Artists have always worked with trash, garbage, second-hand materials – be it for financial, practical reasons or the occasion to turn away from “high art” and distance themselves from it. Especially in the last decades numerous movements like Recycling, Up-Cycling, Zero Waste, etc. have developed with the aim to make things more durable and to counteract the exuberant consumption and the throw-away habitus of our time.
The exhibition WASTEART focuses on the beauty of objects and emphasizes the readiness for material reworking. The selection of artists reflects this concept:
the beauty of the worthless, the everyday; forms that are reminiscent of paraphrases, but also create completely new aesthetic appearances; the material that we cannot get rid of, but also the relentless documentation of these processes.
Künstlerhaus Vereinigung
Die Künstlerhaus Vereinigung, Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs, ist eine autonome, gemeinnützige Künstlervereinigung. Von ihrer Gründung 1861 bis heute animiert ein offenes, diskursives und interdisziplinäres Programm in Form von Ausstellungen und Veranstaltungen zum Besuch des Künstlerhauses.
Waste Art
8 Dec 2020 - 17 Jan 2021