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Explore Ines Doujak's "Geistervölker" Exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien: Pandemics, Global Trade, and Extraction

This comprehensive solo show reveals the artist's multidisciplinary approach to interconnected historical and contemporary crises.

Kunsthalle Wien presents Ines Doujak's impactful solo exhibition, "Geistervölker" (Ghost Populations), critically examining pandemics and viral transmission. Explore the deep connections between global trade, economic systems, and their historical as well as contemporary impacts. Doujak's multidisciplinary works reveal exploitative structures inherent in global capitalism, prompting reflection on these urgent themes.

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Exhibition summary

This solo exhibition by Austrian artist Ines Doujak, titled 'Geistervölker' (Ghost Populations), delves into the histories of pandemics, viral transmission, and their connections to global trade and contemporary crises. The exhibition examines the economic, microbiological, and ecological impacts, linking historical pandemics to the extractive logic of global capitalism.

Curatorial context

Kunsthalle Wien presents 'Geistervölker' ('Ghost Populations'), a comprehensive solo exhibition by Austrian artist Ines Doujak, focusing on the interconnectedness of pandemics, viral transmission, and global economic systems. The exhibition critically examines how colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism have facilitated the extraction of resources, contributing to historical and ongoing crises. Doujak's multidisciplinary practice, which spans photography, performance, film, and installation, utilizes political theory and tangible objects to deconstruct sexist and racist stereotypes and expose exploitative structures. For 'Geistervölker,' she combines new and existing projects to conceptualize the perpetual cycle of capital accumulation and the Earth's diminishing capacity to sustain unending extraction. The displayed works, including textiles, videos, papier-mâché sculptures, and installations, narrate the story connecting global production and consumption chains, pandemics, and recurring patterns of disease spread throughout history. The exhibition is further complemented by a series of live performances and 'Transmission: A series of five Podcasts on Disease and Pandemics in a Distorted World (2021),' a project with John Barker. These podcasts delve into timely topics such as factory farming and healthcare speculation, exploring the relationship between disease and trade routes.

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Information regarding admission and program scheduling can be obtained by contacting [email protected]. Specific ticketing details for the exhibition are not provided on this page, but the venue is listed as Kunsthalle Wien at Museumsquartier.

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Kunsthalle Wien
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Exhibition schedule
From Oct 1, 2021
Artist line / attribution
Ines Doujak (b. 1959, lives and works in Vienna) is an Austrian artist whose work spans photography, performance, film, and installation. The exhibition was curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović). The accompanying podcast series 'Transmission' features Ines Doujak and John Barker.
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