Secession Podcast

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

Artists: Kresiah Mukwazhi 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 Kresiah Mukwazhi and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:
Kresiah MukwazhiKirawa17.2. – 16.4.2023
In Kirawa, her first solo exhibition at an Austrian institution, Kresiah Mukwazhi presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works. Her mixed-media collages, sculptures, videos, and performances are informed by her personal experiences and observations of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse in her native Zimbabwe. In vibrant textile works, female figures perform seemingly vulgar and obscene gestures, hinting at the artist’s inquiries into the arduous working and living conditions of female sex workers in Zimbabwe’s patriarchal society. Against this backdrop of precarization and marginalization, Mukwazhi uses her powerful work as a form of visual activism, scrupulously carving out forms of resistance and self-empowerment. Mutual support and encouragement, together with humour as a weapon and means of resistance, are recurring themes in her work. 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 Pacher and Kresiah MukwazhiEditor: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Lieselott Beschorner im Gespräch mit Berthold Ecker

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Lieselott Beschorner and the curator Berthold Ecker. It was recorded on June 2, 2022 in the context of the exhibition
Lieselott BeschornerIm Atem der Zeit [In the Breath of Time]June 29 – November 6, 2022
Lieselott Beschorner has made art for over seven decades and been a member of the Vienna Secession for just as long. When she was admitted to the Association of Visual Artists in 1951, she was among the first women members: the Secession, which had been founded in 1897, had remained a male preserve until shortly after the war. More
Dr. Berthold Ecker is an Austrian curator and author. He graduated in art history and cultural anthropology from the University of Vienna in 1995. Since 1991 he has been responsible for the Supervision and Reorganization of the Collection of Modern Art in the Visual Arts Division of the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna, since 2003 he holds the position as director. In 1998 Ecker founded the Museum auf Abruf, later called MUSA Museum Startgalerie Artothek and has been its director since 2007. Together with Bernhard Denscher, he founded the Europäischen Monat der Fotografie Wien (European Month of Photography Vienna). He was a permanent member of the advisory board "Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien" (KÖR) until 2017. Since 2018 he is a curator for contemporary art at the Wien Museum.
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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: Jeanette Pacher and Berthold EckerEditor: Paul Macheck 
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Meina Schellander im Gespräch mit Ricarda Denzer

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Meina Schellander and Ricarda Denzer. It was recorded on April 5, 2022.
Meina Schellander (b. 1946 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1970. Since 1968 she has realized numerous projects, been part of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and abroad, and received national awards and scholarships. Her works are represented in national and international collections. Schellander is a member of the Secession, the GAV (Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung), the IntAkt (Internationale Aktionsgemeinschaft bildender Künstlerinnen) in Vienna and of the [kunstwerk] krastal association in Carinthia. Her fields of work include drawing, painting, photography, video, object, sculpture, spatial installation and public art. She lives and works freelance mainly in Vienna and occasionally in Ludmannsdorf / Bilčovs in Carinthia.
Ricarda Denzer is an artist and teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2013, where she graduated with a diploma in graphics in 1993. She has been a member of the Secession since 2000 and of its board since 2020.
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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: Ricarda Denzer & Meina SchellanderEditor: Ricarda Denzer & Axel Stockburger
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert