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Round Table "How to live precarious?"

Image credits © David Meran, detail

Dec 3 2019
Hegelgasse 14
Vienna 1010
Phone: +43 1 236 3775
18:00
free
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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"How to live precarious?" is asked at the round table. The economic situation of artists and the conditions of the art market will be taken into consideration as well. How do artists live who operate outside the art market? How can they reach out to collectors? What does speculation and investment mean for young artists?

With Johannes Diwald (collector), Lisa Großkopf (artist), Fanny Hauser (Kevin Space), Fiona Liewehr (independent curator), Michael Strasser (artist)
Moderation: Vasilena Gankovska (IG Bildende Kunst)

Biographies of the Participants

Johannes Diwald – notary in vienna – art enthusiast for over 20 years – alway collector and archivist of various things – some close friendships with artists – constant user of artprice – socialized at Martin Janda Gallery – years of attempts to make an inventory of the collection – large art library…

Vasilena Gankovska lives in Vienna and Sofia since 2001 and works as visual artist and exhibition maker. Degree in Fine Arts, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Multiple exhibitions and awards, amongst others in Vienna, Moscow, Sofia, Los Angeles and Zurich. Her artistic work deals with the different aspects of the urban life, leisure and work and their spaces. Since 2012 she is board member of IG Bildende Kunst and was responsible as gallery spokesperson and curator for GALERIE IG BILDENDE KUNST.

Lisa Großkopf studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as well as at the Art University Linz. Her artistic work oscillates between different disciplines and encompasses a variety of techniques, from photography to transmedial art. Using conceptual and performative methods, she articulates questions critical to our system. Through her engagement with societal patterns of perception, she fundamentally challenges contemporary perspectives on images and norms as well as their evaluation.

Fanny Hauser studied art history and comparative literature in Vienna and Paris. She works as a curatorial assistant for documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens under the artistic direction of Adam Szymczyk. She is co-founder and co-director oft he art assiciation Kevin Space in Vienna, which opend in 2016. She is currently co-curator (together with Viktor Neumann) at the Gebert Foundation for Culture in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

Fiona Liewehr is an art historian, curator and writer/editor based in Vienna. Her experience is based on both an institutional background and the art market. She worked for the Belvedere, Vienna and the MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna as well as a gallery director of Georg Kargl Fine Arts. In her curatorial practice, Liewehr is concerned with the cross-over of media and disciplines such as theater, music, film and architecture and the phenomenology of perception and expanded forms of spatial existence as the result of social relations.

Michael Strasses’s work feeds on his interest in places and their history. Coming from the medium of photography, his work today oscillates between photography, installation, sculpture and performance. Within the radius of his artistic practice, her intervenes in both institutional and private spaces and buildings. By appropriating and transformin the situations found there, he analyzes the inscribed cultural and instistutional systems of representation.

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