Is This Intimacy?

About

Is This Intimacy?

Curated by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, Carlota Mir, Chiarina Chen, Katrina Longo, Lina Romanukha, Valeria Schiller 
Curatorial supervision and guidance by Anamarija Batista

Opening: Thursday, 24 October, 19 h  
On view: 25 October  — 2 November 2019  
Working hours: Wed - Fri 15 - 19 h / Sa 11 - 14 h

Krinzinger Projekte, second floor
Schottenfeldgasse 45
1070 Wien  
 

Is This Intimacy? is an experimental exhibition showcasing the work of eleven artists, curated and produced by six international curators. Responding to the subject of ‘intimacy in the era of global connections,’ the exhibition presents a collage of ideas and investigates the tensions in situating and searching for intimacy today, its challenges and triumphs. Taking inspiration from the 2018 ‘Is this a pigeon?’ meme, which has become a saturated illustration conveying enigmas of confusion, the title contextualizes the chosen field of reference. 

Intimacy can be understood as not only the closeness to other(s) or the self but also to places, things, and space. An important focus present in several exhibited artworks is technology and how, through digitalization, it seeps into our daily lives blurring the boundaries between virtual/real, organic/inorganic, human/nonhuman, as we are desperately seeking to connect.
Works by Alfredo Ledesma Quintana, Anna Lerchbaumer, Anne-Clara Stahl, Bernadette Anzengruber, Darja Shatalova, Eva Rybářová, Laura Stoll, Maximiliane Leni Armann, Mona Radziabari, Paula Flores, and Veronika Abigail Beringer explore how we produce, seek, or avoid intimacy through language, flows of affect, communicational modes, capital, love, heritage, and technology. How do we form intimate moments with ourselves and others? How do we create distance or intimacy with our personal histories, and how do we create new intimate publics in an environment dominated by affective capital and ‘successful’ images of public intimacy?
The exhibition is accompanied by a 24-page catalog.

Performance: "Rapport (2019)" by Laura Stoll 
19 October, 21h 
Villa Schapira
Max-Emanuel-Strasse 17
1180 Vienna

Curatorial Walk-through and Artist Talk with Bernadette Anzengruber
 26 October, 12-14h
KRINZINGER PROJEKTE

Partners of the Curators’ Agenda: Vienna 2019 program are the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Ukrainian Institute and KRINZINGER PROJEKTE and it is supported by the City of Vienna.

More information available at Is This Intimacy?

For any  for any inquiries please contact :
Nevena Janković
+436602806045
nevena.jankovic@blockfrei.org