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Between the Tremor and a Murmur Lies a Sunset
Waves as musical scores and lullabies for coyotes and foxes: in the group exhibition Between the Tremor and a Murmur Lies a Sunset, the Kunstraum traces the sounds and vibrations of nature. Conceived by guest curator Lorena Moreno Vera, the show explores the potentials of a true dialogue between the human and more-than-human world.
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Silent Spills I
Physical trickles and information leaks: in her live exhibition Silent Spills I, choreographer and performer Deva Schubert explores the communicative power of porous bodies. At the center of the show is a sound installation that activates a series of performative settings over the course of the exhibition. Silent Spills is a coproduction by Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and donaufestival.
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Annual program 2025: Noisy tongues
Speech is silver, noise is golden? With its annual theme Noisy tongues, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich presents artistic positions that deal with aspects of communication on different levels. Which methods do people use to interact with their environment? What are the prerequisites and limits of successful social communication? The title of the program alludes to two things: alongside the “noisy tongues” that polarize, divide, and pose an existential threat to democracy, it is also about types of “noise” that have the potential to create connections.
And: 20 years Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. This year, the Kunstraum celebrates its 20th anniversary – no better reason to take a look back at the history of this place and refresh the conversation between the past and present.
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H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance 2024
Can music set the pace of the social? This year’s winner of the H13 Lower Austria Prize for Performance, the artist and musician Katharina Ernst, explores the political potentials of the polyrhythm in her performance project metrics.
On Fri, 22.11.2024, at 7pm, Ernst will present her work on the occasion of the festive H13 award ceremony at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich. metrics is complemented with an exhibition, which will be on display from Sat, 23.11. to Sat, 07.12.2024.
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Flare demure
Navigating in the dark: The third Kunstraum exhibition this year invites you to explore the ambiguous and obscure. Flare demure is the title of Alice Slyngstad’s immersive installation: an elaborate transmedia ensemble between mythical labyrinth and queer heterotopia. It is the first solo show in Austria by the Norwegian artist who works at the interface of performance and installation.
ALL THE FEELS!
Hormonal rollercoasters, identity crises, bottomless despair, and excessive euphoria: In the group exhibition All the feels!, guest curator Nora Mayr invites the Kunstraum audience on a trip through the emotional worlds of teenage and early adult years. Together with the artists Oska Gutheil, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Hannah Neckel, Maruša Sagadin, Molly Soda, and Anna Witt, the show explores the (forgotten) transformative potential youth has to offer in times of global uncertainties.
BLISS, BLISS, BLISS
In line with its annual theme Heartbeats Rising, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich sets out to explore the relationship between feelings of ecstasy and the fear of catastrophe through its first exhibition of the year, Bliss, bliss, bliss. In collaboration with artists James Bantone, Laura Gozlan, Leon Höllhumer, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, P. Staff, and Chin Tsao, Bliss, bliss, bliss addresses the impact that the experience of a world in decline has on our ability to feel and to desire.
HEARTBEATS RISING
Emotions in times of a global state of permanent emergency: when under stress, one's pulse starts racing, the body switches to crisis mode, one freezes in fear or looks for ways to endure – what applies to the individual also applies to society. In its annual program 2024 Heartbeats Rising Kunstraum Niederoesterreich is taking a look at the dynamics between crisis and emotion. How are the extreme emotional states which the crisis and catastrophe threats put us in reflected in art?
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich is a lively space for contemporary art in Vienna. Our program consists of exhibitions, performances, and discursive formats and presents the work of emerging artists based in Austria as well as international artistic positions.