Margot Pilz (*1936 in Haarlem (NL), raised in Indonesia, lives in Vienna) belongs to the very first concept and media artists.

In 2015 Andrea Lüth and Gerald Roßbacher founded the artist-run-space KLUCKYLAND in the 20th district Brigittenau in Vienna. The art space has two glass fronts and is therefore maximally directed outwards. Alongside solo- and group-exhibitions, they organize various events in KLUCKYLAND, which form the basis of the social function of the space.

https://kluckyland.com

At the very core of Nora Turato’s practice is language. In her work she translates information absorbed from her daily intake of articles, conversations, subtitles and advertising slogans into linguistic-visual scripts for videos, installations, artist books, murals and spoken word performances.

Sharing similar biographies in their education both as photographers and artists, Lisa Rastl and Claudia Rohrauer observe aspects of the photographic from within their applied working practice in order to turn them into the motifs of their artistic work. The technical and sociocultural foundations of the medium, but also Rastl and Rohrauers individual and personal working experiences serve as a pool of potential contents and tools to research photography and to photograph research at the same time.

Extracting volume from domestic space, or compressing found materials into sculptures have been some of the artist's applied strategies. Michael Strasser’s work investigates the shifting relationship between space and human. Through the appropriation of found spaces and architectural situations, he initiates the exposure of cultural and institutional systems of representation. 

“I went to the cinema with my mother when I was only 4 years old, because she was alone at home with a little kid and wanted to go out and be entertained.” Along concrete and fictional places in her work, Marlies Pöschl explores the question how temporary communities are being formed at filming locations, how cinema becomes a place of shared concerns.

On practicing the publicness of Art and the body needed to support its voice

Wringing poetry out of everyday life in its ordinariness, somewhere between ranking grammar, market logic and brand rhetoric. The artist duo zweintopf are searching for the transcendental component in the world of things surrounding us or constantly intervene at the edges of the public sphere in order to unearth the pinch of absurdity that is hidden in every human endeavor.

At the moment it´s not possible to do "physical classes".
Our lecturers are very busy by doing online conferences with our students.
 

Thank you so much!
 

In addition, the team organized external guests, who will join the departments´
weekly central artistic course Zoom-meetings.

My photo and video series, “Self-Destructive Female Icons”, which began in 2003 is fundamentally a study of images and more particularly a visual exploration of the concept of “man being the image of God and woman being the image of man”. This being the case, women are saddled with conforming with the fears and desires from within the imagination of men. This creates a complex relationship between the genders and one aspect of this complexity is the conundrum of the self-destructive female icon.

A “deviant chronopolitics,” as Freeman puts it, is one that envisions “relations across time and between times” that upturns developmentalist narratives of history. Crip Magazine (one of my projects) collects artifacts of a transhistorical crip (sub)culture. It aims to create trans-temporary connections and communities across time. It has the power of talking into being. Art practice as speculative fiction in the pursuit of utopian ideas…

Dani Gal’s artistic practice focuses on the production of ideology through the representation of specific historical narratives in a variety of media in order to question the claims of historical knowledge and to reveal and challenge underlying political preconceptions.

Based on archival documents from the photo-collection of Austrian Film Museum I will challenge the question in how far FILM as an event, hence as an experience can be traced/documented/re-animated outside the darkness of the cinema. Through pairwise comparison of singular artifacts in various medias, correspondences and oppositions might shed light of what - and in which fashion - can be reflected and illuminate the state of mind from the past.  And equally important, which questions they might still conceal.

What is reality, how can we believe what we see, and what are the conditions of art have been recurring questions in Ernst Caramelle’s work since he first began exhibiting in the mid-seventies. "Art is a fake" has been his creed ever since. 

memoiré et doublier is the title of an exhibition Katrin Mayer developed for the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in 2013. The title indicates relevant procedures of her site-specific practice. Derived from the terms ‚Moiré‘ et ‚Doublierware‘ it describes an unforeseen shift within a pattern or raster which occures during printing or weaving processes.

Katrin Hornek’s work playfully engages with the strange paradoxes and convergences of living in the age of the Anthropocene, that is, the new geologic epoch where the effects of capitalism, colonialism, and extractivism are written into the body of the earth.

The city where most of us live is considered to be an international capital of culture and the arts. This is also reflected in the touristic marketing of Vienna. In this talk, on the one hand, I want to look at another Vienna: that of science and its popular representations and its public places. On the other hand, I’d like to discuss how site-specific art could help to make science in the city more visible.

MAUVE is a artist-run space based in Vienna, Austria. Since its inaugural show in 2012, MAUVE’s mission has been to explore various ways of exhibition making. MAUVE investigates the possibilities of the exhibition as an art form. Always closely collaborating with the artists involved in the exhibitions, MAUVE strives to bring artistic production, discourse and experimental modes of curating closer together.

Tietchens: “No studies, no academic education, no scholarship, just pure learning by doing = self-taught appropriation of creative skills and handling of analogue and digital studio technology. I am my own Tonmeister.”

Paul Knight will talk through ideas concerning two main working areas of his practice, photography and weaving. Knight makes works which extend out of the domestic sphere, using quotidian objects and situations to engage with broader and narrowing ideas of politics and the sublime. Knight will discuss the intimate potential of both these forms and their shared inversion between perceived flatness and spatial volume.

Kunstverein Kevin Space promotes international and local developments of contemporary visual arts, brought into dialogue in solo and group exhibitions as well as performative and discursive formats. A focus on the commission of new artistic productions, developed on site and conceived specifically for the space, the close work with the artists invited, and an ongoing artist-in-residence program, tests out the potential of the art space as a dynamic space of encounter.

Examining fields such as architecture, gender, language, and sculpture in her artistic practice, Maruša Sagadin creates deceptive art objects and installations. Methods of reference and exaggeration are crossed with the usage of elements from architecture, pop, and subculture. In ingenious ways, she manages to engage the viewer in the innuendos of her work that often also takes shape as a performative intervention. 

Institutions are an ambiguous subject. Some despise them for abuse of power or dominance over free will and choice, others rely on them to save us from corporate harm or social demise. In the worlds of art I got to know, the relations between artists and institutions are just as varied. I’ve seen short affairs or serious engagements, refusal by principle and embrace of the moment. In the few hours we have together, let us talk about the relationships we want and don’t want, should and should not, can and cannot have with institutions, and how we can work with, for or around them to create the things we would like to live among. 

New York-based writer and director Frances Bodomo will screen and talk about her film "Afronauts" (USA, 2014, 13 min).
It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat America to the moon in this film inspired by true events.

Marion Porten will present selected works, among them her work in process; an encounter with a nameless, dusty plaster bust of a woman*, in the Glyptothek of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. This sets the starting point for a filmic investigation into emancipative concepts of white queer women* in the context of colonial and racist tyranny…

An Answer to Sculptures – the work of Margaret Honda

Tenzing Barshee will talk about two recent exhibition projects titled "Sculptures" at Triangle France in Marseille (2015) and "An Answer to 'Sculptures'" at Künstlerhaus Bremen (2016). Both exhibitions were monographic retrospective projects on the work of Margaret Honda who lives and works in Los Angeles. 

In her artistic work, Isa Rosenberger is particularly interested in political upheaval and both its social as well as economic consequences.

Hannes Zebedin´s practice explores political consciousness through the language of conceptual art and embraces a broad range of media including objects, installations, text works, performance and interventions often in relation to national monuments, as well as the acts of civil society and grass roots protest movements.

In August 2014 I: project space, one of the first off-spaces in Beijing, was founded by the German curators Anna-Viktoria Eschbach and Antonie Angerer.

The second edition of the art and research project Dark Ecology takes place from 26 to 30 November 2015. The Dark Ecology Journey begins in Kirkenes in Norway’s northern extremes and travels via Nikel and Zapolyarny (Russia) to Murmansk, the largest Russian city above the polar circle.

The debate on climate change is highly complex and goes far beyond our imagination, even though we continually invent new words, images, figures and graphs to grasp its complexity. But how do these images and metaphors work? And what imagery lingers?

BU-CON was founded in 2004 by artists in Detroit, MI, USA in an effort to inhabit the form of an infrastructure development company and effect an authorial position with respect to the troubling situation between technology and life systems in the world.

As part of the Session „Contemporary Arts Practice and Outer Space: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach“ Ralo Mayer presented his paper „Space and Ecology“ at the 66th International Astronautical Congress in Jerusalem.

Barbara Schröder is a publisher and editor at Dancing Foxes Press, founded in 2012 in New York. She will be talking about her practice of developing books with artists.

Ursula Hansbauer, Wolfgang Konrad und Clemens Stachel reden über ihren Dokumentarfilm "Goldene Gene", der sich produktionsmäßig in der Zielgeraden befindet.

Vom Lift aus begangen liegt alles im Parterre. 2015

Eine Geschichte von horizontalen und vertikalen 1:1 Verhältnissen.

Painitz’ Planierung der Alpen (1968-1971) questions the relation of culture and nature and suggests the pouring of concrete and the leveling of the alps in order to emphasize the artificial and the human-made against the naturally grown. His interest in logic and systematic image shaping processes led to this clear demand that nature should not have any impact anymore, as art and nature are contraries and furthermore, nature, especially mountains, is preventing from movement and flexibility.

The class meets Susan Philipsz to talk about her work "War Damaged Musical Instruments (Pair)".

Mute witness, 2015

Christian Mayer invites visitors to share his focus on a palm tree located at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. At 170 years, this tree is one of the oldest living things in Los Angeles that can be evidenced with photographs.

Johanna Kirsch lives and works in Vienna. Her work deals with the search for freedom: exploring the extent existing ties, norms, regulations and borders are directly relevant or real to individuals and social needs, and how these realms of desires, and their phantoms are defined. Kirsch tests both concrete needs and the corresponding regulations, often physically. http://www.schrik.info

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Filmmaker James Benning visits the class to talk about his artistic background and strategies. He presents older works as well as his newest series "Two Cabins".