image text special shop

'The Chasm', a Group Show Organized by Yves-Michele Saß at Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna

article image; primary-color: #D8D3CF;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #BE9E8F;
Aniara Omann, untitled, 2018
article image; primary-color: #D7DBDE;
Minda Andrén, Death Dealer, 2018 / Zhangwei, 2018
article image; primary-color: #E1D9D6;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E2E1DF;
Aline Bouvy, Kraft, Masse, Raum, Zeit, Geometrie (after AR Penck), 2018
article image; primary-color: #EBE6E2;
Arik Brauer, Kein Viereckiger Heileigenschein, 1968
article image; primary-color: #D6CECC;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #DFD7D5;
Stefan Fuchs, Der Junge muss an die frische Luft, 2019
article image; primary-color: #D3D2D0;
Jannis Marwitz, untitled, 2018
article image; primary-color: #DFD7D5;
Stefan Fuchs, untitled, 2019
article image; primary-color: #E2DAD8;
Elisabeth von Samsonow, Transplant III, 2011
article image; primary-color: #DED6D3;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E5E1DE;
Jannis Marwitz, untitled, 2018 / untitled, 2018
article image; primary-color: #E4E2E3;
Aline Bouvy, untitled, 2018
article image; primary-color: #E2DCDC;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #DFDAD7;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E4E2E5;
Viktor Timofeev, Crack 1 in the Porcelain, 2017 / (∞A) / B, 2018 / Sazarus I, 2016 / Everything Dies But You, 2016 / (10A+5)/B, 2018 / Interdependence, 2016 / New Clouds (PLAST1CITY), 2012
article image; primary-color: #DFDDE0;
Yein Lee, being-lichens, 2019
article image; primary-color: #D8D6D9;
Laurence Sturla, On Curlew Road, 2019
article image; primary-color: #D9D0C9;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E1DFE0;
Ivan Pérard, Please Humans, 2019
article image; primary-color: #D8C6BA;
Aniara Omann, Pollinator (Moon Face) / Pollinator (Snake)
article image; primary-color: #A98875;
Laurence Sturla, I saw but two stars I, 2019
article image; primary-color: #D8D0CE;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E3DEDB;
Laurence Sturla, I saw but two stars II, 2019
article image; primary-color: #E6E4E5;
Ivan Pérard, Open up Your Parts, 2019
article image; primary-color: #BFA292;
Aniara Omann, Pollinator (Elven Ear)
article image; primary-color: #DBD5D5;
Installation view
article image; primary-color: #E8E4E3;
Ivan Pérard, Dies on Your Tongue, 2019
article image; primary-color: #ADA3A1;
Lu Yang, Uterus Man, 2013

The Chasm takes imagination as a general context in which to examine artistic practices that are interested in pre-modern myths and/or futuristic utopia. Instead of focussing on their temporal difference the exhibition suggests them as two kinds of knowledge, unequal in their theoretical and practical results, but not in the kind of mental processes which are the precondition of both.

Therefore the works fantasize about humanity, bodies, mysticism, brutality, architecture, visuality, sexuality, aggression, myths, apocalypse and the post-human in the forms of drawings, sculpture, paintings, installation and video:

Silicone based creatures for a post-human earth crawling across the floors and our dreaming ancestor (Aniara Omann); a wooden idol with a thai chi gesture (Elisabeth von Samsonow); a hero in outer space shooting ovaries and menstrual blood (Lu Yang); a Penck painting re-imagined on a collection of breasts & walls morphed into flesh (Aline Bouvy); cybernetically enhanced crustacean snacks impaled on metal spears (Ivan Pérard); meditations on renaissance paintings turned into emerald and ruby dreams (Jannis Marwitz); transmuted earthly burial mounds of an ancestral future (Laurence Sturla); fierce warriors timetravelling through collaboration (Minda Andrén); a mysterious halo (Arik Brauer); an amourphous object hanging from the ceiling haunting the binary mind (Yein Lee); glimpes into an alternate universe oscillating between order and chaos (Viktor Timofeev) and an architectual model for a psychedelic german farm house (Stefan Fuchs).

2.5.19 — 2.6.19

Aline Bouvy, Viktor Timofeev, Stefan Fuchs, Ivan Pérard, Aniara Omann, Jannis Marwitz, Minda Andrén, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Lu Yang, Laurence Sturla, Yein Lee, Arik Brauer

The exhibition is organized by Yves-Michele Saß and made possible with the kind support of Franz Josefs Kai 3, Zeller van Almsick, KOENIG2, Lucas Hirsch and Segurio Insurance

Franz-Josefs-Kai 3/17, Vienna

'Old Sun, New Sun', Group Show Curated by Andrew Sung Taek Ingersoll at Et al., S

'The Houses Of The Serpent Bearer. The 9th House' by Mónica Mays & Flora Yin-Wong

'Dream Archipelago', Group Show Curated by Sergey Guskov at Smena, Kazan

'Eternal Flame', Group Show at Shore, Vienna

'Cosmovisions', Group Show at Medusa Offspace, Brussels

'No Time To Explain' by Paul Robas at Solito, Naples

'Night Rider' by Yan Posadsky at Devyatnadtsat’, Moscow

'Funding Emotions' by Magnus Frederik Clausen and Kaare Ruud at Cantina, Aarhus

'What I felt for you was love', Group Show at Afternoon Projects, Vancouver

'Mirror Stage' by Bora Akinciturk and Ella Fleck at Shipton, London

‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die!’ by Ian Swanson at Plague Space, Krasnodar

'VEGAN' by Jack Jubb at house of spouse, Vienna

'Fresh Hell' by Jonah Pontzer at Rose Easton, London

'It's quite like Guggenheim', Group Show at Ringcenter 1, Berlin

'OUTER DARKNESS', Off-Site Project by Allyson Packer in 1698 GALISTEO, SANTA FE

'mareas' by Elizabeth Burmann at Galeria Patricia Ready, Santiago

'Vape Cloud Premonition' by Sam Hutchinson at Forth, Nottingham

'Punch-Drunk' by Yutaro Ishikawa at LAID BUG, Tokyo

Next Page