Secession Podcast

Artists: Delaine Le Bas in conversation with Bettina Spörr

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Delaine Le Bas and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on June 26, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Delaine Le BasIncipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning30.6. – 3.9.2023
Delaine Le Bas works in a transdisciplinary way: she combines visual, performative and literary practices to create an artistic oeuvre that encompasses all areas of life. In her works she deals with many facets, political as well as private and emotional, which involve belonging to the Rom*nja people, their history and rich cultural heritage. On the one hand, she uses "classical" forms and techniques, especially textile techniques such as embroidery and appliqué, which, in conjunction with large-flowered fabrics and fantastic imagery, are immediately associated with clichés and stereotypes. At the same time, Le Bas subverts her own decorative aesthetic by openly exploring her struggles, thus defying stereotypical limitations. More
Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession since 2008. Previously she was assistant curator and exhibition coordinator at the Generali Foundation Vienna.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Delaine Le BasEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Carl Pruscha im Gespräch mit Bettina M. Busse

Secession Podcast: MembersCarl Pruscha in conversation with Bettina M. Busse
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Carl Pruscha and the art historian and curator Bettina M. Busse. It was recorded on April 5, 2023.
Carl Pruscha (b. 1936 in Innsbruck) studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Lois Welzenbacher and Roland Rainer and urban planning at Harvard University with José Luis Sert. In 1976 Pruscha became university professor and head of his institute at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. From 1988 to 2002, he was the rector of the academy. An important project from this period was the reconstruction of the so-called Semper Depot. From 2001 to 2005, Pruscha transitioned to the position of professor in Design and Habitat, Environment & Conservation. At the invitation of the Getty Institute in Los Angeles, he wrote critical analyses of architectural developments in countries of the Global South. From 2005, he realised the new school building for the organisation "One World Foundation" in Sri Lanka. Carl Pruscha was Chairman of the Advisory Board for Art and Building in the Ministry of Science, Art and Research, is a sought-after jury member in art and architecture competitions, and has been awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art and the Gold Decoration for Services to the City of Vienna, among others.
Bettina M. Busse is an art historian and curator at Kunstforum Wien. Before that, she worked for many years as a curator at MAK Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art, Vienna. She has curated numerous exhibitions on Contemporary and Modern Art, including Joseph Beuys, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Jenny Holzer. The Cindy Sherman Effect. Identity and Transformation in Contemporary Art, Kunstforum Wien, 2020, Rebecca Horn, 2021 and David Hockney Insights, Kunstforum Wien, 2022. In 2003, together with Kasper König, she was responsible for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Bruno Gironcoli). Co-founder and director of the Bruno Gironcoli Estate. She is currently working on the most comprehensive retrospective of Marina Abramovic's work to date, which will be shown at Kunstforum Wien in 2025. Bettina M. Busse is author and editor of numerous texts and publications.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Christian LübbertEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Barbara Holub im Gespräch mit Rainer Fuchs

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former and first female president of Secession Barbara Holub and the curator Rainer Fuchs. It was recorded on December 13, 2022.
Barbara Holub lives and works in Vienna. Following her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Holub developed a socio-politically engaged art practice. In 1999 she founded the collective transparadiso with Paul Rajakovics, which operates at the interface of art, architecture and urban intervention. From 2006 to 2007 Barbara Holub was president of the Secession. Since 1997, Holub has taught at the UIC/ School of Art and Design, Chicago, at the Vienna University of Technology, f+f School of Design and Media Design, Zurich, and the Universidad Católica, Valparaíso in Chile, among others. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she is currently a Senior Lecturer. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal dérive and a partner in the EU project SPACEX. Barbara Holub has been awarded numerous prizes (including the Austrian Art Prize, 2018) and has been part of international juries and advisory boards. In 2022, she most recently published the book Silent Activism.
Rainer Fuchs (b. 1959 in Judenburg) studied art history, history, and philosophy in Graz. Since 1991, he has been the chief curator at mumok - Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig Vienna. Past exhibitions include: Exhibition, 1994; Self Construction, 1996; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1998; Lois Weinberger, 1999; Öffentliche Rituale – Video/Kunst aus Polen, 2003; John Baldessari, 2005; Ryan Gander, 2006; Keren Cytter, 2007; Mind Expander, 2008; Painting: Process and Expansion, 2010; Aktionsraum 1, 2011; Dan Flavin 2012, Poetry of Reduction, 2012; Marge Monko, 2013; Space and Reality, 2014; Pakui Hardware, 2016, Nikita Kadan, 2017, Natural Histories – Traces of the Political, 2017; Ingeborg Strobl, 2020; Emília Rigova, 2022; On Stage, 2023.  Publikationen und Vorträge zur Kunst seit der Moderne. He has published publications and given lectures on art since the modern era.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director & Editor: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Vivian Suter im Gespräch mit Jeanette Pacher

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Vivian Suter and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on May 4, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Vivian SuterA Stone in the Lake28.4. – 18.6.2023
The Secession’s iconic light-filled main gallery, which opens onto a small park behind the building, would appear to be the ideal setting for a presentation of the painter Vivian Suter’s oeuvre
The Argentinean-Swiss artist has lived on a former coffee plantation in Panajachel on the shore of Guatemala’s volcano-ringed Lago de Atitlán since the early 1980s, at a far remove from the art world, which for years paid her little attention. More recently, however, she has garnered considerable acclaim and her work has been shown around the world, including, most prominently, at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017). More
Jeanette Pacher is a curator at the Secession and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Site-Specific Art department. She was part of the editorial team of Ö1 Kunstradio and began working in the curatorial field at Kunsthalle Wien.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Jeanette PacherEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Karrabing Film Collective in conversation with Bettina Spörr

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the Indigenous media group Karrabing Film Collective (represented by Cecilia Lewis, Elizabeth Povinelli and Akaydia Lee), the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on April 27, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Karrabing Film CollectiveThey pretending not to see us...28.4. – 18.6.2023
The Karrabing Film Collective is an intergenerational grassroots media group of around thirty Indigenous filmmakers and Elizabeth Povinelli, who has known and worked with Karrabing members and their parents and grandparents for almost forty years. Karrabing lands stretch along the coast from across the Darwin harbor to Anson Bay, Northern Territory. Karrabing’s films reflect their multidimensional relationships with each other, their land, their ancestors, and human and more-than-human life. They tell stories of their fraught relations with the Australian government, the lingering effects of white settler capitalism, repression by the police and authorities, and white Australians’ failure to recognize Indigenous ways of life. More
Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession since 2008. Previously she was assistant curator and exhibition coordinator at the Generali Foundation Vienna.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Christian LübbertEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Margaret Salmon in conversation with Annette Südbeck

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Margaret Salmon and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on April 5, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Margaret SalmonMonument28.4. – 18.6.2023
Margaret Salmon creates films, photographs, and objects that weave together poetry and non-fiction. Often focusing on individuals in their everyday activities, her work captures the minutiae of daily life and infuses them with gentle grandeur, touching upon universal human themes.
In her exhibition Monument, Salmon presents two new complementary film installations that explore questions of masculinity. The 35mm film projection Boy (winter) (2022) portrays various children in Glasgow in stages of physical and psychological development, from infant to teenager; the second work, Study for a Film About Monuments (2023), displayed as an installation with monitors, originally shot on 35mm film, focuses on grownup men in a series of silent films, including one about a First-World-War memorial in Penpont, Scotland. More
Dr. Annette Südbeck is managing director and curator at the Secession. She studied Fine Arts, German Studies and Arts in Braunschweig.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Annette Südbeck & Margaret SalmonEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Edelbert Köb im Gespräch mit Thomas Mießgang

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former Secession president Edelbert Köb and Dr. Thomas Mießgang. It was recorded on December 2, 2022.
If you want to know more about Edelbert Köb, his presidency at the Secession and his stories on matters such as the renovation of the Secession with the architect Adolf Krischanitz or the founding of the Friends of the Secession with the president of the Friends Sylvia Liska, listen to this episode.
Edelbert Köb (b. 1942 in Bregenz) lives and works in Vienna. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Vienna. From 1966 onwards, he devoted himself mainly to sculpture, but ended his artistic activity in 1992. From 1973 to 2002, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and its vice-chancellor from 1985 to 1995 and 1998 to 2000. From 1982 to 1991 he was president of the Secession and from 1990 to 2000 founding director of the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Between 2002 and 2010 he was director of the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK). Beyond that, Köb was an active editor, author and member of numerous juries and councils.
Dr. Thomas Mießgang is a journalist, cultural publicist and independent curator. He has worked for magazines such as Falter, profil as well as Die ZEIT and is at present primarily active as part of the radio programme by Ö1 (Diagonal, Radiokolleg). Recent exhibition projects were „Ganz Wien. Eine Pop-Tour“ (2017) at the Wien Museum and „Griaß eich die Madln, servas die Buam! Das Phänomen Heinz Conrads“ (2021/22) at the Wienbibliothek im Rathaus. In the 1980s, Mießgang played in the band of the recently deceased media artist and theorist Peter Weibel.
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Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director & Editor: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Anna Daučíková in conversation with Jeanette Pacher

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Anna Daučíková and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on October 22, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
Anna Daučíková16.9. – 6.11.2022
Anna Daučíková is a pioneer of feminist-queer art in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Teaching for many years at art academies in Bratislava and Prague, and in recent years at the Salzburg Summer Academy, she counts to the most influential forward thinkers in the area of queer theory and practice. More
Jeanette Pacher is a curator at the Secession and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna / Site-Specific Art department. She was part of the editorial team of Ö1 Kunstradio and began working in the curatorial field at Kunsthalle Wien.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Jeanette PacherEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Christine Sun Kim in conversation with Bettina Spörr

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Christine Sun Kim and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on February 16, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Christine Sun KimCues on Point17.2. – 16.4.2023
Christine Sun Kim’s art brims with rhythm and dynamic energy. Small-format drawings and sprawling murals, internet memes, text messages in public spaces, and banners towed across the sky by airplanes pack a punch and seem to want to explode the confines and constraints of their media. Her drawings are graphical and spare and largely fall into one of two categories: one utilizes the aesthetics of infographics, while the other adopts the formal repertoire of comic strips, notably speed lines to convey action and reaction. More
Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession since 2008. Previously she was assistant curator and exhibition coordinator at the Generali Foundation Vienna.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Christine Sun Kim & Bettina SpörrEditor: Paul Macheck
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Artists: Jordan Strafer in conversation with Marti Manen and Christian Lübbert

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jordan Strafer, the curator Marti Manen and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Jordan StraferLOOPHOLE17.2. – 16.4.2023
New York-based artist Jordan Strafer’s primary medium is video. Her part-autobiographical, part-fictitious work reflects the complex nature of racial identity, gender, sexuality, class, and ‘Americanism.’ A key aspect of her practice is the thoughtful yet playful choreography of seemingly antagonistic emotions—both comical and tragic, intimate and factual, familiar and unfamiliar, repulsive and appealing situations appear in an unusually fluid manner. Drawing from true stories, she makes visible that realities are rarely dualistic. More
Marti Manen is Director of Index - The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation in Stockholm. He has curated exhibitions at the Museo de Historia Natural (Mexico City), Aara (Bangkok), Sala Rekalde (Bilbao), Konsthall C (Stockholm), CA2M (Madrid), and Fundació Miró (Barcelona). Manen was the curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and curated Momentum10 (Biennale in Moss, Norway, 2019). In the 1990s, he curated five years of exhibitions in his room located in a student flat in Barcelona.
Christian Lübbert is a curator at the Secession. He has worked with art institutions such as Tate Modern, the Institute for Contemporary Arts, Chisenhale Studios, the Royal Academy of Arts and the Delfina Foundation in London, as well as Studio Simon Denny, Galerie House of Egorn and the Brandenburg Art Prize in Berlin. Since 2017, he runs Arnis Residency, an annual residency for international artists. In 2020, he organised Afloat Assembly, a residency for contemporary art on a sailing boat, for the first time.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Editing Director: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert