06.06.2025 – 19.10.2025
The exhibition, curated by Gina Merz, comprises a programme of performances, readings and discursive exchange with a focus on text in contemporary art. Conceived as a group exhibition in process, the artworks installed at the beginning are in dialogue with numerous performative interventions taking place over a period of five months in and around the Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz. The format focusses on the practice of commenting, editing and writing in art: The text is thereby tested not exclusively as a provisional note, but as the skeleton of artistic creation. Artists who use text in their work are invited to use the exhibition as a space for production and experimentation. A display specially conceived by the artist Ian Waelder in dialogue with the artists, the curator and the institution forms a setting ready for interaction and a place of reference and encounter. The exhibition serves as a sheet on which artworks and performances are noted as coherent notes – sampling, quoting and testing themselves and each other.
Artists: Anahita Asadifar, Sanna Helena Berger, Lara Dâmaso, Joshua Leon, Ville Laurinkoski, Prosopopoeia, Rietlanden Women’s Office, Lisa Robertson, Shanzhai Lyric, Miriam Stoney, Ian Waelder and Eleanor Ivory Weber
Burn The Diaries, Read Them Out Loud
06.06.2025 – 19.10.2025
Wien, Kunsthalle / Karlsplatz
www.kunsthallewien.at
