A project by VCAS – Vienna Contemporary Art Space and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Network Medicine.

X Frames Per Space is a group exhibition featuring invited and Open Call-selected artists who critically engage with processes of framing, visibility, and knowledge production.

In today’s flood of images, the frame often goes unnoticed – that inconspicuous excerpt that determines what becomes visible and what remains hidden.

X Frames Per Space addresses precisely this: we explore framings as a fundamental precondition for systems. Every selection, every limitation, every act of framing creates its own knowledge of the world – while excluding other perspectives.

X Frames Per Space understands framing as an essential process of learning: frames select information, structure perception, and shape our understanding of reality. In our exhibition, we embark on a journey through various framings – visual, medial, and societal – and reveal the mechanisms that silently govern our worldviews.

What happens when we begin to question these constructions? What alternative spaces of knowledge open up when we make the seemingly self-evident nature of framings visible?

Curated by: Annette Tesarek, Sebastian Pfeifhofer, Melina Steiner