SOHO in Ottakring 2024
Annual Exhibition
A Collective Journey Towards Climate Justice learning together acting together
Artists:
David Osthoff | Franziska Thurner and Fabian Holzinger | Susana Ojeda with Andrea Ancira, Bita Bell, Laura Garcia Sobreira, Olivia Golde, Zoe Gudović, Nina Sandino and Afro Rainbow Austria, as well as the Earth Artivist Lab of the Brunnenpassage with Alexandra Katzer, Andrea Nieto, Birgit Huebener, Carolina Páez Vélez, Eva Trapeznicova, Lewis Mangas, Matthias Flug and Meret NamaÏ Weiss | Ursula Gaisbauer and students of the Class for Site-Specific Art, University of Applied Arts Vienna | COMMON GROUND Group with Johanna Preissler, Carina Riedl, Elisabeth Smejkal and Marieluisa Lenglachner
Cooperation:
Institute for Art Education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | Vienna Art Week | Brunnenpassage Wien
Exhibition Duration
8 November – 1 December 2024
Opening Hours
Wed – Sun, 3 – 8 pm
Venue
SOHO STUDIOS im Sandleitenhof, Liebknechtgasse 32, 1160 Vienna and public space
"Living in harmony with nature is something that short-sighted industrial societies have condescendingly left to so-called 'indigenous peoples', whilst throwing themselves headlong into an excess of inventions."
The exhibition "A Collective Journey Towards Climate Justice: learning together, acting together." makes visible and tangible the complex relationships between the historical, social, and economic causes of entrenched injustices that are closely linked to ecological developments, through the use of contemporary artistic practices.
Themes such as a critique of the hierarchical relationship between humans and nature; feminist* aspects and the ongoing colonial exploitation of people, plants, animals, and other planetary beings will all feed into the work, as will indigenous knowledge from communities of "Abya Yala" (the pre-colonial name for the Americas); time here is placed in relation to the cycles of nature and the legacy of ancestors, breaking with the linearity of our understanding of time.
Given the scale of the subject matter — which manifests on a global level whilst simultaneously being felt and experienced in the Austrian here and now — collaborative methods are particularly employed, focusing on the transfer and exchange of knowledge in the spirit of collective, multi-sensory learning, thereby drawing a connection between the loss of biodiversity and social injustices.
