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full programme, available here: https://www.tugraz.at/events/izk/metabolic-commons

full programme, available here: https://www.dieangewandte.at/termine/what_is_infrastructural_critique_29-10-2025

More information about Besessene Berge / Possessed Mountains here: https://forumstadtpark.at/en/programm/besessene-berge-possessed-mountains

Between 2020 and 2023 I co-founded and was part of programming the exhibiting space, Annenstrasse 53, in Graz. Annenstrasse 53 was an independent Exhibiting Space, run by the association Das Gesellschaftliche Ding: Kunst, Architektur und Öffentlichkeit (The Social Thing: Art, Architecture and the Public), which mirrored and exposed discourses, ideas and teaching, taking place at the IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz. By dislocating teaching, research and investigations from the university to Annenstrasse 53, it was sought to work towards a praxis that questions norms and encompasses a process of ‘unlearning’ within our teaching, research, artistic production, and exhibiting. In light of this, the attempt was made to conceptualise and practice exhibiting as a continuous, open-ended process, as the deliberate refusal of temporal closure. By slowly adding and subtracting objects, publications, artistic works and conversations within the exhibiting space, we aimed to establish discourses in flux, connecting topics and positions, in relation with teaching and student work. Within this process, we positioned research as an investigative, transformative process, transformative for all involved.

Confronted with an exhibition space caught between production and representation, the attempt was made to investigate and simultaneously present the possibilities and tensions between virtual and physical presence. During COVID 19 lockdowns, this was in light of the need for a viable approach to physical experience. This simultaneous investigation and exposure was judged to emphasise the long months of physical distancing, and the disintegration of society at large. In our view, this process aimed to produce a moment of ‘unlearning’, bringing forth sites for investigative (dis)play, media manifestations, and collaborations.

Between 2020 and 2023 I curated or co-curated exhibitions, readings, screenings and talks with Ariella Äisha Azoulay and Wayne Modest, Myung Mi Kim, Christina Chalmers and Momtaza Mehri, Samia Henni, Nikolaus Perneczy, Danielle Shrier (Another Gaze), Olia Sosnovskaya, Danny Hayward and Marina Vishmidt, and many more.

More information can be found here:

https://www.instagram.com/annenstrasse53/

https://2021.steirischerherbst.at/de/program/events/2061/annenstrasse