Curator Daria Khan in an interview with Margit Mössmer
things. That’s what art has always been testing throughout history. Through the metaphor of levitation, I’m trying to understand and get answers from artists. Can we move things? Can this protest happen? the [...] history,” 2014 But how can we overcome the boundaries between an art space and the problems outside? I’m not sure who decides what is political and relevant today, but I do notice a voice in the art scene
Artist-in-Residence Emiliano Maggi in conversation with Margit Mössmer
the people, but I’m sure it’s not the fault of the art piece. Is your art work a dark work? It’s not dark at all. It’s wide, celestial and bright. I’m connected to the past, because if I’m not connected
Conversation with Artist-in-Residence Magnus Sodamin
good balance between nature, where you’re isolated, and the city, which is such a fast-paced place. I’m lucky to have found some kind of release, whether it is fishing or camping, canoeing or just kind of [...] a muralist? Well, my paintings are huge, I paint 20-foot paintings, they are really hard to sell. I’m fascinated by working with scale, I live in it more and I just don’t feel involved with a 1-foot painting [...] sometimes spills on the streets, that is true. Magnus Sodamin was Artist-in-Residence at Q21/MuseumsQuartier Wien in June 2015. He was recommended by the Q21-partner PERFEKT WORLD and presented his work
Artist-in-Residence Orit Ishay (ISR) recommended by EIKON - MuseumsQuartier Wien
focus of my work: Vienna seems like a great opportunity for me as it is charged with all the elements I’m interested in. Which projects are you currently working on? I can say for sure that after a certain [...] combines moments of poetry and musical sessions of street musicians from Tel Aviv and from the the MuseumsQuartier entrance nearby. In this short video I suggest looking at and reading about moments of social [...] answered; every place in this city is a must-see! Every place I’ve been to is quite fascinating. The MuseumsQuartier is one of the main places where you can be inspired by art and meet other artists. This place
"Frankie’s name is a reference to frankness" - MuseumsQuartier Wien
trauma. I’m also interested in collaborative practices, such as artists who work with communities or create interventions and interactions that respond to social and political situations. I’m inspired [...] blurred. To which media theoreticians do you refer in your practice? It changes according the project I’m working on, and often it’s not necessarily media theoreticians that I refer to. For example, Frankie
Guy Wouete
how this fact impacts our lives. This is a really interesting topic for me at the moment, and since I’m dealing with intimate matters I find it quite challenging as well. What is your production process
“The art world really is stupid in a way…” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
me with their expertise. Do you want to highlight any other of your new projects? Another project I’m working on deals with the idea of Direct Global Democracy – so it’s pretty much about Utopia: how people
"I am very impatient. That's why I make these patient films." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
one museum space to another, in this case to the TONSPUR_passage at MuseumsQuartier. It’s both an extension and a conversation. I’m hoping to question the definition of art itself, to expand it. The work [...] place to film, I’m very interested in this graveyard that is outside in that industrial area, where dead bodies have been washed up from the river. The Graveyard of the Nameless Yes, and I’m sure there are [...] photographs of digits, the first seven digits of π, one of the most important number in mathematics. Here I’m trying to connect mathematics to natural history and to art. Do you see yourself as a sound artist
“Go for the big elements, try to combine them.” - MuseumsQuartier Wien
afraid to use color because they are afraid to destroy the whole composition. I’m not afraid of colorful backgrounds and I’m not afraid of big size, either. Big size? I think that art, when integrated very [...] collage is a rather old one, it has existed since the early years of the last century, correct me if I’m wrong. What makes your collages “modern”? Collage is a part of Dada. Surrealist artists have made extensive [...] abstract instead! I have seen these projections on the MQ buildings and I find them a little bit cheap, I’m sorry to say. A building has to be physically covered by an image. Your series “Resisting Interpretation”
"A frame is never just a frame." - MuseumsQuartier Wien
title of this exhibition is “Faceless” and my work is not showing any hidden or disguised faces. So I’m very happy that within the frame of the other works you easily get the link to my questions: personal [...] curated by Bogomir Doringer in support of Brigitte Felderer at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONL / MuseumsQuartier Wien. #faceless Workshop "lookalike" with Marco Pezzotta (ITA) Date: Saturday, October 26, 2013