White Crocodile

Anna Schachinger

Opening: December 16, 2016, 6.30 pm
Duration: December 15 – December 28, 2016

curated by Ute Burkhardt-Bodenwinkler

how to look into a crocodile mouth
how to catch a crocodile mid-air
how to feel your mother’s sturdy grip around your neck
how to stand closely as a group
about white crocodiles,
about fear.
(of taking responsibility)
(of your neighbor)
(of failing hard)
how to inhale common sense
and exhale white crocodiles

try to fly

Ewa Kaja

Opening: December 8, 2016, 7 pm
Venue: Ofroom Innovation Circle Marxergasse 42, 1030 Wien
Duration: December 9 – December 14, 2016

curated by Ute Burkhardt-Bodenwinkler

Ewa Kaja beschäftigt sich in ihren Werken mit dem Körper, der Körperoberfläche und eröffnet Fragen nach Identitäten, Sichtweisen, Klischees, Moral und zeitgenössichen Tabus. Die Künstlerin zeigt welch zwingende, geheimnisvolle Kraft in der Verkoppelung von Schönheit und Vergänglichkeit steckt. Sie stellt mit ihren Arbeiten die Frage ,,ob Schönheit nicht prinzipiell eine Abwehr gegen den Tod ist.“ (Freud ,,Vergänglichkeit“, 1915).

1.2.3.4.

Fabian Seiz

Opening: November 24, 2016, 7 pm
Venue: Zirkusgasse 38, 1020 Wien
Duration: November 25 – December 1, 2017

curated by Amer Abbas

Fabian Seiz zeigt uns Arbeiten aus dem Jahr 2016. “Who`s and Whys”, “Erster”, “Content”, “Drei Pfeifen”, “Vierter”. Mit dem Titel der Ausstellung “1,2,3,4” verweist Fabian Seiz vielleicht auf Billy Wilders Komödie (Eins, Zwei, Drei) von 1962 und fügt, in Seiz´scher Manier, ein “Viertes” hinzu. Entgegen einer vorherrschenden lustfeindlichen, asketischen Ich-Kultur öffnet Fabian Seiz den Vorhang zur Komödie. Lässt uns teilhaben am Wissen der Unbedingtheit der Kunst, die allein nur Hingabe zulässt. George Bataille sah in der Kultur den Befehl sich zu vergnügen, fast eine Nötigung zur Verausgabung, zu Glamour und Genuss – und damit zur Schönheit. Die Arbeiten von Fabian Seiz setzten über eine konkrete und sehr präzise ästhetische Form ein Spiel in Gang und das Spiel ist, Johann Huizinga stellt dies 1956 fest, ein Grundprinzip jeglicher Kultur. Die Arbeiten von Fabian Seiz erzeugen eine rezeptive Wachheit und Unruhe, sie lassen uns im besten Sinne zurück mit utopischen Verheißungen und dem Versprechen auf lustvolle Kühnheit. (Ute Burkhardt)

Rouven Dürr vs Franz Vana

Opening: November 3, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: November 4 – November 10, 2016

curated by Fabian Seiz

Self Hypnosis

Stelios Karamanolis/ Panos Papadopoulos

Opening: October 20, 2016, 7 pm
Venue: Schadekgasse 6, 1060 Wien
Duration: October 21 – November 11, 2016

Leisure as a Mechanism for Resistance

Parallel Vienna

Opening: September 16, 2016, 7 pm
Venue: Alte Post, Dominikanerbastei, 1010 Wien
Duration: September 17 – September 25, 2016

curated by Daily Lazy

It is 2:56 am, and he still has trouble sleeping. He turns the light on and picks up the book that lies by his nightstand. He opens it to page 56.
He always believed that accidents are somehow destiny in disguise.
The question of the previous day still twirls in his head.
He stands up and walks towards the fridge. He realizes that the distance from his bed to the fridge is 28 steps – that equals 56 steps from his bed to the fridge and back.
Coincidence?
He always worked too much. Too much that he never had time to think of himself as a distinct entity.
Yesterday, the girl at the gas station asked him if he is free on Friday.
Free on Friday?
Today is Wednesday, which is two days away from Friday.
If he could be with the girl in bed that would make it one + one = two.
He looks again at the clock that sits on top of his nightstand.
The time is 2:56 am.
Still.
That is what he does when he has time.

Irini Miga

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Giorgos Kontis, Just Quist

Opening: July 20, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: July 21 – Jul y 27, 2016

Giorgos Kontis | Just Quist

A sign and a network. The image as such, as both, and also, as an object; not intangible but rather bearing its own materiality, physical attributes, a body.

The image, having signs registered on it, and being registered with its turn on something greater; an image that is all and just a part. A shard of a ceramic vessel that has followed its own path and trajectory in time. A body that carries its own history and memory and hovers between being a part and simultaneously an autonomous entity, thus, having this duality and bearing both functions. A suspended fragment that is almost mystic and mythical, becoming a sign; of itself and of its broader whole.

Thus, the image as a presence and as an archetype that stands beside, though cannot escape, this general whole, the net in which it is caught, its context.

The work of Giorgos Kontis (b 1981, Athens) focuses on abstract painting and on its function as an image. It becomes a contemplation on it as an Icon, on the autonomy it gains, and on the way it radiates itself, triggering questions on authenticity and the agency of the artist. He is currently doing a practice based PhD in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.

For Just Quist (b 1965, Dordrecht) the work places itself in an agile position in respect to the different contexts within which it arises. He is looking for the transitive space, a space hitherto void of meaning. A space in transition, where no meaning can be defined because it has not yet arrived in its entirety. A space where meanings are generated by the connections made, where acting transforms to object.

The . beneath white

Irini Miga

Opening: July 7, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: July 8 – July 17, 2016

About to exit.
Basic things on the desk, a laptop and a chair.
The light from the ceiling – white – and it casts a big shadow of my head over the keypad.
charger – not to forget
keys
point A to point B
Pause 2”
Window minimized.
Nearly finished.
Eyes fixed on the door knot.
Tear off the page.
Stand up
Press delete and start anew.
enter

tin cry

Eugen Wist

Opening: June 17, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: June 18 – June 25, 2016

the only sound noticeable is the one I produce myself with each move – a dilemma. No, actually I like it because if one – like any normal person – treads on the heel and then rolls with the bodyweight along the sole, crushing all the stuff underneath, it makes a crunch or crackling noise. Like if you step on limbs, sand or snow…

Milk as Currency.The Bio-Praxia of Giving

Irini Athanassakis

Opening: June 2, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: June 3 – June 12, 2016

Towards a financial model derived from the Body: BioLogics.

The Economy can be considered as a heritage of the ancient house hold and its inherent laws. Finance could be seen as a a set of means, methods and technologies of distributing potentials from the past and the present to the future.

Due to its abstraction and importance to ensure the survival of societies, finance has been and still remains one of the core questions of how culture and societies define themselves. With its growing mathematization, formalization and modeli- zation and the installation of probability as its central tool finance has increasingly driven away from the needs and realities of the bodies that are subject to its laws and prescriptions, i.e. monetary profits.

Irini Athanassakis would like to propose a Bio-Praxeia of „Finance“ and consider Milk as one of the first currencies (after cells/sperm, and blood).

All thought is in signs

Bobby Dowler

Opening: May 23, 2016, 7 pm
Duration: May 24 – May 30, 2016

For the exhibition “All thought is in signs” at fAN my aim is to introduce and share a collection of discoveries, in the form of ‘Painting-Objects’ which I have made over the last few years. I attempt to enter into the medium of painting itself with a new independent language. Bobby Dowler, 2016

Wahlabend – Wir laden ein

Ein politisches Gemeinschaftsspiel: Bruno Kratochvil, Magdalena Gruber, Jasmin Schwendinger, Katharina Farnleitner, Maresi Riegner, Jan perschy, Julian Bruckmiller, Franz Gerald WErner, Valentin Postlmayr, Jubsi Kramar, Lilly Prohaska, Bela Baptiste, Eleni Stampfer

May 2016