Through the lens of...

With Through the lens of…, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich invites visitors to experience its exhibitions through the perspectives of people from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds. In this edition, Wrestling Drag King Eric BigClit guides visitors through our current exhibition Attitude Era, offering a personal reading of the exhibited works shaped by his artistic practice between wrestling, performance, and drag.

Co-curated by Frederike Sperling and Pia Wamsler, the group exhibition Attitude Era focuses on the increasingly blurred boundaries between reality and performance in contemporary digital culture. At its center are the mechanisms of algorithmic attention that reward polarization, emotionalization, and the production of “alternative facts,” thereby shaping new forms of political and media reality.

A key point of reference for the exhibition is the world of professional wrestling — a spectacle in which identities, conflicts, and truths are continuously staged and renegotiated. In Ringmaster (2023), writer Abraham Josephine Riesman describes wrestling as a system that trains audiences to shift fluidly between fiction and reality. The artistic positions brought together in Attitude Era operate within a similar space. Between spectacle and politics, exaggeration and manipulation, bodily performance and digital propaganda, the exhibition explores how reality today is constructed, performed, and believed.

The tour will be given in German. Participation is free of charge, no registration required.

Eric BigClit is a Drag King artist, the first-ever Misster Tuntenball, and the founder of DragWrestling, House of Clits, and events such as Pride Rage, From Kings to Queens, and Queer fetzt! He* is known for a humorous, loving, appreciative, yet sharply critical style. Through self‑irony in drag, poetry, comedy, hosting, music, post‑porn, TV appearances, performance, DragWrestling theatre and film, as well as workshops, demonstrations, events, and activism, they question and challenge gender and society.