Secession Podcast

Members: Oliver Ressler im Gespräch mit Luisa Ziaja

Luisa Ziaja spricht mit Oliver Ressler über seine künstlerische Praxis, insbesondere über seine Videos und Videoinstallationen der letzten Jahre. Diese setzen sich mit dem Klimakollaps und aktivistischer Organisierung dagegen aus, geben Einblicke in Klimaaktivismen und laden ein zu einem Nachdenken darüber, wie Gesellschaft demokratischer und inklusiver gestaltet werden könnte. Luisa Ziaja kuratierte 2024 die Einzelausstellung "Dog Days Bite Back" von Oliver Ressler im Belvedere 21. Oliver Ressler war von 2007–2013 Mitglied im Vorstand der Secession.
Das Gespräch wurde am 16. Mai 2025 aufgenommen.
Oliver Ressler lebt in Wien und arbeitet an Installationen, Projekten im Außenraum und Filmen zu Ökonomie, Demokratie, Klimakollaps, Formen des zivilen Ungehorsams und gesellschaftlichen Alternativen. Seine 44 Filme wurden in tausenden Veranstaltungen von sozialen Bewegungen, Kunstinstitutionen und Filmfestivals gezeigt. Ressler hatte Überblickseinzelausstellungen im MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla; Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, Mexiko and Belvedere 21, Wien. Er nahm an über 480 Gruppenausstellungen teil, wie im Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco und an den Biennalen in Prag, Sevilla, Moskau, Taipeh, Lyon, Gyumri, Venedig, Athen, Quebec, Helsinki, Jeju, Kiew, Göteborg, Istanbul, Stavanger, Istanbul and an der Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017. Von 2019-2023 arbeitete Ressler an einem Forschungsprojekt über die Klimagerechtigkeitsbewegungen, "Barricading the Ice Sheets", das vom Wissenschaftsfonds FWF finanziert wird und in sechs Einzelausstellungen mündete: Camera Austria, Graz (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2021); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin (2022); Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn (2022); LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (2023); The Showroom, London (2023). www.ressler.at
Luisa Ziaja ist Kunsthistorikerin, Kuratorin, Universitätslektorin und Autorin. Sie ist Chefkuratorin und Sammlungsleiterin der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, wo sie von 2013 bis 2022 als Kuratorin für zeitgenössische Kunst tätig war. Rezente Ausstellungen: Hans Haacke. Retrospektive (2025), Dara Birnbaum. Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 5 B-Dur, Oliver Ressler. Dog Days Bite Back (2024), Renate Bertlmann. Fragile Obsessionen, Über das Neue. Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus, Public Matters. Zeitgenössische Kunst im Belvedere-Garten (2023), Das Belvedere. 300 Jahre Ort der Kunst (2022), Avantgarde und Gegenwart. Die Sammlung Belvedere von Lassnig bis Knebl (2021). Von 2004 bis 2012 setzte sie als freie Kuratorin mehrjährige Forschungs- und Ausstellungsprojekte um; von 2000 bis 2004 war sie als Assistenzkuratorin in der Generali Foundation Wien tätig.
Luisa Ziaja ist Co-Leiterin des postgradualen Studienprogramms für Ausstellungstheorie und -praxis /ecm – educating, curating, making an der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (seit 2006) und unterrichtete darüber hinaus u.a. an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, der Technischen Universität Wien und der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Sie ist Mitglied des Universitätsrates der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (seit 2023) und war und ist Teil zahlreicher Fachjurys und Beiräte.
In ihrer kuratorischen und diskursiven Arbeit beschäftigt sie sich u.a. mit dem Verhältnis von Gegenwartskunst, Gesellschaft und (Geschichts-)Politik sowie mit der Geschichte und Theorien des Ausstellens. Luisa Ziaja ist Mitherausgeberin des peer-reviewed Belvedere Research Journal, sowie Autorin und Mitherausgeberin zahlreicher Ausstellungskataloge und Sammelbände zu zeitgenössischer künstlerischer und kuratorischer Praxis, Kunst- und Ausstellungstheorie, darunter die Publikationsreihe curating. ausstellungstheorie & praxis in der Edition Angewandte, zuletzt Nicht einfach ausstellen. Kuratorische Formate und Strategien im Postnazismus, Berlin/Boston 2024.
Secession Podcast: Members ist eine Gesprächsreihe mit Mitgliedern der Secession.Das Dorotheum ist exklusiver Sponsor des Secession Podcasts.Programmiert vom Vorstand der Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye mit einem Ausschnitt aus Combat of dreams für Streichquartett und Zuspielung (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) von Alexander J. Eberhard.Schnitt: Paul MacheckProduktion: Jeanette Pacher & Bettina Spörr

Members: Eva Schlegel im Gespräch mit Antonia Hoerschelmann

Eva Schlegel spricht mit der Kuratorin Antonia Hoerschelmann über ihre künstlerischen Anfänge, die prägende Zeit in New York und auch über biografische Einflüsse auf ihr Werk. Gemeinsam beleuchten sie entlang ihrer zahlreichen unverwechselbaren Werkserien die Rolle von Raum und Wahrnehmung in ihrem Schaffen und wie diese mittels künstlerischer Strategien wie Licht, Spiegelung und Unschärfe erweitert und in Frage gestellt werden können. Eva Schlegel ist seit langem mit der Secession verbunden: Seit 1995 ist sie Mitglied und 2005 realisierte sie im Hauptraum der Secession in eine beeindruckende ortsspezifische Installation mit Bleiwänden und Spiegelflächen, die von den Parametern der Architektur ausging, um diese neu zu interpretieren. Mit Antonia Hoerschelmann arbeitete sie zuletzt an ihrer umfassenden Ausstellung in der Landesgalerie Burgenland, die bis 5. Oktober 2025 zu sehen ist.
Landesgalerie BurgenlandEva Schlegel. Reflexionen14.06.2025 - 05.10.2025
SecessionEva Schlegel 5.5. – 26.6.2005
Eva Schlegel studierte Kunst bei Oswald Oberhuber an der Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien. Nach einigen Auslandsaufenthalten war sie von 1997 bis 2006 Professorin für Kunst und Fotografie an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien und von 2009 bis 2018 Vorsitzende des Universitätsrats der Kunstuniversität Linz. 2011 war sie als Kommissärin für den österreichischen Pavillon auf der 54. Biennale di Venezia verantwortlich.Schlegels Installationen, Fotografien und multimedialen Arbeiten werden seit 1985 in zahlreichen Galerien- und Museumsausstellungen im In- und Ausland gezeigt. 1988 und 1992 nahm sie an der Biennale Sydney teil, 1990 an Aperto in Venedig, 2017 an der Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Indien; 1995 gestaltete sie im Rahmen der Biennale di Venezia den österreichischen Pavillon zusammen mit Coop Himmelb(l)au. Zahlreiche permanente architektonische Interventionen realisierte sie u.a. für den Novartis-Campus in Basel, am Rigshospitalet in Kopenhagen, für die „Libelle“ am Dach des Leopold Museum im Wiener Museumsquartier und für das 2023 renovierte Parlamentsgebäude in Wien.Mehrere Publikationen zu ihren Arbeiten liegen vor, darunter Eva Schlegel, Museum Moderner Kunst (1991), L.A. Women (2004), Eva Schlegel, In Between anlässlich der Ausstellung im Wiener Museum für angewandte Kunst 2010 und Eva Schlegel, Spaces zur Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Krems 2018.Schlegel befasst sich in ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit vorrangig mit Raum, sowohl dem architektonischem wie auch dem mathematischen und physikalischen. Ihre Werke umfassen Fotografien und Objekte, aber auch Rauminstallationen, die sie in einem experimentellen Prozess mit diversen Medien wie Fotografie auf Blei, Spiegelglas oder Glass verwirklicht.Courtesy of Galerie Krinzinger, WienEva Schlegel, geb. 1960 in Hall in Tirol, lebt und arbeitet in Wien.www.evaschlegel.com
Antonia Hoerschelmann studierte Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie und Archäologie an der Universität Wien und war von 1992 bis 2025 Kuratorin für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst an der Albertina Wien. Zahlreiche Ausstellungen und Publikationen im In- und Ausland mit Werken u.a. von Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Alfred Kubin, Maria Lassnig, Arnulf Rainer, Georg Baselitz, Jim Dine, Martha Jungwirth, Anselm Kiefer, Hubert Scheibl, Herbert Brandl, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Jurytätigkeit im In- und Ausland.
Secession Podcast: Members ist eine Gesprächsreihe mit Mitgliedern der Secession.Das Dorotheum ist exklusiver Sponsor des Secession Podcasts.Programmiert vom Vorstand der Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye mit einem Ausschnitt aus Combat of dreams für Streichquartett und Zuspielung (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) von Alexander J. Eberhard.Schnitt: Paul MacheckProduktion: Jeanette Pacher & Bettina Spörr

Artists: Jeremy Shaw in conversation with Damian Lentini

This episode is a conversation between the artist Jeremy Shaw and the curator Damian Lentini. It was recorded on 6 June 2025 in the context of his exhibition, when Jeremy returned to Vienna for the screening of Quantification Trilogy at the mumok.
Jeremy ShawTowards Logarithmic Delay29.5. – 31.8.2025
The exhibition Towards Logarithmic Delay presents three new sculptural works that engage with the concept of border zones and the disorientation brought about by the dissolution of spatial and perceptual thresholds. The first work visitors encounter, Maximum Horizon (2024), comprises a triptych of stained-glass windows – akin to those commonly seen in churches and other places of worship – that are set into one of a number of a raw, unfinished drywalls that reappear throughout the exhibition. More
Jeremy Shaw (b. North Vancouver, Canada, 1977) works in a variety of media to explore altered states of mind and the cultural and scientific practices that aspire to map transcendental experience. He has had solo exhibitions at Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, MoMA PS1, New York, USA, MAC Montréal, Canada, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany, and MONA, Tasmania, Australia, and been featured in international surveys such as the 57th Venice Biennale, Italy; 16th Lyon Biennale, France; and Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland. In 2016, Shaw was awarded the Sobey Art Award and in 2018 was artist-in-residence at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
Damian Lentini worked as a curator at the Vienna Secession from 2024 to 2025. He is currently the Deputy Director at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen. In 2009, he obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Melbourne and has realised major projects with artists such as El Anatsui, Phyllida Barlow, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sarah Sze, Sung Tieu, Raqs Media Collective, Harun Farocki, Dumb Type, Khvay Samnang, Lina Lapelytė and the Karrabing Film Collective amongst others.
Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession.The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Jeanette Pacher

Artists: Ariane Mueller in conversation with Jeanette Pacher

Ariane Mueller talks with curator Jeanette Pacher not only about her current exhibition in Secession’s iconic exhibition hall, but also speaks about her experience of initiating projects, sharing space, ideas, and resources, and the importance of collaborating – providing broader insight into her creative practice and understanding as an artist. This episode was recorded on 3 June 2025, a week after the opening of Ariane Mueller’s exhibition:
Ariane Mueller Fish are folded into the sea just as the sea is folded into fish 29.5. – 31.8.2025
Ariane Mueller’s preoccupation with war, which is at the heart of the exhibition Fish are folded into the sea just as the sea is folded into fish, has a long and complex history. Decades ago, in the early 1990s, she came into contact with the conflict in Yugoslavia through her work on the art magazine Artfan (1991–1996), which she edited together with the artist Linda Bilda. Slovenian writers wanted to place articles in Artfan in which they called for arms supplies to their country in support of its war with Serbia. Unsure how to handle the situation, the artists travelled to Zagreb shortly after the war began. As a delegate to the United Nations for many years, Mueller was later also faced with the Iraq War. More
Ariane Mueller – born in Vienna – studied in Barcelona – Austrian delegate to UN-HABITAT from 1996 to 2013 – based in Berlin since 1995 – editor of Artfan, Vienna (1991–1996) – from 1998 to today co-editor of Starship, Berlin – publisher, Starship Verlag – novelist: Handbuch für die Reise durch Afrika [Handbook for Traveling Through Africa], 2013 – visual artist exhibiting internationally: MCA Sydney Museum Ludwig Cologne, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Havana Biennale – exhibition curator: Werkleitz Biennale: Common Property 2004; Dispossession, Künstlerhaus Wien 2021; on mimesis and other mild disOrientations in space, WAF Gallery, Vienna 2023 on the theme of one’s own disappearance in the gaze of the other (as happens in engaging with all forms of artificial intelligence).
Jeanette Pacher is a curator at the Vienna Secession since 2007. She is a regular lecturer in the Department of Site-Specific Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and since 2023, a jury member of KÖR – Art in Public Space Vienna.
 
Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession.The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Jeanette Pacher

Artists: Francis Offman in conversation with Kamogelo Walaza

This episode was recorded on 22 May, during the installation of Francis Offman’s solo exhibition at the Secession. Kamogelo Walaza, a curatorial fellow from South Africa, spoke with the artist about his work and the exhibition:
Francis OffmanWeaving Stories29.5. – 31.8.2025
The walls of the stairwell that leads to Francis Offman’s exhibition Weaving Stories are covered in dried coffee grounds. The dark tactile material transforms the narrow entrance to the exhibition space on the first floor into an immersive olfactory experience. More
The works of Francis Offman consist of canvases (not mounted on stretchers) with irregular contours, featuring paintings that emerge from the associations of sections of vivid, flat, uniform colors, and collage zones made with the insertion of scraps of paper – thin or thicker sheets, salvaged from bread wrappers or shoeboxes – which enter the composition like rips or wounds. An encounter that only on occasion makes elements emerge that can be traced back to the real: a dry tree, a mountain, a portion of water, earth or sky … Offman’s pieces are free compositions that imply fragile references, minimal and understated, to a faraway world (Africa and Rwanda, where the artist spent some of his childhood) and its customs, a traumatic memory and an uncertain identity; jagged, dynamic spaces that cannot give rise to an integral landscape. (Davide Ferri)
Francis Offman was born in Butare, Rwanda, in 1987 and now lives in Bologna, Italy.
Kamogelo Walaza is a curatorial fellow at the Secession from May to June 2025 as part of the FOCUS INTERNATIONAL programme of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport. She is a curator, writer, arts and cultural educator and ethnographer, born in Bloemfontein and based in Johannesburg. She holds a Postgraduate degree in Applied Drama and Theatre and a BA Honours in Drama Therapy from the University of the Witwatersrand, as well as a BA in Corporate Communication, an Honours in Communication Studies, and an Honours in Public Management and Governance from the University of Johannesburg. Walaza received the Marshall Kander Drama for Life Award for her research on HIV/AIDS awareness through applied drama. She recently completed a distinction-awarded autoethnographic paper titled Memories in Her Blood.
 
Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession.The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Bettina Spörr

Artists: Aglaia Konrad im Gespräch mit Jeanette Pacher

Stein ist in unser aller Leben omnipräsent, nicht zuletzt in Form der Architekturen, in denen wir wohnen und arbeiten. Mit deren Utopien und Widersprüchen beschäftigt sich Aglaia Konrad in Filmen, Fotografien und Skulpturen. Die Künstlerin ist in den Alpen aufgewachsen. Seitdem begleitet Stein als Urmaterial, das Felsformationen, Berglandschaften, aber auch Architektur bildet, ihr Schaffen. Mehr erfahren

Members: Florian Pumhösl in conversation with Elisabeth Kihlström

This episode of Secession Podcast: Members features artist Florian Pumhösl in conversation with artist colleague Elisabeth Kihlström. It was recorded at the Secession on 7 November 2024.
Florian Pumhösl, born 1971, is an artist based in Vienna and Munich. Focussing on abstract vocabulary he has been working mostly on reliefs and drawings for the past years. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York, Galerie Buchholz in Berlin, and at Dvir Gallery, Paris.  
Elisabeth Kihlström, born 1988 in Sundborn, Sweden, is a visual artist based in Vienna. Working with sculpture, textile, installation, performance, and film, her recent practice focuses on handwoven sculptures made from metal and horsehair. She was awarded the Dorothea von Stetten Art Award in 2024. Recent presentations include Kunstmuseum Bonn, Contemporary Art Factory Kyoto, Black Forest Institute (BIA) and MUMOK Kino. In June 2025, she will present new work at BEK Forum, Vienna. Kihlström is also co-editor of Agency, a Vienna-based publishing initiative.
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Programmed by the board of the Secession.Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Jeanette Pacher

Artists: Ana Vaz in conversation with Damian Lentini

This episode is a conversation between the artist Ana Vaz and the curator Damian Lentini. It was recorded on 7 March, 2025 in the context of the exhibition:
Ana VazMeteoro 8.4. – 18.5.2025
In her film-poems artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz collages images and sounds that revolve around violence and repression, the impact of ecological ruin and the continued colonization of the earth. The deconstruction of the grand narrative of Western modernity that imposes itself across vast territories on this planet lies at the heart of her filmography.
In her exhibition at the Secession, Vaz showcases her new film series Meteoro (2023–). Predominantly focusing on Paris and Porto, European cities are depicted as on the verge of collapse or on the path to extinction. More
Ana Vaz is an artist and filmmaker born in the Brazilian midwest inhabited by the ghosts buried by its modernist capital: Brasília. Originally from the cerrado and wanderer by choice, Ana has lived in the arid lands of central Brazil and southern Australia, in the mangroves of northern France and in the northeastern shores of the Atlantic. Her filmography activates and questions cinema as an art of the (in)visible and instrument capable of transforming human perception, expanding its connections with forms of life — other than human or spectral. Her film-poems are marked by a constant experimental defiance to the poetic forms of contemporary cinema, highlighting the profound contradictions of our time and questioning, above all, the destructive practices of colonial modernity. Consequences or expansion of her cinematography, her activities are also embodied in writing, critical pedagogy, installations or collective walks.
Damian Lentini is a curator at the Vienna Secession. He obtained his doctoral degree in 2009 at the University of Melbourne and has realised major projects with artists such as El Anatsui, Phyllida Barlow, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sarah Sze, Sung Tieu, Raqs Media Collective, Harun Farocki, Dumb Type, Khvay Samnang, Lina Lapelytė and the Karrabing Film Collective amongst others.
Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession.The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckProduction: Damian Lentini, Jeanette Pacher

Artists: Minouk Lim in conversation with Bettina Spörr

This episode looks back at one of the central artistic positions in the group exhibition Forms of the Shadow. Minouk Lim's Currahee – Stand Alone, a floor-to-ceiling installation of painted military blankets, created a striking division of space and, in the context of the exhibition, could also be read in terms of the divided situation on the Korean peninsula, but also in the broader context of military conflicts, and as such this work is exemplary of current political crises and the latent danger of military escalation. More
On the occasion of this group exhibition, a spontaneous series of conversations with the artists who attended the opening in Vienna has evolved into a podcast mini-series. This conversation took place on 19 September 2024.
Forms of the ShadowCurated by Sunjung Kim20.9. – 17.11.2024
The publication is available for free download hereExhibition talk with Sunjung Kim, Adrián Villar Rojas and Jane Jin Kaisen, moderated by Noit Banai
With Nilbar Güreş; Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian; Kyungah Ham; Young In Hong; ikkibawiKrrr; Jane Jin Kaisen; Joon Kim; Lee Bul; Lee Kit; Mikael Levin; Minouk Lim; Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho; Adrián Villar Rojas; Ramiro Wong; Haegue Yang; Tomoko Yoneda; Jin-me Yoon; Min Yoon
The work of Minouk Lim (b. 1968, Daejeon, KR) extends personal experiences into a broader social realm, combining the intense political context of historical discontinuity and trauma with challenging yet sensory poetic narratives. Ranging from sculptures in non-fixed, fragile forms using organic materials, to video and performance that reposition fact and fiction, to multifaceted installations incorporating drawings, paintings, text, and sound, the artist’s work transcends the boundaries of genres and categories of media, reaching the point where each medium intersects and translates one another. Lim’s works engage in a “reconfiguration of the sensible” that seeks to uncover history’s hidden voices and forms. Her media is based on questions about modernity, issues of community and memory, and reflections on places concealed by time and space. Lim’s work is considered a “mediumistic media” that explores forms that revitalize endangered relationships in unfinished structures.
Since 2008, Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession, where she engages in close collaboration with artists to conceptualise and realise exhibitions that explore the profound impact of contemporary art on society. Throughout her career, she has worked with numerous artists on solo exhibitions and, in 2010, curated the group show where do we go from here? at the Secession.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Programmed by the board of the Secession
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Bettina Spörr

Artists: Yuki Okumura in conversation with Bettina Spörr

This episode was recorded on 7 March 2025 in the context of the exhibitions:
Yuki Okumura. Yuki Okumura andBig White Playground With Miriam Bachmann; Mario Batram; Paul Buschnegg; Said Gärtner; golden salamturtle; Grzegorz Kielawski; Emine Koza; Niklas Hofstetter; Yuki Okumura; Flavio Palasciano; Alex Pasch; Cristina Rüesch; Sebastian Scholz; Paul Spendier; Johanna Steiner; Lorenz Sutter; Kai Philip Trausenegger; Hans Weinberger; Marit Wolters; Márton Zalka 
The so-called white cube is a seemingly “neutral” and “pure” space with plain-white walls that is supposed to ensure the undisturbed autonomy of art. The Hauptraum, the largest gallery of Secession, is one of the earliest and most representative examples of it.
Like many artists who have exhibited here, Yuki Okumura took its empty state as a departure point for his working process. But instead of bringing works to this ideal backdrop to isolate art from the world, the artist conceived three site-specific projects to rediscover the space as a lived room interconnected with the world marked by its own conditions and contexts. For each project, Okumura designed a playful procedure and asked people related to the Hauptraum to enact it. More
A publication featuring an essay by James Gatt and a conversation with Yuki Okumura and Aaron Amar Bhamra & Monika Georgieva from the Vienna-based independent art space Laurenz accompanies the exhibition. download publication
The exhibitions are on view until 18 May, 2025.
Secession Podcast: Artists features artists exhibiting at the Secession.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. EberhardAudio Editor: Paul MacheckExecutive Producer: Bettina Spörr