Silent Manifesto
December 16, 2021–February 26, 2022
Maria-Theresien-Straße 34 / Arkadenhof
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Hours: Tuesday–Friday 1–6pm,
Thursday 1–8pm,
Saturday 10am–3pm
Can silence be either an effect of oppression and a powerful performative act of resistance? How can we let some smoke enter into our relationships, slowly but deeply blurring the desire for understanding, for walls of separation and enclosure, for a proper enemy?
Silent Manifesto presents three film installations choreographed in interaction with each other specifically for the exhibition in Kunstraum Innsbruck: The Right to have Rights (2019), Silent (2016) and Opaque (2014). The installation stages a conversation between the artworks around transparency and opacity, becoming invisible and speaking up. Working between silence, speech, music, camouflage, state of war and asylum, Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz’s political aesthetics suggest attention to ambiguities and paradoxes. Alongside the films presented on transparent and semitransparent screens where the audience also becomes part of the “stage,” there is an accompanying installation introducing Wig Piece (I Feel My Story´s Still Untold) 2021, a sculpture made of artificial hair.
About Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz are filmmakers and visual artists who have been working together in Berlin since 2007. Their recent solo exhibitions include: Frac Bretagne (2021); Julia Stoschek Collection (2019), Berlin; The Swiss Pavillon of the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); Centre Culturel Suisse Paris (2018); CAMH Houston (2017); Kunsthalle Zürich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015); Badischer Kunstverein (2013); CAPC Bordeaux (2013); South London Gallery (2012); Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneva (2011). Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz took part in numerous festivals and group exhibitions among others recently at The Centre Pompidou (2021); Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021).
Kunstraum Innsbruck 2022 program
Founded in 1996 as a non-profit association for exhibiting contemporary art, Kunstraum Innsbruck presents aesthetic concepts and is a space for engaging with sociopolitical issues. Kunstraum Innsbruck exhibitions and program, if not differently noted, are curated by the institution’s director Ivana Marjanović.
We are happy to announce our projects in 2022!
Selma Selman
An exhibition in the context of the International Women’s* Day
March–May 2022
Zoopolis
Cohabitation Part II. A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Non-Humans and Humans in Urban Space
June–August 2022
A group exhibition curated by Marion von Osten*, Christian Hiller, Alexandra Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo and Peter Spillmann in collaboration with Ivana Marjanović
*Marion von Osten initiated the project. She passed away in November 2020 and the project is dedicated to her.
Kunstraum Innsbruck summer school
Courses, workshops, performances, discussions. An Art & Education project
July 1–9, 2022
The Otolith Group: Recent Works
September–November 2022
Heidi Holleis
An exhibition on ghosts, pop culture, consumerism, and insanity
December 2022–February 2023
Support
Kunstraum Innsbruck is annually supported by the City of Innsbruck, State Tirol, and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport. The exhibition by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz is additionally supported by Pro Helvetia, Swiss Arts Council. The Project by ARCH+ Cohabitation is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. You can also support KUNSTRAUM INNSBRUCK by becoming a member of the association.
