22.03.2025 – 08.06.2025
Austria and Serbia – different, but with many similarities that connect the two countries. When we think about the similarities between countries as different as Serbia and Austria, which are linked by a long history of joy and suffering, we are repeatedly confronted with contradictory concepts such as the preservation, restoration and prolongation of the status quo versus a belief in progress in the sense of a belief in a better future, which also harbours a tendency towards the utopian. This leads to a diffuse mood of melancholy and nostalgia for the past, but is also orientated towards the heroic and dreamy, as a kind of replica of experiences and ideas from socialism and fascism and their effects on the present, some of which can still be felt. The exhibition Future of Melancholia, curated by Sandro Droschl, aims to explore this melancholic impression and present it in a dialogue at eye level between a current generation of artists from Serbia and Austria. It will be shown in two consecutive exhibitions at the HALLE FÜR KUNST Styria and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Gallery – Legacy of Milica Zorić & Rodoljub Čolaković).
Future of Melancholia
22.03.2025 – 08.06.2025
HALLE FÜR KUNST
Burgring 2
www.halle-fuer-kunst.at
