Exhibition
Caroline Mesquita VERDETH BATH, Leon Höllhumer THE FEAST
7 Dec 2024 – 23 Feb 2025
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Timezone: Europe/Vienna
Free admission
About
The French artist Caroline Mesquita is regarded as a key interpreter of contemporary sculpture and its performative qualities. She creates sculptural bodies reminiscent of humans, animals and various hybrid creatures. These bodies are formed from brass and metals, and, despite the durability of the materials used, are characterized by a lightness and playful potential that animates them – almost as if they were living puppets. For Verdet Bath, Mesquita creates a bathing spa consisting of a swimming pool, changing rooms and drinking fountains, in which a multitude of her creatures and their audience cavort.
Styrian artist, choreographer and filmmaker Leon Höllhumer creates live performance events, films and exhibition projects. His practice plays with elements of the performative and the theatrical exploring questions of identity, body and power. In intricate settings, Höllhumer develops situational plots and scenic images that allow him to interact with various protagonists, such as the choreographer Florentina Holzinger, the musicians PUKE PUDDLE and the writer Ferdinand Schmalz. Aesthetically, his works refer to punk and horror films as well as various analogue and digital DIY techniques. Above all, his worlds are wild, if not rough and very direct.