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Even if there is the will to bring about a sustainable society, the political and individual scope for action nonetheless has its limits. The oscillation between power and powerlessness that results from this is shaping philosophical, ethical-moral, and spiritual discourses and raises questions that occupy many individuals.

In their artistic work, Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay take up animist motifs and conceptual worlds. Animism is based on the belief that all elements in nature, both living creatures and inanimate objects have a spiritual essence. While animist thought has always been a central component of many indigenous religions, it is also currently being given new attention in Western societies: as a relationship to the world that emphasizes the mutual interdependency of all things, that regards the boundaries between species, between oneself and the world as fluid. Since with the environmentally destructive lifestyles of the present, a relationship to the world that is based on differentiation, objectification, and hierarchization becomes questionable.

Oasis is a subtly composed, extensive installation of sculptures, photographs, printed textiles, and drawings that is supplemented with a sound component. In it, Mendreczky (*1988 in Budapest, Hungary) and Kortmann Járay (*1986 Budapest, Hungary) take up both spiritual narratives and personal family histories and translate them into unusual pictures and objects that seem alien and familiar to us at the same time. Besides set pieces from nature like shells and sand, the space is populated with hybrid creatures with human traits and plant characteristics or that represent a merging of animal and object. They are free interpretations of elements and motifs from old fairy tales and myths. There are also spiritual-religious symbols such as the pomegranate, date palms, or folded hands, as well as historical photographs from family albums in which a particular aura is inherent. Female figures are positioned in various places in the space and sustain the mystical scenery. As a whole, the objects form a magical-seeming, fairytale-like arrangement, a sort of surreal cabinet of curiosities that evokes the interconnectedness of all beings.

Exhibition: Karina Mendreczky & Katalin Kortmann Járay. Oasis
Exhibition duration: 23.02. – 07.05.2023

Location: MQ Salon, MuseumQuartier Vienna

Malerei und suggestive Präsenz stehen im Zentrum von Sarah Bechters Praxis. Melancholisch-poetisch und nicht ohne einen gewissen Humor hinterfragen ihre Gemälde die Bedingungen ihrer eigenen Produktion.

Mit der Gruppenausstellung Matrix Bodies begibt sich der Kunstraum auf einen Trip durch die Mikroebenen unseres planetaren Ökosystems. Der Ausgangspunkt: die geheime Zone der Virosphäre.

Anzhelika Palyvoda – Ukrainian visual artist born in 2000 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Currently based in Vienna. Graduated from the National Academy of Fine art and Architecture, MA monumental painting.

Beth Frey divides her time between Montreal and Mexico City. With a formal background in painting and drawing, Frey’s practice has expanded into video performance, sculpture, and installation.

Eine neue spannende Location für die PARALLEL EDITIONS. Die Kunstmesse findet in Kooperation mit dem Neuen Kunstverein Wien in einem ehemaligen großen Autohaus statt.

Lindsay is a contemporary artist, working primarily with paint in a figurative style that she combines with renditions of street art and surrealism. Self taught, with a deep sense of wanderlust.

To share theory is as important as sharing art, to work as a collective is not only a necessity but actually the only possible way. The research they embrace belongs to the line of Futurism.

Fanzineist Vienna Art Book & Zine Fair will take place at Atelierhaus Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien between May 26-28, 2023. Fanzineist will meet you both physically and online.

Bags with six different artistic subjects were created in cooperation with Ukrainian artists. As a thank you for every donation of 20 EUR or more, donors will receive their favorite bag(s).

Die Ausstellung, kuratiert von Livia Klein & Kai Philip Trausenegger, ist ein fingiertes Traumszenario, innerhalb dessen die Überwindung des Kapitalismus als Bühne für utopische Ausblicke dient.

In his exhibition „Ex: Re: Trans“ at CRAMA Berlin, Daniel M. E. Schaal contextualizes works from his repertoire as well as new works from 2023. Considering his background in theater studies.

Seung-Yeon Jung is a Korean artist, working in painting, performance, and installation work, exploring themes such as identity and the ecology of inter- and intra-personal bound in a community.

Die Kuratorin zieht Parallelen zwischen dem Roman „Perdido Street Station“ des Autors China Miéville und Arbeiten lokaler Künstler:innen, die allesamt einen Aspekt des Lebens in Städten behandeln.

Céline Strugers neueste in situ-Arbeit GEOSPIRIT wurde speziell für den Raum auf dem Spinnereigelände konzipiert und ist die erste Soloshow der österreichischen Künstlerin in der Galerie She BAM!