COCO

The Sunday of Life

Curated by Christian Kobald and Jonas Žakaitis
May 8 – July 3, 2010

The exhibition consists of:

A question by Valentinas Klimašauskas
A poem by Charles Bernstein read by the author
A carpet by Christoph Meier
Three jugs from Africa
An excerpt from a novel by Raymond Queneau
A spoiler told by Jonas Žakaitis
Two fluorescent fish by Marianne Engel
A vase with flowers by Tobias Rehberger
A short film by Maya Deren
A page from the book »Afrika im Jahre Null«
A door painting by Benoît Maire
A Suzani on a pedestal by Saâdane Afif
Some plastic bags and two loaves of bread by Roman Gysin
A song

 

Forschungsbericht

Curated by Christian Kobald vs. Severin Dünser
December 12, 2009 – February 27, 2010

Forschungsbericht (Severin Dünser)
Patrick Baumüller, Maiken Bent, Olaf Breuning, Anne Eastman, Vassilis H, Timothy Hull, Hew Locke, Christian Mayer, Kamau Amu Patton, Dirk van Saene, Jannis Varelas, Johannes Wohnseifer

Forschungsbericht (Christian Kobald)
Daniel Bader, Geta Bratescu, Matti Braun, Michael Huey, Nicolas Jasmin, Sands Murray-Wassink / Peter Brandt / Line Skywalker Karlstroem / Brad James, Juozas Laivys, Pak Sheung Chuen, Franz Vana; a poem by Abu Du'aib, a caption by Jorge Pardo, the title of Maurice Blanchot's »Michel Foucault tel que je l'imagine«, a description by Pierre Bourdieu, Sol LeWitt's »Autobiography«, two short clips from »American Beauty« and »Kung Fu«, episode 35,  a photograph of Joseph Beuys' »Notfalls leben wir auch ohne Herz«, and lectures by Matti Braun, Roland Schöny and Joanna Warsza.

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Speak & Spell
Videos and performances, curated by spike art magazine in conjunction with the Vienna Art Week
November 17 – 21, 2009, 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.

With videos by Nils Bech, Lynda Benglis, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Keren Cytter, Duran Duran, Los Super Elegantes and Ryan Trecartin. And performances by Clegg & Guttmann/Christian Egger, Ei Arakawa/Nikolas Gambaroff and Nils Bech.

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Verausgabungssymposium
(Expenditure Symposium)
Five Weeks of Expenditure, Squander, and Idleness
October 7 – November 14 2009

Azorro, Ada Bell, Liudvikas Buklys, Angela Bulloch/Liam Gillick, Heinrich Dunst, Sara Glaxia, Igor Grubić, Felix Kaufmann / Walther Soyka / Robert Reinagl, Paul Lynde, Momus, Darius Mikšys, Max Peintner, Manfred Pernice, David Schulman, David Woodard, Jonas Žakaitis
Curated by Severin Dünser und Christian Kobald.

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Nina Beier, Anne Collier, Ruth Ewan, Adriana Lara, Lorna Macintyre, Flora Neuwirth, Mai-Thu Perret, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Anne Schneider, Betty Tompkins, Rita Vitorelli