Galerie Tanja Wagner

📣 Opening tonight 📣 Anna Witt - Unboxing the future! #annawitt #unboxingthefuture #postwork #artificialintelligence #robots #work #workers #whatdoesthefuturelooklike #galerietanjawagner #opening

Sneak peek of Anna Witt's new video installation Unboxing the future - opening this Friday! . The dialogue in the Video revolves around personal experiences, philosophical concerns and hopes for the future, and probes at the real-life social structures and working systems and models that will be brought into question. The discussions are inter- cut with the group’s assembly-line workers smoothly miming the movements they perform at work and footage of symbiotic robotic arms at work on cars . Anna Witt Unboxing the future Solo exhibition Galerie Tanja Wagner, February 21 - April 15, 2020 . Anna Witt Unboxing the future 2019 3-channel HD video installation, colour, sound 29:07 min. 3 + 1 AP ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #annawitt #unboxingthefuture #video #videoinstallation #opening #galerietanjawagner #postwork

#mood #winteriscoming #inneedofsomecolor

Thanks for review Kristian Vistrup Madsen for Artforum on our beautiful show in June Rust & Bones with Ulf Aminde, Nilbar Güres, Laurel Nakadate and Justin Liam O’Brien. [email protected] Ulf Aminde @nilbargures @laurelnakadate @justinliamobrien #rust #bones #groupshow #ulfaminde #nilbargures #laurelnakadate #justinliamobrien #galerietanjawagner

#fridaysforfuture #allefürsklima #closedtoday #seeyouthere #🌎 #❤️

Back in the office and ready to tackle the season!💥 @aj_trojnarski is already in the house starting to cover the walls with a hint of yellow for her upcoming solo show Perfect Storm, opening September 13. 🍋 #angelikatrojnarski #perfectstorm #yellow #galerietanjawagner

Currently on view at the gallery: Nilbar Güreş |ELSEWHERE'S for our group exhibition Rust & Bones until August 2! . "A seemingly absurd scene: two women, one wearing a headscarf, the other not, blue cloth tying them to one another. We see sand, the sea and artificial palm trees, the USA's understanding of the “exotic“ Middle East. Construction work on the world trade center is visible in the background. ELSEWHERE'S PALM TREES reflects on immigration, the USA's interest and political power plays in the Middle East. During my scholarship in New York, I recorded this video on an island which is a former, though still partly active, Navy Base. The message: women are affected by war first. And what are they doing here? Exactly what the East and the West are doing with each other." - Nilbar Güreş . Nilbar Güreş ELSEWHERE'S PALM TREES 2012-2018 HD video, colour, silent 09:02 min. . #elsewherespalmtrees #nilbargüreş #video #rust&bones #galerietanjawagner #art #exhibtion

We are looking forward to Anna Witt‘s performance BEAT HOUSE on May 11 at 4pm at Alfred-Klinkan-Hof, Vienna for Wiener Festwochen! Please join! ❤️ Kagran and Kaisermühlen are areas in Vienna’s 22nd district that concentrate a piece of the city’s history. Formerly a working-class neighbourhood and stronghold of council housing, it was one of the last bastions of the Socialist Party in its fight against Austrofascism. What interests Anna Witt most about this history is the vibrant utopia, the belief in the collective and in solidarity. The work of the visual artist, who was awarded the Otto Mauer Prize in 2018, is performative and participatory – this allows her to delve into questions that are important to her: How much community still exists in our society? In what way are the residents of a “Gemeindebau” connected nowadays? For Beat House Donaustadt Witt uses an ultrasound scanner to record their heartbeats. At the start of the Wiener Festwochen, the residents open their windows, letting their individual rhythms drift out and join to form a collective sound. The sound of the city. #beathouse Donaustadt @wienerfestwochen #alfredklinkanhof #heatbeat #trailer #annawitt

Kapwani Kiwanga at Whitechapel Gallery on view until May 12! Step inside the Sankofa Pavilion. Designed by Sir David Adjaye and artist Kapwani Kiwanga, the pavilion is a space for intimate conversations - a place to debate futures or to debate pasts. Constructed from dichroic glass, the reflective properties of the star-shaped structure create an interplay of colours and allow for both a degree of privacy and openness. #IsThisTomorrow David Adjaye Kapwani Kiwanga Sankofa Pavilion 2019 Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery #kapwanikiwanga #whitechapelgallery #sankofa #pavilion

OPENING TOMORROW!!

OPENING TOMORROW!! Ulf Aminde GLOBAL NATIONAL - Kunst zum Rechtspopulismus Group exhibition curated by Raimar Stange Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin March 21 - May 26, 2019 Opening: March 20, 7pm "Absolute premiere and very excited that it will finally come true: In the exhibition GLOBAL NATIONAL at Haus am Lützowplatz for the first time there will be the possibility to see a preview version in scale 1:10 of the memorial at the Keupstraße, Cologne, to remember that racist terrorist attack. It will then be possible to create virtual walls with the help of an App and Augmented Reality technology, on which films can be shown, pictures can be seen and texts can be read. The real App later will be much more complex, the memorial will later be 26 m long, but it already gives a good impression how it is meant. Background: The city of Cologne is failing to realise the memorial at Keupstraße (to remember the racis terrorist attack in Cologne, Probsteigasse in 2001 and Keupstraße in 2004) and is not standing up against the investment group that owns the site where the memorial will be built. The participation in the exhibition is the prelude to a tour throughout Germany to draw attention to the project." - Ulf Aminde Texts, pictures, films and realization: Meral Sahin, Mitat Özdemir, Svenja Leiber, Timo Glatz, Gesine Schütt, Massimo Perinelli, Daniel Poštrak, Kutlu Yurtseven, Jasper Kettner, Sebastian Weise, Ulf Aminde, Tribunal 'NSU-Komplex-auflösen', Initiative Herkesin Meydanı - Platz für Alle, Buntspecht Film und Digitales GmbH.

See you on Friday!❤️

Last day of Annabel Daou's solo exhibition 'If you only knew'! We are here until 6 pm! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @annabeldaou ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Annabel Daou chou hayda / if you only knew� (video excerpt) 2017-2018 HD video, colour, sound 24:00 min. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #annabeldaou #ifyouonlyknew #chouhayda #galerietanjawagner

chou hayda / if you only knew

Excerpt of ANNABEL DAOU's video chou hayda / if you only knew currently on view at our gallery until January 26, 2019.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Annabel Daou Annabel Daou chou hayda / if you only knew 2017-2018⁣⁣ HD video, colour, sound⁣⁣ 24:00 min.⁣⁣

We are happy to be surrounded by Annabel Daou's beautiful exhibition "if you only knew" until January 26, 2019!

Anna Witt - Das Radikale Empathiachat

Excerpt of Anna Witt's video Das Radikale Empathiachat / The Radical Empathiarchy on view at the gallery until November 2. Anna Witt Das Radikale Empathiachat 2018 In collaboration with Maria Bujanov, Phillip Borchert, Anja Engelhardt, Belve Langniss, Blandia Langniss, Chiara Rauhut, Lena Schubel 2-channel HD video, colour, sound

Annabel Daou - Excerpt Chou Hayda?

Annabel Daou's audio guide and video Chou Hayda? currently on view at Beirut Museum of Art - Bema - and soon at Galerie Tanja Wagner for Annabel's upcoming solo exhibition this November!! In November of 2017, people from across Beirut came to the National Museum and gave their voices to a number of objects in the collection. The people spoke to and for and about these objects from the past, and, in doing so, they revealed fragments of the present. They did not attempt to disclose a particular historical narrative. Nor did they attempt to create a fiction. They did not lie and they did not try to tell the truth. On view at The Beirut Museum of Art until December 30, 2018! Commissioned by BEWA, in collaboration with TEMPORARY . ART . PLATFORM, with the partnership of the MINISTRY OF CULTURE / DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF ANTIQUITIES and the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF BEIRUT.

ANNA WITT - The Radical Empathiarchy

The Radical Empathiarchy by Anna Witt - opening on Friday.

Anna Witt | Das Radikale Empathiachat

Opening this Friday! Anna Witt - Das Radikale Empathiachat Anna Witt is following a group of young people in Leipzig while developing a manifest for a potential youth movement. The young adults spent several months realizing the project in close cooperation with the artist. During their conversations, they are discussing their personal ideas of social utopias and are expressing their own feelings within the prevailing systems. By questioning and deconstructing consisting norms and values of our society, they are following their ideas of these concepts and their meanings to articulate the youth movement’s inherent purpose. According to their own imagination and sensations, they translated their manifest into physical forms of expression and performative interventions in the public space.

Nilbar Güreş - TORN

Nilbar Güreş's video TORN is part of her solo exhibition at the LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz and a newly commissioned work. It refers to her queer friend, Didem Görkem Geçit, who left Izmir for the Gezi Parki protests in 2013 and moved to Istanbul. He tried to work in several companies but experienced ongoing sexual harassment. After starting to work as a sex worker, one day she got kidnapped from the street by three men, they robbed her and cut her throat. She survived by pure luck. This violence doesn't have to do with her being a sex worker. It is about trans people, LGBTQAI people who are the victims of criminal cases. These crimes are hate crimes. Overhead - on view until 10 September! Nilbar Güreş TORN 2018 HD video, colour, sound 6:00 min.

Kapwani Kiwanga - A Primer

Kapwani Kiwanga's video A Primer will be shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The exhibition Walls Turned Sideways addresses the criminal justice system, mass incarceration, and the prison-industrial complex. Opening on August 25! Kapwani Kiwanga A Primer 2017 HD video, colour, silent 07:43 min. A Primer, a silent video co-produced by the Logan Center and The Power Plant, is projected onto a constructed wall and shows a series of vignettes of architectural assemblages and objects in space. The camera movement animates three structures, all of which are painted in reference to different environments and times: the white Ripolin of Le Corbusier and the international movement in architecture as well as the widespread use of green in hospital and therapeutic settings to invoke nature’s healing powers as well as the so- called Baker-Miller pink which was believed to calm agressive inmates in prisons in the late 1970s..

Ulf Aminde - Europa

Mutual cultural interactions and relationships is the theme of Eagles and Doves, the group exhibition at Kunsthalle Bratislava - featuring Ulf Aminde and Anna Witt Opening tomorrow, August 16 Kunsthalle Bratislava, Slovakia The clip is a short part of Ulf Aminde's video Europa 2012 HD Video, colour, Sound 17:05 min. http://www.kunsthallebratislava.sk/en/event/eagles-and-doves

Nilbar Güreş - Undressing

The Jüdisches Museum Franken - The Jewish Museum of Franconia presents Nilbar Güreş's video Undressing within the group exhibition Cherchez la femme. On view until October 14, 2018 Jüdisches Museum Franken, Fürth Nilbar Güreş Undressing 2006 SD video, colour, sound 06:19 min

Šejla Kamerić - Glück

The Motovun Film Festival​ in Croatia started yesterday, where the group exhibition Walls and Bridges at the Five Tower Gallery shows Sejla Kameric​' work Glück. Motovun Film Festival, Croatia July 24 - August 25, 2018 Showing the pursuit of happiness as a way of survival, this film is a potential remembrance in which boundaries between the past, present and the future tend to be erased. Berlin plays a significant role in the film, epitomizing a place in which suffering is part of the past, but is also a potential future. The film is inspired by the quotes from the book Nebeski Zarucnici (The Fiancés of Heaven) by Mirko Kovač.

Annabel Daou - Chou Hayda?

An excerpt of Annabel Daou's work Chou Hayda? realised with the people of Beirut currently on view at Beirut Museum of Art - Bema In November of 2017, people from across Beirut came to the National Museum and gave their voices to a number of objects in the collection. The people spoke to and for and about these objects from the past, and, in doing so, they revealed fragments of the present. They did not attempt to disclose a particular historical narrative. Nor did they attempt to create a fiction. They did not lie and they did not try to tell the truth. An audio guide by Annabel Daou and the people of Beirut with voices of Julia Kassar, Georges Khabbaz, and the people of Beirut. Commissioned by BEWA, in collaboration with Temporary Art Platform - T.A.P, with the partnership of the MINISTRY OF CULTURE / DIRECTORATE GENERAL OF ANTIQUITIES and the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF BEIRUT. https://www.chouhayda.com

GRIT RICHTER - The Space Between Us

Grit Richter's translations of The Space Between Us. On view until August 1.

GRIT RICHTER - The Space Between Us

How do you imagine The Space Between Us? See Grit Richter's translations of this pre-linguistic chaotic state at our gallery. We're open Tuesday to Saturday, 11 am - 6 pm.

ANNA WITT - Die Rechte des Gehsteigs (Ausschnitt)

A minute from Anna Witts video The Rights of the Pavement which is currently on view for the group exhibition Space for Kids. A Dream City at the Kunsthalle Wien MQ – MuseumsQuartier Wien On view from July 2 - September 2, 2018

Don't miss Šejla Kamerić's video Dream House on the last days of the exhibition All that We Have in Common at MoCA in Skopje! Šejla Kamerić All that We Have in Common Group exhibition curated by Mira Gakina and Jovanka Popova Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, April 18 - June 5, 2018 Šejla Kamerić DREAM HOUSE 2002 SD video installation, colour, sound, white curtain Endless loop projection 11:36 min. Combining still photography with time-lapse video, DREAM HOUSE shows a transit center as a fix point in the midst of changing conditions of the surrounding land- and cityscape from day to night. #sejlakameric #dreamhouse #videowork #videoart #❤️

Kapwani Kiwanga's 'Vumbi' to see the last week of the exhibition 'Do You See What I Hear?' at Dazibao in Montréal. Kapwani Kiwanga Vumbi 2012 HD video, colour, sound 31:00 min. During the dry season rural Tanzania is covered in a blanket of red dust which produces a myriad of monochromatic landscapes. The artist cleans away dust from foliage which will soon be buried under a new layer of dust. #kapwanikiwanga #vumbi #tanzania

Today in our mail! Flyers for Nilbar Güreş solo show at Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz - June 15 - September 10, 2018 curated by Silvia Eiblmayr. #❤️ #💥#🦋 #nilbargures #lentos #lentosmuseum #linz

Laurel Nakadate | Chewbacca, 2016 On view until June 9. Laurel Nakadate Chewbacca 2016 HD video, colour, sound 1:34 min., endless loop #laurelnakadate #chewbacca #video #videoart

Nilbar Güreş - Jumping Bed and Female Lovers - on view until April 13!

Anna Witt‘s fantastic show Human Flag at Belvedere21, Vienna - opening now! #annawitt #belvedere21wien #humanflag #monument #sexworkers #heartbeat #beatbody @annamargarethawitt @belvedere21wien

Almost ready for the opening: Nilbar Güreş - Jumping Bed and Female Lovers ! Opening this Friday from 6-9pm. #comecomecome Nilbar Güreş subtly brings into play the defensive attitude of western society toward the traditional dress codes of cultures influenced by religion. How I Met Your Mom, 2017 is a sculptural installation that consists of a textile figure placed on the wall hat could symbolize either a veiled Muslim woman or Maria. In the center of her face is a red circle as if she were blushing. Not far away a cactus figure made out of textile is standing in a terracotta pott, turning away ashamed, trying to cover his genitals. Her collages and objects convey a high degree of sensuous materiality – they are strangely puzzling, often charged with eroticism, and lead into a multifaceted, contradictory reality that prompts reflection. ##nilbargüres #galerietanjawagner @nilbargures

We got mail. Kapwani Kiwanga featured in the current issue of Interview Magazine.

Great project by *foundationClass for 3. Berliner Herbstsalon: ...very often journalists are contacting us because they want to write about "Refugees" in the academic context or how "Refugees" are living in Germany or even just because they need "traumatized people" to uplift their story. Of course we deny all of these requests- Go f**k yourselves ! Now we received a prize and also some money we need to continue our program. And again they also want to write on us but also to film a one shot movie sequence. They came with a very nice and smart attitude but brought us again into trouble because they said, they want to produce emotional images with bodies of the students edited with the voice of the Professor. We told them that`s not how it is going to work. We had a 2 week discussion with them about it. We wanted to have the prize and also the money but of course no one wanted to get framed by the camera as Refugee bodies with a white privileged voice giving the concept behind. They said: TRUST US. But the discussion became very demanding. In the end they agreed that if they are going to film us, we will ALSO FILM THEM. Now we´ve decided to edit OUR material WE ve been shooting and combine it with texts spoken by ourselves and relating to the discussion. This whole thing became an installation which you can now visit at Berliner Herbstsalon, Maxim Gorki: TRUST US The whole exhibition became very strong and we are happy to be part of it. A huge respect to Maxim Gorki.‘ #foundationclass #maximgorki #herbstsalon #desintegrierteuch

The Rising | Angelika J Trojnarski On view until January 20, 2018

Finishing touches. Soon on view at the gallery: Angelika Trojnarski | The Rising. Opening next Friday November 10!

Screening of Anna Witt's video Die Rechte des Gehsteigs / The Rights of the Pavement tonight at New Jörg, Vienna October 13! In The Rights of the Pavement the artist examines public forms of expression in our civil society. On view are visual forms of protest and their relation to judicial regulations. The video work shows found footage of political and artistic actions. In a voice-over one can hear an Austrian police press officer commenting on each situation. He explains the criminal delinquency and possible juristic consequences. Regulations for the sidewalk and consequently for the public space come increasingly to the fore. . The Rights of the Pavement 2012 HD video, colour, sound 05:33 min. #annawitt #rights #formsofexpression #protest #videowork #screening #vienna

Paula Doepfner YOU and ME. On view at the gallery until October 28. #seeyou #pauladoepfner #youandme #galerietanjawagner #❤️ #🌿