Franziska Sophie Wildförster

KOSMO (2016) exhibition photos

22 November 2016

The KOSMO group exhibition was on at Vienna’s Kevin Space, which ran  from July 8 to August 7, 2016.

Curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster, the show featured work by Marguerite Humeau, Andrew Norman Wilson, Jeremy Shaw, Antoine Renard and The Mycological Twist

Marguerite Humeau, Black Mamba (2016) and The Mycological Twist, Primordia#Formation (2016). Installation view. Photo by Georg Petermichl. Courtesy the artists and Kevin Space, Vienna.
Marguerite Humeau, Black Mamba (2016) and The Mycological Twist, Primordia#Formation (2016). Installation view. Photo by Georg Petermichl. Courtesy the artists and Kevin Space, Vienna.

The installation included a range of wall paint, sculpture, video and photography; an assortment of materials from snake venom paint, oyster mushrooms in shipping boxes to 3D printed polythene sculpture on washing machine and a Kirlian polaroid. Staging fabrications within conceptions of contemporary and ancient mysticism, the works brought together challenge the humanist experience and explore thresholds of self and other. 

The works approach and seek to make poriferous, the limitations of ratio through the proposition of non-human subject positions — ‘natural’, technologically and digitally made, ancient and contemporary — produced in human, artistic practice.**

The KOSMO group show at Vienna’s Kevin Space ran from July 8 to August 7, 2016.

Header image: KOSMO (2016). Exhibition view. Photo by Georg Petermichl. Courtesy the artists and Kevin Space, Vienna.

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Abjects @ Import Projects, Sep 18 – Oct 24

17 September 2015

Import Projects brings in a new group show titled Abjects, running at their Berlin space, opening September 18 and running to October 24.

The group exhibition, curated by Franziska Sophie Wildförster, brings together the works of five different artists: Eloïse BonneviotEmily JonesPaul KnealeYuri Pattison and Andrew Norman Wilson.

Inspired by Julia Kristeva’s 1980 essay “Powers of the Horrors: An essay on Abjection”, the show explores her notion of the abject and its “psychic origins and mechanisms of revulsion and disgust” emerging out of a confrontation with death, with violence, with vulnerability of decay. 

See the exhibition page for details. **

Emily Jones, The Hudson River (2014) @ Lima Zulu. Courtesy the artist.
Emily Jones, The Hudson River (2014) @ Lima Zulu. Courtesy the artist.
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Paul Kneale @ Import Projects, Aug 29

28 August 2015

London-based artist Paul Kneale is initiating his participation in the upcoming September group show Abjects at Import Projects and helping wrap up Berlin’s Project Space Festival with a performance and talk at the Berlin gallery on August 29.

The performance and talk, appropriately titled ‘Free Software’, has Kneale publishing a series of instructions for the performances on his website. “These systems are designated to be carried out ‘DIY’, and will enable numerous outsourced works in the gallery,” writes the event press release.

The directives—which include self-made “unboxing videos” and microwaved CDs—”explore the viral spread of information mediated by technology through manifold (human) bodies”, as well as modes of authorship and “the fate of authenticity within the distributed image and data form”. Amidst this publication, Kneale will join curator Franziska Sophie Wildförster for a discussion on the “new (digital) abject”.

See the event page for details. **

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