KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE “HOLES IN THE WALL” (2018)
7 February 2018 – 24 March 2018
Holes in the wall. Anachronic Approaches to the Here and Now, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Kathi Hofer, Katrin Hornek, Dejan Kaludjerović, Tatiana Lecomte, Miklós Erhardt & Little Warsaw, Walid Raad, Vladislav Shapovalov, Slavs and Tatars, Johanna Tinzl & Stefan Flunger, UBERMORGEN
The exhibition “Holes in the Wall.” Anachronic Approaches to the Here and Now takes Siegfried Kracauer’s concept of history as its departure point in its exploration of contemporary questions on the basis of past moments. The featured works investigate specific historical constellations as well as the fundamental possibilities of recording and representing historical events. This self-reflexive inquiry into the means of representing history correlates with a historiography that is conscious of the constructive elements of facts and therefore does not provide “alternative facts”. Seen in this way, history becomes a process characterised by a temporary nature. This view corresponds with Kracauer’s scepticism towards the permanently fixed and the retrospectively founded logic of an idea. For he was far more convinced that “there are always holes in the wall for us to evade and the improbable to slip in.”1
1Siegfried Kracauer, History – The Last Things Before The Last (New York: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1969).
Curated by Gudrun Ratzinger
Events
Exhibition opening 07.02.2018, 7.00 pm
Exhibition tour with the curator 23.02.2018, 5.00 pm
“Geschichte in den Raum stellen” 06.03.2018, 6.00 pm Panel discussion with Karin Harrasser, Eva Kernbauer, Tatiana Lecomte and Niko Wahl
Opening Session: Planetary System Summit #2 by Katrin Hornek 23.03.2018, 6.00 pm
Planetary System Summit #2
24.03.2018– Registration and info