on show in ατhεns: Margarethe Drexel & Markus Krottendorfer
Austrian Artist Residency
in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency offers four selected, Austrian-based, visual artists for the first time the opportunity to live and work in Athens during Spring/Summer 2017 as part of a funded residency program. The projects realized take conditions specific to the city as a starting point for artistic research, using various techniques and media to ask the question: what does it mean – or what could it mean – to live and work in ατhεns?
Exhibition Opening in ατhεns
Margarethe Drexel
Markus Krottendorfer
Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2017, 20 Uhr
Snehta Residency (I. Drosopoulou 47, 11257 Kypseli)
The exhibition presents works-in-progress and new works by Margarethe Drexel and Markus Krottendorfer, who were artists-in-residence from June through July – under the curatorial advice of Eleni Michaelidi and Antonia Rahofer.
Margarethe Drexel (Vienna/Los Angeles) creates cross-media installations, which are dry-humored, imbued with art-historical, socio-cultural references, continuously questioning the ambiguity of language. Her work investigates the topic of heritage by raising questions on different notions of home, tradition and religion and very many and multi-folded expectations related to them.
Markus Krottendorfer (Vienna) is a photographer who has worked intensively on the history of the earth and humanity with a special focus on its interpretation within science fiction formats. Combining immense archive work with selected historical usages of photography, Krottendorfer presents installations and performances that invite us to reconsider seemingly secured meanings of light and the image as well as of so called ‘authorized’ historical knowledge.
Visiting Hours
Thursday 13 July – Saturday 15 July 2017 from 4 – 8 p.m.
We look forward to your visit!
Your in ατhεns-team
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SPECIAL EVENT
Artist talk and open discussion with Margarethe Drexel
Thursday, 13 July at 7 p.m.
Held in English, cool drinks included.
UPCOMING
Artist talk and open discussion with Markus Krottendorfer
September 2017, date tba – stay tuned!
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Contact
Antonia Rahofer
c/o Snehta Residency
Ioannou Drosopoulou 47
GR – 11 257 Athens
Tel. +43 650 851 8833 / +30 695 593 3687
E-Mail: residency@kunstverein-extra.com
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Exhibition credits in ατhεns
Curatorial advisory: Eleni Michaelidi and Antonia Rahofer
Curatorial assistance and production: Stepha Farkashazy
Cooperation Partner Vienna: Kunstverein EXTRA (Elisabeth Haid and Barbara Pflanzner)
Cooperation Partner Athens: Snehta Residency (Becky Campbell, Amalia Charikiopoulou, Augustus Veinoglou)
Communication advisory: Nantia Diamantopoulou, Nikos Mavrias
Translation and proofreading: Tanner Kauffman Gore and Ioanna Skiada
Graphic design: Stepha Farkashazy
Research assistant: Dimitrios Giannelos
in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency is a project by Antonia Rahofer (Athens/Vienna) in cooperation with Kunstverein EXTRA (Vienna) and Snehta Residency (Athens).
in ατhεns – Austrian Artist Residency is funded by the Federal Chancellery of Austria. With the kind support of the Austrian Embassy Athens.