Curatorial supervision and guidance by
Anamarija Batista
Is This Intimacy? is an experimental exhibition showcasing the work of eleven artists, curated and
produced by six international curators. Responding to the subject of ‘intimacy in the era of global connections,’ the exhibition
presents a collage of ideas and investigates the tensions in situating and searching for intimacy today, its challenges and
triumphs. Taking inspiration from the 2018 ‘Is this a pigeon?’ meme, which has become a saturated illustration conveying enigmas
of confusion, the title contextualizes the chosen field of reference.
Intimacy can be understood as not only the
closeness to other(s) or the self but also to places, things, and space. An important focus present in several exhibited artworks
is technology and how, through digitalization, it seeps into our daily lives blurring the boundaries between virtual/real,
organic/inorganic, human/nonhuman, as we are desperately seeking to connect.
Works by
Alfredo Ledesma Quintana,
Anna Lerchbaumer, Anne-Clara Stahl, Bernadette Anzengruber, Darja Shatalova, Eva Rybářová, Laura Stoll, Maximiliane Leni Armann,
Mona Radziabari, Paula Flores, and Veronika Abigail Beringer explore how we produce, seek, or avoid intimacy through
language, flows of affect, communicational modes, capital, love, heritage, and technology. How do we form intimate moments
with ourselves and others? How do we create distance or intimacy with our personal histories, and how do we create new intimate
publics in an environment dominated by affective capital and ‘successful’ images of public intimacy?
As a prelude
to the exhibition, a performance
"Rapport (2019)" by Laura Stoll took place on the 19th of October, at Villa
Schapira.
Curatorial Walk-through and Artist Talk with Bernadette Anzengruber is scheduled for
Saturday, the 26th of October, at 12 h, at KRINZINGER PROJEKTE.
The exhibition is accompanied by a
24-page
catalog.
More information available at
Is This Intimacy?Partners of the Curators’ Agenda: Vienna 2019 program are the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Ukrainian
Institute and KRINZINGER PROJEKTE and it is supported by the City of Vienna.
For any inquiries please contact :
Nevena Janković
+436602806045
nevena.jankovic@blockfrei.orgOpening: Thursday, 24 October, 19 h
On view: 25 October — 2 November 2019
Working
hours: Wed - Fri 15 - 19 h / Sa 11 - 14 h