"open studio" in the frame of Vienna Art Week
+++ Inauguration of Barbara Holub's new studio +++

Sat, Nov. 9, 1–6 pm
Sun, Nov. 10, 1–6 pm

Location: Gr.Mohreng.34/ EG, 1020 Wien

Special event:
Sun, Nov. 10, 3 pm
Conversation with Susanne Prinz (Director of the Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin) and Barbara Holub: “Empathic exchange and silent activism: a conversation about art in confrontation with urban and social challenges.”

In her new studio, Barbara Holub will be showing current works on “silent activism”. These are often characterized by a certain perseverance, repetition, slowness and moments of rehearsing. Through the seemingly not “efficient” use of time they counteract the efficiency and perfection dominating our society. As such, they are also directly related to this year’s VIENNA ART WEEK theme.

For thirty years, Barbara Holub’s socially and politically engaged art has linked urban development, social issues, and artistic interventions. As an accumulative process of participatory action, Holub’s projects question the role of art in society, whether in the context of art itself, in urban public space, or in relation to corporations. Rather than directly propagating activism, Holub persistently creates performative situations for dialogic action with the aim of questioning norms and crossing boundaries, for which she coined the term "silent activism".
(see: Barbara Holub "Stiller Aktivismus", hrsg. Basak Senova, De Gruyter, 2023)

viennaartweek.at/de/open-studio-days-2024