KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE

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building < against

Defiant Materials, restistant Buildings, Future Worlds

building < against refers to the non-conformist production of space, resistant buildings, protest architectures, autonomous and functionally open architectures, the preservation and cultivation of places, radical reconstructions. And even more radical practices of not building at all.

Thur 25.9.2025 until Sat 25.10.2025
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

The Bussi Beginner Workshop explores the group's favorite topics: urban development, de-gentrification, appropriation of space, and neighborhood. Between theatrical, participatory, and semi-rehearsed tips and tricks, they travel together with participants from WUK to the 17th district.

Sa 11.10.2025, 2.00 pm Hrs
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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Urban Poetry

building < against in cooperation with Augustin

We write, compose poetry, and make sense of the inconsistencies in the city. In a guided process, we create haikus, shortest stories, crossed-out poems, and collaborative typewriter poetry. In Romanian, German, Hungarian, French, English, and any other languages and symbols you bring with you. Everyone is welcome; writing experience is not a prerequisite.

We 15.10.2025, 3.00 pm - 6.00 pm Hrs
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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Practising Utopia: Speculative urban planning

Multimedia workshop on imagining and visualising the future of the city

This multimedia workshop uses speculation and simulation to explore the dynamics of city life. Firstly, participants share the most significant challenges they face, discussing potential solutions and their vision for the future of the city. The next phase brings these speculative ideas to life. Using a virtual city built in a gaming engine, participants design the neighbourhood of the future they have imagined.

Th 16.10.2025, 3.00 pm Hrs
, urbanize! festival center

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Early shift at the "Werft"

building < against in cooperation with AgidS and Jobtrain

Together with the young people, we will build in the "Werft". Based on the exhibition and the specific materials on the shelf, we will develop materials and props for the final move-out at the closing event. In the workshop, we explore the question of how (building) materials and protest are connected and how we ourselves can create and produce “revolutionary materials.” The focus is on the experiences and views of the young people themselves.

Th 16.10.2025, 8.30 am - 2.30 pm Hrs
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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Dyed-in-the-Wool

building < against in cooperation with urbanize!

In the workshop, we will first show a few fun “building materials” from the shelf, talk about protesting, and then work with clay, water, and wool ourselves in protest. This will take place in the shipyard. We want to pay special attention to the use of raw wool for all possible and impossible purposes in construction. The end result: wool paving stones, felt tiles, or even your own little “Wollbau” (cf. Folke Köbberling).

Sa 18.10.2025, 3.00 pm - 5.00 pm Hrs
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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Wharf Building Days

building < against in cooperation with urbanize!

The Wharf, the “construction site by the water,” is a place for building, learning, reading, planning, and resting. Over six construction days, we will work with you to build a vehicle for protest, which we will ceremoniously drive out at the end of the exhibition. No skills, more thrills.

Thur 2.10.2025 until Sat 4.10.2025 14.00 - 18.00, Thur 16.10.2025 until Fri 17.10.2025, 15.00 - 19.00, Sat 18.10.2025 15.00 - 17.30
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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Moving Mass

building < against

What’s the weight of a ton when distributed amongst peers, handled and moved around with archaic DIY instruments? With Moving Mass we aim to bridge the concepts of The Right to the City, Commons, and Action-based research. We’ll be looking at Mass both as an assembly of people and as the physical opposite of a void. Gravity, leverage, torque; using bodies and mass as means of transgression. Aiming to achieve what’s seemingly impossible we won’t necessarily be.

TBA
, kex—kunsthalle exnergasse

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About twice a month, the kex—Newsletter provides you with information about current exhibitions and events at kunsthalle exnergasse and the kex—Residency programme.