KUNSTHALLE EXNERGASSE

Care is what we all need. Care and rest. The past years have been disastrous for marginalised people. I feel the pain of my trans, disabled, BIPOC friends. Facing abandonment by the state institutions, it is crucial to question our current support structures. Care webs as a concept emerging from the disability justice movement and formulated by the crip artist and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha returns to care with tenderness, accountability, and solidarity.

How can we be companions of ourselves and each other, perform acts of mutual care, and hold
space for one another? The exhibition applies the concept and practice of the doula as a framework to examine how our relationship towards the notion of care has changed in the past years and what forms of individual and collective responses can we decipher.

The starting point for the project ZOZAN are comprehensive multimedia documentations of Kurdish everyday cultures by Werner Finke and Mehmet Emir, created between 1964 and 2024 in Turkey. They reflect traditional ways of life and socio-political transformations.

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).

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.

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.