Program

Hugo Canoilas, Kapsch Contemporary Art Prize winner 2020, uses the tradition and history of painting and object art to redefine and expand the connection between installational and performative strategies. Along with art history, he also references sociopolitical developments and the philosophical and art-theoretical discourses it involves. Currently, the all-dominating coronavirus crisis is already bringing into sharper focus virulent and interconnected topics such as the climate crisis, environmental degradation, and the ever-widening gap between poor and rich countries.Canoilas’s work deals with these developments and the anthropocentric worldview on which they are based. It ties in with ideas of a careful and egalitarian human treatment of nature and its creatures—ideas that have evolved in ongoing discourses around the Anthropocene and Posthumanism.

Space for Poetics of the In-between

Exhibition at EDUCULT

Exhibition in the EIKON Schauraum

Postcards and Installation in the Literaturpassage

Exhibition and accompanying LUMEN zine in the Sternenpassage

8-channel sound work, 7-part poster series in the TONSPUR_passage

Installation in the STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA

Installation in the ASIFAKEIL, Q21 Showrooms

In cooperation with Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture, Donostia/San Sebastián

Exhibition and reprise in the KABINETT comic passage

Installation in the Antichambre, Q21 Showrooms