Exhibitions

LE CORBUSIER REORIENTED JOURNEY 1911-2011

The basis of the exhibition are conversations with architects, artists, activists, researchers and intellectuals in Athens, Belgrade, Istanbul, Rome and Vienna. The cities’ distinct qualities, their architecture and their monuments, and the two terms of the Orient and the East triggered the dialogical exchanges.

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8th Belgrade International Architecture Week
18-30 April 2013

The Cultural Centre of Belgrade
PODROOM
Knez Mihailova 6
11000 Belgrade, Serbia

www.kcb.org.rs

 

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ARTEFACTFESTIVAL 2013
13-24 February 2013
STUK KUNSTENCENTRUM LEUVEN

www.artefact-festival.be
www.stuk.be

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In 1911 Le Corbusier made a reversed ‘Grand Tour’ to the Orient. Starting out in Berlin he travelled to Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Athens, Napels, Rome and back home to La Chaux-de Fonds. The English translation turned his Voyage d’Orient intoThe Journey to the East. In 2011 Elke Krasny (AT) and David Bergé (BE) travelled to Athens, Belgrade, Istanbul, Rome and Vienna and had conversations with local activists, architects, artists and intellectuals focusing on the urban characteristics and transformation, on monuments and the ideologically loaded terms East and the Orient. Le Corbusier’s voyage reORIENTed 1911-2011, follows these narratives: Elke Krasny composed a multivoiced text-based installation and David Bergé a photographic exploration, aiming to capture transitional contemporary urbanities in a complex dialogue between text and image.

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Photos of the Installation by Joeri Thiry, STUK Kunstencentrum

 

Le Corbusier’s Voyage Re-orient-ed 1911:2011 Ein Reisebericht von Elke Krasny und David Bergé Eröffnung am Freitag, 23. November 2012, 19 Uhr kunsthaus muerz Wiener Straße 35, 8680 Mürzzuschlag Ausstellungdauer  : 24.11.2012–27.1.2013 Continue reading…

Hands-On Urbanism 1850-2012 by Elke Krasny, curator, and Alexander Schuh, graphic designer, is part of the exhibition Common Ground curated by David Chipperfield Padiglione Centrale, 13. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, La Biennale di Venezia 2012, 29. 8.–25. 11. 2012

 

HANDS-ON URBANISM 1850-2012. THE RIGHT TO GREEN. Interview with Elke Krasny (curator) and Alexandra Maringer (scenographer). Exhibition graphic design: Alexander Ach Schuh. Video by CastYourArt.com, Eva Stern, Natalia Daukszewicz. Vienna 2012.

“Stadtentwicklung von unten.” Elke Krasny zu Gast in „Von Tag zu Tag“, Moderation: Stella Damm, Ö1/ORF-Radio, Do., 29.03.2012 > Der Link zum Nachhören > http://oe1.orf.at/programm/298932

STADT LERNEN – SCHÜLERINNEN UND STUDIERENDE ARBEITEN MIT DEM WIEN MUSEUM Die Stadt als Spielmaterial, Lern- und Lehrort zu nutzen: Das war der Ausgangspunkt eines Projekts, um angehende KunsterzieherInnen der Akademie mit SchülerInnen zu vernetzen. Als Wissensspeicher und Anlaufstelle sollte das Wien Museum fungieren. Im Zuge des thematisch freien Projekts kristallisierten sich drei Schwerpunkte mit jeweiligen Arbeitsgruppen heraus. Continue reading…

Audain Gallery — Simon Fraser University

November 17, 2011–February 25, 2012
Opening: Wednesday, November 16, 7:00 pm

Audain Gallery SFU Woodward’s
Goldcorp Centre for the Arts
149 West Hastings Street
Vancouver BC

info@audaingallery.ca
www.audaingallery.ca

Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–6:00 pm

This process-oriented exhibition is a collaborative project between the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC), visiting artist Elke Krasny, the art collective desmedia, playwright and performer Marie Clements, the collective Coupe, students from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University, and the Audain Gallery.

Photos: Kevin Schmidt

The DEWC is a self-initiated and self-organized space. Emerging out of what is now known as second wave feminism, women in the neighbourhood founded the centre in 1978. In many ways, it is an example of bottom-up feminist urbanism. In its day-to-day operation, the centre primarily represents Indigenous and older Chinese women, as well as other women of the Downtown Eastside community. What the women of the centre have claimed—and are still claiming—addresses and embodies all of the larger social, political, and economic transformations that have challenged the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. These claims in fact constitute a vivid and vital historical mapping of the neighbourhood. Cecily Nicholson, a coordinator of the centre, significantly enabled the involvement of the DEWC in this collaboration.

Elke Krasny is a project-based artist and curator concerned with counter-hegemonic and feminist strategies of intervening in historical narratives, and with creating new constellations in the exchange of different forms of knowledge. The collaboration between the DEWC, Krasny, and the Audain Gallery centers on a research-based mapping that draws from the archival materials from the DEWC. Presented as a text-based “horizon line” spanning the walls of the gallery, the exhibition offers a visual map of the demands and aspirations of the DEWC community. These demands, both current and historical, address issues of poverty, violence and insecurity, social exclusion, the deferral of rights, and the legacy of colonialism. Although describing specific challenges, these claims are also expressions of conviviality and solidarity. These expressions exist between women, between women and their neighbourhoods, and between the women of the centre and their global context.

Beginning their practice in the early 2000s, desmedia provided access to the tools and training necessary for members of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver to self-produce their own media representations. As part of this practice, desmedia collected a large archive of interviews on digital video and other kinds of artwork. On the occasion of this exhibition, Krasny and the Audain Gallery have invited members of desmedia to reassemble their archive and to publicly debate its future.

Playwright and performer Marie Clements has a history of collaboration with the DEWC. Based on a series of workshops with the women of the DEWC, she will produce a new performance work for the exhibition that explores the potential of fiction to express critical truth. Like Krasny, Clements explores writing as both a collective process and a process of collectivization formed by way of an expressive multitude of subjectivities.

By initiating this collaboration, Sabine Bitter, the curator of the Audain Gallery, is expanding and changing the institutional parameters of the position, function, and mode of operation of a contemporary art gallery. This important, necessary form of “self-challenging of the institution” (and perhaps also “institutional self-challenging”) reacts to a setting defined by rapid urbanization, gentrification, and the all-inclusive yet reductive scope of neo-liberal economics, a setting in which the Audain Gallery is ultimately situated.

During the exhibition, the gallery will function as a platform and meeting ground for the production and exchange of different forms of knowledge. The “horizon line” will be a framing device and backdrop for a series of events, performances, and projects that aim to build neighbourhood constellations that go beyond familiar exchanges. They also provide opportunities for direct community participation and the fostering of critical dialogue, while also challenging the conventional expectation of what constitutes a gallery exhibition. As part of the events, women from the DEWC will teach a series of hands-on workshops, including instruction on cedar weaving and the sewing of button-blankets, to share their knowledge of traditional artistic practices.

For a full schedule of the events, performances, and projects, please go to www.audaingallery.ca.

Working closely with the women of the DEWC, Elke Krasny, and our other collaborators, Mapping the Everyday examines the possibilities for and consequences of community-based political activity as articulated in relationship with contemporary artistic and institutional practices.

Mapping the Everyday: Neighbourhood Claims for the Future is realised in partnership with the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre with support from the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Grants Program; the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture; the Vancity Office of Community Engagement as part of Simon Fraser University Woodward’s Cultural Unit; and the English Department of Simon Fraser University.

About the Audain Gallery

The Audain Gallery serves as a vital aspect of the Visual Arts program at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. The gallery’s mission is to advance the aesthetic and discursive production and presentation of contemporary visual art through a responsive program of exhibitions and to support engaged pedagogy. The gallery encourages conceptual and experimental projects that explore the dialogue between the social and the cultural in contemporary artistic practices.

The Audain Gallery is curated by Sabine Bitter, working with gallery assistant Brady Cranfield.

Projekt 29: Elke Krasny: “Creating Venice Beach”
A collective walk, Dienstag 18.10.11, 19 Uhr

Projektraum k48 – Offensive für zeitgenössische Wahrnehmung
Kirchengasse 48/Lokal 2, 1070 Wien

Walking and reading. Walking and sharing. Walking and talking. Continue reading…

8. April 2011 | Haus der Architektur Graz
HDA im Palais Thinnfeld, Mariahilferstraße 2, 8020 Graz

Wie gehen ArchitektInnen in der Praxis an ein neues Projekt heran? Wie sehen die Räume aus, die sie als Ateliers, Büros, Studios nutzen? Welches sind die Mittel, die sie für den Entwurf verwenden und wie haben sich diese im Lauf der Zeit geändert? Die Ausstellung beruht auf kuratorischen Feldforschungen in kanadischen und österreichischen Architekturbüros und setzt sich mit der Entstehung von Architektur und dem Zusammenspiel von Werkzeugen und Methoden auseinander. Sie ist die Weiterentwicklung der Ausstellung Penser Tout Haut. Faire l‘Architecture“, die im Centre de Design de l‘UQAM in Montréal 2010 realisiert und 2011 auch an der Dalhousie University in Halifax gezeigt wurde. Nun werden die Momentaufnahmen der kanadischen Architekturszene mit Positionen aus Österreich in Dialog gesetzt.

Mit: Atelier Big City (Montreal), Atelier BUILD (Montreal), Susan Fitzgerald Architecture / Brian Fitzgerald Developments (Halifax), Richard Kroeker (Halifax), Liquifer Systems Group (Wien), MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects Limited (Halifax), Renate Mihatsch (Graz/Wien), Patkau Architects (Vancouver), raumhochrosen (Bregenz), RVTR (Ann Arbor & Toronto), Saucier + Perrotte Architectes (Montreal), Shim-Sutcliffe Architects Inc. (Toronto), Szyszkowitz + Kowalski (Graz), tatanka ideenvertriebsgmbh (Mils), Urban Arts Architecture (Vancouver), Blanche + Sandy van Ginkel (Toronto), Weichlbauer Ortis (Frohnleiten)

Kuratorin: Elke Krasny

Ausstellungseröffnung | Freitag, 8. April 2011, 19 Uhr
Dauer der Ausstellung | 9. April bis 22. Mai 2011
10 bis 18 Uhr, Montag geschlossen

Symposium | Freitag, 8. April 14 bis 18 Uhr, HDA
Moderation: Elke Krasny

Sechs österreichische Büros stellen in Input-Referaten ihre jeweilige Arbeitsweise vor und diskutieren anschließend die unterschiedlichen Bedeutungen von Werkzeugen und Methoden, aber auch Inspirationsquellen, für das Entwerfen sowie dessen Wandel vor dem Hintergrund der spezifischen kulturellen Situation in Österreich.

Mit: Heike Schlauch und Robert Fabach (raumhochrosen, Bregenz), Karla Kowalski und Michael Szyszkowitz (Szyszkowitz + Kowalski, Graz), Renate Mihatsch (Graz/Wien), Wolfgang Pöschl (tatanka ideenvertriebsgmbh, Mils), Barbara Imhof (Liquifer Systems Group, Wien), Reinhold Weichlbauer und Albert Ortis (Frohnleiten)

The HDA
The House of Architecture, abbreviated in German as HDA (Haus der Architektur), is a non-profit-organization focusing on the mediation and promotion of contemporary architecture. The HDA was established in 1988 as the first institution of its kind in Austria and has been a precedent for founding similar associations throughout Austria and also in other European countries. In its many years the HDA has positioned itself as a forum and platform at the interface of architectural producers and interested recipients in the general public. As a consequence the HDA has long found its place as an anchor in the debate about regional and international development and projects.

The HDA covers a diverse area of activities – ranging from exhibitions, lectures, workshops, presentations of competitions to the general mediation of architecture and the organization of architectural study trips.