Smoke is an exciting exhibition and engagement project from two established international artists. Working in collaboration and with a dryly humorous approach, Masuyama and Kessler have developed twin responses to themes of domestic and urban space, guerrilla interventions and herbal substances.
This is a two-site exhibition, with video archive of the artists’ street interventions displayed in Threshold, Flax Art Studios’ window galleries on North Street, Belfast, UK (25.4.- 18.5.2024). The exhibition will tour to Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, in Autumn 2024.
Projektraum Viktor Bucher
“I see myself as a kind of “talent scout” and my mission since the founding of the projektraum (project room) more than 20 years ago is to filter out some “outstanding artistic positions with impact and quality” from a multitude of possibilities and to install them in an international environment position. Artists such as JULIE HAYWARD, MARLENE HAUSEGGER, CANAN DAGDELEN, ALFREDO BARSUGLIA, ALDO GIANNOTTI, MICHAEL SCHRATTENTHALER, HADRIEN DUSSOIX or MICHAIL MICHAILOV have also gained international success.
Right from the start I made a conscious decision to use the term “projektraum” (project room) and not gallery, as this term allows me more opportunities in the selection of artistic positions.”
Leopold Kessler • Shiro Masuyama: "SMOKE"
22 Oct 2024 - 30 Nov 2024
Projektraum Viktor Bucher
Praterstraße 13, 1020 Wien, Österreich
© Leopold Kessler + Shiro Masuyama
