Ich mag / I Like - Constanze Schweiger with Justine Kurland, Michael Part and Roland Rauschmeier
PER ALBIN #4, Ich mag/ I Like is an exhibition in public space, conceived by the Viennese artist Constanze Schweiger, which gives insight into the private world of artists as if through a window. For her own works she combines photographs by the New York artist Justine Kurland and sculptural objects by the Vienna-based artists Michael Part and Roland Rauschmeier. Only works are shown that were created in addition to the actual artistic work.
September 21 until November 8, 2019
To this end, Constanze Schweiger transformed her apartment into a kind of laboratory, where she spent the summer months testing "dye samples" with plant parts from the immediate and wider surroundings of the Per-Albin Hansson settlement: including nettle tips, birch leaves, oak bark or elderberries, which generate surprising shades of beige green, golden green-yellow, gray-brown or pink-gray. The dyeings gave rise to monochrome fabric pictures with colour irregularities and traces of plant remains that trace the manual act of dyeing. Mounted directly into the showcases like posters, the fabrics develop a temporary art object or image status in the exhibition context, which they will lose again after the exhibition if the artist continues to use the samples as material. For the respective backs of the showcases, Schweiger has selected a series of Justine Kurland's smartphone photographs, which Kurland makes of her cat in her apartment in a daily ritual comparable to her cat, in order to share them via social media on Instagram. The photographs show the cat in various poses (on the bed, at the window, on the desk) in a kind of intimate landscape, which from picture to picture opens up the artist's private living space in different colour temperatures, materiality, form, and functional contexts. What interests Schweiger above all is the shift that Kurland makes when she makes the cat pictures, which were created in passing, public like visual entries in a diary on Instagram or, in the case of the exhibition, in the showcases of the Per-Albin Hansson housing estate.
For the business premises at the Ekazent, Michael Part is designing furniture that takes on the function of a usable table or "Table of Contents" in the exhibition. On the furniture, samples of Constanze Schweiger's dye samples and cat photos by Justine Kurland in the context of her Instagram account meet a "scented candle" produced by Michael Part and Roland Rauschmeier. This is a performatively understood object that smells of smoky, fatty birch tar. The candle contains a tin cast weighing about 10 kg, which will successively change its shape during the burning process. The temporal aspect of the sculpture, which is alluded to here, is linked to the process of its creation, which is based on a cooperation between Michael Part and Roland Rauschmeier that took place about 15 years ago and has now been resumed.
All of these temporary exhibition objects were created in passing between regular art production and the activities of daily life. They thwart the registers of applied and visual art, of non-art and art, of shared personal involvement and participation in art, via aesthetic expressions of "I like".
Location
Alma-Rosé-Gasse 2, 1100 Wien
Gallery
Further Information
Constanze Schweiger (1970 in Salzburg) lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Van Eyck Academie (Maastricht). Scholarships including PS 1 (New York) and MAK Schindler Scholarship (Los Angeles). Exhibitions a.o. at MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles), 21er Haus (Vienna), KM- Künstlerhaus, (Graz), Galerie Meyer Kainer (Vienna), Pro Choice (Vienna), Art Concept (Paris), Foxy Production (New York), or Kunstverein New Jörg in Vienna.
Justine Kurland (1969 in Warsaw, New York), lives and works in New York. Kurland's works are in renowned collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; her work has most recently been shown in Girl Pictures, 1997-2002, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2018) and Airless Spaces, Higher Pictures, New York (2018).
Michael Part (1979 in Vienna) lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main. Exhibitions among others at Galerie Andreas Huber (Vienna), Trottoir (London), Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster), MUMOK Kino (Vienna), Kunsthaus Bregenz (Bregenz), Pro Choice (Vienna) and Sotoso (Brussels).
Roland Rauschmeier (1974 in Augsburg) lives and works in Vienna. Studied at the Free University in Berlin and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. With the French dancer and choreographer Anne Juren he founded the "Viennese Dance and Art Movement". He cooperates with the German film and video artist Ulu Braun under the pseudonym "BitteBitteJaJa" and works on a genre-spanning oeuvre. Presentations among others: International Film Festival Rotterdam, Impulse Theater Festival (Mühlheim an der Ruhr), Nagoya Triennale, ImPulsTanz Festival (Vienna), Centre Nationale de la Danse (Paris), Kunsthalle (Vienna).
Ich mag / I LikeConstanze Schweiger mit Justine Kurland, Michael Part und Roland Rauschmeier
Time Period
21. September bis 8. November 2019
Education - Events
- Kuratorinnenführung Sunday, September 22, 2019 / at 05:00 PM
- Kuratorinnenführung Friday, September 27, 2019 / at 05:00 PM
- Vortrag von Michael Part Thursday, October 17, 2019 / at 05:00 PM
- Kuratorinnenführung Thursday, November 7, 2019 / at 04:00 PM