CONTEXT

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Beschreibung

Launched in 2024, CONTEXT focuses on artistic positions from the late 20th century, aiming to foster dialogue between artists rooted in the region and those working in broader international contexts and to highlight how today’s contemporary art scene has emerged out of a fascinating recent past.

For this edition, curator Samantha Ozer has expanded the framework of the section to consider CONTEXT in a broader sense – organizing ten presentations with a mix of solo and duo booths, and incorporating some contemporary pieces to present a cross-generational network.

Across a diversity of media – from assemblage, formalist sculpture, drawing, and painting – and styles, there is an underlying desire for a radical examination of the human experience. With varying approaches, there is an attempt to create new forms and even portals to represent abstract feelings such as isolation, pain, resilience, and wonder, and to use art as a conduit for experimentation.

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Sam Ozer is curator-at-large at Canyon, a writer, and the founder of TONO, a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to time-based work. TONO hosts an annual festival across museums and music venues in Mexico City and Puebla, and has presented or commissioned work by over fifty artists in collaboration with leading institutions such as the Serpentine Galleries, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Venice Biennale, WIELS (Brussels), Mudam (Luxembourg), and CAM Gulbenkian (Lisbon).

She was the inaugural video curator for both Feria Material and ZⓈONAMACO in Mexico City, and previously held curatorial roles at the Poetic Justice Group at the MIT Media Lab, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Robert Bosisio I Rodler Gschwenter Gallery

Giovanni Castell & Antonello Viola I Alessandro Casciaro

Marko Djurdjevic & Leopold Strobl I galerie gugging nina katschnig

Roland Goeschl I zs art

Kurt Hüpfner I Galerie Dantendorfer

Rashid Al Khalifa I Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art

Mariusz Kruk I MOLSKI gallery

Hermann Nitsch I Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill

Hubert Schmalix I Smolka Contemporary

André Verlon I Kunsthandel Hieke

[Quelle: http://web.archive.org/web/20250820190350/https://www.viennacontemporary.at/en/program/context/]

Beteiligte

Rashid Al Khalifa, Alessandro Casciaro, Robert Bosisio, Giovanni Castell, Marko Djurdjevic, Galerie Dantendorfer, Galerie Smolka, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Roland Goeschl, Kurt Hüpfner, Mariusz Kruk, Kunsthandel Ursula Hieke, MAM Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg [Residenz], Molski Gallery, Hermann Nitsch, Rodler Gschwenter Gallery, Hubert Schmalix, Leopold Strobl, André Verlon, Antonello Viola, galerie gugging, zs art galerie