Collaborations

Departing from the the avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s as well as conceptual and socio-analytic approaches in contemporary art, "Collaborations" examines diverse strategies of collective authorship. The exhibition builds a bridge spanning from the smallest to the largest unit of togetherness: from the internal ties of the collective to a particular constellation of the connective, from the artist duo to society-and last but not least, from the love affair to the interconnectedness of life. "Collaborations" investigates how artistic models of a "we" can be cultivated for life together as a society: What does collaboration mean in the twenty-first century when fundamental social structures continue to dissolve? How have artists responded to such social and political developments over the decades and what is their position today?Text: Heike Eipeldauer, Franz Thalmair, Karola Kraus und Rachel Mader.