Joy as Resistance
The project space of gallery Lombardi-Kargl, currently run as 17(Joy), invited the studio for Art and Intervention | Concept to take over the space of 17(Joy) for an intermission in their regular program.
Soft opening chapter 1: Community: 6.3.2026 | 18–20 h
Poetry reading: 19 h
Performative dinner: 12.3.2026
Opening chapter 2: Social Dialogue : 14.3.2026 | 18–21 h
Film screening with Q&A: 19 h
Closing event with reading: 19.3.2026, 19 h
Opening chapter 3: Curated Show: "We wanted to Write a Song”: 21.3.2026 | 18–20 h
Performative workshop "Interfacing Empathy”: 24.3.2026, 19 h
Closing performance “Equinox”: 26.3.2026, 19 h
Joy in Resistance was a perspective the students chose to form three groups with different attitudes towards the use of a gallery space. The three groups are each programming the space of 17(Joy) for one week. “Community”, “Social Dialogue” and “Curated Show” being the different perspectives on how to approach a public moment.
We can be looking forward to events and works in dialogue with each other and in dialogue with audiences inside and outside the gallery space through performance, film screenings, community meetings and exhibited works in the space.
As one of the groups remarks: “Playfulness becomes a subtle act of resistance, a reminder that we are, despite everything, in this together.”
Participating artists: Aliona Novokhatska, Çağlar Mucan, Emran Sohel, Ertuğrul Bayraktar, Firat Yildiz, JH Gim, Jonas Nieft, Joy Alphonsus, Kyra Sophie Wilhelmseder, Lukas Brunner, Marwa Yasin, Melina Vesely, Merlin Deniz Franek, Mirjana Mustra, Munira Mohamud, Negin Sadeghi, Nkeny, Persy-Lowis Bulayum, Sophie Berghäuser, Tamir Hadar, Zora Fuhrmann