Artists: Daphne Ahlers, Minda Andrén, Nadja Athanassowa, Anna-Sophie Berger, Juliette Bonneviot , Dora Budor, Adrian Buschmann, Tatjana Danneberg, Verena Dengler , Aleksandra Domanović, Flaka Haliti , HHDM with Lucia Stamati + Cathrin Ulikowski , Kathi Hofer, Nora Kapfer, Adriana Lara, Lonely Boys, Sarah Ortmeyer, Ivan Pérard, Lucia Elena Prusa, Hanna Putz, Jon Rafman, Rosa Rendl, Martyn Reynolds, Halvor Rønning, Signe Rose, Lennart Schweder , Lilli Thießen, Dena Yago, Min Yoon, Marcin Zarzeka
Exhibition title: NEW NEEDS
Curated by: Rosa Rendl & Isabella Ritter
Venue: The Wittmann House, Etsdorf, Kamp, Austria
Date: May 23 – July 25, 2015
Photography: Tina Herzl, images courtesy of the artists and the Wittmann House
NEW NEEDS takes place at the Wittmann House (bui l t 1970-75) designed by Austrian archi tect Johannes Spalt.
Johannes Spalt’s oeuvre can be classified as belonging to the „Third Generation“ of Modernists whose achievement it was to re-establish references to architectural history (especially achievements of High Cultures in Asia and the Orient) which Modernism had broken with before. Lightness, the constructive, the modular, the umbrella and skin are constitutive as wel l as recurring motives in Spalt’s vocabulary, which are also protagonists in the architectural language of the Wittmann House.
The exhibition aims to create a dialogue between the works and the architecture of the house in order to fathom potent ial contemporary meanings of Spalt ’s principles which were visionary at their time. Within the exhibition each work should open up its own cosmos of references and meanings of the former.
What meaning do concepts as lightness, the constructive, the modular, poetry and folly have today; how can they be thought of today against the backdrop of the digital era? How are terms as umbrella and skin understood in view of an increasing disembodiment? How can challenging visions and experimentat ions manifest themselves today?
Is it possible to speak of new needs?
Jon Rafman, You, the World and I, 2010
Adrian Buschmann, MODERN GUILT, 2015. courtesy of Gabriele Senn Galerie
Adriana Lara, Hybrid Slanted Figure 1.1, 2014
Aleksandra Domanović, Relay Runner, 2013
Anna-Sophie Berger, 4 seasons (Etsdorf), 2015
Cathrin Ulikowski
Daphne Ahlers, Hair clips, 2014
Dena Yago, Ehrgeiz und Flöhe springen gern in die Höhe, 2015
Dora Budor, Hunt You To The Edge Of The World For This, 2014
Flaka Haliti, Just Hanging Around, 2014
Halvor Ronning and Martyn Reynolds
Hanna Putz, Untitled 04, 2015
Pavilion curated by HHDM (founded by Daphne Ahlers, Philipp Timischl and Roland Gaberz)
Pavilion curated by HHDM (founded by Daphne Ahlers, Philipp Timischl and Roland Gaberz)
Ivan Perard, Untitled (Skinsuit)
Juliette Bonneviot and Halvor Ronning
Juliette Bonneviot, PET Woman #4, 2015
Kathi Hofer, Rosa, 2015
Lennart Schweder, Yysytems, 2015
Lilli Thiessen, Placement green, 2014
Lonely Boys, untitled, 2014
Lucia Elena Prusa, XII I II III VI V VI VII VIII IX X XI (11.33 Uhr), 2015
Lucia Stamati
Lucia Stamati
Marcin Zarzeka, Ostatni Dzień Lata #1, 2015
Min Yoon and Anna Sophie Berger
Minda Andren and Sarah Ortmeyer
Nadja Athanassowa, Untitled, 2009-2015
Nora Kapfer, Untitled (nose), 2013
Rosa Rendl, Empty, 2015
Signe Rose, Ursula, 2014
Tatjana Danneberg, untitled, 2015
Verena Dengler, The happy Goth, 2012
