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- Joanna Piotrowska is an artist.
ANTARCTICA. AN EXHIBITION ABOUT ALIENATION (group)
OVERVIEW
Date | ...... closes in todayOct 25, 2018 - Feb 17, 2019 |
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Opening | Oct 25, 2018, Thursday |
Venue(s) |
Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier) (Vienna, Austria) |
Curator(s) | Joan Müller Vanessa, Nicolaus Schafhausen |
Artist(s) | Bražiūnaitė Viltė, Jeroen De Rijke, Willem De Rooij , Burak Delier, Buck Ellison, Fürnkäs Isabella, Eva Giolo, Thibaut Henz, Jan Hoeft, Hanne Lippard, Joanna Piotrowska, Jana Schulz, Sinkevičius Tomas, Andrzej Steinbach, Ingel Vaikla, Peter Wachtler, Ian Wallace, Tobias Zielony |
Organizer(s) |
Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier) (Vienna, Austria) |
EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS
About Antarctica. An Exhibition about AlienationIn a sketch for a film, Michelangelo Antonioni notes: “The Antarctic glaciers are moving in our direction at a rate of three millimeters per year. Calculate when they’ll reach us. Anticipate, in a film, what will happen.”
Metaphorically speaking, to feel cold means to feel deeply alienated. Alienation was already a dominant concern for sociologists around 1900: the alienation of man from society through individualization, alienation from nature through urbanization, alienation from work through mechanization. For philosophers like Theodor W. Adorno, alienation thus turns into a key concept in terms of the role art plays in and for society: Without alienation there is no art, and ultimately it is only art that prevents total alienation.
Ironically, it is the countercultural protest against “social coldness” and against the “rigidification” of middle-class society in the 1960s that anticipates the ideologemes of flexible Capitalism 2.0. This move, in fact, paves the way for a new type of alienation – one which reverses the metaphorics: Coldness and rigidity are replaced by liquefaction, start-up and dynamics – social alienation, however, continues even as people now strive for self-optimization.
Antarctica looks at the pattern underlying alienation – this “relationship based on the absence of a relationship.” Showing numerous contemporary artworks; the exhibition explores how the term “alienation” functions in our world today. In doing so, it also addresses the following question: What other forms of relationship to the self and to the world do we need? Before we can even begin to create something like a space supportive of self-determination and self-realization?
The exhibition is preceded by a symposium on the subject.
ON-SCENE (10)
WORKS (6)

Untitled (from the series Gesellschaft beginnt mit drei)(Series: works with no series), 2017
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ARTIST: Andrzej Steinbach

V, Frowst(Series: works with no series), 2013
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ARTIST: Joanna Piotrowska

Untitled (Christmas Card #6)(Series: works with no series), 2018
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ARTIST: Buck Ellison

Roosenberg (Video Still)(Series: works with no series), 2017
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ARTIST: Ingel Vaikla

GOLDEN BOYS Igdir (Video Still)(Series: works with no series), 2018
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ARTIST: Jana Schulz

Afterwork (Video Still)(Series: works with no series), 2017
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ARTIST: Bražiūnaitė Viltė, Sinkevičius Tomas