Vanessa Joan Müller, Evelyn Plaschg
Conversation
Video
Accompanying Evelyn Plaschg’s exhibition Viscous City, Revolver Publishing is releasing a publication of the same name featuring new texts by Hamburg art historian and curator Vanessa Joan Müller and New York art critic and curator Kari Rittenbach (MOMA PS1). This book presentation and discussion between Sandro Droschl, Vanessa Joan Müller, and Evelyn Plaschg will focus on Müller’s essay Ansichten des Unbestimmten (Views of the Indefinite), in which she analyzes Plaschg’s painting as a reflection on the interrelationships between body, pictorial space, and urban experience. In her essay, Müller shows how strongly Plaschg’s painting oscillates between abstraction and figuration. This creates a unique visual grammar reminiscent of the structure of cinematic fragmentation: close-ups, blurring, rhythm, and editing — elements that are transformed into a poetic pause in painting. Müller’s text moves as an atmospheric counterpart to this painterly practice: clearly analytical, but at the same time carried by a poetic sensitivity for the ambivalent and the in-between. The evening is intended as an invitation to an in-depth, discursive exchange about image, text, and perception beyond the exhibition space.
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Evelyn Plaschg
Solo exhibitions (selection): Paulina Caspari, Munich (2024), Scherben, Berlin (2024), Layr, Vienna (2023), Galerie Kirchgasse, Steckborn (2021), Canopy, Malmoe (2021), Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg (2021), Pina, Vienna (2020), Parallel Vienna, Vienna (2019), Zeller van Almsick, Vienna (2017).
Group exhibitions (selection): Esther II, New York (2025), Leopold Museum, Vienna (2024), Hard Scent Salon, Copenhagen (2024), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2023), The Grand Chelsea, New York (2023), Kunstverein Eisenstadt (2022), Basel Social Club, Basel (2022), Kunstverein Bremerhaven (2022), Smolka Contemporary, Vienna (2021), Belvedere 21, Vienna (2019), Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg (2018), Acappella, Naples (2018), Forum Stadtpark, Graz (2017), Glovebox, Auckland (2016), ENSBA, Paris (2016), Neuer Kunstverein, Vienna (2016), MUMOK, Vienna (2015).
Vanessa Joan Müller
Vanessa Joan Müller is a Vienna-based curator and writer, and holds a PhD in Art History. Her practice often reflects on institutional typologies, the legacies of institutional critique, and the role of contemporary art in shaping society. From 2013 to 2020, Müller was head of Dramaturgy and curator at Kunsthalle Wien. Beforehand, she was director of Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2006−2011) and head of research at the European Kunsthalle in Cologne (2005÷2006). She has worked for and curated exhibitions at the Leopold Museum, the Gallery of the University of Applied Arts, the 55th October Salon in Belgrade and Frankfurter Kunstverein. In 2017 she curated the Pavilion of the Republic of Albania at the 55th Venice Biennale.
Sandro Droschl
is founding director and curator of the institution HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark. From 2012 to 2020 he directed the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien. Since 2000 he worked as curator, then also as director for the Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, besides as guest curator at other institutions. He curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art and edited over 30 publications. Droschl made a study iregulare, “Body. Media. Art,” with art (Isabelle Graw, Free Class), philosophy, journalism and medicine at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, University of Vienna and London Guildhall University.
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