A vague feeling of resignation accompanies the last drag of a cigarette before its stubbed out outside the door to the factory, a last breath of freedom followed by a renewed sense of purpose. There’s a job to be done. A role to be performed, gears to be turned. And you are dressed for […] Mehr lesen
Yorgos Stamkopoulos’s paintings are more than paintings. They are shadow sculptures—the remains of what was. Each work is the final trace of a thick ‘skin’ built up with casting material on canvas, over which layers of colour and paint are applied before the final dermis is peeled off, and the subtle imprint beneath is revealed. […] Mehr lesen
after „travel notes“ compiled and edited by Tony Cokes curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini Opening: Thursday 13th September 2018, 6 – 9 pm * Friday, 14th September 2018, 6 pm Artist Tony Cokes will be reading extracts from the book The Vienna Guide, 2018 published by saxpublishers — If you need souvenirs, it might be […] Mehr lesen
Sie hat eine Wohnung gefunden, die nicht schön ist und seltsam aussieht, fleckig gestrichen mit Latexfarbe, die Flecken spiegeln. An den Wänden sind elektrische Leitungen quadratisch angeordnet und mit weißem Schaumstoffstuck verdeckt, große Rahmen mit Steckdosen und Schaltern dran. Der alte, weiß lackierte Doppelboden macht Geräusche. Das Mobiliar ist schwarz: die Regale, die Couch, das […] Mehr lesen
Look inward! We find ourselves in the art classroom of Ferguson High School. The attending students are being asked to interpret a contemporary painting. Their ability to think symbolically is being tested. The teacher darkens the room and sends his students on a quest to access the collective unconscious, where the translation of visual codes […] Mehr lesen
At the spot where the two white glowing lightsabers meet on the screen, the dark purple sky opens up to reveal a glittering universe. The guardians of this magic portal are two frog-faced goddesses in pink raiment; swords drawn, they flank the wondrous gate like a pair of sphinges. To get sucked in is to […] Mehr lesen
Looks go through surfaces, cut through semi-transparent layers, follow textures without grip. Moreover, one tries to follow the effects created by light, action, emulsion and painting mediums in the paintings. Movements of the eyes and your senses will be activated in the exhibition Time is the longest distance by Talisa Lallai and Markus Saile. Due to the […] Mehr lesen
Ethan Hayes-Chute, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé, James Webb A group exhibition that looks at ideas of home as a linguistic construct. Drawn from life, memory and imagination the work of Ethan Hayes-Chute, Pilar Quinteros, Stéphanie Saadé and James Webb reflect a variety of physical and psychological narratives that disentangle notions of home as a site of shelter or […] Mehr lesen
Art Research Map Daily Lazy „Every Line tells its own story“ brings together works by six artists to explore the Line in contemporary art. Works across different Media, ranging from painting to sculpture, installations and sound, explore the ways contemporary artists employ line to articulate an idea or a concept. With Athanasios Argianas, Cornelia Baltes, Clare Gasson, Rowena Hughes, Charlotte Klobassa, Yorgos […] Mehr lesen
Galerie Nathalie Halgand is pleased to present Julian Mullan’s (*1982) first solo exhibition. This could be anywhere. Trying to locate Julian Mullan’s motives is thoroughly precluded by his accurate cropping of the image, the proximate step after deciding on the motive in the process of a geminated selection routine. The immanent calm evokes notions of emigration and […] Mehr lesen
Frieze A “sticky note” or Post-it™ is an adhesive note used not only in the office, but also, in a simulated version, on computers and smartphones. In Anna Virnich’s usage, a subliminal undertone mingles with the apparently dry office jargon, betraying the familiar term’s hidden obsessive structures by which we are unconsciously occupied: they are […] Mehr lesen
ARTIST TALK & VERNISSAGE Friday 17 March 2017, 17h30: Artist Talk with Noit Banai, Art Critic and Art Historian 19h – 21h: Opening Reception and Performance Saturday 18 March 2017, starting at 12PM: 24h – Live Performance at the Gallery with Live Stream During the height of the 2016 American presidential primaries, just shy of a year before Donald Trump’s […] Mehr lesen
How aesthetic is protest really allowed to be? Rowdy slogans, deeply affecting photographs and videos – whether loud or quiet, contemporary art production is over-saturated with political statements. However, alongside zombie formalism, the motif of the tropical is once again being hyped. Whoever rights off fruit and plant motifs as merely decorative, kitsch or superficial […] Mehr lesen
In 1956 Edward Steichen opened the exhibition„Abstraction in Photography“ in the New York Museum of Modern Art. Steichen had already postulated during this time that photography in its various usage and contexts can not be thought of without abstraction. Rather, it abstracts per se– whether intentional or accidental– and frequently undermines forms of representation and […] Mehr lesen
Galerie Nathalie Halgand´s third exhibition presents Yorgos Stamkopoulos´ first solo show in Austria, Soul Remains. The Greek painter Yorgos Stamkopoulos hasn’t touched a paintbrush in nearly ten years. And indeed, when you behold one of his works, what you see isn’t necessarily a painting at all, but the physical remnants of an invisible act. So Mr. […] Mehr lesen
Galerie Nathalie Halgand’s second exhibition presents Simon Mullan’s first solo show in Vienna Galerie Nathalie Halgand is pleased to present its second exhibition, Simon Mullan’s „Der Raum“ (The Room). Three adjoining rooms showcase three signature series of work, which are seen in Mullan’s hometown of Vienna for the first time and mark the 10th anniversary […] Mehr lesen
WHEN WE WENT IN, EVERYTHING SEEMED NORMAL, JUST LIKE ALWAYS. 116 years ago, here, in the Stiegengasse, the once-home of Hermann Winkelmann, an apartment was furnished, middle class, in a good, actually the best location, the Wienzeile, on which the house also lies, was after all meant to be expanded into a boulevard-like entrée into […] Mehr lesen
If the German artist titles his show “Erst die gute Nachricht, bitte!“ („The good news first, please!“), and focuses on deconstruction and fragmentation processes in the center of his artistic methodology, we do not want to follow the logical argument of this call. Rather, we must exclude the bad news from the implied train of thought […] Mehr lesen
