Discover "Kontext, Form, Troja": An International Group Exhibition of Contemporary Art at Secession

This group exhibition, curated by Daniel Baumann, is the current edition of the 'Junge Szene' series, an international platform for young artists. It showcases individual positions rather than new trends, encouraging dialogue and potential contradiction among works presented in an open-access format without partition walls.

Kontext, Form, Troja, curated by Daniel Baumann, is the latest iteration of the 'Junge Szene' exhibition series, which has served as an international platform for emerging artists since 1983. The exhibition focuses on individual artistic positions that evolve from diverse formal and conceptual considerations, rather than on emerging trends. Presented in an open mode without partition walls, the works are intended to enter into dialogue or contradiction with each other. The title itself points to underlying principles: anchoring in social and art contexts, formal precision, and the staging of foreign bodies within existing systems, referencing the Trojan Horse. Notable interventions include Kalin Lindena's custom-made flags replacing the Secession's official ones, Roland Kollnitz's climbing pole referencing the association's founding year, and Wade Guyton's X-sculptures engaging with the building's facade. Inside, Michael S. Riedel and Dennis Loesch have reconstructed an exhibition space from Frankfurt, where four events—an exhibition, film screening, DJ set, and theater performance—were pre-produced. Mai-Thu Perret's stage design for a never-to-be-performed play becomes a sculpture, and Pierre Leguillon's slideshow functions as a visual exploration of art history with a variety show character. Other artists like Robert Kusmirowski, Isabella Schmidlehner, and Lucy McKenzie explore themes of copying, recontextualization, and historical socialist muralism, while Valentin Carron uses flags from Charlie Chaplin's film, Misha Stroj reinterprets iconic symbolism, Constantin Luser combines a synthesizer sculpture with a wall drawing, and Scott Myles's interventions comment on the exhibition space. Trisha Donnelly planned a performance for the finissage, and Mathilde Rosier's film condenses the feeling of alienation.

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