Kunsthalle Exnergasse Archive

HOOD Dreaming is a regenerative concept and practice that reimagines a supportive environment for parents working in the arts who navigate their dual responsibilities as artists and caregivers.

For the 45th anniversary, the curators of "On Chewing Shoelaces" will give a guided tour. The performance "Bored A F" which follows, turns boredom into an experience—and invites visitors to rediscover the perspectives of parents and children.

What happens when a practice of sustaining life is recontextualized in an art space? What changes when an act shifts from necessity to intention? Many forms of maintenance, support, and attentiveness unfold unnoticed, woven into everyday rhythms. What do they become once they are made visible? Through which forms can they appear? What rhythms define these practices?

Who Cares? invites staff and representatives of art and cultural institutions as well as artists to explore how care can become part of institutional practice. Together with Miriam Wistreich, Director of UKS, Oslo (Young Artists' Society) the Sharing Session examines how institutions can better support artist-parents and other caregivers through practical tools - specifically through care riders.

HOOD Dreaming is an audio composition practice that talks about the impossible, the necessary, and the not-yet-real, and imagines worlds in which parents and caregivers are comprehensively supported.

Queer Nursing book reading by Liesel Burisch, Community Picnic and Fort Building hosted by HOOD for Artist Parents, PREACH concert by Jesseline Preach

Screening of the video essay The Future is Near (in the neighborhood) by former kex—residents Natalia Matsenko and Yuri Yefanov. The event will also feature contributions by Sebastian Sattlecker and Ida Zahradnik.

As part of the exhibition after the last ready-made, the curators Dorian Bonelli and Frederik Marroquín will guide visitors through the exhibition and are open for questions and discussion. The tour will be held in German and English, with Spanish available upon request.