Klub Zwei: Investigating Migration, Racism, and Shoah Through Video Installations at Secession

Klub Zwei presents an exhibition of three video installations by the artist collective Simone Bader and Jo Schmeiser. The works critically examine migration, racism, antisemitism, and their media representation, focusing on the intergenerational impacts of the Shoah and the history of the Phaidon publishing house.

This exhibition by the artist collective Klub Zwei, founded in 1992 by Simone Bader and Jo Schmeiser, delves into critical themes of migration, racism, and antisemitism, and how these are represented in media and public discourse. Their work analyzes representational orders and reflects on their own production conditions, developing egalitarian models of collaboration. For their Secession exhibition, Klub Zwei developed three video installations that continue their recent film and book project 'Things. Places. Years.' The installations investigate the lingering effects of the Shoah on subsequent generations and the enduring presence of loss. One installation, 'Phaidon. Verlage im Exil / Phaidon. Presses in Exile', focuses on the history of the Phaidon publishing house, originally based in Vienna. Founded in 1923, the publishing house specialized in art and art history publications and was known for its high-quality, accessible books. The installation combines interviews with descendants of the founding family and a literary scholar with visual elements of typography and translations, highlighting the publisher's international ambitions and the consequences of emigration, including the loss of language and the continuation of cultural connections. The other two interconnected installations, 'Verlust / Loss' and 'Antworten geben können / Response Ability', feature interviews with individuals working at the Institute of Contemporary History & Wiener Library London and the Kultusgemeinde Wien. These discussions explore Vienna's perception as shaped by the history of National Socialism and the Shoah, and how displacement and annihilation have indelibly marked the city. The project raises questions about the differing perspectives of descendants of survivors and perpetrators, the knowledge passed down from previous generations, and how this influences their current lives and actions.

Visitors are directed to 'tickets' which links to an external ticketing platform (eventjet.at). The page also indicates opening hours for the day of the visit ('heute geöffnet' - open today). There is no specific ticketing information mentioned for this exhibition itself, implying it may fall under general museum admission or the linked external ticketing system.