Lap-See Lam: 192 Wing Lok Street
JJJJJerome Ellis: An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673–1886
September 11–November 22, 2026
Vienna 1010
Austria
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Bernhard Leitner: SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE
For over five decades, Bernhard Leitner has dedicated himself to the idea of using sound—its movement, frequency, timbre, and volume—to sculpt and shape space.
His sprawling solo exhibition SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE offers visitors an opportunity to engage with Leitner’s art and key questions guiding his research, and to experience his sculptural sound architectures or sonic spatial drawings not just acoustically but holistically—to hear them with their bodies. The exhibition traces a long arc from his early theoretical explorations in sketches, photographs, and prints to significant works probing the concept of body listening and on to a new work created for the Secession.
To be produced in cooperation with Wien Modern 2026, a programme of events held in conjunction with the exhibition in November will include a conversation between the artist and the art historian and former director of the Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Stefan Kraus.
September 10, 6pm: Bernhard Leitner in conversation with Stefan Fricke and Jeanette Pacher (in German). An event organized by the Secession Friends
November 19, 6pm: Bernhard Leitner in conversation with Stefan Kraus, art historian and former director of the Kolumba Museum in Cologne. In cooperation with Wien Modern 2026
Bernhard Leitner was born in Feldkirch, Austria, in 1938 and grew up in Innsbruck. After studying architecture in Vienna, he lived for several years in Paris, New York and Berlin. He has lived in Vienna and Gaindorf, Austria, since the mid-1980s.
Programmed by the board of the Secession. Curated by Jeanette Pacher.
We would like to thank the main sponsor of the exhibition Arbeiterkammer Wien.
The exhibition and accompanying publication SOUNDSPACESCULPTURE of Bernhard Leitner are made possible by the generous support of Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.
Lap-See Lam: 192 Wing Lok Street
Lap-See Lam’s practice holds contradictions: technological precision and historical rupture, futurity and spectrality. Her digitally rendered environments do not offer a clear resolution; they simulate loss itself, making the gaps between memory, history, and their digital traces visible.
192 Wing Lok Street presents a new body of work by the artist comprising hand-blown glass, installation and sound. Drawing on collective and personal histories, the exhibition unfolds through a series of material and narrative translations across sites and generations.
Lap-See Lam was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1990 and lives in Stockholm.
Programmed by the board of the Secession. Curated by Haris Giannouras.
Funded by the Pentagram Stiftung and the Octone Foundation. The exhibition is supported by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee and features glass works produced at the International Centre for Research on Glass and the Visual Arts (Cirva) in Marseille, as part of Lap-See Lam’s research residency.
JJJJJerome Ellis: An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673–1886
JJJJJerome Ellis explores the intersections of Blackness, music, spirituality, and non-normative speech, creating spaces for healing and communion.
The project An unfinished calendar that commemorates slaves escaping their enslavers, 1673–1886 emerged from research Ellis began in 2020, when they first encountered so-called “runaway slave” advertisements. In this exhibition, they have filled the walls with calendrical lists on paper. With one sheet for each day and month, the work spans the entire duration of the exhibition. The lists record the names of enslaved people who liberated themselves.
September 10, 7:30pm: JJJJJerome Ellis Live, Beethoven Frieze
November 13, 4:30pm: “Where we stutter with pride and we speak with an accent with joy”—lecture performance with Marianne Vlaschits and Chanyoung Park. This event is part of Vienna Art Week 2026.
JJJJJerome Ellis was born in the USA in 1989 and lives in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.
Programmed by the board of the Secession. Curated by Bettina Spörr. In cooperation with Index—The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, and KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Publications
The exhibitions are accompanied by publications. The digital publications are available here.
Press contact: presse@secession.at / press materials
