meins ist deins
This autumn we celebrate a decade of curatorial collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. Josie Sanne and Zaccaria Slater, Graduates from MA Culture, Criticism and Curation, travelled to Vienna and selected graduates from the Academy to present alongside UK artists in the exhibition meins ist deins (what’s mine is yours) this autumn in London. This cooperation has brought over a hundred of UK- and Austrian-based artists together over the years and we look forward to another edition on the theme of sharing.
meins ist deins is divided into two categories: meins (mine) and deins (yours). Within meins, traces of humanity emerge from small details: you’ll find intimate memories (Seihee Cho, Lotti Brockmann), the eyes of a bovine animal (Tao Iver & Julian Mack), a foot emerging from a wall (Tao Iver), a constellation of material anomalies (Janne Charlotte Schipper & Andreas Sahl Andersen, Julian Mack). Some works were forged in collaboration; all works situate self, partnership and the ways in which we reveal and conceal elements of ourselves.
Within deins, the question shifts from who to where. Sweeping landscapes illustrate a shared world marked by human intervention (Catherine Ward); a site-specific response at the Venice Biennale tests the architectural world's willingness to share (Fabian Antosch), a live enactment of the ACF itself questions the complexity of sharing identity in a country’s institution (Lia Quirina), tapestries that depict contested land ownership explore the loss of the Commons (Abigail Collicutt), and a site-specific installation responds to the divisional architecture of the space (Gabriella Day). meins explores access to shared spaces and how proximity to others defines and dictates collective culture.
meins ist deins reveals the complexity of sharing. To share with one another relies on trust and is continuously performed and tested, again and again. It is in this act of testing that we might find ours. Something that can’t be given or stated, but built, imperfectly, in the space between mine and yours.
Special thanks to our cooperation partners and a big thank you to the contributing artists of the Academy: Andreas Sahl Andersen (Art and Space | Object), Fabian Antosch (Art and Space | Public Sphere), Lotti Brockmann (Art and Space | Spatial Strategies), Tao Iver (Art and Image | Abstraction), Julian Mack (Art and Space | Installation), Lia Quirina (Art and Image | Context), Janne Charlotte Schipper (Art and Space | Object)
70 years ACF - Meins ist Deins exhibition opening ← Events ← Austrian Cultural Forum London
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