Kunsthalle Exnergasse Archive

We focus on the reciprocal influences and relationships between artists (biographies) and art spaces: Which potentials arise for self-empowerment and emancipation from collective historiography and how is knowledge collaboratively produced and transmitted? Similarly, the audience in the hall is welcome to join in the discussion with their own questions or statements, and naturally, a healthy dose of gossip is always welcome.

Sheeko, sheeko is a relaxed, open gathering. The welcoming atmosphere fosters a space for sharing stories, experiences, and wisdom from one’s own life and many years of activism.

As the starting point of permanent temporär, the spatial setting by Julian Siffert and Seth Weiner will be presented. In Hilma Bäckström’s Puppenmuttis Selbstbedienungsbar, visitors can help themselves and each other, and Francis Ruyter will launch the Regular Wednesdays series as its first host.

The Trustmaking Guidebook explores how young people can lead the way in reimagining cities through collaboration and creativity. This innovative approach to intergenerational co-creation transcends conventional urban planning paradigms, offering strategies such as arts-based interventions and placemaking to empower young people to co-create inclusive urban presents and futures.

Innerhalb der von Sara Castelo Branco kuratierten Ausstellung "Botanizing the Asphalt" setzt sich der Workshop mit dem Thema Lichtverschmutzung und ihren Auswirkungen auf Mensch und Natur auseinander. Neben Klimaänderungen und dem Einsatz von Pestiziden gehört die Überhandnahme künstlicher Lichtquellen zu den Hauptgefährdungen von Nachttieren. Besonders nachtaktive Insekten, wie das Wiener Nachtpfauenauge, der größte Schmetterling Mitteleuropas, sind davon betroffen. Doch wie reagieren Tiere genau auf nächtliche Beleuchtung? Lässt sich Licht umweltfreundlich einsetzen, vielleicht sogar umlenken? Gibt es so etwas wie tierfreundliche Beleuchtung überhaupt?

The live performance “Electrify Everything” translates the seductive and captivating magic of demonstrations of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment into a critical exploration of the origins of the units and language used to measure electricity. The field of electricity has been developed, manipulated, and named for three centuries to control and apply it.

The exhibition Botanizing the Asphalt explores the political role of urban spaces at night through three thematic realms that intersect with the nocturnal: protest, energy, and the botanizing.

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.