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“REAL ESTATE” BY VERY REAL ESTATE

Installation by “Very Real Estate” group (Stefanie Koemeda, Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Cristina Fiorenza, Veronika Dirnhofer and Anna Khodorkovskaya)
VBKÖ (Austrian Association of Women Artists) 2021 ; Vienna Art Week 2021

In the REAL ESTATE exhibition, Stefanie Koemeda, Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva, Cristina Fiorenza, Veronika Dirnhofer and Anna Khodorkovskaya, refer to historically grown and economically formative questions of the representation and of the spaces of female artists.

Fotos © Simon Veres

The VBKÖ (Austrian Association of Women Artists), the oldest artists’ association still existing in the same place, has been based in a rented property on the top floor in Maysedergasse since 1912. Compared to the two other important artists’ associations in the immediate vicinity – Künstlerhaus and Secession – the VBKÖ, as an art association always run by and for women, has none obviously visible and representative spaces available. The economic disadvantage of a rental property since it was founded is evident. The visibility and publicity is disproportionately smaller. A demand for a separate building for the VBKÖ in central Vienna dates back to the founding of the VBKÖ and was repeatedly discussed – but never realised.

The Seattle Erotic Art Festival

28.04. – 01.05.2022

https://www.seattleerotic.org/the-festival/

Projection

21.04. – 24.04.2022

Wo ist die Innen*stadt? – (re)name the space

2021 student project – Lahmer/Van Houtert/Assinger/Goidinger/Stocker/Zaitseva

Wo ist die Innen*stadt? – (re)name the space
2021 student project – Lahmer/Van Houtert/Assinger/Goidinger/Stocker/Zaitseva
Elsa Plainacher Collective – named after a women, who was publically burned as a „witch“ in Vienna – carried out a participatory action in Seestadt. On Wangari-Maathai-Square, street signs with the names of female protagonists were made from the „Karlsplatz-clay“ that was excavated in the course of the construction of the Vienna subway in the 70this, and that was made available to the ceramic studio. As a feminist criticism of the male-dominated urban order, the signs were distributed in the city center.

Photos: Annalena Stocker/Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva

Wo ist die Innen*stadt?

Fluid ceramics – Keramik im Fluss

2021 – student project – as part of the course feminist philosophy and ceramics in action with Maria Bussmann and the students of the university of applied arts

2021 student project Zaitseva/Bussmann
Thinking, researching, philosophizing: feminist! In a new form we want to do both; form thoughts and form ideas, give space to intersection, networking, exploration. When Helene Cixous calls for an „Ecriture feminine“ in „The laugh of the Medusa“, or evokes Homeric epics and heroes in the tenderly painful description of her mother‘s dying („Ma Ho-mère est morte“), images can transform directly into SOUND and FORM. What emerges is nothing less than a claim to a new feminist sculpture. The work was done with Viennese clay from Karlsplatz, after which the molded material was returned to the Vienna River to dissolve.

Perestroika

A film about playing with the soil, playing with the shape and playing with gender. Devoted to all people that dared to transit or practice playing with gender on a daily basis and all people that cannot imagine a transition at all. An earthy illustration of a metamorphosis.
A film by Sascha Alexandra Zaitseva und Lars* Kollros
Musik: Mort Garson
6:43 min, 2021, 1920x1080px, h264/ProRes/DCP