- Bernd Oppl
- 11.03.2025 - 28.03.2025
Exhibition Opening
March 11th, 2025, 7 pm
Opening Hours
March 12th – 20th,
Wednesday – Friday, 3 – 6 pm,
Bernd Oppl’s works – whether in the form of models, photographs, sound installations, or moving image works as projections and on displays – fundamentally deal with the uncertainty of perception in a world where the visible and audible are always material (magnetic tape, concrete, glass, the White Cube, etc.) and virtual at the same time, thus situating the world mostly in an uncanny intermediate space: present and absent, tangible and ephemeral, external and internalised, both all-encompassing and radically confined.
(Alejandro Bachmann)
Bernd Oppl studied painting and graphic arts at the Art University Linz and video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has presented his works in solo exhibitions at the Kunsthaus Dornbirn (AUT), Georgia Museum of Art (USA), the Tyrolian State Museum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck (AUT), Wiels – Contemporary Center of Art Brussels (BLG), Kuiper Projects in Brisbane (AUS), Kunstraum Dornbirn (AUT), Lentos Art Museum in Linz (AUT), Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna (AUT), and others. Oppl received the Award for Contemporary Art of the Province of Tyrol 2008, the RLB Art-Price 2012, the Art Award of the City of Innsbruck 2015, the Residency Scholarship for WIELS in 2018
(Brussels), the Austrian State Scholarship for fine arts 2019, the Residency Scholarship 2022 for BANFF center (Canada). the Award for best experimental film work of the Film Festival Best Austrian Animation 2022. He recived the Hilde Goldscmied Preis 2024 and the Residency Scholarship for the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York in 2026
- Anastasia Kraus, Elisabeth Perez, Lorenzo Iannantuoni, Margarita Gimaeva, Nikita Narder, Tanya Shtykalo & Tomiris Dmitrievskikh with Giulia Mazzorin and Andrea Curtoni (BUrb) Raum und Design Strategien Unit Venice
- 21.01.2025 - 29.01.2025
Opening: 21.01.2025, 6 pm (sharp)
Opening hours: 22–29.01.2025, 3–6 pm, Sunday Closed
Finissage: 29.01.2025, 6 pm (less sharp)
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Emerges out of the collective experience of inhabiting Venice and its lagoon as a method to enable a transformative process of mutual learning and sharing between us, as a temporary community, and the surrounding contexts—both human and non-human.
The broader research adopts the concept of radical empathy as an experimental pedagogical approach.This opens up possibilities to conceive design strategies as an expression of our ability to engage with diverse contexts and forms of otherness, guided by a renewed sense of care, understanding, and collective imagination.
Based on Seven different site-specific themes, all revolving around Venice and its lagoon, conceived as spaces to bring forth artistic and design interventions.
Each piece goes beyond the mere exhibited artefact, representing a stage in a year-long research process that aims to further evolve and deepen over time.
- Polly Mehr & Hylut
- 16.01.2025
Sound Performance: Thursday , January 16th, 7 pm
The sound performance „trex“, developed after a residency at Villa North, is based on the tapping sound of a small wooden toy as it travels down a long wooden plank. The little dinosaur, borrowed from Villa North, wobbles and stumbles, creating a sound reminiscent of horse hooves or the driving rhythm of a cumbia. Inspired by these sounds, a composition was developed, building on and extending the toy’s distinctive clattering noise.
Polly Mehr is the electropop project of singer and music producer Julia Vogt, who is also the frontwoman and lyricist of the Riot Grrrl punk band Musheen. Her lyrics are often melancholic, and her musical influences range from artists like Björk and Fever Ray to the 8-bit sounds of early console games.
Hylut is a solo project by the artist and composer Marija Jociūtė. Through processes of deconstruction, manipulation, and recontextualization of various types of data and sources, she explores the potential of auditory and narrative story telling. Hylut weaves together sounds of synthesizers, pulses of rhythm machines, digital elements as well as her own voice to create organically morphing sound compositions, exploring new possible correlations between tangible and ephemeral truths of our collective perception.
Event photo: (c) Marija Jociūtė
The series „Wavering Worlds“ provides a platform for local and international artists and musicians who oscillate between musical and artistic genres. Within this framework various forms of multimedia concerts and performances are presented.
- Anastasia Kraus, Elisabeth Perez, Lorenzo Iannantuoni, Margarita Gimaeva, Nikita Narder, Tanya Shtykalo & Tomiris Dmitrievskikh with Giulia Mazzorin and Andrea Curtoni (BUrb) Raum und Design Strategien Unit Venice
- 21.01.2025 - 29.01.2025