Living Apart Together

Participating artists: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Sirah Foighel Brutmann & Eitan Efrat, Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Linda Christanell, Collectif Faire-part, Chloë Delanghe, Lili Dujourie, Eva Giolo, Friedl vom Gröller, İpek Hamzaoğlu & Lantian Xie, Kathi Hofer, Katharina Lampert & Cordula Thym, Eva L’Hoest, Maggessi/Morusiewicz, Mara Mattuschka, Christiana Perschon, Sasha Pirker, Alex Reynolds, Ernst Schmidt jr., Nina Schuiki, Christina Stuhlberger, Hui Ye

Curator: elephy (Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo, Christina Stuhlberger)

In Living Apart Together, elephy brings a selection of audio/visual artworks from Belgium and Austria into correspondence. The exhibition questions and explores matters of identity, language, borders and belonging, delves into domestic spaces, provides a window onto intimacies, cherishes female role models, and celebrates the power and potential of art to unite us in the dark times, as Anouk De Clercq’s film We’ll find you when the sun goes black reminds us. In the exhibition text, “Organic Solidarity”, Patrick Holzapfel writes: “Instead of understanding the organic as a necessary interdependence between artists, the collected works unfold a physical-spiritual connection across generations and cultures. The works often show tender gestures of holding, embracing andaffection between people, but also between people and objects. Dialogues of gazes, art as a gift to the other person. This is a radical, political and liberating gesture that emphasises a different kind of togetherness between people.” Creating a dialogue between works from archival collections and contemporary creations, past and present meet here in a scenography created by Yuichiro Onuma.

List of public events in the frame of the exhibition

Sat 9.11.2024, 8.15 pm
elephy Screening at Filmkoop Wien
Address: Komödiengasse 8, 1020 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.filmkoopwien.at/
Programme still to be announced online
In the presence of elephy


Wed 13.11.2024, 6 pm
Living Apart Together opening at Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Address: Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.wuk.at/en/events/living-apart-together/
Curated by elephy
Exhibition text ‘Organic Solidarity’ by Patrick Holzapfel

Thu 14.11.2024, 5 - 6.30 pm 
Independent Art Spaces - TOUR 4
KEX Kunsthalle Exnergasse


Thur 14.11.2024, 6 pm, 8.30 pm
elephy screenings at the Austrian Film Museum
Address: Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1726451427479
elephy at the Austrian Film Museum text ‘Things Shared’ by Laura Staab
Program notes by Stoffel Debuysere
In the presence of Christina Stuhlberger, Cosma Grosser, Rebecca Jane Arthur, Tomash Schoiswohl

6 pm Program 1 (73’)
Cosma Grosser – Matterinplace_II, 2'   
Christina Stuhlberger – Saying Not Said, 18'
Dora Maurer – Hétpróba, 53'
Tickets here

8.30 pm Program 2 (65’)
Rebecca Jane Arthur – Hit Him on the Head with a Hard Heavy Hammer, 47'
Tomash Schoiswohl – Jumping Hochhäuser, 18'
Tickets here


Fr 15.11.2024, 5.30 - 7.30 pm
Gifting in the Dark – VIENNA ART WEEK at Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Address: Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.viennaartweek.at/en/app/programm/
In the presence of Christina Stuhlberger & Rebecca Jane Arthur
Collective viewing event of Living Apart Together & artists’ talk (in English) in the framework of Vienna Art Week


Fr 15.11.2024, 8.30 pm
elephy screenings at the Austrian Film Museum
Address: Augustinerstraße 1, 1010 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.filmmuseum.at/jart/prj3/filmmuseum/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1219068743272&schienen_id=1726451427479
In the presence of Eva Giolo, Antoinette Zwirchmayr & Viktoria Schmid

8.30 pm Program 3 (35’)
Antoinette Zwirchmayr – Am frostigen Atlas,6’26
Viktoria Schmid – Achtung/Hallo 35, 2’
Chloë Delanghe – VID-20200603-WA008.mp4/VID-20200603-WA009.mp4, 2’
Eva Giolo – Gil, 5’
Viktoria Schmid – A proposal to project in 4:3, 2’
Viktoria Schmid – NYC RGB, 7’
Eva Giolo – The Demands of Ordinary Devotion, 12’
Antoinette Zwirchmayr – House and Universe, 3’44
Tickets here


Sat 14.12.2024, 2 - 3.30 pm,
Fever Dreams #3 at Blickle Kino, Belvedere 21
Address: Arsenalstraße 1/21er Haus, 1030 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.belvedere.at/en/discover/blickle-kino
Curated and hosted by Maggessi/Morusiewicz
Programme to be announced online
In the presence of elephy & Linda Christanell

Sat 14.12.2024, 5.30 - 7 pm 
Living Apart Together finissage & talk with Branka Benčić at Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Address: Währinger Str. 59, 1090 Wien, Austria
Website: https://www.wuk.at/en/events/living-apart-together/
Curator, art historian and director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka
Branka Benčić reflects on feminist filmmaking practices
In the presence of elephy

This international presentation programme is made possible with the support of the Flemish Community (Kunstendecreet/Arts Decree of the Flemish Government), KASK & Conservatorium, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, LUCA School of Art, and the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).

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