Krobath Wien curated by SPATZI SPEZIAL
„In case of boredom, recite the ABC more often“

4.9. - 2.10.2021 Press release

Krobath Wien, Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
www.galeriekrobath.at

Curator(s):

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Sophia Süßmilch was born as a german citizen in the last millenium and will die in this one. Valentin Wagner was born just in the last millenium, and this as an Austrian. Süßmilch first studied sculpture in Munich and after that painting in Vienna, where she and Wagner met in 2017. Süßmilch work is multi-media based; she paints for reassurance and likes to be nude in her Photo- and Videoworks. Her work commutes within ironic distance and aggressive proximity. Wagner is currently studying painting and graphic art in München, his fields include painting, sound and performance; his work maneuvers in between kitsch and grotesqueness. Sophia Süßmilch is carrier of the bayerischer Kunstförderpreis 2018 and the Münchener Kunstförderpreis 2020. Valentin Wagner did not get any awards yet. Both are living in Munich, Vienna and Berlin. They work together since 2018, as SPATZI SPEZIAL they performed in context of the exhibition PARADISE LOST#gendershift for the first time. Curated by 2021 is the first curatorial debut of SPATZI SPEZIAL.

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Artist(s):

Vito Baumüller
Julie Bender Herdina
Gabi Blum
Leona Boltes
Felix Burger
Matthias Böhler & Christian Orendt
Brad Downey
Anne Duk Hee Jordan
Christian Eisenberger
Moritz Frei
Frankfurter Hauptschule
Andrew Gilbert
Veronika Günther
Leon Höllhumer
Claudia Holzinger/Lilly Urbat
Christian Jankowski
Anna Ley
Hoa Luong
Patricia Martsch
Anna McCarthy
Monika Michalko
Jannik Richard
Stefanie Sargnagel
Kristina Schmidt
Sophia Süßmilch
Veli & Amos
Valentin Wagner
Marcel Walldorf
Nouchka Wolf
Thomas Zipp

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In case of boredom, recite the ABC more often

In this year’s edition of the gallery festival curated by 2021, SPATZI SPEZIAL (Sophia Süßmilch and Valentin Wagner) will be curating an exhibition entitled “In case of boredom, recite the ABC more often”, embedding the festival’s theme “Comedy” into an artificial order. The decisive factor here is not the topic, chronology, quantities or the context of the works, but our alphabet with its artificial order of a finite number of objects. Alpha and omega. The duo SAPTZI SPEZIAL thus subvert the current forms of exhibition as well as reception. With this act of refusal, they merely seem to elude a certain discourse, just pretending not to play along – and they fail miserably. The original idea for this project is from Sophia Süßmilch’s video from 2011 entitled “In case of boredom, recite the ABC more often”, where the artist appears before the camera wearing a bee costume in Coney Island, New York, languidly reciting the ABC. When she is finished, she adds dryly: “Well, nothing much going on here” and leaves the picture. Well, we’re curious to see what will be going on at curated by 2021. If it’s boring, we can all just go home. The exhibition also extends into the small room at the back of the gallery. The room will be turned into a chamber of horrors as the artists dabble in a classic genre, namely clown portraits. The works by the participating artists move between cheerfulness and gloom and enjoy revealing the abysses of the human soul. For this exhibition, SPATZI SPEZIAL have invited artists who inspired them in their own works, including some well-known names, but also some hot new discoveries from the duo’s milieu.