Kunsthalle Exnergasse Archive

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.

Short films and film clips will be shown that deal with the appropriation of urban spaces – from an intersectional queer-feminist perspective. What forms can resistance take? Where does it begin?

Robert Foltin (Fuzi) will talk about squatting and its institutionalization as described in the books “Und wir bewegen uns doch” (2004, edition grundrisse) and “Und wir bewegen uns noch” (2011, Mandelbaum Verlag), as well as social movements after 2011. The focus will be on the differences and similarities in the self-organization of squatting in Vienna.

Following an international call for artistic/political contributions on brownfield sites in urban areas, we will review the submissions together, create our own contributions, and then collectively print and bind the zines. We plan to have a Riso printer in the room. So there are many possibilities: reading together, writing, making collages, printing, and trying out simple binding techniques. At the end, we can all take a few zines home with us and give them to our friends.

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?

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

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.

The Atlas is an artistic research project that maps out a comparative analysis between curating and conducting. It aims to discover new ways of perceiving creative mechanisms in contemporary art (curated after 2000) and concert music (conducted after 2000).