For her solo exhibition at Belvedere 21, Angelika Loderer is designing a site-specific installation that uses soil as the common ground, highlighting its ecological, economic, political, and cultural narratives.
An interest in the subterranean and the stories that lurk there, the tension between what is visible and what is hidden, what is ephemeral and what is permanent run like a thread through the work of sculptor Angelika Loderer. For her critical examination of the concept of sculpture with regard to form and authorship, the artist occasionally engages in a creative dialogue with non-human beings whose habitat is the earth: she uses natural caves and passages shaped by animals as molds for casting or incorporates the transformative properties of fungal mycelium to alter and shape materials. The result of this creative process gives rise to a chance-driven and posthumanist coexistence of living beings.
Belvedere 21 – Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Das Belvedere 21 ist Schauplatz für zeitgenössische Kunst, Film und Performance sowie sozialer Treffpunkt in einem urbanen Zukunftsgebiet. Im adaptierten Weltausstellungspavillon von Karl Schwanzer wird auf drei lichtdurchfluteten Ebenen österreichische und internationale Kunst von den 1960er-Jahren bis heute gezeigt.
Angelika Loderer: Soil Fictions
6 Mar 2024 - 15 Sep 2024
Belvedere 21, Arsenalstraße, Wien, Österreich
Photo: Angelika Loderer © Bildrecht, Vienna 2024