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It’s summer and an unusual boiling heat in Vienna. You and your fellow bleary-eyed colleague are standing in front of a supermarket. Wondering faces. Closed. It’s Sunday. And you didn’t even notice. 

Situations like these are as natural to ImPulsTanz - International Dance Festival employees as breathing. Working intense hours with not enough sleep creates a certain type of bonding. Connected by their engagement at their shared working space and the strong interaction of their different departments at the festival, led to the idea to host an exhibition by a bunch of colleagues, who also lead artistic lives as visual artists. 

A group exhibition which brings on display individual artistic statements and points of views, connected through the imaginary collegial mind.

Artists:

Nestor Kovachev
www.nestorkovachev.net
instagram: @nestor_kovachev
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Olaf Osten
www.olaf-osten.com
instagram: @olafosten
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Maximilian Pramatarov
www.maximilianpramatarov.com
instagram: @maxi.panic
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Ophelia Reuter
instagram: @opheliapauline
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Joseph Rudolf
www.josephrudolf.com
instagram: @joseph_rudolf
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Maiko Sakurai Karner
www.kleinetaenzerin.com
instagram: @kleinetaenzerin
www.facebook.com/kleinetaenzerin
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Chris Swoon
www.facebook.com/chris.swoon

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Weingut Schödl | Loidesthal
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"Ich arbeite an meinen Barrieren", sagt der junge Zeichner, Musiker und Performance-Künstler Philipp Muerling. Durch eine neurodegenerative Krankheit ist er motorisch eingeschränkt und seit einigen Jahren auf den Rollstuhl angewiesen. Radikal und ungeschönt, verletzlich und nackt stellt er daher den eigenen Körper immer wieder ins Zentrum seiner Kunst. In Performances und Videos konfrontiert er sich und das Publikum mit den Barrieren und dem Scheitern, das ihm dieser Körper auferlegt, macht sich zum Modell und Objekt serieller, studienartiger Selbstportraits in Bleistift und lotet den erzwungenen Rhythmus und die Langsamkeit dieses Körpers in der Dekonstruktion digitaler Musikstücke aus.

Text: Roman Tschiedl für Ö1
Invited by: Markus Grabenwöger - Send mail

AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90′s. Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakami’s studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90′s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist (“Superflat” 1998). AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakami’s studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as Lady AIKO in 2006. AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene.

Current Exhibitions are “BEYOND THE STREET” May 2018 in Los Angeles USA as well as the solo exhibitions “BUNNY IN THE HOUSE” at WALLWORKS Gallery NY Mar 2018, and “LADY GO” April 2018 at Shizuoka City Tokaido Hiroshige Museum JAPAN.

She worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miami’s Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York City’s Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015/2016/2017, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows, from “AnimamixBiennale” at Shanghai’s MoCA in 2009 to “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, ‘Some Place Like Home” at Rumney Guggenheim Gallery NY in 2015 to her more recent solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014.

AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Coach, Apple, Microsoft, Kiehl’s, The Standard, W Hotel, Sanrio Hello Kitty, Isetan, Warner Bros., RED, Pepsi, Reebok and former First Lady Michelle Obama etc.

During her stay as Q21 artist in residence at MuseumsQuartier the artist will create panels for #streetartpassage, paint a mural at Siebensterngasse, a small exhibition at Jan Arnold Gallery.

Invited by @artis.love
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Ulla Rauter arbeitet als Medienkünstlerin und Musikerin an der Schnittstelle von Klangkunst und Bildender Kunst. Ihre Werke umfassen performative Skulpturen, musikalische Performances und experimentellem Instrumentenbau. Ihre selbstgebauten Interfaces verwenden physische Reize und Signale, um elektronische Klänge zu erzeugen und zu steuern. Dabei stellen sie oft eine Erweiterung des eigenen Körpers dar und werden zur sinnlichen Schnittstelle zwischen Körper, Umgebung und digitalem Klang. (Photo Credits: H. Redtenbacher)

Robert Bodnar hat eine zeitgemäße und radikale Art, die Fotografie konzeptuell zu denken. Er gehört der jüngeren" Artistic-Research-Generation" an, was sein technisches, mathematisches und physikalisches Wissen und seinen entsprechend experimentellen Umgang mit der Fotografie betrifft. Viele Arbeiten setzen spezielle (apparative) Konstruktionen, Berechnungen oder besondere Materialien voraus und behandeln medienspezifische Vorgänge. (Photo Credits: Mag. Manuel Carreon Lopez)