IT’S COOKING – A Programme Takes Shape

Regular Wednesday #4

Hosts: Johanna Tinzl calls Katrin Hornek, Moderator: Georgia Holz
Mit Anne Faucheret, Franziska Kasper, Doris Krumpl, Maruša Sagadin, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Stefanie Seibold, Nicole Suzuki

Johanna Tinzl (kex—advisory board member 2018–2020) was invited to a Regular Wednesday to reflect on the artistic focus and direction of kunsthalle exnergasse. As she handed over her role as advisory panel member to Katrin Hornek in 2020, the idea arose to jointly develop this format.

This was the starting point for IT'S COOKING – A Programme Takes Shape, a project in which they invite all other members of their advisory panel position (see screenshot). These advisors form a transgenerational line of jury members who have been jointly responsible for the complete programme of kex— from 1991 to 2026.

In the programme kitchen, everyone comes together to discuss professional paths and invitation policies, shifts in discourse, gaps, power structures, and spaces of possibility. They reflect on friendship economies and networks and how all of this shapes artistic programmes, but also art scenes.

In advance, the panel members were asked to name a soup ingredient that they associate with the kex— programme. During the discussion, all the ingredients are cooked together to make a collective pot of soup, which will then be shared with the visitors.

Recipe Consulting: Steffi Parlow

Please be on time.

The collective experiment permanent temporär evolves out of a series of invitations and events with different formats – the Regular Wednesdays – which then culminate in an exhibition whose opening will only take place at the end of the process.

The four thematic fields include space and resources, voids or the (seemingly) absent, programming and participation strategies, and the contradictions between the permanently new and ever-temporary. The project departs from artists’ biographies and the transformations of cultural institutions and concepts of art in recent decades in Vienna and beyond.

Artists and curators Peter Kozek, Munira Mohamud, Francis Ruyter, and Johanna Tinzl were invited to develop and host events, discussion rounds, or other formats as Regular Wednesdays to constitute the exhibition framework.