Exhibition

„at the waterhole“ & “Current signs“

Feb 21 2018 to Feb 28 2018
Hegelgasse 14
Vienna 1010
Phone: +43 1 236 3775
Tuesday - Friday:
13:00-19:00
Saturday:
12:00-17:00
free
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 to Wednesday, February 28, 2018
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"at the waterhole" by Felix-Benedikt Sturm

At the waterhole might grow some grass. Grass reduces deterioration of your shoe, if it is of sufficient, at least premium+ quality. This exhibition offers a series of installations and many white balls - usually flying like cannon balls, dropping wealth and prosperity everywhere they fall. They need huge space to increase profitability efficiently. This profitability is slowly pouring, trickling down to all of us – like water to the ground, from where the lawn grows to again cushion the shoes. Carefully trimmed, the lawn makes the shots more accurate. There are golf courses in the desert, as well as in the periphery. The golf interjection ‘Fore!’ might be a hint of what is going on.
One cannot deny the ever-present influence of political and economical issues in Felix-Benedikt Sturm´s artistic work. Since his graduation from University of Arts Linz from Sculpture – Transmedial Space Department in 2015, he has been trying to explore various questions concerning arts and politics, arts in politics, politics in arts and every other combination possible. As Séamus Kealy stated about his recent exhibition at Salzburger Kunstverein: “Felix-Benedikt Sturm is interested in political and social systems of order, from forms of categorization by empirical or administrative means, bureaucratization of human processes, to overall political structures housed within states. He is also concerned with the complications and contradictions of how artists confront political topics.“

"Current signs" curated by Enar de Dios Rodriguez

Current signs is a project to which contemporary artists were invited to express their actual concerns and demands in form of protest banners. What must we demand or protest against? What needs to be expressed publicly? What statements need to be taken to the streets? The resultant 16 protest banners designs, conceived by a wide range of artists, give a visual answers to these poignant questions. Printed in editions of 50, these banners will be on view at das weisse haus from the 20th of February to the 31st of March, where visitors could take them for free as long as they are available.

This project is born from the need to address concerns related to our current political landscapes and the raise (and acceptance) of far-right, xenophobic and racist ideologies. As always -but maybe now more than ever- we need to make visible our demands, to share with each other our ideas, our worries and our needs. Current signsaims to encourage this exercise of the right to demonstrate and protest.

participating artists:
Pablo Chiereghin / Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová / Johannes Gierlinger / Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid / Siggi Hofer / Klub Zwei / Milan Mijalkovic / Ryts Monet / monochrom / Ivette Mrova Zub / Yoshinori Niwa / Sekretariat für Geister, Archivpolitiken und Lücken (SKGAL) / UBERMORGEN / Flora Watzal / Christina Werner / WochenKlausur
curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez

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