If as an artist you always receive embellished rejections and are rejected with white lies, how can you improve? If artists don't receive honest feedback on their work, how can we expect unadulterated and honest work to be created?
What we commonly call a white lie to gloss over an unpleasant truth can be observed daily in our everyday lives. Perhaps our modern social structure even depends on occasional concealment of truths?
Osama Zatar, curator of EDUCULT’s Salon of Cultures series for the past three years, has made it his goal to present artists from different ethnic backgrounds in a prestigious space like the Museumsquartier. It is notoriously difficult for artists to be represented in such an exclusive space.
Getting in touch with curators and gallery owners is the first hurdle. Getting a concrete chance to exhibit sometimes seems almost impossible. The curator Osama Zatar is concerned with several questions: If you as an artist always receive embellished rejections and are rejected with white lies, how can you improve? If artists don’t receive honest feedback on their work, how can we expect genuine and honest work to be created?
In this exhibition we welcome three artists who address these questions and present their work on the theme. Louise Deininger, Rubén Ezequiel Löwy and Valentina Schandl enter into an artistic discourse on the concealment of truths with light art, an installation as well as an installation performance and a sculpture.
Performative exhibition evening: 12 October 2023, from 7:00 p.m.
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The Salon of Cultures is an interdisciplinary event and exhibition series that has exhibition series, which since 2010 has regularly provided an artistic presentation and interaction space for artists, a diverse audience interested in art and culture art- and culture-interested public, actors from culture, education and science, and science with free admission in the Q21 of the MuseumsQuartier
Vienna and at decentralised venues in Vienna in cooperation with cultural cultural institutions and artists. EDUCULT is the initiator and organiser of the Salon der Kulturen.
Funded by the Department of Culture of the City of Vienna (MA7), Department of District Culture and Interculturality and the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
Performative exhibition evening: 12 October 2023, from 7:00 p.m.
Location: Room D in the MuseumsQuartier Wien, Museumsplatz 1/e-1.6, 1070 Vienna
Contact: marlene.kalnein(at)educult.at
Funding: Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien (MA7), Stadtteilkultur und Interkulturalität, BMKÖS - Sektion IV Kunst und Kultur
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