Secession Podcast

Duane Linklater Supplies for the Soul

During the opening of Duane Linklater’s exhibition mâcistan on 28 November 2025, the performance Supplies for the Soul was acted out by three performers. Listen and enjoy the recording of this unique event.

Duane Linklater’s work and practice is grounded on an inspective inquiry on the foundations of institutions as they relate to the contemporary life and histories of Indigenous Peoples. His installations often employ paintings, sculptures, readymade objects, personal belongings, printed matter, images and symbols that he collects and accumulates. This process, linked to the concept of the c...

What can we truly know about ourselves and our histories in an age of hypervisibility, when algorithms and social structures alike decide not only what is seen but what is pushed into invisibility or irrelevance?

On the afternoon of 28 November 2025, Mimi Ọnụọha talked about her exhibition Soft Zeros; what she learned about collecting data and organizing it, about the Convict Leasing system and the impact is has had especially on Black lives in the USA, and about collective forgetting and denial over a 2-year research stretch and in the process of creating the new body of work t...

Nach einem gemeinsamen Besuch der Ausstellung „In & Out of Painting*“ im Belvedere 21 unterhalten sich Ashley Hans Scheirl und AntkeAntek Engel, Leiter*in des Instituts für Queer Theory in Berlin, unter anderem über Zusammenarbeit, Community, Queering- und Genderfragen, Verletzlichkeit, Bewegung und Wahrnehmung und über Archive. Viel Spaß beim Hören der neuen Folge.

Diese Folge wurde am 17. November 2025 in der Secession aufgenommen.

Ashley Hans Scheirl *1956 in Salzburg, lebt in Wien. Studium an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (Diplom 1980). Zwischen 1979 und 1998 entstanden über 50 Super8 Kurzfilme und zwei Langfilme. 1981–82 Aufenthalt in New York, von 1987 bis 2005 lebte Scheirl...

Hören Sie in dieser Folge den Architekten, Ausstellungskurator, Architekturhistoriker, kritischen Beobachter und Kommentator seiner gebauten Umgebung Otto Kapfinger im Gespräch mit der Architektin Claudia Cavallar. Kapfinger ist seit Mitte der 1970er-Jahre Secessions-Mitglied und hat Mitte der 1980er-Jahre mit Adolf Krischanitz und Oskar Putz die umfassende Sanierung des Hauses verantwortet. In diesem lebendigen Gespräch teilt Kapfinger sein geradezu lexikalisches Wissen über Architektur, Stadtplanung, bildende Kunst, Fotografie und Kulturpolitik, nicht nur im historischen Wien um die Jahrhundertwende, sondern auch aus der Perspektive eines aktiven Gestalters.

Diese Folge wurde am 17. Oktober 2025 in der Secession aufgenommen.

Otto...

June Crespo’s sculptural assemblages, which the artist understands as communicating vessels, resonate within our bodies. At times delicate, at others forceful, they always emanate a vital, living quality. Listen to the artist talk about her inspirations and working process.
This episode was recorded on 12 September 2025, the day after the opening of the exhibition:

June Crespo
Danzante
12.9. – 16.11.2025

Most of the works in the exhibition Danzante take their formal vocabulary from the iris and the strelitzia (bird of paradise). Yet the artist is not concerned with representing these plants. Instead of proposing a clas...

Listen to John Smith talk about his most ordinary name and how that possibly has more impact on his work than you’d think; how this inspired him to make the (autofictional) film Being John Smith (2024), one of three films in his Secession show; about the power of language, used both as voice-over and caption, over imagery; and about bad puns.

This episode was recorded on 11 September 2025, shortly before the opening of John’s exhibition:

John Smith
Being John Smith
12.9. – 16.11.2025

In the mid-1970s, John Smith shared the widespread interest in challe...

This episode is a conversation between architect and Atelier Bow-Wow-founding-member Momoyo Kiajima and curator Haris Giannouras. It was recorded right after the opening of the exhibition Suturing Together by Atelier Bow-Wow on 12 September 2025.

Their discussion focuses on care work in architecture, books and their forms in designing and understanding the build environment, 1980s Japanese comedy shows, Sutemi Horiguchi, and the importance of love in building someone’s home.

Atelier Bow-Wow
Suturing Together
12.9. – 16.11.2025

The exhibition Suturing Together includes a site-specific intervention covering almost the entire right arch of the Secession’s foyer, an ext...

Anlässlich seiner Einzelausstellung Shh, die im September 2025 im mumok eröffnet wird, spricht die Kunsthistorikerin Sophia Roxane Rohwetter mit dem Künstler Tobias Pils. Sie unterhalten sich über die Entstehung der Ausstellung, seine ortsspezifische Installation in der Secession im Jahr 2013, die Präsenz historischer Formen in der zeitgenössischen Malerei sowie über seine Freundschaft mit Friederike Mayröcker.

Diese Folge wurde am 30. Mai 2025 in der Secession aufgenommen.

mumok
Tobias Pils Shh
27.9.2025 – 12.4.2026

secession
Tobias Pils Secession
23.11.2013 – 24.1.2014

Tobias Pils, 1971 in Linz geboren, zählt zu den spannendsten malerischen Positionen de...

Im Gespräch mit der Medien- und Filmkünstlerin Constanze Ruhm geht es insbesondere um Werke aus den letzten 20 Jahren, ausgehend von kuratorischen Tätigkeiten, zu denen die Ausstellung Fate of Alien Modes (2003) im Auftrag der Secession zählt, die Diskurszusammenhänge zwischen Film und Kunst ins Licht rückte. Von der Konzeptkunst und vom Interesse für digitale Technologien und mediale Dispositive entwickelten sich die künstlerischen Projekte nach dem Studium Visueller Mediengestaltung bei Peter Weibel hin zur Rekonstruktion filmischer Räume und zur Kritik männlich kodierter Blickregime und Szenarien. Constanze Ruhm erläutert Appropriationsgesten, die sie im Rahmen i...

Luisa Ziaja spricht mit Oliver Ressler über seine künstlerische Praxis, insbesondere über seine Videos und Videoinstallationen der letzten Jahre. Diese setzen sich mit dem Klimakollaps und aktivistischer Organisierung dagegen aus, geben Einblicke in Klimaaktivismen und laden ein zu einem Nachdenken darüber, wie Gesellschaft demokratischer und inklusiver gestaltet werden könnte. Luisa Ziaja kuratierte 2024 die Einzelausstellung "Dog Days Bite Back" von Oliver Ressler im Belvedere 21. Oliver Ressler war von 2007–2013 Mitglied im Vorstand der Secession.

Das Gespräch wurde am 16. Mai 2025 aufgenommen.

Oliver Ressler lebt in Wien und arbeitet an Installationen, Projekten im Außenraum und Filme...

Eva Schlegel spricht mit der Kuratorin Antonia Hoerschelmann über ihre künstlerischen Anfänge, die prägende Zeit in New York und auch über biografische Einflüsse auf ihr Werk. Gemeinsam beleuchten sie entlang ihrer zahlreichen unverwechselbaren Werkserien die Rolle von Raum und Wahrnehmung in ihrem Schaffen und wie diese mittels künstlerischer Strategien wie Licht, Spiegelung und Unschärfe erweitert und in Frage gestellt werden können. Eva Schlegel ist seit langem mit der Secession verbunden: Seit 1995 ist sie Mitglied und 2005 realisierte sie im Hauptraum der Secession in eine beeindruckende ortsspezifische Installation mit Bleiwänden und Spiegelflächen, die von den...

This episode is a conversation between the artist Jeremy Shaw and the curator Damian Lentini. It was recorded on 6 June 2025 in the context of his exhibition, when Jeremy returned to Vienna for the screening of Quantification Trilogy at the mumok.

Jeremy Shaw
Towards Logarithmic Delay
29.5. – 31.8.2025

The exhibition Towards Logarithmic Delay presents three new sculptural works that engage with the concept of border zones and the disorientation brought about by the dissolution of spatial and perceptual thresholds. The first work visitors encounter, Maximum Horizon (2024), comprises a triptych of stained-glass windows – akin to those commonly seen...

Ariane Mueller talks with curator Jeanette Pacher not only about her current exhibition in Secession’s iconic exhibition hall, but also speaks about her experience of initiating projects, sharing space, ideas, and resources, and the importance of collaborating – providing broader insight into her creative practice and understanding as an artist. This episode was recorded on 3 June 2025, a week after the opening of Ariane Mueller’s exhibition:

Ariane Mueller
Fish are folded into the sea just as the sea is folded into fish
29.5. – 31.8.2025

Ariane Mueller’s preoccupation with war, which is at the heart of t...

This episode was recorded on 22 May, during the installation of Francis Offman’s solo exhibition at the Secession. Kamogelo Walaza, a curatorial fellow from South Africa, spoke with the artist about his work and the exhibition:

Francis Offman
Weaving Stories
29.5. – 31.8.2025

The walls of the stairwell that leads to Francis Offman’s exhibition Weaving Stories are covered in dried coffee grounds. The dark tactile material transforms the narrow entrance to the exhibition space on the first floor into an immersive olfactory experience. More

The works of Francis Offman consist of canvases (not mounte...

Stein ist in unser aller Leben omnipräsent, nicht zuletzt in Form der Architekturen, in denen wir wohnen und arbeiten. Mit deren Utopien und Widersprüchen beschäftigt sich Aglaia Konrad in Filmen, Fotografien und Skulpturen. Die Künstlerin ist in den Alpen aufgewachsen. Seitdem begleitet Stein als Urmaterial, das Felsformationen, Berglandschaften, aber auch Architektur bildet, ihr Schaffen. Mehr erfahren

This episode of Secession Podcast: Members features artist Florian Pumhösl in conversation with artist colleague Elisabeth Kihlström. It was recorded at the Secession on 7 November 2024.

Florian Pumhösl, born 1971, is an artist based in Vienna and Munich. Focussing on abstract vocabulary he has been working mostly on reliefs and drawings for the past years. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York, Galerie Buchholz in Berlin, and at Dvir Gallery, Paris.  

Elisabeth Kihlström, born 1988 in Sundborn, Sweden, is a visual artist based in Vienna. Working with sculpture, textil...

This episode is a conversation between the artist Ana Vaz and the curator Damian Lentini. It was recorded on 7 March, 2025 in the context of the exhibition:

Ana Vaz
Meteoro 
8.4. – 18.5.2025

In her film-poems artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz collages images and sounds that revolve around violence and repression, the impact of ecological ruin and the continued colonization of the earth. The deconstruction of the grand narrative of Western modernity that imposes itself across vast territories on this planet lies at the heart of her filmography.

In her exhibition at the Secession, Vaz sho...

This episode looks back at one of the central artistic positions in the group exhibition Forms of the Shadow. Minouk Lim's Currahee – Stand Alone, a floor-to-ceiling installation of painted military blankets, created a striking division of space and, in the context of the exhibition, could also be read in terms of the divided situation on the Korean peninsula, but also in the broader context of military conflicts, and as such this work is exemplary of current political crises and the latent danger of military escalation. More

On the occasion of this group exhibition, a spontaneous series of co...

This episode was recorded on 7 March 2025 in the context of the exhibitions:

Yuki Okumura. Yuki Okumura
and
Big White Playground 
With Miriam Bachmann; Mario Batram; Paul Buschnegg; Said Gärtner; golden salamturtle; Grzegorz Kielawski; Emine Koza; Niklas Hofstetter; Yuki Okumura; Flavio Palasciano; Alex Pasch; Cristina Rüesch; Sebastian Scholz; Paul Spendier; Johanna Steiner; Lorenz Sutter; Kai Philip Trausenegger; Hans Weinberger; Marit Wolters; Márton Zalka 

The so-called white cube is a seemingly “neutral” and “pure” space with plain-white walls that is supposed to ensure the undisturbed autonomy of art. The Hauptraum, the largest galle...

The idea that natural elements can serve as witnesses to history is central to my work. When you look at the landscapes in my projects – what I refer to as ‘landscapes of violence’ or ‘geographies of violence’ – you see how these environments bear witness to historical trauma and conflict. (Ali Cherri)

This episode was recorded on 19 February 2025 in the context of the exhibition:

Ali Cherri
How I Am Monument
6.12.2024 – 23.2.2025

Ali Cherri was born in Beirut and lives and works in Paris. Spanning film, performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation, his work is inspired both...

Diese Folge des Secession Podcast: Members präsentiert die Künstler*innen Helmut und Johanna Kandl im Gespräch mit Kathrin Becker, der Direktorin des KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin. Johanna Kandl ist seit 1984 Mitglied und war von 1999 bis 2003 und von 2006 bis 2007 im Vorstand der Secession.
Das Gespräch wurde am 11. Oktober 2024 in der Secession aufgenommen.

HELMUT & JOHANNA KANDL
Seit 1997 verheiratet und gemeinsame Arbeit, vor allem bei partizipativen und Rechercheprojekten. Leben und arbeiten in Wien und Berlin.
https://www.hjkandl.at

Helmut Kandl (geb. Schäffer)
Geboren 1953 in Laa an...

In dieser Folge hören Sie den Künstler und ehemaligen Präsidenten der Secession, Matthias Herrmann im Gespräch mit Rike Frank, aufgezeichnet am 17. Juni 2024.

Matthias Herrmann (*1963 in München) war von 1986 bis 1988 Mitglied des Balletts der Wiener Staatsoper. Von 1988 bis 1993 studierte er konzeptuelle Kunst bei Prof. Ernst Caramelle und Brigitte Kowanz an der Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien. Von 1997 bis 1999 war er Mitglied des Vorstands der Wiener Secession, zu deren Präsident er 1999 (als jüngster Präsident seit Gustav Klimt) gewählt wurde. Von 2006 bis 2012 war er Professor für Kunst und Fotografie...

“Lately, I have been considering how to get out of a structure in which I am forced to make sense. So, I’ve been thinking about the ways in which 20th century Caribbean poetry did a lot of work around nonsense. (…) I guess it’s very dadaist in a way: destroying the order around you, clearing a path so that other kinds of relationships between objects, ideas and places can happen.” Beatriz Santiago Muñoz in an interview with Andreas Petrossiants, published in Frieze, No. 248, 2024

This episode was recorded on 6 December, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

Beatr...

This episode is a conversation between the artist Rochelle Feinstein and the curator Damian Lentini. It was recorded on 3 December, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

Rochelle Feinstein
The Today Show
6.12.2024 – 23.2.2025

For over forty years, the American painter Rochelle Feinstein has developed an oeuvre that infiltrates abstract painting with political, social and environmental concerns. Throughout a series of diverse yet thematically interwoven groups of works, Feinstein cuts, flips, and rearranges printed gestural marks that are then collaged into paintings; she also makes sculptures and prints out of everyday materials. The Today Show presents a...

On the occasion of the group exhibition Forms of the Shadow, a spontaneous series of conversations with the artists who attended the opening in Vienna has evolved into a podcast mini-series. These audio recordings offer fascinating background information on the works and diverse artistic approaches.

“My work deals with tourism, militarism, colonialism, imperialism—forms of power” says Vancouver-based artist Jin-me Yoon. In her conversation with Bettina Spörr, she revealed that her first university degree was in psychology, a field of study that deeply influenced her artistic practice. She talks among many other topics about her work Beneath...

The End of Imagination III is a newly reconfigured installation for The Secession. It features a recreation of the famous 1969 moon landing site, upon which two lunar glitched pillars (over which two flags are draped), are placed, as well as a NASA Lunar Exploration Robot. Via this tableaux, Villar Rojas wonders how the Moon, Mars, or any other extra-terrestrial landscapes brought to us by interplanetary conquest will affect our past, present and future monumentality and its memorialization. What will happen when our terrestrial fictions, cementing nations and identities, travel to outer space? 

In this episode, the artist s...

This episode within the Forms of the Shadow podcast series is dedicated to Lee Kit and his site-specific installation In Broad Daylight (2024). For Lee, whose practice is rooted in painting, the space has become a canvas, and the creation of the work a process of editing the space and himself, similar to the editing of the videos on view. His installations often create an intimate, almost meditative atmosphere with a strong emotional impact. In this way, he succeeds in translating the essence of painting into new artistic forms, creating a fluid experience between image and space.

Forms...

Aufbauend auf dem Gespräch mit der Gastkuratorin Sunjung Kim konzentriert sich diese Podcast-Reihe zu Forms of the Shadow auf die einzelnen Künstler*innen der Ausstellung und beleuchtet ihre Werke.

Diese Folge widmet sich dem Installations- und Soundkünstler Joon Kim, seiner Arbeitsweise mit field recordings und geht Fragen nach Komposition, Manipulation und Arrangements von Klängen nach. Am Ende des Gesprächs sind die drei Tonspuren der Installation in voller Länge zu hören.

In der Secession präsentiert er The Hidden Treasures (2024), ein Soundscape-Projekt, das eine Sammlung von Klängen und Bildern a...

Following a conversation with guest curator Sunjung Kim, this podcast series now focuses on the individual artists in the exhibition, alongside their works.

Recorded on 19 September 2024, this episode focuses on the filmic work of the Danish/Korean artist Jane Jin Kaisen and her operatic multichannel work Burial of this Order – on display in the Gallery of the Secession – as well as her wider practice. At the end of the discussion, four brief audio clips from the film will be played to engage the listener in the artist’s seductive and operatic world.

Forms of the Shadow...

Young In Hong is working across installation, sound, performance, textile and drawing. Her practice often focuses on undervalued cultural practices and seeks for a sense of equality that gently undermines ruling hierarchies. In recent years, Hong has increasingly examined notions of inter-species communication, symbolism and the hybridity of sound, movement and objects in the context of other-than-human voices. More

Young In Hong is one of 18 artists and artist groups featured in Forms of the Shadow, and one of four artists whose works are shown at the Secession and its partner, the Korean Cultural Centre in Vienna. In...

Following a conversation with guest curator Sunjung Kim, this podcast is the first to focus on the individual artists in the exhibition and their works.

This episode, recorded on 20 September 2024, is dedicated to the ambivalence between the deceptive, aesthetically seductive surface and the unexpected abysses hidden behind Kyungah Ham’s conceptual embroidery works. It all began with a North Korean propaganda leaflet the artist found on her parents' doorstep one day and the question, "What if I send these things back to North Korea and communicate with anonymous people and share this strange feeling (...)".

Forms of...

Forms of the Shadow is the first group exhibition at the Secession since 2018, continuing the loose series of guest-curated thematic shows held there at irregular intervals.

In this podcast, recorded on 20 September 2024, the day after the opening, Bettina Spörr speaks with Sunjung Kim about her REAL DMZ PROJECT and how Forms of the Shadow evolved from it. Their conversation also explores Sunjung Kim’s personal motivation to engage with the political division of North and South Korea, as well as her journey to becoming one of South Korea’s most influential curators.

This episode is th...

Katrin Hornek, Karin Pauer, Sabina Holzer, Zosia Hołubowska, and Jeanette Pacher in conversation

testing grounds is an immersive live installation conceived by Katrin Hornek and developed in a collaborative process involving artists as well as researchers and scientists from different fields. It addresses the measurable evidence and effects of radioactive fallout dispersed around the world as a result of heavy testing of nuclear weapons, especially during the Cold War era.

Listen to the artist Katrin Hornek, choreographer Karin Pauer, writer and dancer Sabina Holzer, sound artist Zosia Hołubowska, and the curator Jeanette Pacher ta...

Rosa Hausleithner erzählt im Gespräch mit Sophie Thun von ihren Anfängen als Künstlerin, ihrer Zeit an der Akademie in der Bildhauerklasse von Bruno Gironcoli und wie sich ihre Arbeiten von ortspezifischen, skulptural-architektonischen Interventionen zu gemalten Raumkompositionen entwickelt haben. Diese Folge wurde am 7. Juni 2024 im Podcast-Studio der Secession aufgenommen.

Rosa Hausleithners polychrome Bildräume formieren sich primär in ihren Gedanken. Als kleine, skizzenhafte Linienzeichnungen werden sie mit Blei- und Farbstiften auf Papier fixiert, um dann in Acryl auf Leinwand ausformuliert zu werden. Von der Bildhauerei kommend, baut die 1952 in Wien geborene Künstlerin mit ihr...

The black dome of the Secession attracted everyone's attention in June 2024. The work, entitled Statement, was a highly visible symbol of the dignity of black women. It was part of the exhibition Achievement by Cuban artist Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo, whose work articulates feminist, anti-racist and anti-colonial counter-visions, highlighting the achievements of black women and advocating a form of healing. In this conversation with Bettina Spoerr, recorded on 21 June 2024, the artist talks about how she fell in love with the golden dome of the Secession and was inspired to activate the architecture.

Susana Pilar Delahante M...

Zhou Siwei translates the contradictions of living and working in contemporary China into playful, personally fragmented and nonlinear works on canvas and painted objects.
This podcast was recorded on 19 June 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

Zhou Siwei

I Sold What I Grow

21.6. – 8.9.2024

Probing the ambivalence of digital technologies, the unceasing global traffic in goods, and the sleeplessness of the late-capitalist era, Zhou interweaves diverse visual and cultural influences in ways that make everyday items and signs feel at once familiar and alien, accommodating a wide range of interpretations. More

In dieser Folge hören Sie den Architekten Hermann Czech im Gespräch mit Andreas Spiegl, aufgezeichnet am 25. April 2024. Hermann Czech ist Ehrenmitglied der Secession und Preisträger des Großen Österreichischen Staatspreises 2024.

Hermann Czech (*1936 in Wien), studierte Architektur an der TH Wien und an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien bei Ernst A. Plischke. 1958 und 1959 nahm er an den Seminaren von Konrad Wachsmann an der Salzburger Sommerakademie teil. Erste architektonische Arbeiten ab 1960, von 1963 bis 1967 schrieb er architekturkritische Texte für Die Furche. Ab den 1970er-Jahren Projekte und Realisierungen in verschiedenen Planungsmaßstäben. Veröf...

This episode is a conversation between Simone Fattal and Jeanette Pacher, the curator of the exhibition. It was recorded on June 19, 2024 in the context of:

Simone Fattal

metaphorS

21.6. – 8.9.2024

In her exhibition metaphorS, Simone Fattal presents bodies of work from different periods in her career and in a variety of media, including fired clay and ceramic sculptures, paintings, and collages. With her works, she tells stories of humanity, culture, history, and the present. Conflict, consensus, nature, faith, and trust are central concerns. Despite (or precisely because of) the artist’s nomadic life, her...

Secession Podcast: Members ist eine Gesprächsreihe mit Mitgliedern der Secession. In dieser Folge hören Sie die Künstlerin Carola Dertnig im Gespräch mit der Kunsthistorikerin und Kunstkritikerin Sabeth Buchmann, aufgezeichnet am 16. April 2024.

Carola Dertnig lebt und arbeitet in Wien. Seit 2006 leitet sie den Fachbereich Performative Kunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Sie nahm 1997 am Whitney Independent Study Program in New York teil und war als Gastprofessorin am California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in Los Angeles tätig. Dertnigs Arbeiten wurden in zahlreichen Ausstellungen in Museen und Galerien gezeigt, darunte...

Secession Podcast: Members ist eine Gesprächsreihe mit Mitgliedern der Secession. Diese Folge ist ein Gespräch zwischen dem Künstler Werner Würtinger und der Künstlerin Claudia Märzendorfer. Das Gespräch wurde während mehrerer Treffen im Jänner und Februar 2024 im Atelier von Werner Würtinger in den Praterateliers aufgezeichnet.

Werner Würtinger (geb. 1941 in Hallein) ist ein Bildhauer, der in Wien lebt und arbeitet. Sein Studium der Bildhauerei schloss er an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien ab. In seiner darauffolgenden beinahe 30-jährigen Tätigkeit als Lehrender ebendort war er eine prä...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Thomas Feuerstein and the artist Lucie Strecker. It was recorded on February 17, 2024.

Thomas Feuerstein is a visual artist. His oeuvre encompasses sprawling installations, process-based sculptures, drawings, audio plays, and biological and internet art. Central concerns include the conjunction of linguistic, visual, and material elements, the uncovering of latent superimpositions of fact and fiction, and the nexus between art and science. Feuerstein’s method of “conceptual narration” interweaves art, architecture, philosophy, literature, and philosophy with economic...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Zach Blas and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on March 8, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

Zach Blas

CULTUS

8.3. – 9.6.2024

Zach Blas’s practice spans moving image, computation, installation, theory, performance, and fiction. As an artist, filmmaker, and writer, Blas draws out the philosophies and imaginaries residing in computational technologies and their industries. For his exhibition at the Secession, he developed CULTUS, a new insta...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Imran Perretta and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on March 8, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

Imran Perretta
tears of the fatherland
8.3. – 9.6.2024

Imran Perretta’s transdisciplinary practice spans moving image, sound, composition, performance art, and poetry. His works examine questions around power, state surveillance, alterity, neo-coloniality, and the process of identity formation in young people of Muslim heritage in Western countries in the post-9/11 era. His approach to these...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the curator Joshua Simon, the curator Christian Lübbert (Secession) and the artist Francesco Finizio. It was recorded on February 18, 2024 in the context of the exhibition:

SLIME
Curated by Joshua Simon
16.2. – 30.6.2024

SLIME is a unique hybrid on-line and on-site project about our hybrid realities. Taking place at the Secession as an on-site event and as an on-line program, it includes commissioned and historic artworks, talks and performances, screenings and workshops (including one for maki...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Dorit Margreiter Choy and the corresponding member Sabine Breitwieser. It was recorded on December 13, 2023.

Dorit Margreiter Choy lives and works in Vienna. She studied fine arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Extended study visits and scholarships have brought her to Tokyo, Berlin and Los Angeles, among other places. Her work has been shown in numerous international and national museums, exhibitions, and biennials, including extensive solo exhibitions at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig W...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Marianne in conversation with the members Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler. It was recorded on December 11, 2023.

Marianne Maderna (b. 1944) lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria. Her interdisciplinary installations, environments, and performances grapple with socially relevant concerns that address the human condition and devise novel ways to frame patterns of human behavior and hierarchical systems. Her work has been featured in exhibitions including RADICAL BUSTS, Arkadenhof, University of Vienna (2015); HUMANIMALS, Zeitkunst NÖ, Dominikanerkirche Krems (2013); Das ers...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the Agency of Singular Investigations (Anna Titova and Stanislav Shuripa) and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on December 15, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Agency of Singular Investigations
On New Thinking And Other Forgotten Dreams
1.12.2023 – 25.2.2024

Anna Titova and Stanislav Shuripa founded Agency of Singular Investigations (ASI) in 2014 to take a stand on the dramatic changes in Russia’s political reality and cultural atmosphere and to respond to the advent of the po...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Charlie Prodger and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on December 1, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Charlie Prodger
The Offering Formula
1.12.2023 – 25.2.2024

Charlie Prodger (b.1974) is a Scottish artist working with moving image, photography, sculpture and drawing. She won the 2018 Turner Prize and represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. She is currently a 2023–24 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

Broadly, Prodger’s work orbits histori...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist collective and association Mai Ling and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on November 3, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Mai Ling
NOT YOUR ORNAMENT
15.9. – 12.11.2023

Founded in Vienna in 2019, Mai Ling is an artists’ collective and association dedicated to facilitating dialogues on experiences of racism, sexism, homophobia, and any kind of prejudgment, particularly against Asian FLINT* (women, lesbian, inter, non-binary, and trans). Rooted in solidarity against patriarchal and racial discri...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the members Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber in conversation with Elke Krasny. It was recorded on October 18, 2023.

Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber live in Vienna and Vancouver. They have worked, primarily in the medium of photography, on the politics of how cities, architectures, and urban territories are negotiated through images since 1994. Recent works on Educational Modernism include the research project “Performing Spaces of Radical Pedagogies” (SFU, Vancouver, 2020), contributions to the exhibitions “Education Shock” (HKW Berlin, 2021), and their current exhibition “Darkroom of...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Mykola Ridnyi and the board member and artist Anna Witt. It was recorded on September 15, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Mykola Ridnyi
15.9. – 12.11.2023

Mykola Ridnyi’s generation of Ukrainians grew up in a climate of increasing orientation toward the West and the European Union. This emancipation from Russia found expression in the 2004 Orange Revolution and was defended in the Euromaidan events of 2013–14. It was a process that went hand in hand with the eme...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Chen Chieh-jen and the curator Meiya Cheng and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was conducted in Mandarin and recorded on June 30, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Chen Chieh-jen
Worn Away
30.6. – 3.9.2023

A long-time denizen of Taiwan’s art world, Chen Chieh-jen’s work from the 1980s to the present has been exhibited internationally. To the local scene, he became renowned for Dysfunction No. 3, an interventionist performance on Taipei’s streets in the early...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Florentina Pakosta and the curator Melissa Lumbroso and the curator Jürgen Tabor. It was recorded on May 16, 2022.

Florentina Pakosta (b. 1933) is an Austrian artist and pioneer of the feminist avant-garde. Initially active as an artist working with drawing, a socio-critical realism prevailed at first, successively leading through the reduction of forms to her characteristic, abstract-geometric tricolour paintings. From 1952 to 1960 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and Vienna. In 1971 she became a me...

Secession Podcast: Discourse is a series of conversations with a focus on current discourses which the Secession addresses, too. In the first episode, board members Ricarda Denzer and Axel Stockburger discuss the benefits and opportunities of podcasts as a medium based on sound and listening. It was recorded on March 23, 2023.

Ricarda Denzer is an artist and teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2013, where she graduated with a diploma in graphics in 1993. She has been a member of the Secession since 2000 and of its board since 2020.

Axel Stockburger is an artist who works as...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Lazar Lyutakov and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on July 7, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Lazar Lyutakov
1 Million Random Numbers
30.6. – 3.9.2023

Many of Lazar Lyutakov’s works appropriate ordinary articles of our modern mass culture and simple industrial products, presenting them in a way that probes their meanings and ambiguities. He carefully selects the objects and adapts and enhances them with targeted interventions in an effort to analyze contem...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Delaine Le Bas and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on June 26, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Delaine Le Bas
Incipit Vita Nova. Here Begins The New Life/A New Life Is Beginning
30.6. – 3.9.2023

Delaine Le Bas works in a transdisciplinary way: she combines visual, performative and literary practices to create an artistic oeuvre that encompasses all areas of life. In her works she deals with many facets, political as w...

Secession Podcast: Members
Carl Pruscha in conversation with Bettina M. Busse

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Carl Pruscha and the art historian and curator Bettina M. Busse. It was recorded on April 5, 2023.

Carl Pruscha (b. 1936 in Innsbruck) studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Lois Welzenbacher and Roland Rainer and urban planning at Harvard University with José Luis Sert. In 1976 Pruscha became university professor and head of his institute at the Academy of...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former and first female president of Secession Barbara Holub and the curator Rainer Fuchs. It was recorded on December 13, 2022.

Barbara Holub lives and works in Vienna. Following her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Holub developed a socio-politically engaged art practice. In 1999 she founded the collective transparadiso with Paul Rajakovics, which operates at the interface of art, architecture and urban intervention. From 2006 to 2007 Barbara Holub was president of the Secession. Since 1997, Holub has taught a...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Vivian Suter and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on May 4, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Vivian Suter
A Stone in the Lake
28.4. – 18.6.2023

The Secession’s iconic light-filled main gallery, which opens onto a small park behind the building, would appear to be the ideal setting for a presentation of the painter Vivian Suter’s oeuvre

The Argentinean-Swiss artist has lived on a former coffee plantation in Panajac...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the Indigenous media group Karrabing Film Collective (represented by Cecilia Lewis, Elizabeth Povinelli and Akaydia Lee), the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on April 27, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Karrabing Film Collective
They pretending not to see us...
28.4. – 18.6.2023

The Karrabing Film Collective is an intergenerational grassroots media group of around thirty Indigenous filmmakers and Elizabeth Povinelli, who has known and worked with Karrabing members and their parents and grandparents for almo...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Margaret Salmon and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on April 5, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Margaret Salmon
Monument
28.4. – 18.6.2023

Margaret Salmon creates films, photographs, and objects that weave together poetry and non-fiction. Often focusing on individuals in their everyday activities, her work captures the minutiae of daily life and infuses them with gentle grandeur, touching upon universal human themes.

In her exhibition Monument, Salmon presents two new c...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former Secession president Edelbert Köb and Dr. Thomas Mießgang. It was recorded on December 2, 2022.

If you want to know more about Edelbert Köb, his presidency at the Secession and his stories on matters such as the renovation of the Secession with the architect Adolf Krischanitz or the founding of the Friends of the Secession with the president of the Friends Sylvia Liska, listen to this episode.

Edelbert Köb (b. 1942 in Bregenz) lives...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Anna Daučíková and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on October 22, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

Anna Daučíková
16.9. – 6.11.2022

Anna Daučíková is a pioneer of feminist-queer art in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Teaching for many years at art academies in Bratislava and Prague, and in recent years at the Salzburg Summer Academy, she counts to the most influential forward thinkers in the area of queer theory and practice. More...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Christine Sun Kim and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on February 16, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Christine Sun Kim
Cues on Point
17.2. – 16.4.2023

Christine Sun Kim’s art brims with rhythm and dynamic energy. Small-format drawings and sprawling murals, internet memes, text messages in public spaces, and banners towed across the sky by airplanes pack a punch and seem to want to explode the confines and constraints of their...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jordan Strafer, the curator Marti Manen and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Jordan Strafer
LOOPHOLE
17.2. – 16.4.2023

New York-based artist Jordan Strafer’s primary medium is video. Her part-autobiographical, part-fictitious work reflects the complex nature of racial identity, gender, sexuality, class, and ‘Americanism.’ A key aspect of her practice is the thoughtful yet playful choreography of seemingly antagonistic emotions—both comical and tragic, intima...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Kresiah Mukwazhi and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition:

Kresiah Mukwazhi
Kirawa
17.2. – 16.4.2023

In Kirawa, her first solo exhibition at an Austrian institution, Kresiah Mukwazhi presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works. Her mixed-media collages, sculptures, videos, and performances are informed by her personal experiences and observations of gender-based violence, exploitation and abuse in her native Zimbabwe. In v...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Lieselott Beschorner and the curator Berthold Ecker. It was recorded on June 2, 2022 in the context of the exhibition

Lieselott Beschorner
Im Atem der Zeit [In the Breath of Time]
June 29 – November 6, 2022

Lieselott Beschorner has made art for over seven decades and been a member of the Vienna Secession for just as long. When she was admitted to the Association of Visual Artists in 1951, she was among the first women members: the Secession, which...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Meina Schellander and Ricarda Denzer. It was recorded on April 5, 2022.

Meina Schellander (b. 1946 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1970. Since 1968 she has realized numerous projects, been part of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and abroad, and received national awards and scholarships. Her works are represented in national and international collections. Schellander is a member of the Secession, the GAV (Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung), the IntAkt (Internationale Aktionsgemeinschaft b...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Patricia L. Boyd and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on December 12, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

Patricia L. Boyd
Ceiling Analysis
18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023

Ceiling Analysis is Patricia L. Boyd’s first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, consisting of two newly commissioned works. Its centrepiece is a large sculpture bearing the title of the exhibition, suspended from the ceiling of the Grafisches Kabinett and which further lowers the ceiling of the ga...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on November 18, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

Jean-Frédéric Schnyder
18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023

In his exhibition at the Secession, the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder shows a cross-section of his painting from almost forty years (1983–2021). In his typical manner, the 102 paintings of various formats (all: oil on canvas) are hung evenly spaced and, increasing in size from front to back and then de...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Kodwo Eshun from The Otolith Group and the artist Oliver Ressler. It was recorded on November 16, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

The Otolith Group
What the Owl Knows
18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023

The Secession is delighted to announce What the Owl Knows, the solo exhibition of The Otolith Group named after the new moving image work directed by the artists. The post-cinematic practice of Kodwo Eshun and Anjalika Sagar is informed by an attention to an aesth...

Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Edek Bartz and the board member Axel Stockburger. It was recorded on October 25, 2022

Edek Bartz is an Austrian musician, DJ, concert promoter, curator, author, and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Spanning more than 25 years, he recorded, produced or toured with artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, and The Rolling Stones. In the 1970s, Bartz worked with performance artist Hermann Nitsch, and in the 1980s he co-founded t...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist B. Ingrid Olson and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on June 30, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

B. Ingrid Olson
Elastic X
June 29 – September 4, 2022

B. Ingrid Olson’s art undertakes an insistent exploration of the question of what it means to see and to be seen. Her sculptural and photographic works are studies of the body and space in interaction with the staging of the gaze and connotations of mate...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Siggi Hofer and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on May 31, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

Siggi Hofer
Still Life
March 4 – June 12, 2022

In Still Life, Siggi Hofer has conceived an immersive installation in dialogue with the Secession’s characteristic architecture: we enter a large tableau composed of numerous and diverse works that in many ways reflects the baffling complexity of our contemporary reality. More

Bettina Spörr is a c...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist collective DIS and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on March 5, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

DIS
How To Become A Fossil
March 4 – June 12, 2022

DIS is a collaborative project based in New York and consisting of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, working together as an artistic and curatorial collective dealing with a wide range of media and platforms, exploiting the methods of production, use and dissemination of c...

Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Dineo Seshee Bopape and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on March 4, 2022 in the context of the exhibition:

Dineo Seshee Bopape
Lerato le le golo (...la go hloka bo kantle)
March 4 – June 12, 2022

Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 (1974 in the Ethiopian calendar), the year of the golden rooster, on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian, her name would be Akosua/Akos for short. During the same year of her birth...