WE HAVE DONE NOTHING BECAUSE WE HAVE AVOIDED NOTHING
10 November 2024 - 15 February 2025
curated by Daniela Fernández
We have done nothing because we have avoided nothing, delves into the concept of ‘laziness’ as a dissident, somatic, marginal mechanism of political resistance. The exhibition showcases a diverse selection of multimedia works challenging the notion of time as a resource to be maximized, instead highlighting the subversive power of ‘wasting time’ as a form of dissent. Inspired by the underground Cuban magazine Revista de la Vagancia en Cuba, the exhibition celebrates the power of nonconformity and individual dissent against oppressive systems, revealing how apathy, fatigue, and even isolation can be potent tools for resistance.
Santiago Díaz Menéndez, Julio Llopiz-Casal, Carla Maria Bellido, Simone García (cymoonv), Amed Aroche, Lester Álvarez Meno, Román Gutiérrez Aragoneses, Kevin Ávila
image: Carla Maria Bellido
LIKE EVERY LEAVING WASN’T A COUNTRY
OPENING 7 JUNE 17-21H
Like Every Leaving Wasn’t a Country presents a comprehensive look at Yemeni-American artist and filmmaker, Ibi Ibrahim. Spanning a decade of his career, this diverse selection includes portraiture, staged self-portraits, still lives, subtle darkroom experimentations and moving images. These works bring viewers into proximity with the interconnected poetics and politics of Ibrahim’s expansive practice. Each piece leaves a gesture behind, only to rediscover its roots in the next work through personal motifs, historical narratives and a unique visual language that has evolved alongside societal changes in Yemen.
solo exhibition by Ibi Ibrahim, curated by Lina Ramadan
image: Arrival (still), Ibi Ibrahim, 2019, video 06: 30 mins
graphic design by Yenwei Liu
HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN BLIND
14 November 2023 - 12 February 2024
CLOSING 12 FEBRUARY 19-21H
How Long Have You Been Blind focuses on the events of July 11, 2021, when the Cuban people staged the largest anti-government protests recorded since the revolutionaries took power in 1959. The protests were violently suppressed, resulting in 1,878 arrests. Through experimental uses of immersive technologies, this exhibition invites reflection on how the international public has long overlooked and underestimated the Cuban reality, one that lies in stark contrast to utopian visions that idealize the revolutionary project. (curated by Forma Foco & ENTRE)
ALIBI
OPENING 25 OCTOBER Belvedere 21 Museum
ENTRE joins forces with FORMA FOCO for an exhibition called ALIBI at Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna as part of their yearlong program, On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond.
The aim of ALIBI is, on the one hand, to raise awareness about Cuban realities marginalized by political power. On the other, its motivation looks to new horizons by inviting Cuban artists, activists and human rights platforms to think or imagine the future of Cuba outside the straitjacket its history has become.
BLURRING BORDERS, REIMAGINING HORIZONS
OPENING 27 JUNE 18h
a collective exhibition by Generation 10 of the Vienna Master’s Programme in Applied Human Rights at die Angewandte, centered on arriving at new understandings of movement through narrative traces, speculations on migration, and concepts of mobility justice.
During the exhibition, Generation 10 will hold a series of public events intended to engage participants in discussion, storytelling and performance. The makers of the exhibition seek creative methods of re-imagining movement fluidly in such a way that upholds the promises of all human rights for all.
HUMAN RESOURCES
1 April - 26 May 2023
solo exhibition by Steven Cottingham
OPENING 31 March, 17-21h
Human Resources is an exhibition considering surveillance in relation to human rights, using computer rendering and animal camouflage to situate predatory vision within an increasingly datafied world. As advanced extraction algorithms require less and less realtime oversight, the data they gather is not necessarily used for observation but to fuel predictive simulations—resulting in a conflation of actual and virtual conditions. At the center of this exhibition is a feature-length machinima film set in a futuristic prison under total and constant surveillance, where prisoners develop new forms of crypsis to elude the omnipresent gaze of their AI surveiller.
Image: Aberrant cellularity, (detail) digital inkjet print on vinyl, Steven Cottingham, 2023
CELEBRATIONS: it’s often the party*—not the dinner itself
13 NOVEMBER 2022 - 17 JANUARY 2023
OPENING 12 NOVEMBER @ 17h
solo exhibition & dinner performance series by Ramiro Wong
Celebrations seeks to start conversation about our differences, backgrounds and beliefs by intersecting, comparing and contrasting one another’s stories using the comfortable and quotidian element of a meal. The exhibition features a series of carefully crafted dinner performances, shared meals and their residues, all revolving around ingredients offered by the soil and narratives offered by participants, which together conjure experiences of (dis)connection from the ground, what grows just above or below it, as well as our (dis)connection from the Other.
Drawing from Wong’s research on non-verbal communication and hospitality, the artist not only offers handmade food to participants, but in a way, allows himself to be consumed by others, with the hope guests will replicate the experience for themselves.
image: a la mañana con __________, y a la tarde con ____________. (installation), Ramiro Wong 2021-present
AL YEMEN AL SAEED: Arabia Felix? اليمن السعيد
1 - 25 JULY 2022
Jointly curated by the interdisciplinary students of the Vienna Master’s Programme in Applied Human Rights at die Angewandte.
Al Yemen al saeed: Arabia Felix? اليمن السعيد, an interactive art exhibition created for the Angewandte Festival, featuring multimedia works by contemporary Yemeni artists. The exhibition also aims to actively raise a certain kind of awareness about Yemen, which is lacking in mainstream media channels. It highlights the culturally rich aesthetic practices, optimism and resilience of contemporary artists and Yemeni people in the face of the ongoing war.
Exhibiting Artists: Somaya Abduallah, Asim Abdulaziz, Mariam Al-Dhubhani, Osama Khaled, Ali Al sunidar, Nezar Moqbel, and Ibi Ibrahim.
image: Somaya Abduallah
ENTRE is a 2022 recipient of the Offspace Prize, thanks to the city of Vienna!
NO FINAL VERSION
10 September - 21 October 2022
solo exhibition by Rafał Morusiewicz, curated by Guilherme Maggessi
What would happen to a film if you entered it, instead of “just” facing it? What if watching a film was an element of a larger process, one that challenges passive reception by inviting the audience to engage with the film’s editing as a tool that conditions one’s affect? These are the key questions underlying No Final Version, Rafal Morusiewicz's first solo exhibition in Austria, which presents a fragmented, fictionalized, immersive, and affective account of Polish communist film history. The exhibition’s works sample and remix footage from several films made in the 1950s-1980s, ones that were originally recognized as politically problematic and frequently banned from circulation. For Morusiewicz, born in 1979 in a small town in ultra-conservative north-east part of Poland, the films of the era constituted an ambivalent yet formative growing-up experience. This exhibition will present several works by the artist, together with an accompanying publication, designed collaboratively by the artist and the curator.
image: exhibition still
OBSESSION
27 November 2021 - 8 February 2022
curated by Solveig Font & Marilyn Volkman
This exhibition emerges from the current, critical period in Cuba when artists, journalists, and intellectuals have responded to the government’s restrictions on freedom of expression with specific demands. For those artists directly involved in the protest movement, the effect on life over the past year might be encapsulated in one word: obsession.
Mujercitos • Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara • Lester Álvarez Meno • Katherine Bisquet • Jenny Brito • Raychel Carrión • Julio Llópiz Casal • Benjamin del Castillo • Adrian Curbelo • Italo Exposito • Kiko Faxas • Celia González • Hamlet Lavastida • Camila Lobón • Nelson Jalil Sardiñas
image: Lester Álvarez Meno
BROKEN ON A WHEEL
9 April - 20 May 2022
solo exhibition by Dan Paz
Broken On A Wheel traces the history and economies of punishment through objects, gestures, and image-making to think through our proximity to the prison industrial complex as an ongoing militarized project. Using soap, food trays, and the mugshot, the project engages in a material inquiry between shared municipal spaces that are the closest to, and take from, the body in order to ask: Does one ever recover from incarceration? What is the history of institutionalized violence?
image: exhibition work by Dan Paz
ALIBI
OPENING 25 OCTOBER Belvedere 21 Museum
ENTRE joins forces with FORMA FOCO for an exhibition called ALIBI at Belvedere 21 Museum of Contemporary Art in Vienna as part of their yearlong program, On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond.
The aim of ALIBI is, on the one hand, to raise awareness about Cuban realities marginalized by political power. On the other, its motivation looks to new horizons by inviting Cuban artists, activists and human rights platforms to think or imagine the future of Cuba outside the straitjacket its history has become.
BLURRING BORDERS, REIMAGINING HORIZONS
OPENING 27 JUNE 18h
a collective exhibition by Generation 10 of the Vienna Master’s Programme in Applied Human Rights at die Angewandte, centered on arriving at new understandings of movement through narrative traces, speculations on migration, and concepts of mobility justice.
During the exhibition, Generation 10 will hold a series of public events intended to engage participants in discussion, storytelling and performance. The makers of the exhibition seek creative methods of re-imagining movement fluidly in such a way that upholds the promises of all human rights for all.
HUMAN RESOURCES
1 April - 26 May 2023
solo exhibition by Steven Cottingham
OPENING 31 March, 17-21h
Human Resources is an exhibition considering surveillance in relation to human rights, using computer rendering and animal camouflage to situate predatory vision within an increasingly datafied world. As advanced extraction algorithms require less and less realtime oversight, the data they gather is not necessarily used for observation but to fuel predictive simulations—resulting in a conflation of actual and virtual conditions. At the center of this exhibition is a feature-length machinima film set in a futuristic prison under total and constant surveillance, where prisoners develop new forms of crypsis to elude the omnipresent gaze of their AI surveiller.
Image: Aberrant cellularity, (detail) digital inkjet print on vinyl, Steven Cottingham, 2023
CELEBRATIONS: it’s often the party*—not the dinner itself
13 NOVEMBER 2022 - 17 JANUARY 2023
OPENING 12 NOVEMBER @ 17h
solo exhibition & dinner performance series by Ramiro Wong
Celebrations seeks to start conversation about our differences, backgrounds and beliefs by intersecting, comparing and contrasting one another’s stories using the comfortable and quotidian element of a meal. The exhibition features a series of carefully crafted dinner performances, shared meals and their residues, all revolving around ingredients offered by the soil and narratives offered by participants, which together conjure experiences of (dis)connection from the ground, what grows just above or below it, as well as our (dis)connection from the Other.
Drawing from Wong’s research on non-verbal communication and hospitality, the artist not only offers handmade food to participants, but in a way, allows himself to be consumed by others, with the hope guests will replicate the experience for themselves.
image: a la mañana con __________, y a la tarde con ____________. (installation), Ramiro Wong 2021-present
AL YEMEN AL SAEED: Arabia Felix? اليمن السعيد
1 - 25 JULY 2022
Jointly curated by the interdisciplinary students of the Vienna Master’s Programme in Applied Human Rights at die Angewandte.
Al Yemen al saeed: Arabia Felix? اليمن السعيد, an interactive art exhibition created for the Angewandte Festival, featuring multimedia works by contemporary Yemeni artists. The exhibition also aims to actively raise a certain kind of awareness about Yemen, which is lacking in mainstream media channels. It highlights the culturally rich aesthetic practices, optimism and resilience of contemporary artists and Yemeni people in the face of the ongoing war.
Exhibiting Artists: Somaya Abduallah, Asim Abdulaziz, Mariam Al-Dhubhani, Osama Khaled, Ali Al sunidar, Nezar Moqbel, and Ibi Ibrahim.
image: Somaya Abduallah
News: ENTRE is a 2022 recipient of the Offspace Prize, thanks to the city of Vienna!
NO FINAL VERSION
10 September - 21 October 2022
solo exhibition by Rafał Morusiewicz, curated by Guilherme Maggessi
What would happen to a film if you entered it, instead of “just” facing it? What if watching a film was an element of a larger process, one that challenges passive reception by inviting the audience to engage with the film’s editing as a tool that conditions one’s affect? These are the key questions underlying No Final Version, Rafal Morusiewicz's first solo exhibition in Austria, which presents a fragmented, fictionalized, immersive, and affective account of Polish communist film history. The exhibition’s works sample and remix footage from several films made in the 1950s-1980s, ones that were originally recognized as politically problematic and frequently banned from circulation. For Morusiewicz, born in 1979 in a small town in ultra-conservative north-east part of Poland, the films of the era constituted an ambivalent yet formative growing-up experience. This exhibition will present several works by the artist, together with an accompanying publication, designed collaboratively by the artist and the curator.
image: exhibition still
OBSESSION
27 November 2021 - 8 February 2022
curated by Solveig Font & Marilyn Volkman
This exhibition emerges from the current, critical period in Cuba when artists, journalists, and intellectuals have responded to the government’s restrictions on freedom of expression with specific demands. For those artists directly involved in the protest movement, the effect on life over the past year might be encapsulated in one word: obsession.
Mujercitos • Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara • Lester Álvarez Meno • Katherine Bisquet • Jenny Brito • Raychel Carrión • Julio Llópiz Casal • Benjamin del Castillo • Adrian Curbelo • Italo Exposito • Kiko Faxas • Celia González • Hamlet Lavastida • Camila Lobón • Nelson Jalil Sardiñas
image: Lester Álvarez Meno
BROKEN ON A WHEEL
9 April - 20 May 2022
solo exhibition by Dan Paz
Broken On A Wheel traces the history and economies of punishment through objects, gestures, and image-making to think through our proximity to the prison industrial complex as an ongoing militarized project. Using soap, food trays, and the mugshot, the project engages in a material inquiry between shared municipal spaces that are the closest to, and take from, the body in order to ask: Does one ever recover from incarceration? What is the history of institutionalized violence?
image: exhibition work by Dan Paz
