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FOTOHOF TALK





DISCUSSION
BOOK PRESENTATION
EDITION RELEASE

Thursday 13th of October, 19h



We cordially invite you to the presentation of the newly released books and the photography edition on Thursday 13th of October at 7pm. Rainer Iglar and Michael Mauracher in conversation with four artists about their new releases with FOTOHOF edition.

KATHARINA GRUZEI | OTTO HAINZL | KURT HÖRBST | GEORG SALNER

Short book information in german:
(find english release texts here)

WAR ROOMS
Im „Zentralmuseum des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges“ in Moskau erarbeitet Katharina Gruzei ihre Bilderserie „War Rooms“. Die Wände des Museumsraumes sind mit großen Kriegsdioramen verkleidet. Es entsteht ein skurriler Dialog zwischen dem funktionalen Museumsraum und der pathetischen Kriegsmalerei. Fragen an die Musealisierung sowie Repräsentation des Krieges verbinden sich mit einer subtilen Institutionskritik.

Corviale
Corviale ist ein 1975 bis 1982 entstandener Wohnblock am Stadtrand von Rom. Mehr als 8000 Bewohner leben in dem mächtigen Komplex. Auch der österreichische Fotograf Otto Hainzl hat einige Zeit im Corviale gelebt, und erzählt in seinen Fotografien von dem Gebäude, den Besonderheiten, den vorgefundenen Lebenswelten und der Differenz zwischen Plan und Wirklichkeit.

S10
Etwa drei Jahre lang, von 2012 bis 2015, hat Kurt Hörbst den Bau der Schnellstraße S10 im nördlichen Waldviertel verfolgt. Mit Hilfe der analogen Großformattechnik entstanden klare Landschaftsfotografien. Diese umkreisen Fragen, wie sich das Projekt auf Landschaft, Dörfer, Siedlungen, Stadt und Menschen auswirkt Der faktisch aufgeladene sowie experimentelle Text von Bodo Hell leitet das Buch ein.

CHANDIGARH BRASÍLIA reVision
Die Aufmerksamkeit des bildenden Künstlers Georg Salner liegt auf den beiden Städten Chandigarh/Indien und Brasília/Brasilien. Er wagt einen fotografischen Exkurs dorthin, wo die beiden herausragenden Persönlichkeiten Le Corbusier und Oscar Niemeyer vor etwa fünfzig Jahren Stadtplanung im Sinne der globalen Moderne wagten. Die Fotografien Salners sind in Analogie zu der damaligen Fotografie formal rückgeführt ins Schwarzweiß. Diese Entscheidung verleiht den Fotografien der bereits stark gealterten Sichtbetonobjekte eine vieldeutige, stellenweise befremdliche und „exterritoriale“ Wirkung.


FOTOHOF
Inge-Morath-Platz 1-3
5020 Salzburg
Austria



GET INVOLVED:
FOCUS DIRECT URBANISM
Austrian Cultural Pavillion, Plovdiv

17 September – 15 October 2016
Opening 17th September 2016, 18h




Catrin Bolt - Petja Dimitrova - Fabiana Faleiros - Nikolaus Gansterer - Katharina Gruzei - Marlene Hausegger - Katrin Hornek - Anna Jermolaewa - Suzie Leger - Sonia Leimer - Johann Lurf - Lazar Lyutakov - Luisa Kasalicky & Siegfried Zaworka - Elvedin Klacar - Vikenti Komitski - Christian Kosmas Mayer - Female Obsession - Ben Pointeker - Barbis Ruder - Marusa Sagadin - tat ort (Alexandra Berlinger & Wolfgang Fiel) - Kay Walkowiak - Anna Witt - Ina Wudtke - and others.

A shipping container transformed into a performing installation and an interdisciplinary open platform.

Curated by URSULA MARIA PROBST

“Making objects and marks is also about making possibilities, making choices – and that is one of the last freedoms we have. To provide that is one of the functions of art”. (Mel Chin)

Going beyond discussions of post-net productions in the digital realm, the Austrian Cultural Pavilion – FLUCA with the project “Get Involved: Focus Direct Urbanism” functions as a mobile intervention of the artists group tat ort (Alexandra Berlinger, Wolfgang Fiel) and as a framework for interdisciplinary projects, performances, screenings and concerts in the heart of Plovdiv. This is how art in public space creates essentially new spaces as if in passing: a space to think, a space with leeway to act, to remember, to sit, a social landscape – a place of encounter.

The starting point of the project curated by Ursula Maria Probst is the use of a shipping container which is encacpsulated with a reflective surface. Through a number of alternations and adaptations the container as a performing installation/sculpture is able to gradually transform into an open platform for a wide number of public events while retaining its primary quality as a mobile and compact spatial entity. It is developed in collaboration with the local architects from Studio Duo. The partners SARIEV Contemporary, Open Arts Foundation, artnewscafé, and FLUC Vienna will invigorate the Austrian Cultural Pavilion with an exchange program by Bulgarian and Austrian artists throughout the autumn.


GET INVOLVED: FOCUS DIRECT URBANISM 17 September – 15 October 2016
austrian cultural pavillion - 38 Otets Paisiy Street, Plovdiv

Implementation and construction: Atelie Duo (Plovdiv)
Producers: BKA/Austrian Federal Chancellery, Austrian Embassy Sofia
Organizer: Open Arts Foundation
Partners: Municipality Plovdiv, FLUC (Vienna), artnewscafé

 The project is part of the official program of NIGHT/Plovdiv, 2016

 http://openarts.info/austrian-cultural-pavilion/

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE FOR YOUNG ART 2016




  DEEP INSIDE  
  Trekhgornaya Manufaktura 
  Moscow

  1.07. — 10.08.2016
  Opening Thu 30th June 2016


I am happy to announce my participation in the 5th edition of the Young Biennale in Moscow this year. Realised with the kind support of the Austrian Cultural Forum Moscow and the Federal Ministry of Austria.

curated by Nadim Samman under the title »Deep Inside«:

Every day, millions of people have out-of-body experiences, enabled by avatars on social media, or in multiplayer gaming worlds. Meanwhile, Google Earth and air travel make us accustomed to the god’s eye perspective of satellites, in orbit, beyond gravity. Set against the challenge of dealing with climate change, the vagaries of a global economy, social instability, and the moral fallout from the information revolution, the poetry of escape grows ever more seductive. Lust for an absolute outside powers fantasies of emigration to unspoiled beaches, and exotic schemes to colonise Mars.


Ozan Atalan (Turkey — USA) Stacy Belevicheva (Ukraine) Matilde Benmayor (Chile) Julius von Bismarck (Germany) Pamela Breda (Italy) Vladislav Brut / Alisa Beketova (Russia / Kazakhstan — Russia) Ekaterina Burlyga (Ukraine — Germany) Olga Butenop (Russia) Addie Wagenknecht (USA — Austria) Beny Wagner (Germany — USA) Ivar Veermäe (Estonia — Germany) Martin Volman (Argentina — Germany) Helga Wretman (Sweden — Germany) Veronika Geiger (Denmark — Switzerland) Iuliana Golub (Ukraine) Florian Goldmann (Germany) Katharina Gruzei (Austria) Ali Jan Haider (Pakistan) Elisabeth Haust (Russia — Czech Republic) Marguerite Humeau (France — Great Britain) Marc Johnson (France) Graham Kelly (Great Britain — The Netherlands) Daria Khlapova (Russia) Paul Kneale (Canada) Fabian Knecht (Germany) Lilia Kosyreva (Russia) Egor Kraft (Russia — Great Britain — Austria) Zoë Claire Miller (USA — Germany) Joshua Leary (Evian Christ) / David Rudnick (Great Britain / Great Britain — USA) Juliana Cerqueira Leite (USA) Ekaterina Lukoshkova (Russia) Eli Maria Lundgaard (Norway) Vlad Lunin (Ukraine — Canada) Steve Maher (Ireland — Finland) Nadja Verena Marcin (Germany — USA) Maxime Marion / Émilie Brout (France / France) Juan Covelli (Colombia — Great Britain) Ksenia Kudrina (Russia) Hüseyin Mert Erverdi (Turkey) Joey Holder (Great Britain) Julian Charrière (Switzerland — Germany) Logi Leó Gunnarsson (Iceland) Darya Pravda (Ukraine) Alice Miceli (Brasil — The Netherlands) Tim Parchikov (Russia) Martin Reiche (Germany) Yulia Spiridonova (Russia) Jeremy Santiago-Horseman (USA) Rustan Söderling (Sweden — The Netherlands) Marina Moskalenko / Tatiana Smirnova (Russia) Rune Rasmussen (Denmark) Hadas Satt (Israel) Andrew Norman Wilson (Germany — USA) Pau Pahana (USA — Germany) Wilf Speller (Great Britain) Lee Nevo (Israel) Farid Rasulov (Azerbaijan) Dagmar Schürrer (Austria — Germany) Alvaro Urbano (Spain — Germany) Claire Paugam (France — Iceland) Paul Rosero Contreras (Ecuador — USA) Joe Sobel (USA — France) Alisa Nikolaeva (Russia — France) Vesna Rohaček (Croatia — Sweden) Julia Selin (Sweden) Natalia Tikhonova (Russia) Davide Quayola (Italy — Great Britain) Emmy Skensved / Grégoire (BLUNTxSKENSVED) (Canada — Germany) Ismael Ogando (Dominican Rebulic) Marina Ragozina (Russia) Andrew Ranville (USA) Jura Shust (Belarus — Belgium) Arya Sukapura Putra (Indonesia) Martin John Callanan (Great Britain) Adam Gibney (Ireland) Felix Kiessling (Germany) Noor Ali Chagani (Pakistan) Recital Cohen / Tuur van Balen (Israel / Belgium — Great Britain) Chris Coy (USA) María Dalberg (Iceland) Jasmin Daryani (Iran — Sweden) Petr Davydtchenko (Russia — Sweden — Great Britain) Jonathan Doweck (Israel) Liat Elbling (Israel) Karin Ferrari (Italy — Austria) Christian Fogarolli (Italy) Verena Friedrich (Germany)


more here:
Moscow International Biennale of Young Art 2016
Katharina Gruzei


DIGITAL FLOWS




  MACT/CACT - 
  Arte Contemporanea Ticino

  5 March – 3 April 2016
  Opening
  Sat 5 March 2016 at 5.30 pm



GIANLUCA ABBATE - MIGUEL ANDRÉS - BARBARA BRUGOLA - KATHARINA GRUZEI - HWAYONG JUNG - CRISTINA OHLMER - MARTA ROBERTI - RIMAS SAKALAUSKAS

Curated by Visualcontainer Milan.

DIGITAL FLOWS is a visual flow that induces the observer to experiment with different levels of awareness of sight, moving along a progressive installation that starts from the peak of visual fascination with numerical data, passes through our sense of disorientation between everyday reality and digital panoramas and ends up illustrating the observer’s own condition by simulating a self-representation.

The video medium has undergone many of what might be termed transitory changes since the seventies, progressing from the yoke of the performing arts to a cross-fertilisation with the then-powerful cathode ray tube TV, when the force of advertising ploughed many a powerful furrow across the market of imagery, a parasite that sucked so much of the lifeblood from video art and artistic language as to surpass them in many cases and induce authors to correct and readjust their – often cannibalistic – aim at the means of production itself.
Video, like photography, is the most immediate documentary mirror of the reality around us that shatters us into the trans-identity of globalism. Since the days when video was essentially experimentation and an antithesis response to the visual experience traceable to painting (we are in the late sixties), in today’s world, where “we’ve already tried everything”, novelty comes paradoxically from the resurgence of digital, which imbues our entire existence with a fixation with socio-global communication that nobody ever necessarily asked for, but that nevertheless induces a new aesthetic model.

DIGITAL FLOWS sets out to outline and highlight this latest phase of video production. This is how the curators, Alessandra Arnò and Paolo Simoni, describe the exhibition and the curatorial choices they have made.
»The image, in its digital transcendence, is now immaterial: it is a bit, a beam of light: it lives among the clouds and passes rapidly through the web of data. So what does that leave us of its ‘inconsistency’ and what is that attracts us towards the video image’s non-materiality: could it be its evocative or illusory potential?«


MACT/CACT
Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Via Tamaro 3 - 6500 Bellinzona
Switzerland
Fri-Sat-Sun from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m.

Visualcontainer - Italian Videoart Platform
www.visualcontainer.org
www.visualcontainer.tv
www.dotbox.it

Ausstellung AK KUNSTPREIS


»BODIES OF WORK«
  Katharina Gruzei

  14. - 21. Jänner 2016
  1. - 19. Februar 2016

  Eröffnung
  Mi 13.01.2015, 19 Uhr



Der Mensch steht im Mittelpunkt des künstlerischen Schaffens von Katharina Gruzei. Die Künstlerin ist eine genaue Beobachterin des Alltags: Sie zeigt Menschen in ihrem sozialen Umfeld, in der Arbeitswelt, in der Freizeit und im Dazwischen. Die so entstandenen Arbeiten sind Momentaufnahmen, die mitten aus dem Leben ihrer ProtagonistInnen gegriffen sind.

Die Beschäftigung mit diversen Aspekten von Arbeit zieht sich als roter Faden durch Katharina Gruzeis Werke. Dabei lässt sie Frauen sichtbar werden, die von der Geschichtsschreibung vergessen wurden und thematisiert die aktuell immer prekärer werdenden Arbeitsverhältnisse. In ihren Videos seziert die Künstlerin Straßenszenen, Begegnungen zwischen Menschen, Personen an ihrem Arbeitsplatz oder auf dem Weg dorthin.

In ihrer mit dem Kunstpreis der AK ausgezeichneten Videoinstallation „Urban Motion Picture“ verlangsamt sie Straßenszenen so stark, dass die im Bildfluss gefangene Hektik uns plötzlich innehalten und in die Tiefe blicken lässt. So werden Details und eine Umgebung sichtbar, die wir im Stress des Alltags nicht mehr wahrnehmen.


Arbeiterkammer Linz
Volksgartenstraße 40
4020 Linz

Öffnungszeiten:
Mo - Do 7:30-18:00
Fr 7:30 - 15:00




SCREEN CITY



Moving Image Festival
Stavanger, Norway

15-18th October 2015




WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY
feat. Harun Faroki + Katharina Gruzei

17 + 18 October 7-9pm
Outdoor Cinema Bedehusgata


Screen City – Moving Image Festival presents an expanded cinematic experience about Labour.
Labour & The City In-between explores the temporal, motional and spatial qualities of labour in our current industrial climate – and how these industrial changes affect a city`s architectonic and social rooms.

The point of departure for this year's program is the post-industrial climate we confront in Europe today. This climate has left us with fluctuating definitions of labour, exploitation of labour, and an unknown economic future. How do these industrial changes affect a city`s architectonic and social rooms? Through the streets of Stavanger, from the Concert Hall to the old industrial port, you will find moving images that redefine these buildings' facades. Every building tells a story, and these stories form our city. With the aim of transforming buildings from objects into subjects, we have invited artists – who explore the temporal, motional and spatial qualities of labour to present their works.


Harun Farocki (DE) / Antje Ehmann (DE) / Rosa Barba (IT) / Katharina Gruzei (AT) / Beathe C Rønning (NO) / Matěj Al- Ali (CZ) / Tomáš Moravec (CZ) / Dan Gregor (CZ) / Michal Pustějovský (CZ/UK) / Pjoni (SK) / Ján Šicko (SK) / Nils Henrik Asheim (NO) / Knut Åsdam (NO) / Martin Blažíček (CZ) / Greg Pope (UK) / Veronika Vlková (CZ) /Kateřina Koutná (CZ) / Ane Hjort Guttu (NO)


Curated by Daniela Arriado (CL/NO)

The program presents newly commissioned audio-visual performances, projection mappings, screenings and installations, produced in collaboration with local and international partners. Several of the art works are commissioned by Festivals of Live Cinema - a collaboration between the Czech (PAF) and Norwegian (Screen City) - festivals and platforms for Film and Contemporary Art of the Moving Image.


For more information visit  www.screencity.no


UNHEIMLICH


KLASSE KUNST
Landesgalerie Linz

01.10.2015 - 14.02.2016
Eröffnung: 30. September 2015, 19h





Das Unheimliche fasziniert in gleichem Maße, wie es uns zurückschrecken lässt. Oft beginnt das Phänomen des Unheimlichen als kleine Irritation im Alltag, um dann zum Gefühl des Schreckhaften und Grauen Erregenden anzuwachsen. Fremde Orte, zum Leben erwachte Gegenstände oder Menschen, die sich plötzlich verwandeln, erzeugen in uns Schauer und Grusel.

Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung steht jedoch nicht nur das Unheimliche, sondern auch das Fantastische, Unwirkliche und Groteske in all seinen Facetten. Ausgehend von Streifzügen durch die Kunst-, Literatur- und Filmgeschichte beschäftigt sich „unheimlich KLASSE KUNST“ mit Illusion und Zauber, mit Mythen, Märchen und magischen Fabelwesen. Zeitgenössische und historische Kunstwerke, Filme und Installatio- nen fügen sich zu einem opulenten Raumerlebnis zusammen, das spielend Zeitsprünge zwischen Romantik, Science Fiction und Fantasy ermöglicht.

ELISA ANDESSNER - MIHA COJHTER - SALVADOR DALÌ - GREGOR GAIDA - FRANCISCO DE GOYA - KATHARINA GRUZEI - ALFRED KUBIN - DANIEL LEE - HARUKO MAEDA -  SANDRA OOS - DANIELA PUM - FRANZ SEDLACEK - HANS STAUDACHER - FRANZ VON STUCK - HEIDE VOITL-PIRKLBAUER - WOLFGANG ZÖHRER

Kuratiert von Dagmar Höss und Astrid Hofstetter

Eröffnung: Mittwoch, 30. September 2015, 19.00 Uhr
Ausstellungsdauer 1. Oktober 2015 bis 14. Februar 2016
Pressekonferenz: 30. September 2015, 10.00 Uhr
Informationsveranstaltung für PädagogInnen: 30.9. 2015, 17.30 Uhr
Aktionstag für Schulen: 7. Oktober 2015, 9.00 – 14.00 Uhr
Kindereröffnung: 4. Oktober 2015, 14.00 – 16.00 Uhr

Landesgalerie Linz
Gotisches Zimmer
Museumstraße 14
4010 Linz

 http://www.landesmuseum.at/landesgalerie/

EXPERIMENTIERFELD AMSTERDAM








Artist in Residency - RAUM ALS EXPERIMENTIERFELD
19 - 26 September 2015
DE VONDELBUNKER


The Artist has left the Building
Opening: 26th Sept. 19h
meet the artists: 27th Sept. 12-20h


Within the exhibition “THE ARTIST HAS LEFT THE BUILDING - Experimentierfeld Amsterdam” artists from Austria and the Netherlands are presenting projects that have been developed during a short time residency in Amsterdam from the 19-26th of September.


Laurien Bachmann - Katharina Gruzei - Susanna Flock - Ulrich Fohler - Colin Linde - Eginhartz Kanter - Simon Keizer - Thomas Kluckner - Urs Moore - Rainer Noebauer-Kammerer - Sun Li Lian Obwegeser - Franziska Parschau - Corinna Rudlstorfer - Maria Valerie Stockhammer - Manuel Schmaranzer - Adam Ulen - David Wittinghofer

EXPERIMENTIERFELD is a residency series with a focus on public space that invites artists to work site specific. It already took place in five european cities and is now hosted by De Vondelbunker. Experimentierfeld focusses on exchanging and connecting artists as much as networking with local art- and cultural institutions. The Project series explicitly encourages and supports the realisation of new artworks that deal with public space or site specific aspects.

De Vondelbunker
Vondelpark 8a 
1071 Amsterdam

 Exhibitions runs 26th and 27th September 2015

 Weblinks: 
http://www.experimentierfeld.com/
https://vondelbunker.nl
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