still (a little life) unites photography, painting, and sculpture, exploring moments of stillness, suspended time, and the fragile intensity of life—caught between light, memory, and technological transformation.

THE HALL is bathed in even light from above, casting soft shadows on walls and objects. Yet the space does not invite lingering: a gray linoleum floor, heavy curtains, and a palpable silence fill the room. The Lithuanian-American filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas once asked, “What happens in moments of stillness?” This is where the exhibition begins.

NEVEN ALLGEIER’s photographs chase light, capturing fleeting instants—faces and bodies glowing warmly, as if seen through the plastic lenses of childhood sunglasses. Contours blur, colors fray. Flowers, raindrops, surfaces, and architecture lose their sharpness. Time slows, stripped of noise.

JUDITH EISLER freezes cinematic fragments in her paintings, revealing what vibrates within them: a nighttime walk in the snow, a backward glance beneath a canopy of leaves, John making coffee—a casual gesture in daily life, fractured by distortions of light and pattern. Her figures drift between past and present.

In contrast, PAKUI HARDWARE’s The Host crafts a cool, controlled intimacy. Operating tables, mechanical arms, and glass lenses transform the body into a functional vessel, optimized for labor and experiment. Telemedicine and robotic surgery create closeness without touch—a post-organic form of care, precise yet detached.

Together, the works scatter fragments of time: glimpses of life paused or preserved, condensed into a single moment, sometimes merely observed more closely. In this stillness, which leaves everything open, a little life endures.

Artists: Neven Allgeier, Judith Eisler, Pakui Hardware
Curator: Barbara Horvath
Venue: The Hall, PART International Art Residency Austria, Meiereistraße 3 & 16, 1020 Vienna
Duration: March 7 – April 11, 2026
Opening: Saturday, March 7, 2026, 6 – 9 PM
Hours: Friday 1 – 6 PM, Saturday 12 – 5 PM, and by appointment: welcome@partresidency.at
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 7, 2026, 5 PM
Curator Tours: Friday, March 20, 2026, 5 PM / Saturday, April 11, 2026, 4 PM

The Lithuanian artist duo Pakui Hardware will be in residence at PART from March to May.

PART is a program of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media, and Sport.