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19/7/2007

Three exhibitions

Wiener Secession, Wien

Azra Aksamija, Patrick Baumuller, Severin Hofmann, Tatzu Nishi

The Secession’s summer outdoor program, with two projects by Azra Akšamija and Patrick Baumüller/Severin Hofmann, appeals directly to different publics – including those who may not usually have close (direct) contact with contemporary art. The projects deal with the symbolically charged architecture of the historical building and open the Secession up to the urban space. The result is a space for communication that allows people from different walks of life to enter into a dialog: the protected (and protective) artificial setting of the art institution loses its hermetic closure, representation takes a back seat to production. In contrast to the time-tested status quo of the institution in the tradition of the White Cube, the processual character of these projects creates the possibility not only of pursuing or relaunching discourses in the established art context, but also of actually provoking new discourses.

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AZRA AKŠAMIJA
KUNSTMOSCHEE

In her work, the artist and architect of Bosnian origin Azra Akšamija examines Islamic architecture and religion, as well as current forms of religious practice and identity. Her projects show various states and needs of a cosmopolitan generation of Muslims who refer to the underlying traditions of form and function, but who apply them to a contemporary context. This analysis draws on different cultural traditions and forms of art and architecture. One example of this is her design for a “Dirndl mosque”, as well as her current project that refers to the art historical and architectural tradition of the Secession, whose structure and ornament she transforms.

KUNSTMOSCHEE is a multifunctional, three-dimensional landscape of carpets in the Secession garden that reinterprets the established forms of Islamic architecture and the representation of religious identities. At the same time, it subtly breaks down the territorial claims of sacred places: on the one hand, prayer turns the modular carpet landscape into a mosque; on the other, social functions and uses turn it into a meeting place and communication forum for persons with different cultural needs. In this way, the installation focuses attention on the wideranging possible uses of mosques between religious and secular functions, and thus on the mosque as a “social” location.

KUNSTMOSCHEE revolves around three main concepts: beauty – based on Islamic geometry as a spatial translation of Islamic theory; transformation – via the reinterpretation of the rules of historic mosque architecture in a contemporary context; and flexibility – seen as a modular set consisting of the elements structure, light and shadow, interacting with a particular usage of the space. This also refers to the variable typology of the mosque, which can and must adapt itself to the architectural and programmatic elements of building culture in different countries and cultures.

KUNSTMOSCHEE places the focus on the distorted and politicized representation of Islam in Europe, on the aesthetic of Islamic culture and its close historic links with the Christian/European aesthetic. The project will be accompanied by lectures and film evenings.

AZRA AKŠAMIJA, born 1976 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austrian citizen since 1997, lives and works in Cambridge, USA.

SHOWS (selection): 2007 Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Pail and Lulu Hilliard University Art Gallery, Louisiana, Los Angeles; 2006 Survival, Assembly #4, Joanneum, Graz; Pattern Language: Clothing as Communicator, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Grenz­räume, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig; Lost Highway Expedition materials, Center for Advanced Visual Studies MIT, Cambridge, MA; The 2006 Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts Competition, Wiesner Student Art Gallery MIT; Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon Gallery DUMBO/NYC; 2005 International Artist Symposium ORTung, Galerie 5020, Salzburg; Occupying Space – Sammlung der Generali Foundation, Haus der Kunst, Munich/ Museum of Contemporary Art and Galerie Klovičevi dvori, Zagreb/ Witte de With, Rotterdam; 2004 Noch einen Wunsch, Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Liverpool Biennale; Video-Pool, Austrian Cultural Forum, London; 2003 Medien- und Architekturbiennale Graz; micro-UTOPIAS, Art & Architecture, Valencia Biennale; 2002 Designs for The Real World, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
http://www.mit.edu/~azra/

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BAUMÜLLER / HOFMANN
DIE WURSTHABERER

With their project DIE WURSTHABERER, Patrick Baumüller and Severin Hofmann raise issues of securing one’s (artistic) existence and of consumer behavior. In their work, Baumüller and Hofmann deal with everyday practices and reverse familiar orders. As DIE WURSTHABERER, alongside their comparatively insecure existence as artists, they attempt to establish a lucrative parallel existence as purveyors of luxury sausages. As well as experimenting with new forms of production, the piece is also about sociocultural inter­action and examines issues of economic policy. After several years experience as sausagemakers, previously limited to temporary forms of retail and presentation, they will use their appearance at the Secession to operate with extended production methods, enlarging their range over the course of the project. The new products include a porkfree sausage, a gesture towards a different eating culture, inviting visitors to Azra Akšamija’s KUNSTMOSCHEE to the sausage stand and vice versa.

DIE WURSTHABERER sell their wares from a construction site caravan converted for this purpose by Andreas Strauss; in cooperation with [ dy'na:mo ], it promises to become a vibrant place of communication at the interface between art audience, urban public, and tourism.

An example of their current sausage production:
LADY THAI
“A veal sausage with an exotic flavor. As the name suggests, our newly created mix of spices gives this fine sausage a sophisticated Asian freshness. Coconut milk gives the meat an especially velvety touch, and fresh lime juice makes it a little more tender, as well as bringing out the Thai mix of lemon grass and fresh coriander. This new veal sausage is easily digestible and tastes great as a snack or as a modest main dish.”

PATRICK BAUMÜLLER, born 1969 in Biel/Switzerland; lives and works in Vienna.

SHOWS (selection) 2007 Orakel von&mit Delphin, Künstler auf Landpartie 2, Koop. Aera 53 & Thomas Krösbacher, Vienna; 2006 FLY OVER BEE****** (No.2), Kunstraum Innsbruck; Into the City, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna; 2004 Floral – Assoziationen, Tiroler Künstlerschaft; 2003 On the Road again, engler & piper projekte, Berlin; 2002 10 Jahre Galerie 5020, Salzburg; 2001 MYCO LOGIC, Steirischer Herbst, Graz.

SEVERIN HOFMANN, born 1973 in Salzburg, lives and works in Zurich.

SHOWS (selection): 2007 Kempelen*, Kunsthalle Budapest; ZKM, Karlsruhe; 2006 The Failed Show, kforumvienna, Vienna; 2005 Massenmassage*, Puls 5, Zurich; Turing Train Terminal*, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo; 2004 Autorotation*, 26th Biennale Sao Paulo; 2003 Gordon`s Knot*, Steirischer Herbst, Werkstatt Graz; 2001 Spleen*, Galerie der Stadt Wels.
* varying cooperations

Projects by Baumüller / Hofmann (selection): 2005 Unterspiel, CAG, Vancouver; MAK-NITE, Museum angewandter Kunst, Vienna; 2004 Clustave XIV., Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg; 2002 Heiße Luft, Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck; Tuned Landscapes, Pavillon der TirolerKünstlerschaft, Innsbruck; FLOU-FLOU Galerie 5020, Salzburg; 2000 Big Banana Habig Biwak, Schaufenster-Installation, Generali Foundation, Vienna.
http://www.wursthaberer.com/

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TATZU NISHI
„HIER ENTSTEHT EIN HOTEL“

Tatzu Nishi will focus on the Secession as a historic monument by enclosing the iconic dome and transforming it into an exclusive hotel room which reveals itself only to the guest/visitor, while from outside, all that will be visible is a construction site situation with scaffolding. “HIER ENTSTEHT EIN HOTEL” is an ongoing project by Tatzu Nishi that is due to be realized over the coming year.

TATZU NISHI, born 1960 in Nagoya, Japan, lives and works in in Cologne.

SHOWS (selection): 2007 Hotel Nantes, Estuaire Festival, Nantes; MAM Project 006, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; 2006 Chéri in the Sky, Maison Hermes 8F Forum, Tokyo; 2005 Gott erscheint am Kopfkissen and Speak of the devil, Cabinet 3 Stedeljik Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; 2004 Moon Rider, Dublin City Council, Dublin; Interventionen, Sprengel Museum Hanover. 2005-06 Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne; 2004 Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla; 2002 Liverpool Biennial.
http://www.blumandpoe.com

For further information please contact:
Urte Schmitt-Ulms, tel.: +43 1 587 53 07-10;
fax: +43 1 587 53 07-34; email: pr@secession.at

Hours
Kunstmoschee
Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – midnight
Die Wursthaberer
Tuesday – Sunday, noon – midnight

Opening: Friday, July 20, 2007, 7 pm

Wiener Secession
Friedrichstrasse 12 - Wien

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