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FUTURE
PERFECT III
04.04.25–30.04.25
Club Fortuna
Photos by Tina Kult
Das Künstlerinnen-Kollektiv Club Fortuna (bestehend aus Xenia Lesniewski, Nana Mandl, Verena Preininger und Sarah Sternat) verhandelt in ihrer Werkreihe Future Perfect die Widersprüche von Körper, Mobilität, und Kontrolle in unserer hyperflexiblen Gesellschaft. Im Zentrum der Installation steht der Eizellenautomat – ein technologischer Convenience-Store für Fortpflanzung, der Reproduktion in eine marktkonforme Transaktion verwandelt. Hier trifft Motorsport auf Mutterschaft. Die Trennung von Körper und Kapital wird somit zur absurden Konsequenz: ESSO wird zu EGGS, FERRARI zu FERTILITY.
Die selbstfahrenden Keramik-Buggys spiegeln den Anpassungsdruck einer Gesellschaft, in der Mobilität zur Erschöpfung führt. Ursprünglich als Symbol für Erleichterung gedacht, mutieren sie – gefaltet, motorisiert, angekettet – zu grotesken Prothesen der Selbstoptimierung. Ihr eingebauter Motor suggeriert Bewegung, bis hin zur Selbstzerstörung. Überreste der Kontrolle und des Kontrollverlustes liegen hier gefährlich nah beieinander. Future Perfect III oszilliert zwischen Utopie und Dystopie, Freiheit und Kontrolle. Die Installation entwirft, nicht nur durch die performative Intervention vor Ort, eine Zukunft, in der Körper, Reproduktion und Lust durch Effizienzlogiken zunehmend entfremdet werden.
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In their work series Future Perfect the artists’ collective Club Fortuna (consisting of Xenia Lesniewski, Nana Mandl, Verena Preininger and Sarah Sternat) explores the contradictions of the body, mobility and self control in our hyper-flexible society. At the center of the installation at discotec is an „egg-cell vendingmachine“ – a convenience-store for reproduction that transforms reproduction into a market-compliant system. This is where motorsport meets motherhood. The separation of body and capital thus becomes an absurd consequence: ESSO becomes EGGS, FERRARI becomes FERTILITY.
The self-driving ceramic buggies reflect the pressure to adapt in a society in which mobility leads to exhaustion. Originally intended as a symbol of relief, they mutate into grotesque prostheses of self-optimization. Their built-in motor suggests movement, even to the point of self-destruction. Remnants of control and loss of control are dangerously close to each other here. Future Perfect III oscillates between utopia and dystopia, freedom and control. Not only through the performative intervention on site, the installation sketches a future in which the body, reproduction and pleasure are increasingly alienated by the logic of efficiency.
︎ Club Fortuna
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CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT
21.02.25–27.03.25
kennedy+swan
In the era when technology and the fabric of life are wholly entangled, kennedy+swan invites us into a lucid, paradoxical world. The duo, consisting of Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective look into the uncanny intersections of non-human intelligence and its impact on plants, animals, machines and humans. Their works navigate between the sentient and the simulated or the organic and the synthetic realms.
Shut Up and Calculate! (2024), a two-channel video installation is at the heart of the exhibition revisiting one of science’s most unsettling retreats: the decision to
ignore the strangeness of quantum mechanics in favor of its practical applications.
This idea—famously distilled into the Copenhagen Interpretation of 1927—demanded that physicists stop contemplating on the paradoxes of quantum reality and instead focus solely on computation. The work follows Schrödinger’s cat—trapped in perpetual superposition— guiding the viewer through shifting landscapes, from the Arctic to bourgeois interiors, mirroring the disorienting vibrations between presence and absence, knowing and unknowing. In their intricate blend of animation techniques, kennedy+swan create a kaleidoscope of digital and analog imagery, embracing the contradictions of a universe where observation itself alters reality.
As the work poetically suggests, the ideas that got suppressed by mid-century scientists are still lingering with us, shaping the very foundations of our world.
With this show discotec invites you to listen to the echoes of paradox and the ghosts of unanswered questions.
︎ kennedy+swan
21
BREAKING CHARACTER
31.01.25–07.02.25
Benjamin Nagy
Curated by Hanna Gassner
„Breaking Character“ ist eine Einzelausstellung des Künstler und Designers Benjamin Nagy, kuratiert von Hanna Gassner. Während der Ausstellung verwandelt sich die Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 (discotec) zur Bühne. Der Titel „Breaking Character“, entlehnt aus der Theaterwelt, bezeichnet denAugenblick, in dem Schauspieler*innen aus der Rolle fallen und der Schleier der Fiktion für
kurze Zeit gelüftet wird. Es entsteht ein Bruch von Scheinwelt, Traum und Illusion, der schwer greifbar und beweisbar ist. Die vorerst vertraut scheinenden Objekte und ihr Umfeld verweigern die eindeutige Zuordnung in der Realität und erforschen zeitliche und räumliche Ungleichzeitigkeit. Sie stellen mehr Fragen als sie eindeutig beantworten können. Die neu entwickelten Arbeitenvon Benjamin Nagy dienen als Ausgangspunkt für eine offene und individuelle Erzählung, zwischen Zeit und Raum, Gesehenem und Vorgestellten.
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“Breaking Character” is a solo exhibition by artist and designer Benjamin Nagy, curated by Hanna Gassner. During the exhibition Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 (discotec) transforms into a stage. The title "Breaking Character“, borrowed from the theatre jargon, captures a fleeting moment of vulnerability: the instant when actors drop their role, and the illusion of fiction dissolves. In that rupture, a delicate boundary is exposed—between dream and reality, illusion and authenticity. Seemingly familiar objects and their surroundings in the exhibition resist clear classification within reality, exploring temporal and spatial asynchronicity. They ask more questions than they provide definitive answers. This opaque truth allows the audience to engage in illusion and form their own interpretations.The newly developed works by Benjamin Nagy thus serve as a starting point for open and individual narratives, navigating between time and space, the seen and the imagined.
︎ Benjamin Nagy
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BETWIXT!!
13.12.24–24.01.25
Céline Struger, Luca Sabot
The narrative of the exhibition BETWIXT!! is unfolding within the space the artworks do not occupy. Céline Struger’s and Luca Sabot’s pieces form a curtain between restrained emotions and evocative rituals. Sabot’s mechanical constructs are tools of distancing, they structure intense emotions into mechanical frameworks that allow sensing the outer edges of an inner turmoil. Céline’s sculpture collages use symbolism and mythology, weaving together elements of ritual and storytelling to create not objects, but moments in a ritual of summoning.
The two artists' works orbit a shared emotional core, creating a space where release and repression coexist
︎ Céline Struger
︎ Luca Sabot
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TecTales
01.12.2024
movies by Ida Kammerloch and Kurdwin Ayub
sound performance by Kasho Chualan
Photos by Tina Kult & Agnes Varnai
For its second edition, TecTales invites the artists and filmmakers Ida Kammerloch and Kurdwin Ayub, as well as the sound artist Kasho Chualan.
In the films of Kammerloch and Ayub, personal journeys intertwine seamlessly with geopolitical tensions. Like undercover agents, the filmmakers navigate through material spaces, and enter intangible concepts in which transnational identities, political symbolism and longings are negotiated in equal measure.
Kammerloch’s ULTRA ALL INCLUSIVE explores the Kremlin Palace Hotel in Antalya, a replica of the Moscow Kremlin, which attracts mainly Russian tourists with its luxurious “Ultra All Inclusive” services. Through observation and an inner monologue, Kammerloch analyzes the wellness facility and examines how its architecture and operation reflect broader cultural and ideological narratives.
In Paradise! Paradise!, Ayub follows her father Omar, who emigrated with his family to Austria in 1991, on his journey to Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, to purchase a retirement or vacation home. Filmed in a home-video style, Ayub captures escalating family tensions shaped by traditional values and patriarchal power dynamics, set against the backdrop of a region marked by its proximity to active conflict zones.
Chualan’s sound performance interweaves a resonating santoor, jingling toys, tape and vocal fragments to create an experimental soundscape. Through manipulated instruments and tweaked electronics, Chualan constructs a raw and transparent expression.
TecTales is a multidimensional screening event at discotec, organized by Tina Kult. The event presents significant positions in contemporary video art and, alongside the exhibition program, creates a dedicated and communal space where moving images can be experienced in their full length. TecTales also features a musical and culinary program, providing a platform for lively discussions, creative interactions and valuable interchange encounters.
︎ Ida Kammerloch
︎ Kurdwin Ayub
︎ Kasho Chualan
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ART IS WHAT MAKES LIFE MORE INTERESTING
THAN ART
11.10.–15.11.2024
Christian Eisenberger, Martin Grandits, Anna Paul, Sebastian Quast, Paul Renner, Bjørn Segschneider, Daniel Spoerri, Sophia Stolz, Milen Till, Ingrid Wiener
Curated by Silke Eggl
Photos by Tina Kult
The exhibition title is inspired by a quote from Robert Filliou (1926–1987). The French Fluxus artist had a remarkable ability to capture the spirit of his time in concise statements. The merging of art and life was a fundamental principle for him, as it was for his close friend and colleague, Daniel Spoerri (b. 1930), in developing their own artistic language.
From the early 1960s onwards, Spoerri made his mark on art history with his Snare Pictures — assemblages capturing scenes of eating and chance — and through the now-established concept of Eat Art. He thus introduced a canon that anchored the everyday rituals and basic human needs of eating and drinking within visual art.
Sixty-five years later, the fusion of art, food, and life is still – or perhaps once again – a relevant theme in contemporary art production. The exhibition brings together works, concepts, and interventions by artists from four different generations into an ensemble that centers on social interaction, sensory experience, and the pleasures, as well as the depths, of enjoyment.
The artists draw on a wide range of media, turning the exhibition space – much like an abstract kitchen – into a place of everyday culture, participation, and active social exchange. The proverbial act of “ingesting something” connects the visitors with the artists, celebrating the drive that nourishes and relaxes us.
︎ Christian Eisenberger
︎ Martin Grandits
︎ Anna Paul
︎ Sebastian Quast
︎ Paul Renner
︎ Bjørn Segschneider
︎ Daniel Spoerri
︎ Sophia Stolz
︎ Milen Till
︎ Ingrid Wiener
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Labor
13.09.–04.10.2024
Joanna Zabielska, Olena Newkryta, Emanuel Gollob
Photos by Tina Kult
The exhibition Labor explores pivotal changes in how humans relate to the act of working, examining historical and contemporary forces reshaping our understanding and experience of work. Through the intricacies of manual craftsmanship to the stark realities of labor exploitation and the increasing presence of artificial intelligence, the artworks reflect on the evolving dynamics of labor in a globalized world.
The exhibition highlights the fragility and resilience of human labor and raises questions about the future of work in an age of increasing automation. It invites contemplation on how we might reimagine our connections to labor and agency in a rapidly changing landscape.
The durable and cheaply produced fabric of a widely used bag to relocate is the medium of Joanna Zabielska’s attire, the Design of the anonymous. The dramatic shape, the voluminous silhouette is achieved through the use of panniers, wide hoop skirts.
Inspired by the idealized depictions of flowers and landscapes in 18th-century Jacquard textiles, Olena Newkryta’s Ornament and Crime presents a woven satellite image of the world’s largest cotton belts.
In the video work of Emanuel Gollob disarming a robotic limb, not designed to relocate, tries to learn ways to do so. This process, reminiscent of a dystopian narrative about technological independence, may evoke feelings of compassion or even create an emotional connection as we watch it’s awkward early attempts.
︎ Joanna Zabielska
︎ Olena Newkryta
︎ Emanuel Gollob
16
Bödös pocak or the many lives of the Gömböc
Inflatable textile installation 02.09.–08.09.2024
Agnes Varnai
Photos by Sebastian Grande
The object functions as a stage element for Varnai´s ongoing video project, which essentially reinterprets the Hungarian folk tale A kis gömböc as a documentary film. The video explores a collective of people and their decisions on how to survive within an entity driven by greed and hunger. The mass has no soul, so it cannot commit sin; therefore, it is not guilty. It is like a force of nature. It is entirely outside itself, and the world is entirely within them.
︎ agnesvarnai.com
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Awake with a stranger´s shoes on
06.06.–11.07.2024
Dasha Ilina, Ulrich Formann
Photos by Tina Kult
The exhibition Awake with a stranger´s shoes on invites us to confront and navigate through the intricate web of technology and humans with selected works by techno-critical artists Dasha Ilina and Ulrich Formann based in Paris and Vienna. In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, technology has outpaced our understanding, thrusting us into a world of vast, seemingly unknowable systems.
In his work Formann uses different kinds of publicly available data sources, collected from institutions, corporations, apps and websites. Incorporated in different settings, his installations might appear to serve public interest. However, upon closer inspection, his work reveals a darker phenomenon: social media content offers the comfort of highlighting societal grievances without encouraging to take action or prevent them.
Ilina’s work, Do Humans Dream of Online Connection? critiques our intimate relationship with digital devices, making us acutely aware of the foreign nature of our digital dependencies. By combining the rigid surfaces of smartphones with the delicate art of hand embroidery, Ilina exposes the hidden labor and emotional investment behind our sleek digital interactions. Her work `Center for Technological Pain` further highlights our struggle for agency, offering absurd yet poignant DIY solutions to tech-induced ailments.
Awake with a stranger´s shoes on challenges us to confront the complexities of modern technology, not with the aim of mastering or simplifying, but to live with them more consciously and sustainably. By doing so, we can resist the lure of simplistic, deterministic narratives and instead foster a more nuanced understanding of our digital landscape, acknowledging that complexity is an inherent and inescapable part of our reality.
︎ dashailina.com
︎ul.fo
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TecTales
Screening 02.06.2024, 7:30 pm
Photos by Maria Herold and Benedikt Scheitnagl
TecTales is a multidimensional screening event in the art space discotec, organized by Tina Kult. TecTales presents significant positions in contemporary video art and, alongside the exhibition program, creates a dedicated and communal space where moving images can be experienced in their full length. The event also features a musical and culinary program, providing a platform for lively discussions, creative interactions and valuable interchange opportunities.
TecTales is delighted to present a selection of short movies by Johanna Bruckner,Susanna Flock and S()fia Braga. The works delve into speculative, queer and gentle narratives that investigate the intersection between humans and technology. They offer diverse perspectives on non-human perception and agency, reflecting on the complexities of consciousness and existence.
The evening also features a hybrid DJ set by Alexander Martinz titled Whispers, Hisses, Wow + Flutter, a collage of a wide range of historical and contemporary Field Recordings and Musique Concrète. Using tape recordings, the set explores hauntological landscapes and the sheer physicality of its medium. A lazy Sunday meets a future that never came to pass.
PROGRAM
19:30 - 20:45 HYBRID DJ SET
Whispers, Hisses, Wow + Flutter by Alexander Martinz find him on soundcloud
21:00-21:50 VIDEO SCREENING
I don’t exist yet by Susanna Flock | AT | 2020 | 13’
Building A.I. out of Clay by Susanna Flock | AT | 2022 | 8’43
Metabolic Hardware by Johanna Bruckner | AT | 2023 | 17’30
Forehead Vulva Channeling Research by S()fia Braga| IT | 2021 | 5’19
The Artificial Conjuring Circle by S()fia Braga| IT | 2023 | 5’14
21:50 - 22:05
Q&A with S()fia Braga
22:15 - 00:00 LINK & LINGER
DJ set by Alexander Martinz
snacks & cocktails
︎ johannabruckner.com
︎ susannaflock.net
︎ sofiabraga.com
︎ admartinz.tumblr.com
︎ tinakult.com
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Mid-air collisions
21.03.–28.04.2024
Kathrin Stumreich
Photos by Tina Kult
150,000 motorized mirrors reflect sunlight at the concentrated solar plant, located in the Mojave Desert, Ivanpah in the U.S. The focused sunbeams of this area can reach temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees, attracting insects that perish in the intense heat. The manifestation of Kathrin Stumreich’s investigation of this occurrence is a central piece in her latest exhibition at discotec titled:
Mid-air collision.
During her on-site visit, she amassed 10 terrabytes of picture and video content, capturing observations of thermal activity, the color of the sky, and animal behavior. The interaction between the natural environment and the infrastructure of renewable energy sources is central to her multimedia installation.
This exhibition is part of Immediate Matters of the Vienna Climate Biennale.
︎ kathrinstumreich.com
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PULLING THE PLUG
09.05.2024–31.05.2024
Anna Lerchbaumer
Photos by Tina Kult
In Anna Lerchbaumers Solo-Ausstellung PULLING THE PLUG werden Steckdosen zum Sockel ihrer Skulpturen und zu ironischen Kommentaren auf unsere vernetzte Gesellschaft. Die Steckdose, die lieblos in den Ecken unseres Alltags versteckt wird, ist die Hauptschlagader unseres digitalen Lebensstils. Anna Lerchbaumer macht sie zur Hauptdarstellerin.
In ihren multi-medialen Installationen zeigt Anna Lerchbaumer immer wieder auf humorvolle Weise eine Alltagspoetik, die das Gewöhnliche und unsere Umgebung hinterfragt. Sie erforscht die Beziehung zwischen Natur und Technologie, ebenso wie sie mit scharfen Blick auf die Absurditäten unserer Alltags blickt. Ihre vielfältige Praxis reicht von Skulptur über Sound Installationen zur Performance Kunst - eine verirrte Antenne macht elektromagnetische Schwingungen hörbar, während sich übergroße Ohropax dem digitalen Lärm entziehen wollen.
In Anna Lerchbaumer's solo exhibition PULLING THE PLUG, sockets become the base of her sculptures and ironic commentaries on our digitalized society. The power socket, lovelessly hidden in the corners of our everyday lives, is the main artery of our digital lifestyle. At discotec it becomes the main protagonist.
In her multi-media installations, Anna Lerchbaumer humorously presents an everyday poetic that questions the ordinary and our surroundings. She explores the relationship between nature and technology, as well as taking a sharp look at the absurdities of our everyday lives. Her diverse practice ranges from visual art to sound installations and performance - an antenna makes electromagnetic vibrations audible, while oversized earplugs try to escape the digital noise.
︎ annalerchbaumer.com
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Nesting
25.01.2024–29.02.2024
Tamás Páll
Photos by Tina Kult
For it´s next program, discotec invites you to explore the ongoing research project of Hungarian artist Tamás Páll. Nesting is a reality-spanning role-play game where the artist blends failed utopian ideas and architecture using physical objects and performance.
“Nesting is an extension of LAIR, a project created in 2022 that summoned a fictional community of an abandoned biodome located in Budapest, Hungary. In the virtual level, para-fictional creatures and avatars exiled from colossal real-estate renders make the gallery their temporary dwelling. Scraps from their rituals are scattered in the space, while screen-based simulations keep their memories in limbo. In this new chapter the processes of virtual embodiment and architectural visualization are centered in a multimedia installation and a closing live performance.”
Tamás Páll
︎ www.tamaspall.com
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I’m sorry
I made you feel that way
14.12.2023–12.01.2024
Martina Menegon
Photos by Tina Kult
“I'm sorry I made you feel that way (memories of care)” is an interactive experience and performative self-portrait exploring new possibilities for empathy and care for our hybrid selves.
Martina Menegon’s biometric data collected daily via a wearable smart ring device is linked with an artificial avatar generated via Machine Learning AI. The physical body state - specifically in connection to stress and tiredness - has an immediate and direct impact on its virtual extension. When the artists physical needs are neglected and fatigue or stress sets in, the virtual self-portrait deteriorates, its interactions become increasingly challenging and eventually evolves into abstract behavior.
Accompanying the interactive installation, “I’m sorry I made you feel that way (memories of care).extended” is an iteration specifically created for digital, online and hybrid spaces. Screenshots taken from a live interaction with the work are transformed into virtual sculptures and Augmented Reality experiences.
In linking very personal biometric data to an AI generated avatar, “I'm sorry I made you feel that way (memories of care)” draws attention to our hybrid corporeality and how we can foster care both offline and online. With this intimate and intricate bond Martina Menegon creates a new sense of awareness for our virtual extensions and thereby with our selves.
︎ www.martinamenegon.xyz
09
If I had more time I would have written
a shorter letter
16.11.2023–07.12.2023
Hidéo Snes ︎Felix Helmut Wagner
Photos by Tina Kult
The exhibition “If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter” features two artists exploring the obscure topic of an artificial intelligence making mistakes due to being too much in a hurry. It presents a curated collection of works reflecting on the new notions of the burgeoning changes AI introduces.
Artificial intelligence is not only a disruptor in the arts and creative fields. Living in the economic system of incessant optimization and exponentially accelerated growth expectations, AI can easily be seen both as a way of propelling us into the next phase of moving forward as well as a threat to our agency and relevance in the system as a whole.
The performance of Felix Wagner is an attempt at bringing human involvement in artificial intelligence to the forefront.The multi-screen video work of Hideo Snes transforms the artists and the curator, Felix Helmut Wagner, Hideo Snes and Peter Várnai, into an artificial intelligence-driven simulation. The virtual agents of the three are chatting, getting to know each other and they are organizing an art show in the virtual space of discotec.
︎ www.felixhelmutwagner.com
︎ www.hideosnes.online
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Dreams of an electric sheep
18.10.2023–09.11.2023
Hanna Besenhard ︎Simon Goritschnig
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Line Finderup Jensen
Photos by Tina Kult
For the group exhibition Dreams of an electric sheep, discotec invites 3 artists working with different visual languages yet connected by a common thread. In their creative process they all form a constant feedback loop between the physical and the virtual world, creating an exchange between realities.
In the work of Simon Goritschnig, one finds “Everything is connected" - a motto under which he examines similarities and connecting points of all organisms, natural processes, thought structures, events and composition principles in the broadest sense. The Vienna based artist draws obscure entities in a VR software and 3d prints them as reliefs to further transform the original digital structure onto paper using a simple frottage technique.
In her VR and animation works Danish artist Line Finderup Jensen draws a colorful and sharp satire of our society. The virtual world she builds up is a humorously distorted version of our own. The topics of her paintings are often rooted in her digital works but rather than the language of absurdity they create tension and empathy by showing mundane moments from the world of her animation.
The Vienna based media artist Hanna Besenhard generates simple but strangely familiar shapes in a playful conversation with an artificial intelligence software. She merges the uncanny forms with a theater like structure and sculpts this image out of marble. Immersed in their cold stone arena, the masks seem to play in an accidental drama.
By seamlessly blending conventional techniques such as painting, sculpture, and drawing with digital tools, these artists prompt us to reconsider our perceptions of artistic heritage. With it´s ninth show, discotec invites its visitors to reflect on how technology redefines the very essence of traditional artistry and perhaps opens doors to a more unified appreciation of artistic expression in the digital age.
︎ hannabesenhard.com
︎ simongoritschnig.com
︎ linefj.com
In the work of Simon Goritschnig, one finds “Everything is connected" - a motto under which he examines similarities and connecting points of all organisms, natural processes, thought structures, events and composition principles in the broadest sense. The Vienna based artist draws obscure entities in a VR software and 3d prints them as reliefs to further transform the original digital structure onto paper using a simple frottage technique.
In her VR and animation works Danish artist Line Finderup Jensen draws a colorful and sharp satire of our society. The virtual world she builds up is a humorously distorted version of our own. The topics of her paintings are often rooted in her digital works but rather than the language of absurdity they create tension and empathy by showing mundane moments from the world of her animation.
The Vienna based media artist Hanna Besenhard generates simple but strangely familiar shapes in a playful conversation with an artificial intelligence software. She merges the uncanny forms with a theater like structure and sculpts this image out of marble. Immersed in their cold stone arena, the masks seem to play in an accidental drama.
By seamlessly blending conventional techniques such as painting, sculpture, and drawing with digital tools, these artists prompt us to reconsider our perceptions of artistic heritage. With it´s ninth show, discotec invites its visitors to reflect on how technology redefines the very essence of traditional artistry and perhaps opens doors to a more unified appreciation of artistic expression in the digital age.
︎ hannabesenhard.com
︎ simongoritschnig.com
︎ linefj.com
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ODD SIZE BAGGAGE
14.9.2023–10.10.2023
Flora Lechner ︎
Photos by Tina Kult
“Odd Size Baggage” is a series of three suitcase pieces, a hand luggage, a cabin bag and a check-in bag. These pieces unfold into furniture items reflecting upon the pursuit of happiness as well as the restless drive to self-optimization. Oversized baggage is the burden a person generally carries around that goes beyond normal concerns and takes on unusual forms. Thus, the suitcase becomes a symbol of departure. It is a companion in the search, while undergoing test procedures at the departure gate and in everyday life. It is required to comply with certain specifications, dimensions and weight regulations in order to pass as normal luggage. If it falls out of line, it is an “odd size baggage“. With this series Flora Lechner questions the constant urge of the search of the next destination, how happiness and positivity become equated with productivity, quality, even normality. The constant pressure to achieve a sense of well-being, as well as the normative idea of happiness leads to an inability to live more successful and fulfilling lives than already lived.
"Odd Size Baggage" ist eine Serie von drei Koffern, einem Handgepäckstück, einem Cabin Bag und einem Check-in-Bag. Diese Stücke entfalten sich zu Möbeln, die das Streben nach Glück ebenso reflektieren, wie den rastlosen Drang zur Selbstoptimierung. Übergroßes Gepäck steht für die Last, die eine Person mit sich herumträgt, die über normale Sorgen hinausgeht und ungewöhnliche Formen annimmt. So wird der Koffer zu einem Symbol des Aufbruchs. Er ist ein Begleiter bei der Suche, bei den Prüfverfahren am Abfluggate und im Alltag. Er muss bestimmte Maße und Gewichte einhalten und Vorgaben erfüllen, um als normales Gepäck durchzugehen. Fällt es aus der Reihe, handelt es sich um ein „Odd Size Baggage". Mit dieser Serie hinterfragt Flora Lechner den ständigen Drang der Suche nach dem nächsten Ziel, wie Glück und Positivität mit Produktivität, Qualität, ja Normalität gleichgesetzt werden. Dem ständigen Druck, ein normatives Wohlbefinden zu erreichen und der Idee des Glücks folgt die Unfähigkeit, ein erfüllteres Leben, als das bereits gelebte zu führen.
︎ floralechner.com
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Fading
Echoes from the past
21.07.2023–25.08.2023
Michael Koch ︎ Karl Salzmann
with live sound performance by Karl Salzmann
Photos by Tina Kult
In der medienübergreifenden Ausstellung “FADING - Echoes from the past” verweben Michael Koch und Karl Salzmann ihre sehr persönlichen Erinnerungen an ihnen nahe gestandene Personen.
Akribisch gesammelte und geordnete Science-Fiction-Bücher, Miniaturskulpturen, Bilddokumente von Fernreisen, animierte Computergrafiken und eine Keramik-Manteltasche: all diese Dinge werden zu eigenständigen Entitäten, die im Rahmen der Präsentation versuchen, Geschichten zu erzählen, Fakten darzulegen und Verbindungen untereinander - aber auch zu den Besucherinnen - zu etablieren.
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In the cross-media exhibition "FADING - Echoes from the past", Michael Koch and Karl Salzmann weave together very personal memories of people close to them.
Carefully collected and ordered science fiction books, miniature sculptures, image files from long-distance journeys, animated computer graphics and a ceramic coat pocket: all these things become entities in their own right, which in the context of the presentation try to tell stories, state facts and develop connections with each other - but also with the visitors.
︎ karlsalzmann
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Footnote on a Neuron Scream
15.06.2023–14.07.2023
Nimova Projeckt
Sound collaboration with Új Bála
Photos by Tina Kult
"...Pain. First, a sharp, self-screaming neuron. Then the warning signal begins - by forming a chorus of others, to echo, to scream the pulsating need for attention. The pain, the feeling spreads, pours out, overwhelms everything, like a dark overflowing stream. Thus, there will be a mass rebellion in this Body, a symptom of the boycott."
If you look at the art object as an extension of human perception, the monologue of the video serves here as a temporary fusion of You and Me. As a footnote to the hard-to-model system that shapes a series of our behaviors, emotions and decisions into a unique whole, discotec invites you to sit down and merge into this speculative journey.
︎ nimova_projeckt
︎ Új Bála
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O RAMBO
02.06.2023–09.06.2023
EIN HÖR- UND SEHSPIEL
von Marie Sturminger & Felix Dennhardt
Photos by Tina Kult
»O RAMBO« ist eine Theaterproduktion für die Straße.
Die Schleifmühlgasse dient dabei als Bühne. Das Publikum sitzt auf einer Tribüne in der Galerie discotec, deren großes Schaufenster als Rahmen des Geschehens dient.
Die Darsteller:innen sind mikrofoniert. Was sie sagen, während sie sich ins Straßengeschehen mischen, hört nur das Publikum in der Galerie – es sind die kleinen Geschichten in einer komplizierten Welt, mal unbemerkt, mal skurril, intim und komisch.
Während das Publikum die Schleifmühlgasse im Blick hat, werden die Szenen durch die Schnitte im Sound definiert. Es mischen sich Geräusche, wie das Anzünden einer Zigarette mit dem Kaugummischmatzen eines kleinen Jungen und den Stimmen eines streitenden Paares.
So wandert der Blick von Figur zu Figur - vom angrenzenden Café, ins vorbeifahrende Auto, bis zu dem Fenster auf der anderen Straßenseite. Unsere Figuren sind Suchende. In ihrer Suche sind sie alle gleich. Sie straucheln durch ihr bedeutungssüchtiges Leben, in diesem Augenblick ihres Daseins, in dem wir sie beobachten dürfen.
Musikalisch begleitet wird die Produktion von Roman Gessler, Florentin Scheicher und Florian Röthel, auch bekannt aus der Wiener Band Buntspecht.
mit Julian Binder, Rudi Froech, Roman Gessler, Vasilisa Grebenshchikova, Werner Jakits, Zoe Kaja Kursawe, Leander Leutzendorff, Lili Maritta Malmberg, Victoria Nikolaevskaja, Florian Röthel, Philipp Pess, Henrietta Rauth, Florentin Scheicher, Hermine Schwaisst
Sound und Live-Mischung
Max Szakaly, Ferdinand Doblhammer
Szenenbild
Philipp Pess
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03
limbs & tools
27.04.2023–11.05.2023
Eva Balayan ︎Margareta Klose︎Studio Matchka ︎ Péter Várnai
Photos by Tina Kult
The exhibition limbs & tools @discotec invites you to ponder about fluid bodies accumulating and acclimating in
pluralities according to their technical environments: the fluid as liquid, the fluidum as medium & message and habitat that shapes bodies and swarms.
the fluid border between one and two
one fluid becoming two becomin gone
where do you begin where I end within you
we are inside out of each other
streaming liquids of interplay accumulating in iridescent light
our fluid as image , the fluidum as message
we are surface
(Margareta Klose, fluid poem)
︎ evabalayan.com
︎ kojeklose.com
︎ peter.varnai_animations.com
02
Broth
Bucket
09.03.2023–01.04.2023
Philipp Pess ︎
Photos by Tina Kult & Anton Kvitchuk
Philipp Pess is breaking boundaries between Performance, Mixed Media Installation and Set Design. With Broth Bucket, Pess takes us on a culinary journey through dantesque landscapes. Inspired by the taste of fried floppy disks, NFT´s
and 4D polygons, he succeeds in suffocating the longing for a peaceful world in the delusion of self-optimization.
The success of Pess’ Broth Bucket has attracted internationally acclaimed food bloggers, filmmakers and a significant fan crowd. So don't be disturbed by camera crews and masked Pess’ supporters while eating, on what will surely become an unforgettable evening at the Broth Bucket. Bon Appetit! Savoir vivre at discotec! 10/10
special contribution: Leon Höllhumer
︎ philipppess.com
01
The
Good
Place
26.01.2023–22.02.2023
Kiss Balázs Ágoston ︎Zsolt István Enyedi ︎ Andrea Mikyska MIU ︎ Lani Kotz ︎ Ulla Rauter ︎
Photos by Tina Kult
The Invitiation ︎
The first exhibition at discotec features a selection of works by Austrian and international artists - a gateway environment, populated by objects that merge into one another, finding themselves in ambiguous, transitory situationsAll of them exist in time; some are permanent, others ephemeral, but all are characterized by a shifting provisional state.
“In the eyes of many human beings, life appears to be a unique and special phenomenon. There is, of course, some truth to this belief, since no other planet is known to bear a rich and complex biosphere. However, this view betrays an “organic chauvinism” that leads to underestimate the vitality of the processes of self-organization in other spheres of reality. It can also make us forget that, despite the many differences between them, living creatures and their inorganic counterparts share a crucial dependence on intense flows of energy and materials. In many respects the circulation is what matters, not the particular forms that it causes to emerge.”
[excerpt from “A thousand years of nonlinear history”, by Manuel DeLanda]
︎ agostonbalazs.com
︎ behance.net/zsoltenyedi
︎ andreamikyska.com
︎ sdfghhh.exe
︎ ullarauter.com
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