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Recent works of artists who influenced the
programmatic development of
< rotor > since this art centre was established in 1999 will be
presented in two consecutive exhibitions.
Selecting from the hundreds of works that have been presented and to a
large extent newly produced over the years has not been easy—several
other artistic positions can also be considered central and lastingly
stimulating.
Artist Oliver Ressler, for example, who was born in Styria and is now
based in Vienna, focuses his work on questions of democracy, activism
and the way we treat the environment, while Delaine and Damian Le Bas,
an artist couple from Worthing in the south of England, have been dedicating
their practice to the equality of Roma and, more generally, to the rights
of minorities.
Lisl Ponger, who also operates from her base in Vienna, assumes an extraordinary
position in the transcultural discourse and is an important critic
of (post)colonial conditions. St. Petersburg-based artist Nikolay Oleynikov
takes up the great tradition of mural painting in what is a critical contemporary
approach, commenting on social-utopian aspects in the history of ideas
and in art history from an anarchistic perspective. And finally, Pravdoliub
Ivanov from Sofia is part of the exhibition: with his objects and installations,
he subtly questions the things of the world and presents them in a new
light.
The participating artists’ diverse approaches have set to sharpen
the profile of < rotor > over the past eighteen years.
Co-produced by steirischer
herbst & < rotor >
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Pic.: Delaine LeBas, from the series “Frontier
De Luxe“, 2016.