We’re delighted to announce and invite you to our upcoming events in Vienna this winter!

We’ll be opening a group show called Living Apart Together Wednesday the 13th of November at Kunsthalle Exnergasse (KEX), and Vienna is also giving us a warm welcome to share our creations through a parallel public programme taking place at Filmkoop Wien, The Austrian Film Museum, Vienna Art Week, and Blickle Kino.

In Living Apart Together (13 Nov-14 Dec), we bring together a selection of audio/visual artworks from Belgium and Austria that question identity, self-images, language, borders and belonging, delve into domestic spaces, provide a window onto intimacies, cherish female role models, and celebrate the power and potential of art to unite us in the dark times, as Anouk De Clercq’s film ‘We’ll find you when the sun goes black’ reminds us. Creating a dialogue between works from archival collections and contemporary creations, past and present meet in a scenography created by Yuichiro Onuma.

Patrick Holzapfel writes in his text on our exhibition, “Organic Solidarity”: “Instead of understanding the organic as a necessary interdependence between artists, the collected works unfold a physical-spiritual connection across generations and cultures. The works often show tender gestures of holding, embracing and affection between people, but also between people and objects. Dialogues of gazes, art as a gift to the other person. This is a radical, political and liberating gesture that emphasises a different kind of togetherness between people.”

elephy would like to thank the team at KEX for this invitation and all of the participating artists:

Rebecca Jane Arthur, Sirah Foighel Brutman & Eitan Efrat, Manon de Boer, Anouk De Clercq, Linda Christanell, Collectif Faire-part, Chloë Delanghe, Lili Dujourie, Eva Giolo, Friedl vom Gröller, Ipek Hamzaoglu & Lantian Xie, Kathi Hofer, Katharina Lampert & Cordula Thym, Eva L’Hoest, Maggessi/Morusiewicz, Mara Mattuschka, Christiana Perschon, Sasha Pirker, Alex Reynolds, Ernst Schmidt jr., Nina Schuiki, Christina Stuhlberger, Hui Ye.

Photographs © Chloë Delanghe

Following our opening night, we’ve been invited to extend the dialogue between films onto the cinema screen at The Austrian Film Museum on Thursday the 14th & Friday the 15th of November and selected works by Cosma Grosser, Dora Maurer, Viktoria Schmid, Tomash Schoiswohl, and Antoinette Zwirchmayr to converse with our own.

In her text “Things Shared”, Laura Staab writes on our film programmes: “One through-line is the simple fact of togetherness. They share the space of the program, and an audience in you.” Below you will find our full agenda, running from the 9th November at Filmkoop Wien till the 14th of December, with a special finissage at Blickle Kino hosted and curated by Maggessi/Morusiewicz and a talk by Branka Benčić (director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka) at KEX.

All the while, elephy’s heart and mind is with the people of Gaza and the hostages taken on the 7th of October. We support, unequivocally, an immediate ceasefire and a free Palestine, and condemn Israel’s unrelentless attack on the Palestinian people.

✍︎#CeasefireNow

✍︎Amnesty International

Hunting for safety
and eager for peace
We follow the leaders who chew up
the land (…)

I’m standing in place
I’m holding your hand
and pieces of children
on patches of sand

- June Jordan, ‘March Song’, Living Room (1985)
Living Room June Jordan Palestine Reader