Paula Bruna Pérez — Jaleo Forestal

Opening, June 9, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition, June 10 – July 31, 2026

Tap, tap-tap, tap-tap, tap, tap, tap-tap… Only the unique fusion of stomping, clapping, and singing brings forth the typical rhythms of flamenco. This vocal-dance music, whose roots in southern Europe reach back throughout centuries and have branched out into a whole network of musical subgenres, is performed with instruments such as castanets, tambourines, and guitar. The lyrics often deal with...

(Re-)Writing Scripts

No good life without progress. Nature is a resource. Land is property. Violence begins where people are harmed and bleed. Male Palestinians are Islamist terrorists, Muslim women are suppressed women. There are scripts so deeply ingrained in our current thinking that they are hardly recognizable as such. Operating beneath the surface, these narratives determine how we speak about the world. They define what is a crisis, and which disasters, in turn, receive little attention, what calls for action, and what is accepted as inevitable. But scripts can be changed and narratives rewritten.

This, however, requires being able to identify and name mechanisms in society, such as (neo-) colonial land grabbing, expropriation of people, exploitation of landscapes, and the systematic destruction of both societies and ecosystems, making them visible and comprehensible. We must recognize these forms of violence as insidious standard procedures, as repetitive codes of necropolitical decision-making, and condemn them in the...

℅ Hosted by Apples and Bananas — Tattoo Workshop

Workshop, June 21, 2024, Kunstraum Lakeside and Educational Lab
Postcard Edition, 5 postcards, 105 × 148 mm, print run of 250 pieces

Students of class 3E/B, BRG Klagenfurt-Viktring / KuG (with Donata Kuess)
In cooperation with Edith Payer (workshop leader) and the Educational Lab.
 

℅ Hosted by the City — Photo Workshop

Workshop, June 28, 2024, Klagenfurt/St. Ruprecht (public space)
Workshop, June 13, 2024, Educational Lab and Lakeside Park
Exhibition, June 14 – July 14, 2024, Lakeside Park

Students of class 3AHK / HLA für Kunst und Gestaltung am CHS Villach (with Larissa Tomassetti)
In cooperation with Johannes Puch (workshop leader) and the Educational Lab.
 

Huda Takriti — Rewinding(s). In Rehearsal

Opening, April 9, 2024, 6 pm
Exhibition, April 10 – May 29, 2024
Long Night of Research, May 24, 2024, 4–11 pm

Huda Takriti: Who collected these photographs in this album—you or your mother?
Souheir Takriti: No, this was in an album for family photographs, but I replaced them and collected her work photos in one place.

℅ Infotour — pay the artist now!

November saw the start of a nationwide information tour by the pay the artist now! initiative. The aim is to provide information on the current status of the fair pay process and, conversely, to gather experiences and voices from the scene on the subject of fair pay in the visual arts. In this way, the interest groups contribute to evaluating and further developing the ongoing process. In cooperation with IG KiKK, the info tour will make a stop at Kunstraum Lakeside in Klagenfurt/Celovec on January 23 and 24, 2024.

 
Fair pay in the visual arts
Public panel discussion
January 23, 2024, 6-8 pm

℅ The Visible World — Physics Meets Photography

Workshop, April 12, 2023, Lendkanal (public space)
Workshop, May 16, 2023, Kunstraum Lakeside
Opening, June 15, 2023, 5 pm, Lendhafen
Exhibition, June 16 – 25, 2023, Lendhafen

Students of class 4C (Julius-Kugy Class) / BG und BRG für Slowenen (with Aloisia Gomez)
In cooperation with Johannes Puch (workshop leader) and the Educational Lab.
 

℅ Domplatz — Koroška/Kärnten gemeinsam erinnern/skupno ohranimo spomin

Opening | Otvoritev, February 23, 2023, 7 pm
Exhibition | Razstave, February 24 – March 2, 2023

With contributions by | Prispevali so Catrin Bolt, Friedemann Derschmidt, Melanie Hollaus/Christoph Lammerhuber/Elena Messner, Martin Krenn, Hubert Lobnig, Elena Messner/Jakob Holzer/Nicole Six & Paul Petritsch, Melitta Moschik, Malte Wandel, Johanes Zechner, Zweintopf
 

Statement #12 | Verlag für Handbücher — Safe Operations

Performative setting, July 1, 2021, 4–8 pm

Be it operating instructions or user manuals, technical documentation or service instructions, package leaflets or total solutions … these and other pragmatic, efficiency-oriented printed matter comprise the collections of the Verlag für Handbücher [Publishing House for Handbooks], founded by Anna Schiefer, Björn Kühn, and Oliver Kraft in Stuttgart in 2014. Their stated aim is to “investigate mechanisms of change” through...