Photo: Johannes Stoll, Belvedere, Wien
Belvedere 21, Vienna
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On the New - Young Scenes in Vienna
What interests young artists who live and work in Vienna? What subjects are in the air, what strategies do they use? The exhibition On the New. Young Scenes in Vienna is conceived as a stroll through local art communities.
In Vienna there is a varied and vibrant practice of art production and presentation by a new generation. In the numerous exhibition spaces and studios, currently anything seems possible. But how can an exhibition capture this diversity? On the New. Young Scenes in Vienna aims to reflect the vitality of Vienna’s art communities: artistic and curatorial formats combine to create a dynamic structure that will alter over the course of the exhibition.
On the one hand, constellations of existing and newly created work provide an insight into the practice of eighteen artists up to the age of thirty-five. On the other, twelve project spaces were invited to conceive one presentation each—without any guidelines—adding various perspectives from the city to the show. These presentations will be displayed in three spaces within the exhibition at an interval of three weeks.
The selection is obviously subjective and inevitably incomplete. And categories like ‘young’ and ‘the new’ are certainly problematic. Nevertheless, the curators relate the young Viennese art scenes, their protagonists, concerns, and attitudes to their expressive forms in an attempt to retrace “the new.” In the sum of the exhibition’s parts, tendencies become clear: For example, craft skills are once again playing a larger role than e.g., Post-Conceptual strategies. Virtuality and digital images are naturally part of the artists’ practice—as a means to an end or as the subject of their work. Questions of identity and representation are just as present as the examination of the body between social interaction and self-discipline. Moreover, a new nostalgia, a retreat to the private, the internal, to spiritual and fantastical concepts of the world can be understood as a response to the loss of utopias and future prospects.
Artists: Sasha Auerbakh, Anna-Sophie Berger, Cäcilia Brown, Marc-Alexandre Dumoulin, Melanie Ebenhoch, Johannes Gierlinger, Birke Gorm, Maureen Kaegi, Barbara Kapusta, Angelika Loderer, Nana Mandl, Matthias Noggler, Lukas Posch, Lucia Elena Průša, Rosa Rendl & Lonely Boys, Marina Sula, Philipp Timischl und Edin Zenun.
Biography
born 1983 in Baden, lives and works in Vienna
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2023
YOU YOU/REJECTION (with Ketty La Rocca), MLZ Art Dept, Triest
2022
Colour Charts, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2019
Rejection, Kunstraum Weikendorf, Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Weikendorf
Kartell, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2018
Opportunity Lover, Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Bob´s Pogo Bar, Berlin
Vilgefortis, Lonely Boys and Battle-Ax, Cordova, Barcelona
2017
Playing, Gillmeier Rech, Berlin
Concerts of Coreality, Lonely Boys, Sandy Brown, Berlin
2016
Holy and Repulsive, Lucas Hirsch, Düsseldorf
2015
What You Desire, Belvedere21, Vienna
2014
How Alive Are You, Bar Du Bois, Vienna
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2025
Being a Girl*!? From Panel Painting to Social Media, Lentos, Linz
2024
Beau Travail, Zirkusgasse, Vienna
You You, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi—Kargl, Vienna
Bringing Owls from Athens, Georg Kargl BOX x Callirrhoë, Athens, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
Body at Play, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna
2022
Tipsy Tina, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
2021
Posters by artist bands, Fluc, Vienna
GEORG KARGL EDITIONS, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Stay Brief, and Leave, Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris
2020
Would You Be Available…, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
Soft View / Privatissime, Neuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen
Attempt at Rapprochement, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The Shop, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
2019
On the New - Young Scenes in Vienna, Belvedere21, Vienna
On the New, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Performance by Appointment, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Lonely Boys performance, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg
Sketch I, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg
Lonely Boys performance, DAMA Project, Torino
2018
Lonely Boys performance, Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin
Culture Wear, Space31, Berlin
Sunglasses, Sundogs, Paris
2017
Aaahhh!!!, Lonely Boys performance, Paris Internationale, Paris
Selfie Mania, Alte Farbik, Gebert Stiftung, Rapperswil
Ritual, Lambdalambdalambda, Prishtina
A night for lonely boys, Kunstwerke - Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
In Awe, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Floating Self, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
Der Verdienst, 2014-2017, The Oracle, Berlin
How far to open up?, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
2016
The Language of things, Belvedere21, Vienna
Dreaming Dictionary, Skulpturinstitut, Vienna
Boil the Ocean, Bodega, New York
Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, HHDM, New York
2015
White SLR, New Bretagne Belle Air, Essen
BOYS, Lonely Boys performance, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
NEW NEEDS, Haus Wittmann by Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp
Time to Fill up the Glass, Galerie Crone, Berlin
Lonely Boys performance, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz
2014
Let’s Mingle, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
Pcnc_Bay XII, Ve.sch, Vienna
Curatorial
2020
The Shop, Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna
2016
F-Holes, Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, co-organized with HHDM, New York
2015
New Needs, co-curated with Isabella Ritter, Haus Wittmann by Johannes Spalt, Etsdorf/Kamp
Grants / Residencies
2025
Artist Residency, London
2022
State Scholarship for artistic photography, Austria
2016
Recognition Award for Fine Arts, City of Baden
2016
Artist Residency, New York
2012
Artist Residency, Cité des Arts, Paris
2010
Unit-F Editorial Award
Start Scholarship for artistic photography, Austria
Publications
2021
The logic of Intuition, edited by Attilia Fattori Franchini, published by von Georg Kargl Fine Arts
Opportunity Lover, Solo Album, released at Seayou Records
Projects
since 2010 LONELY BOYS - performance duo with Daphne Ahlers
since 2013 RENDL – swimwear label
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