
Nilbar Güreş
Applaus, 2021
Medium format photography, 130 × 180 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
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The exhibition mixed up with others before we even begin investigates models of thinking and working that reconcile different, sometimes contradictory entities within contemporary visual culture. Current artistic positions enter into a dialogue with selected works from the mumok collection and objects from the collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna to foreground the hybrid as an effective tenet, not only in artistic but also societal and political realms.
mixed up with others before we even begin celebrates the historical-cultural processes of creolization as a mode of world-making that has always been there. It encompasses moments of encounter and friendly gathering as well as those of collision, too. The exhibition features works that open perspectives to postcolonial histories of diversity, to satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals, to the molecular borders of the human body and its entanglements with science and technology.
Artists: Leilah Babirye, Mariana Castillo Deball, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Nilbar Güreş, Nicolás Lamas, Slavs and Tatars
The exhibition is accompanied by a symposium in cooperation with IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies | University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna. Under the title The Virtues of Vulnerability. Societies in Times of Trouble the symposium examines concrete sites and problem zones where the vulnerable fabric of life becomes political and/or promising strategies of dealing with the bruises of extractivist projects rise to the surface. It will introduce and discuss lines of thought and diverse practices that can turn apparent deficiencies into assets.
Symposium curated by Karin Harrasser and Franz Thalmair
Exhibition curated by Franz Thalmair
Nilbar Güreş
Applaus, 2021
Medium format photography, 130 × 180 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
Nilbar Güreş
Contaminated Pina Colada, 2021
Oil on canvas, 50 × 40 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
© the artist
Nicolás Lamas
Posthuman Portrait (Cosmos), 2021
Digital collage, archival pigment print, 180 × 135 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
© Bildrecht, Wien 2022
Nicolás Lamas
Posthuman Portrait (Volcano), 2021
Digital collage, archival pigment print, 180 × 135 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
© Bildrecht, Wien 2022
Slavs and Tatars
OdByt, 2015
Vacuum-formed plastic, acrylic paint, 64 × 91 cm
Courtesy of the artists
Slavs and Tatars
Öööps, 2013
Vacuum-formed plastic, acrylic paint, 64 × 91 cm
Courtesy of the artists
© the artist
Leilah Babirye
Nakawaddwa from the Kuchu Ngabi (Antelope) Clan, 2021
Glazed ceramic, wood, wax, wire, bicycle chain and found objects, 85.5 × 35.5 × 34.5 cm
Courtesy of Gordon Robichaux, NY and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Photo: Mark Blower
© the artist
Leilah Babirye
Untitled #2 (The Queens Series), 2016
Glazed ceramic, metal, found objects, 6 x 7 x 9 inches
Courtesy of Gordon Robichaux, NY and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Photo: Cathy Carver
© the artist
Mariana Castillo Deball
Microhistoria, 2011
Paper-mâché, aluminium wire, laser prints
Courtesy of Mariana Castillo Deball and Barbara Wien, Berlin
© the artist
Mariana Castillo Deball
Uncomfortable Objects, 2012
Metal Structure, papier-mâché, laser prints and aluminum wire, 20 × 10 × 5 m
Photo: Stefan Altenburger
© the artist
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová
Nothing Nowhere into Something Somewhere, 2015/2022
Book pages
© and Courtesy of the artists
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová
Nothing Nowhere into Something Somewhere, 2015/2022
Book pages
© and Courtesy of the artists
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Nilbar Güreş, Mayzu, 2022
© the artist
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Nilbar Güreş und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Nilbar Güreş and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Nilbar Güreş und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Nilbar Güreş and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Nicolás Lamas und aus den Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien / works by Nicolás Lamas and objects from the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Nicolás Lamas und aus den Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien / works by Nicolás Lamas and objects from the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Slavs and Tartars und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Slavs and Tartars and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Slavs and Tartars und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Slavs and Tartars and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Leilah Babirye und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Leilah Babirye and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Leilah Babirye und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Leilah Babirye and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Leilah Babirye, ohne Titel / no title, 2022
Maria Lassnig, Informel, 1951
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Mariana Castillo Deball und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Mariana Castillo Deball and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Werke von Mariana Castillo Deball und aus der mumok Sammlung / works by Mariana Castillo Deball and objects from the mumok collection
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, let fungi guru wisdom meet minds turn us new, 2022
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok
Ausstellungsansicht / exhibition view: mixed up with others before we even begin
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Nothing Nowhere Into Something Somewhere, 2015/2022
Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger / © mumok