Heimo Zobernig

Curated by Stéphanie Moisdon.

“Drawing, painting, sculpture, object, photography, film, music, architecture, furniture, display, collaboration, social practice, study, teaching and how everything is connected in different ways. A narrative from the beginnings until today.” 

Heimo Zobernig thus describes, in his objective and laconic way, his fifth exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel, perfectly summing up this complex framework, free from any strictly retrospective layout, made up of samples, of input across different historical, biographical moments, across techniques, things, and forms. 

The exhibition revisits roughly forty years of Heimo Zobernig’s production. Often associated with major contemporary aesthetic movements (conceptual art, minimalism, geometric abstraction, etc.), here, the artist endeavors to examine the interrelationships between the works and the narratives, junctions, transfer and displacement underpinning heroic accounts and theoretical divisions.

It is also and above all a space to reflect, where one can view or review what has been playing out since the 1980s, on the early inquiries into issues of theatricality, display, autonomy. Where one can perceive how Zobernig experiments with intermediary, resolutely ambiguous forms, always avoiding a dominant outside position, developing a body of work that undermines, with both humor and engagement, definitions and typologies from within.