Margins of the Visible

Opening of the exhibition on September 30, 17 h at the Austrian Cultural Forum Prague and subsequently at 19 h at the  AVU Gallery.

The exhibition Margins of the Visible brings together artistic positions from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. They explore the layered relationships between architecture, infrastructure, and organic life, focusing on blurred boundaries between human and non-human, natural and artificial, inner and outer. Combining architecture, sculpture, and video, the exhibition raises questions about landscapes in transformation – what remains, what has disappeared, and what is emerging.

The artists in this exhibition probe the politics of space—how societal structures, labor systems, and histories are inscribed into the urban fabric. Through art works and texts which are assembled in the accompanying catalogue, we are invited to sites of disorder and ambiguity, the margins of the city, post-industrial ruins, infrastructural gaps as well as housing and monuments—spaces often dismissed or overlooked, but rich in their ability to register and memorize impact. Coalescing around infrastructures and technologies both as things and relationships between them, the exhibited works question instability and distortion, acting as holders of potentiality—a force between crisis and regeneration.

Artists: Nanna Kaiser, Lotti Brockmann & Paul Schurich, Janne Charlotte Schipper & Andreas Sahl Andersen, Pille-Riin Jaik, Julian Berger, Anastasiia Lisnicha, Lucie Vrbíková, Jakub Kempný, Omar El Sadek & Hanne Kaunicnik, Jesse Van Epenhuijsen, Renata Jelínková

Curated by Mia Milgrom 

Organized in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, the Austrian Cultural Forum Prague, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and BMWKMS (Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Republic of Austria).

“This cooperation between the Austrian Cultural Forum Prague, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is an important opportunity we can offer our students. As part of this collaboration, we had the opportunity to invite a graduate of AVU as a Curator-in-Residence at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After engaging with our students, Mia Milgrom selected artistic positions and our students now have the opportunity to exhibit in Prague, to make connections and build their own networks. This is exactly what young artists need to do in order to learn and to grow as part of their development."

Johan Hartle, Rector of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

AVU Gallery (exhibition space of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague) strives to present current approaches and themes in contemporary art in a broader context and within the framework of gallery operations. The gallery presents, in the form of exhibitions and accompanying programs, mainly contemporary work by students, graduates and alumni, and AVU teachers and lecturers. Regular exhibitions are also held in cooperation with foreign art schools.