Current signs

Group exhibition “Current signs”

2018

with Pablo Chiereghin, Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Johannes Gierlinger, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Siggi Hofer, Sekretariat für Geister, Archivpolitiken und Lücken (SKGAL), Klub Zwei, Milan Mijalkovic, Ryts Monet, monochrom, Ivette Mrova Zub, Yoshinori Niwa, UBERMORGEN, Flora Watzal, Christina Werner and WochenKlausur
kuratiert von Enar de Dios Rodriguez

“Current signs” is a project to which contemporary artists were invited to express their actual concerns and demands in form of protest banners. What must we demand or protest against? What needs to be expressed publicly? What statements need to be taken to the streets? The resultant 16 protest banners designs, conceived by a wide range of artists, give a visual answer to these poignant questions. Printed in editions of 50, these banners will be on view at das weisse haus from the 20th of February until the 28th of March, where visitors could take them for free as long as they are available.

This project is born from the need to address concerns related to our current political landscapes and the rise (and acceptance) of far-right, xenophobic and racist ideologies. As always – but maybe now more than ever – we need to make visible our demands, to share with each other our ideas, our worries and our needs. “Current signs” aims to encourage this exercise of the right to demonstrate and protest.

“Current signs” has been inspired by similar projects in which protest banners – “some of the clearest manifestations of the visual language of political action” – were the main protagonists, such as the event “In Protest” (2012) at the BAMPFA (USA) or artworks like “The Blank Placard Dance” (1967) by Anna Halprin.

Exhibition photos (c) Ryts Monet

Opening photos (c) eSeL.at

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