Julius Koller
dal 22/1/2007 al 23/2/2007
Segnalato da
22/1/2007
Julius Koller
Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
"My studio is my flat and my whole environment. I'm interested in the transformation of everyday situations in life into 'cultural situations', which I as an individual turn in a 'non-studio way' into an objective reality through a subjective intervention." (J. Koller)
Solo show
"My studio is my flat and my whole environment. I'm interested in the transformation
of everyday situations in life into 'cultural situations', which I as an individual
turn in a 'non-studio way' into an objective reality through a subjective
intervention." (Julius Koller)
From January 23 until February 24, 2007 Galerie Martin Janda shows photographs,
installations and paintings by Julius Koller.
"A singular figure, Koller developed highly sophisticated (and often uncannily
funny) conceptual tools to maintain independence in Communist Czechoslovakia, where
cultural production was divided into institutional and so-called free art, i.e., the
public sphere of official Socialist Realism and the private spaces of, as Koller
once named it, a 'subjective objectivity system'. Throughout postwar Slovakian
history, marked until 1989 by political and cultural outlines drawn in Moscow and
then (after a time of euphoria) by the sobering reality checks of the 'free market',
he continued to explore this 'system'. Always interested in gestures of universalism
from a position of both voluntary and forced marginality, Koller has now become
recognized internationally as the exceptional outsider he is." (Tom Holert,
Artforum)
Opening: Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 7 p.m.
Galerie Martin Janda
Raum aktueller Kunst
Eschenbachgasse 11 - Wien