Secession Podcast

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.
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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.
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: Ricarda Denzer & Meina SchellanderEditor: Ricarda Denzer & Axel Stockburger
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Patricia L. Boyd 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 Patricia L. Boyd and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on December 12, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
Patricia L. BoydCeiling Analysis18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023
Ceiling Analysis is Patricia L. Boyd’s first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, consisting of two newly commissioned works. Its centrepiece is a large sculpture bearing the title of the exhibition, suspended from the ceiling of the Grafisches Kabinett and which further lowers the ceiling of the gallery. This sculpture is the same length and width as the ceiling of the office of Boyd’s psychoanalyst in New York. More
Dr. Annette Südbeck is managing director and curator at the Secession. She studied Fine Arts, German Studies and Arts in Braunschweig.
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: Annette Südbeck & Patricia L. BoydEditor: Paul Macheck
 
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Jean-Frédéric Schnyder 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 Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on November 18, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
Jean-Frédéric Schnyder18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023
In his exhibition at the Secession, the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder shows a cross-section of his painting from almost forty years (1983–2021). In his typical manner, the 102 paintings of various formats (all: oil on canvas) are hung evenly spaced and, increasing in size from front to back and then decreasing again, form a horizontal line. The ever-changing live image of the outdoor space, which the glass door on the front wall reveals, is part of the concept. 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 & digital post-production: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Kodwo Eshun from The Otolith Group in conversation with Oliver Ressler

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Kodwo Eshun from The Otolith Group and the artist Oliver Ressler. It was recorded on November 16, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
The Otolith GroupWhat the Owl Knows18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023
The Secession is delighted to announce What the Owl Knows, the solo exhibition of The Otolith Group named after the new moving image work directed by the artists. The post-cinematic practice of Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar is informed by an attention to an aesthetics of the essayistic that takes the form of a science fiction of the present that seeks to dramatise the interscalar catastrophes of the Racial Capitalocene. More
Oliver Ressler produces installations, projects in public space, and films on economics, democracy, racism, climate breakdown, forms of resistance and social alternatives. He has completed forty-one films that have been screened in thousands of events of social movements, art institutions and film festivals. Ressler had comprehensive solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein; MNAC – National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; SALT Galata, Istanbul; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville. He has participated in more than 400 group exhibitions, including the biennials in Taipei, Lyon, Gyumri, Venice, Athens, Quebec, Jeju, Kyiv and at Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017. www.ressler.at
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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 & digital post-production: Christian Lübbert
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Members: Edek Bartz im Gespräch mit Axel Stockburger

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Edek Bartz and the board member Axel Stockburger. It was recorded on October 25, 2022
Edek Bartz is an Austrian musician, DJ, concert promoter, curator, author, and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Spanning more than 25 years, he recorded, produced or toured with artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, and The Rolling Stones. In the 1970s, Bartz worked with performance artist Hermann Nitsch, and in the 1980s he co-founded the avant-garde music festival Töne – Gegentöne with Wolfgang Kos. From 2005 to 2009, Bartz was artistic director of Vienna Fair. He is co-editor of the publication Secret Passion (2010).
Axel Stockburger is an artist who works as associate professor for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He is a member of the research group Technopolitics and board member of the Secession.
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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 & digital post-production: Axel Stockburger
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: B. Ingrid Olson 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 B. Ingrid Olson and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on June 30, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
B. Ingrid OlsonElastic XJune 29 – September 4, 2022
B. Ingrid Olson’s art undertakes an insistent exploration of the question of what it means to see and to be seen. Her sculptural and photographic works are studies of the body and space in interaction with the staging of the gaze and connotations of materiality, gender, and power bound up with it. More
Dr. Annette Südbeck is managing director and curator at the Secession. She studied Fine Arts, German Studies and Arts in Braunschweig.
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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 & digital post-production: Axel Stockburger
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: Siggi Hofer im Gespräch mit Bettina Spörr

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Siggi Hofer and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on May 31, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
Siggi HoferStill LifeMarch 4 – June 12, 2022
In Still Life, Siggi Hofer has conceived an immersive installation in dialogue with the Secession’s characteristic architecture: we enter a large tableau composed of numerous and diverse works that in many ways reflects the baffling complexity of our contemporary reality. More
Bettina Spörr is a curator at the Secession since 2008. Previously she was assistant curator and exhibition coordinator at the Generali Foundation Vienna.
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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 & digital post-production: Paul Macheck
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert

Artists: DIS 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 collective DIS and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on March 5, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:
DISHow To Become A FossilMarch 4 – June 12, 2022
DIS is a collaborative project based in New York and consisting of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, working together as an artistic and curatorial collective dealing with a wide range of media and platforms, exploiting the methods of production, use and dissemination of content online. 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.
Sponsor of the Secession Podcast: Dorotheum
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 & digital post-production: Axel Stockburger
Programmed by the board of the SecessionProduced by Christian Lübbert