digging for shades
The idea that our organism is influenced by our way of life and our environment and that this has an impact on our genes and those of future generations has long preoccupied people of different cultures, beliefs and sciences. Genetic information is changed by external influences, social inequalities or forceful events, as well as by intense emotions – even if these are not our own, they can have an influence and shape us individually and collectively. This is what epigenetics says. A science that tries again, explains, satisfies needs, has target groups and at the same time proves nothing.
The prints and illustrations by Manuela Picallo Gil are therefore notes, collect thoughts and attempt to shed light on one’s own genetic material, asking about what is stored and which of one’s own and other people’s feelings or memories are connected by networks of relationships and could have an influence on their own genetic information.
Date: Sunday, May 5th 2024
Open times: 10 am – 6 pm
Location: Hauptstraße 36, 7210 Walbersdorf, Burgenland
Wine: Compilation of selected wines from the Winzerkeller Seewinkel
Event is initiated by: offen. is an initiative of the Province of Burgenland and is implemented by the Coordination Office for contemporary fine arts Burgenland Department 7 Education, Culture and Science.
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Investigation: 2×20
In a mysterious way, a young female detective suddenly receives a series of 2×20 photographs. The images show scenes that correspond to the characteristic style of the scenes of a serial murder. Instead of corpses, however, the pictures present macabrely staged newspaper cadavers. What the policewoman initially thinks is a tasteless joke begins to preoccupy her more and more. The pictures come into her possession through various channels and she begins to record her thoughts and reflections on a pane of glass. Black and white images and the locations where the photos were found extend across the entire city.
What begins as simple documentation develops into an obsessive search for the unknown. The pictures seem to point to a dark path that draws the policewoman deeper into the abyss of a mystery that she cannot let go of – a captivating hunt for the unknown in which every lead raises new questions.
Duration of the exhibited project: 14.03.2024 – 10.04.2024
Open: solange die U-Bahn in Betrieb ist, an 7 Tagen der Woche
Location: Red Carpet Showroom Karlsplatz, metro tunnel, tunnel connects U2 and U4, 1010 Wien
I will be there on Thursday, March 14th 2024 from 6-8 p.m. and happy to see you there! 🙂
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GROWING presents positions of five artists Mariama Diallo, Erisa Mirkazemi, Abiona Esther Ojo, Manuela Picallo Gil and Barbara Stöhr, resulting from a research of the mechanisms that construct a sense of self-recognition and identity through hair and its symbolism.The form and meaning of hair are examined in their relationship with the body, sexuality, power and media, in the work of five positions that confirm that man is a being that needs symbols to give meaning and order to his life. GROWING is an artistic exploration of hair as a symbol of power, but also of resistance and freedom.The contradictory nature of the multifaceted meaning of hair is shown and will also be discussed in the exhibition. To what extent is the subject of hair connected with power, health, gender, class, religion, representation, resistance and identity in the history of humanity? And how can patterns and symbols acquire new content?The artistic interpretations range from a research to a call to action, re-discussing and re-interpreting symbols. The motivation is to live in a society where symbolic images raise their voices, genital hair is combed, and art motivates social growth.
Date: November 18th – December 20th, 2023
Open Time: Fri – Sat: 2 pm – 6 pm
Location: VBKÖ – Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (The Austrian Association of Women Artists)
Opening: Friday, November 17th, 6 pm
Midissage: Thursday, November 30th, 7 pm with salon_tongue
Workshop with teenagers: Thursday, November 30th, 7 pm with salon_tongue
Finissage: Wed, December 20th, 6 pm
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Galerie 21 presents 1000 prints by Burgenland artists at the designforum in the Museumsquartier in Vienna. The prints are available for purchase. In cooperation with Weintourismus Burgenland, wines can be tasted and talks can be held with the artists on site.
Thu, 16.11.2023 at 7 pm: Presentation of the “Alfred Schmeller Award” in cooperation with the artists’ village of Neumarkt an der Raab
Date: Saturday, 18.11.2023, 3-6 pm: Children’s printing workshop “x-press.yourself” (registration at pw@galerie21.at)
Location: designforum at Museumsquartier
Project of CRAFT: Meine Arbeitswahl, mein Widerstand (my choice of work, my resistance)
In recent years, there has been a growing demand for an active confrontation with unwanted monuments in public space. The event “Antimonument Extended” in Düsseldorf pursues this desire and invited various artists and cultural workers whose positions can be seen and experienced in public space as well as in the Wild Palms Gallery. The project is organized by Antimonument e.V., a non-profit organization based in Düsseldorf, which was founded in 2017 on the basis of Shinpei Takeda’s “Antimonument Manifesto” and sees itself as a platform for projects at the interface of art, memory and technology.
“The debates about monuments today increasingly revolve around the question of who is represented by whom. To date, the erection of monuments has usually not been preceded by democratic decision-making processes or citizen surveys […]. The CRAFT collective responds to the invitation from the “Antimonument Extended” event to recontextualize monuments whose artists were called “God-gifted” during National Socialism, with an artistic practice based on intensive research that combines performance with monument activism and virtual reality. The performance and action on the square is accompanied by the sound installation by Navid Razavi, which is based on the sound of the resonance body of the sculpture “Bergischer Löwe”. […] “My choice of work, my resistance” is a project that not only aims to detach a monument from the otherwise unquestioned presence in public space, but also to address the gaps in previously unrealized monuments for female resistance fighters.”
Ursula Maria Probst
Vienna, 2023
Organizer: “Antimonument Extended”, @antimonumemxt at Instagram
Complet text about the CRAFT project by Ursual Maria Probst
Exhibition:
“Manufacturing Antimonument”, 05.08 – 27.08.2023, open days: Thu & Fr, 3 – 7 pm, Sa, 12 am – 6 pm, Wildpalms Gallery, Gerresheimerstr. 33, 40477 Düsseldorf
Activities:
Sa, 05.08., 3 pm, VR Workshop mit Shinpei Takeda
Fr, 18.08., 6 pm, Vortrag Demo mit Philip Gröning
Sa, 19.08., 2 – 8 pm, VR Workshop & Performances: “La Limpia” von Alejandra Baltazares and “Meine Arbeitswahl, mein Widerstand” (My choice of work, my resistance) by CRAFT in cooperation with Navid Razavi
Wed, 23.08., 3 – 5 pm, “Antimonument Expanded”-discussion with Center for Technology and Culture, University of Southern Denmark, Livestream via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/9871178624 (Meeting ID: 987 117 8624)
Curator: Yumi Watanabe
Artists: Alejandra Baltazares (MX), Navid Razavi (IRN), Shinpei Takeda (JPN) and CRAFT: Oscar Cueto (MX/AT) & Manuela Picallo Gil (AT/ES)
“Antimonument Extended VR” Technical Partner: Prof Jens Herder, Andrea Feuerstein, Soren Ali, Taylan Ergün, Jeremy Benjamin, Julian Dohmen, Enya Funke, Valentin Kiesche, David Ribeiro, Kocere Yildiz (Virtual Studio/ Virtual Reality Lab, Hochschule Düsseldorf); Sound Design: Jewgeni Birkhoff