On Multiplicity (System of Systems)
Lucia Gregorová Stach 

With Dr. Lucia Gregorová Stach as Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Bratislava, the HALLE FÜR KUNST was able to win over a proven expert in the collaboration for the exhibition. In the exhibition, she is primarily preparing a room with a biographical and archival section that introduces the artist’s continuously developing theoretical concept, the SF system. After his return from the USA in 1990, Filko’s System SF increasingly developed into an unmanageable meta-system through which he rearranged and rethought the totality of his work and life. A dynamic emerges, under the influence of which Filko reworks and re-dates earlier works many times. In this process, Archive SF emerges, a diary-like magazine and comprehensive repository of smaller objects, textual art, photographs, as well as an unmanageable wealth of folders and archival material. In her lecture, Gregorová Stach will focus on the idea of the archive, which is by no means a dusty appendix, but makes Filko appear most vital and alive in writing and theory from today’s perspective.

In the adjacent city park, the extensive and rarely shown performative installation 12 Balloons (1978−2011) will be shown on the occasion of the finissage.