Working between the lines of passive and defensive, social and intimate, pressure and pleasure; the exhibition presents artists’ allegorical positions to ponder upon political repression against queer&feminist existences. Curated by Alper Turan and Nazım Ünal Yılmaz, the exhibition, with the majority of the artists from Turkey, establishes an imaginary bridge between Vienna and Istanbul. The exhibition will take place between 19.5.2022 and 15.6.2022 at the Queer Museum Vienna in one room of the Volkskundemuseum, which has been made available to the QMV; a nomadic museum creating spaces for queer art, culture, and history as well as a queer future and futurity.
In the exhibition, we witness the bodies that are hanged, knocked down, cornered, pushed, and pressed against; we also see objects: forms of pleasure, and forms of ferocity that are activated on flesh by pushing the corporal limits. Artists’ works in the exhibition are creating intimate scenes mimicking society’s mechanics, unfolding intertwined narratives, posing primal and peripheral questions: How does political coercion manifest itself on a single body? How parallel run the power dynamics in our sexual practices to the societal ones? How does one transgress the pressure without pushing back? The images of bodies in the grip do not follow gestures of active resistance, assertive defense, or antagonism; instead, the bodies under pressure let themselves be pressed; are they submissively disobeying or practicing and acknowledging helplessness?
Curated by Nazim Ünal Yilmaz and Alper Turan
Artists: Natalia Gurova, Nihat Karataşlı, Zeynep Kayan, Can Küçük, İz Öztat and Ann Antidote, Dorian Sarı, Toni Schmale, Carlos Vergara, Cansu Yıldıran
Queer Museum Vienna is supported by Josefstadt and WASt - Wiener Antidiskriminierungsstelle. Dorian Sari's participation in the exhibition is supported by The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Thanks to: Galery Zilberman, İstanbul, Berlin; Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna; Öktem & Aykut Gallery, İstanbul; Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Zürich, Basel.
For press inquiries:
Alper Turan, alper2ran@gmail.com
Nazım Ünal Yılmaz, nazimunalyilmaz@gmail.com
Florian Aschka, queermuseumvienna@gmail.com
To the exhibition
In the exhibition, we witness the bodies that are hanged, knocked down, cornered, pushed, and pressed against; we also see objects: forms of pleasure, and forms of ferocity that are activated on flesh by pushing the corporal limits. Artists’ works in the exhibition are creating intimate scenes mimicking society’s mechanics, unfolding intertwined narratives, posing primal and peripheral questions: How does political coercion manifest itself on a single body? How parallel run the power dynamics in our sexual practices to the societal ones? How does one transgress the pressure without pushing back? The images of bodies in the grip do not follow gestures of active resistance, assertive defense, or antagonism; instead, the bodies under pressure let themselves be pressed; are they submissively disobeying or practicing and acknowledging helplessness?
Curated by Nazim Ünal Yilmaz and Alper Turan
Artists: Natalia Gurova, Nihat Karataşlı, Zeynep Kayan, Can Küçük, İz Öztat and Ann Antidote, Dorian Sarı, Toni Schmale, Carlos Vergara, Cansu Yıldıran
Queer Museum Vienna is supported by Josefstadt and WASt - Wiener Antidiskriminierungsstelle. Dorian Sari's participation in the exhibition is supported by The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.
Thanks to: Galery Zilberman, İstanbul, Berlin; Christine Koenig Galerie, Vienna; Öktem & Aykut Gallery, İstanbul; Wilde Gallery, Geneva, Zürich, Basel.
For press inquiries:
Alper Turan, alper2ran@gmail.com
Nazım Ünal Yılmaz, nazimunalyilmaz@gmail.com
Florian Aschka, queermuseumvienna@gmail.com
To the exhibition
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Volkskundemuseum Wien
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Otto Wagner Areal, Pavillon 1
Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
Postanschrift:
Laudongasse 15-19, 1080 Wien
T: +43 1 406 89 05
F: +43 1 406 89 05.88
E: office@volkskundemuseum.at
Hildebrandt Café
geschlossen
Bibliothek
Nutzung derzeit nicht möglich
Mostothek
geschlossen
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Gesine Stern
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gesine.stern@volkskundemuseum.at
Johanna Amlinger
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johanna.amlinger@volkskundemuseum.at
T: +43 (1) 406 89 05.51
M: +43 676 566 85 23
gesine.stern@volkskundemuseum.at
Johanna Amlinger
T: +43 (1) 406 89 05.57
johanna.amlinger@volkskundemuseum.at