Untold Narratives
September 13–October 19, 2024
Austria‘s largest gallery festival will explore and contextualize artistic practices related to the past, present and future of archives. In addition to 24 exhibitions by international curators, the festival will feature a new discursive program and a symposium, both specifically focusing on artists’ archives and estates.
Untold Narratives, impulse text by Noit Banai
“The partiality of the archive is both a condition for violence and an impulse for hope.” —Noit Banai
This year, Curated by will shed light on the social practices of storytelling, the channeling and manifestation of memory. How are our memories formed, how is our historicity produced? And what role does the archive play in this? In our this year’s impulse essay, Noit Banai describes a distorted state of the world—with narratives in conflict, with tragedies in question—but which refuses to become pessimistic.
Read the Impulse Essay to learn more about this year's topic.
Participating galleries and curators
Charim Galerie Wien by Kristian Vistrup Madsen, Christine König Galerie by Dr. Friedemann Malsch, Crone Wien by María Inés Plaza Lazo, Croy Nielsen by Luca Lo Pinto & Chiara Siravo, E X I L E by Jen Kratochvil, FELIX GAUDLITZ by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman by Marika Kuźmicz, Galerie Eva Presenhuber by Giorno Poetry Systems, Galerie Hubert Winter by blaxTARLINES, Galerie Kandlhofer by Tevž Logar, Galerie Martin Janda by Dieter Roelstraete, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder by Roberta Tenconi, silvia steinek galerie by Katalin Krasznahorkai, Lombardi—Kargl by Kate Sutton, GIANNI MANHATTAN by Madeleine Planeix-Crocker, Gregor Podnar by Gabriele Gantenbein, Krinzinger Schottenfeld by Mohamed Bourouissa, Krobath Wien by Ugo Rondinone, Layr by Gaylen Gerber, MEYER*KAINER by Eva Birkenstock, SOPHIE TAPPEINER by Kyle Thurman, VIN VIN Gallery by Jakub Gawkowski, WONNERTH DEJACO by Mariana Lemos, Zeller van Almsick by Piero Bisello
Focus: Artists’ Archives and Estates
The program of this year Curated by is also dedicated to the topic of artists’ archives and estates. Two new formats will be included in the festival’s Fokustage.
Expert talks
As part of the festival’s discursive format, the curators of the gallery exhibitions will be in dialogue with Austrian-based art historians. These conversations will focus on the challenges of art historical evaluation and practices of making visible the archives and estates of the presented artists in the gallery shows. Artistic strategies of (self-)archiving will also be discussed, as well as the role that art critics, galleries and museums play in these processes. Most conversations will take place live in the galleries and will later be available as podcasts on our the festival’s website, Spotify and Apple podcasts.
Symposium, October 5, 2024, 10–6pm
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Sitzungssaal, ground floor
Curated and organised by Lisa Moravec, in cooperation with Österreichisches Forum für Vor- und Nachlässe bildender Kunst (Austrian Forum for Artists‘ Estates and Pre-Estates)
With contributions from; Noit Banai (keynote, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Sebastian Egenhofer (Universität Wien), Sabine Folie (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Elisabeth Gottfried (Österreichisches Forum Vor- und Nachlässe), Ulrike Hanstein (Kunstuniversität Linz/VALIE EXPORT Centre), Christian Huemer (Belvedere Research Centre), Andrea Neidhöfer (basis wien), Susanne Neuburger (Österreichisches Forum Vor- und Nachlässe), Susanne Oehler (SIK-ISEA), Stefanie Pirker (Paris-Lodron-Universität/University of Brighton), concluding with open and interactive roundtable discussions.
About Curated by
Since 2009, the gallery festival Curated by has developed into a central and indispensable event for contemporary art in Vienna, which—supported by selected Vienna-based galleries—has become a showcase for the city. The focus on content through the annual theme, the international orientation through its choice of curators and artists, the unusual format as a festival, and the collaborative shoulder-to-shoulder approach of the galleries make Curated by a unique contemporary art festival with extensive reach.
Curated by 2024 is kindly supported by the Ministry of the Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport and Bildrecht.
Dates
Opening days: September 13 and 14, 2024, 12–7pm
Festival: September 13 to October 19, 2024
For details about the exhibitions, tours, program & symposium, podcasts (Spotify / Apple Podcast), and more, please visit the website.
