4 whales in a soft sponge

Where?

• MEDIUM gallery,

  • Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, Bratislava

When?

• Opening: Tuesday June 18, 2024, 6 p.m.

• Duration: 19.6. - 4.8.2024

 

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Exhibitors

• Honey & Bunny, Isa Schieche, Mara Novak, Peter Varnai & Margareta Klose, Steffi Parlow, Titania Seidl

Curator:

• Nika Kupyrova

 

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Annotation

There are many reasons why the culinary arts were such an attractive genre for the avant-garde. Cooking is a discipline that is primary sensual: irrationality is allowed, creativity is praised. Culinary arts are controversial: what is considered edible and especially tasty is something that is constantly changing and being brought into question. Cooking and eating are performative: they are and have always been about performing wealth, class, culture, lifestyle. At the same time food is traditional and highly ritualized: a perfect target for an artist wanting to break with conventions of taste and conduct.

"4 whales in a soft sponge" freely re-interprets the absurdist cookbooks of the avant-garde, setting them in dialogue with contemporary artistic positions. Six artists and artist duos from Vienna appropriate culinary methods into their respective practices ranging from sculpture to performance and digital arts.

 

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• The exhibition was made possible by the support of Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria (BMKÖS).
• Partner: Austrian Cultural Forum
• This project was financially supported by Bratislava Self-Governing Region.

 

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