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Layr
curated by Josef Strau & Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen
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Josef Strau (geboren in Wien) lebt und arbeitet heute in Wien. Zu seinen institutionellen Einzelausstellungen zählen Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2020); Künstlerhaus Bremen (2017); Secession, Wien (2015); The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (2014); und Malmö Konsthall, Schweden (2008). Zu seinen Gruppenausstellungen zählen Busan Biennale, Busan, Südkorea (2020), Kunsthalle Bern (2017), Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016), mumok, Wien (2015), Liverpool Biennale (2014), Generali Foundation, Wien (2012) und SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2011). Seine Arbeiten befinden sich in den Sammlungen der Bundeskunstsammlung, Deutschland; des Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; des Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; des Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; des Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; und des ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Deutschland.
Strau war auch Kurator und Organisator der Galerie Meerrettich im Pavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, und Mitbegründer von Gemeinschaftsunternehmen wie „Montezuma“, „The Metaphysical Store“ und „Single Moms“ in New York und Mexico City. Er hat auch als Autor in verschiedenen Publikationen und Kunstmagazinen wie October, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Parkett über Bernadette Corporation, Birgit Megerle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Isa Genzken, Mike Kelley, Ei Arakawa usw. sowie in seinen eigenen Büchern und vielen unabhängig produzierten Editionen veröffentlicht.
Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen (geboren in Oslo, Norwegen) ist ein Künstler, Musiker und Gründer des in Oslo ansässigen Kunstspaces und Plattenlabels Borgenheim Rosenhoff. Er hat einen Bachelor-Abschluss in bildender Kunst von der Kunsthochschule Oslo.
Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes
In their just initiated new collaborative curatorial enterprise Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau will show some friends in two very distinctively influential Viennese galleries. At Layr and at City. Leading out of broader and more general cultural stagnation, New Vienna Energy becomes attached with what was and what is known, with a the subject unknown and other usual reductions.
The complex artists list will connect the spirit of this particular general moment of the finally growing city with the international cultural phenomena of a still uncategorized change of artists self perceptions into artists self awareness. Because of phenomena like this one a place and a group can become an attractor. This long searched for but then just happens by chance. This is moment, this epoch, this attractor is until this day unnamed.
Imagining it as a convention of artists, underlined by including a third space to the two so explicitly distinguished gallery spaces. A studio used for live events and parties, music and reading, drinking and talking.
Dedicated to new conversations to the recent condition of artists, being here and now and how to make as much as possibly, making it a festival of events of celebrating the power of whatever subjectivities, celebrating the paradoxes, the contradictions and individualities from an a priori state of confusion and anxieties.
Very simple. Subjectivity means without seeking for permission and suggests not sharing it at all. Leaving the first and second space and moving on into a third one that hopefully wont be as revisionist and formal, in conditions that are more livable and less useless.
Events
Bilder
Courtesy of Layr and City Galerie
Courtesy of Layr and City Galerie
Courtesy of Layr and City Galerie
