Gruppenausstellung Who's Laughing Now?

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Beschreibung

Humor is an attitude. It is a catalyst, a mask, a crack in the order. Laughter can connect and hurt, expose and liberate. It appears in the wrong as well as the right moment—always ambiguous, always multi-layered. Who’s Laughing Now? brings together international positions in which humor becomes a method for transforming realities.

The comic, wrote Adorno, breaks the spell of the ever-same. It opens cracks in the seemingly self-evident, shifts routines, destabilizes power. And yet humor is not just critique from the outside. As Simon Critchley notes, it also confronts us with our own limits: in laughter, we feel our fragility, the ridiculousness of the all-too-human, the failure at our own measure.

The exhibition unfolds within this space of tension: between irony and seriousness, grotesque exaggeration and quiet subversion, liberating outbursts and painful self-exposure. Humor here is not mere lightheartedness, but an ambiguous practice—a medium that reveals, unsettles, transforms.

Who’s Laughing Now? poses a simple yet difficult question: Who is laughing—and why? The echo of this question reveals the irreducibility of humor: its potential to clarify and confuse the present, to forge and dissolve community, to generate distance and closeness at once. Laughter is ambivalent. It is resonance, transformation, opening.

The exhibition is realized in cooperation with art quarter Budapest and Schaumbad – Freies Atelierhaus Graz, opening a dialogue, a „Rendezvous extended“ between this two institutions.

[Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20251113113815/https://aqb.hu/exhibition/whos-laughing-now/]

Beteiligte

Andrea Júlia Fajger Dudas, Minaa Hakim, René Corvaia Koch, Franz Konrad, Krisztián Kukla (Kurator/in), Gudrun Lang, Rafael Lippuner, Erik Màtrai, Fabian Ortner (Rede), Keyvan Paydar (Kurator/in), Michael Schitnig (Kurator/in), Beáta Szabó, Wolfgang Temmel, Norbert Toth, Anna Vasof, Markus Wilfling, zweintopf