- Sounds like a Book and Kunstuniversität Linz
- 09.04.2025
On April 9th, bb15 will host a performative presentation by ‚Sounds like a Book‘ – a self-publishing and sound art platform, in collaboration with the Time-Based Media department of Kunstuniversität Linz.
Following a day-long workshop, the evening event, which is open to the public, will offer a glimpse into the residency’s playful and experimental structure and approach, re-imagining and expanding the meaning of the books and sounds in performative ways.
The event will feature artist books and sound pieces by the following artists: Georgiana Cojocaru, Janine Jop, Laure Catugier, Lena Ciobanu, Lisa Marie Schmitt, Lucian Barbu, Irina Motroc, and Ruxandra Nițescu. Additionally, students from the Time-Based Media department will present their interventions and engagements with the books and sounds of the latest edition of the residency entitled ‚Sounds like a Book: (S)pace‘.
Performative presentation: 09.04.2025, 7 pm @bb15
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Sounds like a Book is a book-making and self-publishing platform that addresses those interested in the book as a medium of artistic expression. As the chosen name suggests, SLB focuses on the visual transmission, conversion, and representation of the sound.
Since 2019, Sounds Like a Book has taken the form of a residency program, hosted at Casa Albastră in Șona, Romania. The latest edition, Sounds Like a Book: (S)pace, focused on various bodily perspectives and rhythms to explore the network of body-space-sound as it unfolds in the process of listening.
- Bernd Oppl
- 11.03.2025 - 28.03.2025
Exhibition Opening
March 11th, 2025, 7 pm
Sound Performance
AGB
March 21st, 7 pm
As part of the exhibition eye work, a joint sound performance by Andreas Kurz, Gabriela Gordillo, and Bernd Oppl will take place on March 21 at 7 PM. Performing together under the name AGB, they create evolving soundscapes and narratives. Entropy, rhythmic structures and oscillating frequencies set the basis of improvisation.
Opening Hours
March 12th – 28th,
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)
Additional events in the program on @spacedesignstrategies.
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.
- 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