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Crone Wien curated by Damian Lentini
„Fold“

9.9 - 4.10.2025 Press release Arrow
Crone Wien, Getreidemarkt 14, 1010 Vienna
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Curator(s):

Damian Lentini More Arrow
Dr. Damian Lentini is a curator whose research and work unpacks the imbricated histories of modern and contemporary art from the postwar period up until our present moment. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne in 2009 and has since worked on various projects in Australia, Germany and Austria. He iscurrently the Deputy Director at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen and prior to that, was Curator at the Vienna Secession. Before moving to Vienna, Lentini worked at the Haus der Kunst in Munich from 2015 to 2023, where he collaborated on the highly acclaimed exhibition project Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and Atlantic, 1945-1965 (2016), alongside Okwui Enwezor, Ulrich Wilmes, and Katy Siegel. His own curatorial projects include exhibitions with Phyllida Barlow, Sung Tieu, Jeremy Shaw, Rochelle Feinstein, Dumb Type, Kapwani Kiwanga and the Karrabing Film Collective.
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Artist(s):

  • Susi Gelb
  • Kapwani Kiwanga
  • Ndayé Kouagou
  • Joanna Louca
  • Stefan Ludes
  • Charlotte Posenenske
  • Stefan Reiterer
  • Sung Tieu
  • Ben Wadler
  • Hamid Zénati

Exhibition text

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In accordance with this year’s central theme Fragmented Subjectivity, Crone will be hosting Fold,  a focused group exhibition which examines the notion of folding and unfolding within the work of a diverse range of artists. The exhibition is curated by Damian Lentini, deputy director of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, and brings together works by Susi Gelb, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ndayé Kouagou, Joanna Louca, Charlotte Posenenske, Stefan Reiterer, Sung Tieu, Ben Wadler and Hamid Zénati.

 

Referencing Gilles Deleuze’s concept of Baroque architecture as an endless process enfolding – drawing and multiplying examples of Greek, Roman, Romanesque, Gothic and Classical motifs – the various folds that constitute the current exhibition will similarly be situated within a dynamic of excision and excess; reproduction and extension. In so doing, it will explore how contemporary artists construct and produce folds between a rich miscellany of forms, images, objects, texts, indices and writing; a process of addition and grafting from which further series of folds can be generated.

 

Understood as a smooth curve or vector that occurs within both physical and conceptual space, the works within the exhibition all draw upon strategies of concealing/revealing and absorption/refraction in order reveal the manner in which contemporary subjectivities are constituted just as much by partial or cursory vignettes as they are by supposedly singular or fixed modes of perception. This can be seen in many of the works that are characterised by moments of uncertainty or multiplicity with respect to their potential decoding, while other evoke shifting or transcendental forms of aesthetic reception that in turn questions the primacy or mastery of the gaze.

 

Constantly in flux, such processes of artistic (un)folding all harbour the potential to engender not only new spatial and formal configurations, but also new modes of knowledge production that can be shared amongst select groups and publics. Viewed in this manner, the act of folding is deployed in the service of destabilising the concept of the modern subject, alongside the notions of ownership, control, and optical sovereignty that has accompanied discussions of the viewer from the Enlightenment through to the contemporary era.

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Front: Stefan Ludes, Ikarus, 2025, Bronze, 164 x 65 x 39 cm, Ed. 1/5 + 1 AP Back: Ndayé Kouagou,Why is it hard for me to talk about love?, 2024 & Ndayé Kouagou, Are we always looking for the best?, 2004
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Stefan Reiterer, Tangent III-V, 2025, Öl auf Aluminium, je 200 x 140 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0177), 2023, Keramik, 24 x 24 x 20 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0177), 2023, Keramik, 24 x 24 x 20 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0180), 2024, Keramik, 31 x 25 x 25 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0180), 2024, Keramik, 31 x 25 x 25 cm
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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vlnr.: Susi Gelb Dawn 1-5, 2023, Keramik, Kraterglasur & Charlotte Posenenske, Ohne Titel, 1962 Blech, lackiert (Standard RAL Mattblau), 100 x 52 x 15 cm
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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Joanna Louca, Silent Worship, 2023, Handgewebtes reflektierendes Bandgarn, Stahlrahmen, 400 x 65 x 65 cm
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Joanna Louca, Silent Worship, 2023, Handgewebtes reflektierendes Bandgarn, Stahlrahmen, 400 x 65 x 65 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0200), 2025, Keramik, gebrannt im Holzofen, 42 x 34 x 23 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0200), 2025, Keramik, gebrannt im Holzofen, 42 x 34 x 23 cm
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Ben Wadler, Special Vessels (0200), 2025, Keramik, gebrannt im Holzofen, 42 x 34 x 23 cm
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Joanna Louca, Soul Clouds, 2025, Handgewebtes fluoreszierendes Polyester, monofiles Nylon, 30 x 50 x 40 cm
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Joanna Louca, Soul Clouds, 2025, Handgewebtes fluoreszierendes Polyester, monofiles Nylon, 30 x 50 x 40 cm
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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v.l.n.r.: Hamid Zénati, Hoodie, Undatiert, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe L | Hamid Zénati, Hoodie, Undatiert Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe M | Hamid Zénati, Sweater, Undatiert Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe L
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v.l.n.r.: Hamid Zénati, Sweater, Undatiert, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe L | Hamid Zénati, Hoodie, 2019, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe XL
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v.l.n.r.: Hamid Zénati, Sweater, Undatiert, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe L | Hamid Zénati, Hoodie, 2019, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe XL
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installation view, Fold at Galerie Crone Vienna
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Kapwani Kiwanga, Subduction study #3, 2017, Pigmentdruck gerahmt, 71,5 x 88 x 3 cm
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Sung Tieu, Per Square Meter (Natural Gas Storage Rehden), 2024, Gipsabguss, 100 x 100 cm
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Sung Tieu, Broken Words, False Measures, 2023, Transkribierter Brief auf Papier gedruckt, gerahmt 3 Blatt, je 28 x 21,6 cm
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Susi Gelb, Dawn 1-5, 2023 Keramik, Kraterglasur
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Susi Gelb, Dawn 1-5, 2023 Keramik, Kraterglasur
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Hamid Zénati, Hood, Undatiert, Textilfarbe auf Stoff, Größe L
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Stefan Ludes, Rise Up, 2025, Bronze, 56 x 50 x 35 cm, Ed. 1/5 + 1 AP
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Stefan Ludes, Rise Up, 2025, Bronze, 56 x 50 x 35 cm, Ed. 1/5 + 1 AP
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Stefan Ludes, Ikarus, 2025, Bronze, 164 x 65 x 39 cm
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v.l.n.r.: Ndayé Kouagou, Are we always looking for the best?, 2024 | Stefan Ludes, Ikarus, 2025, Bronze, 164 x 65 x 39 cm | Stefan Reiterer, Ohne Titel (aus der Serie "Formants"), 2020, Öl auf 3D Druck (Holzfilament) 22 x 38 x 9 cm
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Stefan Reiterer, Ohne Titel (aus der Serie "Formants"), 2020, Öl auf 3D Druck (Holzfilament), 45 x 33 x 13 cm
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Joanna Louca, Soul Clouds, 2025, Handgewebtes fluoreszierendes Polyester, monofiles Nylon, 30 x 50 x 40 cm
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