Index

A sense of place

curated by Eva Engelbert and Katrin Hornek

kunstraum lakeside, 18 October – 30 November 2012

Among the phenomena to emerge from the transformations we have become accustomed to calling globalization is the challenge individuals face of trying to localize themselves, in other words, maintaining a functioning sense of place. There is no doubt that the increased mobility of people, markets, images, and ideas does not pose the same challenges to business people as it does to artists swept up in the global circus of biennials, or to migrants.

The artists Eva Engelbert and Katrin Hornek conceive a group exhibition based on their own production methods and social relations in the art field, representing an attempt to create an aesthetic and spatial illustration of existing and evolving working contexts and shared ways of thinking. The work and the livelihood of young artists today, particularly those who do not produce according to the whims of the market, are to a large degree determined by grants, study fellowships, and residency programs. This results in the paradox of artists engaging with their shifting locations and with specific issues in one place, but developing works whose relevance then seems questionable in other places. What happens en route between a real place, the locus created by a work of art, and the exhibition space? Is the art space fictional? What kind of space is created when we transport site-specificity somewhere else? Does local context become nothing but a backdrop, thereby ending up depoliticized? Is contemporary art as mobile as its artists?

 

artists: Eva Engelbert, Ann Guillaume, Karin Hasselberg, Katrin Hornek, Johanna Tinzl / Stefan Flunger, Kay Walkowiak, Hannes Zebedin, Josef Zenzmaier

Text excerpt from the catalog: Christian Kravagna, Hedwig Saxenhuber

www.lakeside-kunstraum.at

Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
PARACELSUS, Josef Zenzmaier, 1985-2010
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
DORT, WO DIE KRĂ„HEN SITZEN BLEIBEN., Hannes Zebedin, 2012, BW copies (leaflets of the Carinthian partisans 1938-45), decoy bird, leaves
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
CONSIDERING THE ANY SITE SPECIFIC POTENTIAL OF A TRANSPARENT OBJECT, Karin Hasselberg, glass, pedestal, 2011 - 2012
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Foto: Johannes Puch / kunstraum lakeside
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
HOLE #01, Karin Hasselberg, DV-Video, 22 min, 2004
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
(INSTITUTIONAL) EARTH SANDWICH, Eva Engelbert, Katrin Hornek, 2 C-Prints, 2 roll halfs, infomaterial Chatham Islands Museum (NZ), Kunstraum Lakeside (A), 2012
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Chatham Islands Museum (NZ)
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Kunstraum Lakeside (A)
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
ANCESTRAL VOICES - REAKTUALISIERUNG, Ann Guillaume, DV-Video, 6 min, PVC sculpture, C-Print, pallet with intrasia, curtain, Foto: Johannes Puch / kunstraum lakeside
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
NOMADS, Kay Walkowiak, HD-Video, 3 min, 2011
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
LA VALLE ES EUROPEO. (THE FENCE IS EUROPEAN.), Johanna Tinzl, Stefan Flunger, HD-Video, 13 min 47 sec, 2011 - 2012
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
Katrin Hornek A sense of place
reading Anna Kim, photo: Dr.Sebastian Nestler
Katrin Hornek A sense of place

Among the phenomena to emerge from the transformations we have become accustomed to calling globalization is the challenge individuals face of trying to localize themselves, in other words, maintaining a functioning sense of place. There is no doubt that the increased mobility of people, markets, images, and ideas does not pose the same challenges to business people as it does to artists swept up in the global circus of biennials, or to migrants.

The artists Eva Engelbert and Katrin Hornek conceive a group exhibition based on their own production methods and social relations in the art field, representing an attempt to create an aesthetic and spatial illustration of existing and evolving working contexts and shared ways of thinking. The work and the livelihood of young artists today, particularly those who do not produce according to the whims of the market, are to a large degree determined by grants, study fellowships, and residency programs. This results in the paradox of artists engaging with their shifting locations and with specific issues in one place, but developing works whose relevance then seems questionable in other places. What happens en route between a real place, the locus created by a work of art, and the exhibition space? Is the art space fictional? What kind of space is created when we transport site-specificity somewhere else? Does local context become nothing but a backdrop, thereby ending up depoliticized? Is contemporary art as mobile as its artists?

 

artists: Eva Engelbert, Ann Guillaume, Karin Hasselberg, Katrin Hornek, Johanna Tinzl / Stefan Flunger, Kay Walkowiak, Hannes Zebedin, Josef Zenzmaier

Text excerpt from the catalog: Christian Kravagna, Hedwig Saxenhuber

www.lakeside-kunstraum.at