Substanz

Exhibition

01.11.2024 - 09.02.2025
Künstlerhaus 
Karlsplatz 5, 1010 Wien

‘Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment.’ – bell hooks

The exhibition SUBSTANZ points to the basis from which we arise: our humanity, our social embeddedness and our will to shape and thus to carry our own self with its individual positioning into the world. In an exemplary approach, the exhibition presents national and international artists and cultural actors who act socially in their production and/or in private initiatives. With their art and their commitment, they want to impart knowledge and stimulate emotional processes – they want to shake things up, offer comfort and give hope. Some artists form communities, launch campaigns or initiate funding projects. Others use their specific artistic expression to sensitise the public to urgent issues, to enter into dialogue or to take a stand themselves.

What all those involved have in common is that they are catalysts of development, with the active aim of positively influencing society beyond their own artistic practice.

ARTISTS: Ines Agostinelli, Vlasta Delimar, Veronika Dirnhofer, Georg Hobmeier, Jung Hsu & Natalia Rivera, Florine Imo, Julian Jankovic, Nest erval, Jovana Reisinger, Jaqueline Scheiber, Christoph Schwarz, Selma Selman, tools4art, Darrel Toulon, Brittany Tucker, Johannes Wiener, Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, Laurent Ziegler

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