curated by Barbara Horvath
with Burnbjoern,
Thomas Hörl & Peter Kozek / Victor Jaschke, Hannah & Lea Neckel, Barbi Marković & Nikola Supuković, Lony Mathis,
Anna Paul & Karl Karner, Georg Pinteritsch, Paul Riedmüller
with a literary contribution by Barbi Marković
spoken
by Fritz Ostermayer
Unsettling horror scenarios, magical lollipop style and an exaggerated
hyperreality are disturbing. The only place to find shelter exists beyond reality, at least in the elsewhere. The nine artistic
positions "want to be nice, but nothing is easy." (Barbi Marković) Driven by a hypnotic visual poetry that is opulent and
excessively unpleasant, the exhibition counters the tristesse of everyday life with images of otherness, the extreme and the
eerie.
The works in this exhibition burn into our jaded retinas and remain imprinted there. They
have a quality about them that makes us want to take a second look, to think about them from different perspectives. It is
rare to encounter a piece in this exhibition that does not beg to be reflect upon, that does not provoke commentary. We undoubtedly
cannot remain indifferent towards otherness, the extreme, and the uncanny. This is where the participation and imagination
of the viewer creates a fracture in the conventions of order and stability. The profound sensation of standing in reality
with one foot while standing in a different reality with the other, is possibly our magic power to reinvent the world. All
is (could be) full of love!
