024, respectively, the industrial age and the utopias of modernity still had a significant influence on the way of life of many people and the policies of various systems of power? Would one find posthumanist ideas and criticism of transhumanism here and an attempt to address impending dystopias?

This exhibition holds a mirror up to us and discusses concepts of what it means to be human. Different time perspectives are part of our concept. Thinking spaces for possible presents and futures are opened up.

David Blumenkind / Patryck Chan / Kike Chueca / Toninho Dingl / Anna Dumitriu / Thomas Gegner / Margareta Klose / Martin Krammer / Lukas Lex / Rica Fuentes Martinez / Daniel Mazanik / Vanessa Mazanik / Nesku / Anna Pelz / Sebastian Pfeifhofer / Sebastian Pirch / Lia Qurina / Robert Resac / Bettina Schülke / Fabian Seiz  / eliah nepomuk maitreya sölkner / emilia josephine maya sölkner / Clemens Stecher / Annette Tesarek / Norbert Unfug / Peter Várnai / Ana Vollwesen / Michael Vonbank / Jakob Liu Wächter / Adam Wiener / Moritz Wildburger / Oksana Zmiyevska / Flirty Horse Collective: Ivan Strelkin, Kasija Vrbanac Strelkin, Tatyana Juraszek, Barbara Angermaier, Weronika Strugala

idea / text/ graphics/ curated by:
@art_collection_schlichtner

project statement Andreas Schlichtner
@parallelvienna

https://parallelvienna.com/

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KRITZEL – KITZEL – KABINETT II

Katalogpräsentation und gleichnamige Ausstellung in erweiterter Neuauflage:

Kritzel – Kitzel – Kabinett II  
PADHI FRIEBERGER, ANTON HERZL, ELKE SILVIA KRYSTUFEK, MICHAEL VONBANK

Galerie DISTRICT4art
Sommerresidenz in der Manner Villa
Klampfelberggasse 2, 1170 Wien (Neuwaldegg, Endstation 43)

Do, 31.08.2023, ab 18 Uhr

Unter anderem zeige ich Fotografien von PADHI FRIEBERGER- Wandtexten, Fundstücke mehrjähriger Recherchen. 
In dem Katalog, der begleitend zur Ausstellung präsentiert wird, stelle ich in Bild und Text den aktuellen Stand der Forschungsarbeiten zu PADHI FRIEBERGER vor, an welchen Elisabeth Foissner, ehem. Belvedere, und ich, seit 2019 gemeinsam tätig sind.
Erstmals ist ein Foto von Padhi Frieberger aus dem Papier-Nachlass, mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Belvedere, Wien, abgebildet.

The brandnew Calalogue is out now!

limited edition
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DISTRICT4
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Gisela Weißenbach
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Catalogue “KRITZEL-KITZEL-KABINETT”Padhi Frieberger (with Annette Tesarek), Anton Herzl, Elke Silvia Krystufek, Michael VonbankThe catalogue was published by District 4 Art, Galerie Gisela Weißenbach, Wiedner Gürtel 12, 1040 Wien. The exhibition was curated by Vitus H. Weh.”To the times their art, to art its freedom” demanded the members of the Vienna Secession around 1900. Elke Silvia Krystufek rephrased this beautiful intellectual statement on one of her many typefaces as “Der Zeit ihre unbequemen Künstler:innen, den Unbequemen ihre Freiheit” (To the times their inconvenient artists, to the inconvenienced their freedom). Her numerous portraits of contemporary activists are always surrounded by slogans and remarks. She places the politically inconvenient of the present at the centre of her art and thus becomes a political actor herself.A similar spirit of contradiction unites the four artists presented in the exhibition:Padhi Frieberger, for example, is considered one of the most radical pioneers of the art scene after the Second World War. As a pioneer of the ecology movement, socio-political activist and declared non-conformist, he consistently refused the art market.Anton Herzl’s being uncomfortable is evident not least in the material. His pen-and-ink and papier-mache works rub up against the ductus of bourgeois living formats. His allusions demand an effort of thought where in others the melting of seduction may already have set in.Michael Vonbank’s painterly, powerful work, on the other hand, is populated throughout by grotesques: his bizarre creatures with comical features drag the pupae of society before the curtain in rich colour. His art lays fingers in open wounds, provocative and uncompromising.

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