KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE

adO/Aptive will host a discursive and performative evening that reflects on gamification and different modes of immersion into game-realms – be they IRL or fully virtual.

Natalia Matsenko is an independent curator, art critic, and lecturer. She focuses on the landscape and environmental transformations, human and nonhuman communities as well as networks, new media, and cultural heritage preservation. Yuri Yefanov is a Ukrainian artist and filmmaker whose work explores the otherworldly digital dimensions of computer-generated imagery.

A shared look into the past and present of kex—kunsthalle exnergasse – along stories, collective memories, fictions, artists’ biographies, and voids.

Wie viel Boden brauchen wir zum Leben? Welche Funktionen erfüllt er für Klima, Wasserhaushalt, Artenvielfalt oder für unsere Lebensmittelproduktion? Und was passiert, wenn er zunehmend unter Beton und Asphalt verschwindet?

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.

WORDS ON FIRE – Democracy lights back is an evening of poetry, discussion, song, and participative reflection set in a field of political tensions where discomfort, falsehoods, and a war of words against human rights combine. The event will reignite the spirit of democracy while a bonfire burns in a barrel outside in the courtyard of WUK throughout the evening.

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.

The exhibition project Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of light in urban spaces at night. Examining the materiality of night and its sensorial, normative, and atmospheric aspects, the potential of the nocturnal as a community meeting space unfolds against the backdrop of pressing social, ecological, and political contexts.