Adrien Tirtiaux and Hannes Zebedin, ein Sonntag im Museum: Einblicke in die Sammlung Weiser (A Sunday in the Museum: Insights into the Weiser Collection), 2007-08, performative intervention in former Weiser meat factory, Vienna.

Photo: Robert Bodnar

Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation presents The 25th Space, a dialogue among works by Adrien Tirtiaux (b. 1980 in Belgium, lives and works in Antwerp) and Hannes Zebedin (b. 1976 in Austria, lives and works in Vienna) as part of the exhibition 24 Spaces – A Cacophony at Malmö Konsthall.

Most of Tirtiaux and Zebedin’s projects reflect upon socio-cultural and architectural situations turning their conditions into artistic materials. These refer to and integrate the general grammar of the art industry, sometimes with much irony. For 24 Spaces – A Cacophony, the artists have conceived a collaborative exhibition which responds to the premise of the exhibition (“dialogue and discussion among art spaces”). Tirtiaux splits the assigned partition wall in two, thus revealing further spaces that can be walked in by viewers who, once on them, can oversee the distinctive spatial properties of the Konsthall’s environment. Besides a selection of artifacts from 20th century modernism, Tirtiaux’s construction stages a number of works by Zebedin that present stagnant situations that question developmental cycles in our socio-political and economic history.

The basic questions of Adrien Tirtiaux’s spatial interventions have the same origin: the experience of how people behave and move inside spaces, and the ways these become habit […] His interventions provide optional instructions of alternative ways of using the space according to different social and cultural situations […]. When the image of a space appears as something that is not or cannot be, then there is probably a hidden or forgotten element: a space within the space. (Andreas Spiegl)

Zebedin’s practice explores political consciousness through the language of conceptual art and embraces a broad range of media including objects, installations, text works, performance and interventions in the public realm often in relation to national monuments, as well as the acts of civil society and grass roots protest movements. Among the ethical issues that Zebedin focuses are: the environment and pollution, addressing local and site-specific contexts to discuss global capitalism transnational politics and colonial histories. (Kit Hammonds)

Participants:

1857 (NO)

Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi (DK)

Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation (SE)

kim? Contemporary Art Centre (LV)

Kling & Bang gallerí (IS)

Koh-i-noor (DK)

Konstfack, Stockholm (SE)

Konsthögskolan i Malmö (SE)

Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm (SE)

Lilith Performance Studio (SE)

NoPlace (NO)

OEI (SE)

PARENT (SE/IS)

Pist Protta (DK)

Ruler (FI)

SIC (FI)

The Gardens (LT)

The Living Art Museum (IS)

Tidens Krav (NO)

Toves Galleri (DK)

Transmission Gallery (GB)

Umeå Konsthögskola (SE)

Valand, Göteborg (SE)

VI, VII (NO)

Visiting address: 

Malmö Konsthall

S:t Johannesgatan 7 

200 10 Malmö, Sweden

www.konsthall.malmo.se