Episodes
Secession Podcast: MembersCarl Pruscha in conversation with Bettina M. Busse Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Carl Pruscha and the art historian and curator Bettina M. Busse. It was recorded on April 5, 2023. Carl Pruscha (b. 1936 in Innsbruck) studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna with Lois Welzenbacher and Roland Rainer and urban planning at Harvard University...
Published 06/16/23
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former and first female president of Secession Barbara Holub and the curator Rainer Fuchs. It was recorded on December 13, 2022. Barbara Holub lives and works in Vienna. Following her studies in architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart, Holub developed a socio-politically engaged art practice. In 1999 she founded the collective transparadiso with...
Published 06/02/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Vivian Suter and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on May 4, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Vivian SuterA Stone in the Lake28.4. – 18.6.2023 The Secession’s iconic light-filled main gallery, which opens onto a small park behind the building, would appear to be the ideal setting for a presentation of the painter Vivian...
Published 05/18/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the Indigenous media group Karrabing Film Collective (represented by Cecilia Lewis, Elizabeth Povinelli and Akaydia Lee), the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on April 27, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Karrabing Film CollectiveThey pretending not to see us...28.4. – 18.6.2023 The Karrabing Film Collective is an intergenerational...
Published 05/04/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Margaret Salmon and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on April 5, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Margaret SalmonMonument28.4. – 18.6.2023 Margaret Salmon creates films, photographs, and objects that weave together poetry and non-fiction. Often focusing on individuals in their everyday activities, her work captures the...
Published 05/04/23
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the former Secession president Edelbert Köb and Dr. Thomas Mießgang. It was recorded on December 2, 2022. If you want to know more about Edelbert Köb, his presidency at the Secession and his stories on matters such as the renovation of the Secession with the architect Adolf Krischanitz or the founding of the Friends of the Secession with the president of the...
Published 04/20/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Anna Daučíková and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on October 22, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: Anna Daučíková16.9. – 6.11.2022 Anna Daučíková is a pioneer of feminist-queer art in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Teaching for many years at art academies in Bratislava and Prague, and in recent years at the Salzburg...
Published 04/06/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Christine Sun Kim and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on February 16, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Christine Sun KimCues on Point17.2. – 16.4.2023 Christine Sun Kim’s art brims with rhythm and dynamic energy. Small-format drawings and sprawling murals, internet memes, text messages in public spaces, and banners towed...
Published 03/23/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jordan Strafer, the curator Marti Manen and the curator Christian Lübbert. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Jordan StraferLOOPHOLE17.2. – 16.4.2023 New York-based artist Jordan Strafer’s primary medium is video. Her part-autobiographical, part-fictitious work reflects the complex nature of racial...
Published 03/09/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Kresiah Mukwazhi and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on February 17, 2023 in the context of the exhibition: Kresiah MukwazhiKirawa17.2. – 16.4.2023 In Kirawa, her first solo exhibition at an Austrian institution, Kresiah Mukwazhi presents a new body of work consisting of textile paintings and video works. Her mixed-media...
Published 03/09/23
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Lieselott Beschorner and the curator Berthold Ecker. It was recorded on June 2, 2022 in the context of the exhibition Lieselott BeschornerIm Atem der Zeit [In the Breath of Time]June 29 – November 6, 2022 Lieselott Beschorner has made art for over seven decades and been a member of the Vienna Secession for just as long. When she was admitted to the...
Published 02/23/23
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Meina Schellander and Ricarda Denzer. It was recorded on April 5, 2022. Meina Schellander (b. 1946 in Klagenfurt) is an Austrian artist. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna in 1970. Since 1968 she has realized numerous projects, been part of solo and group exhibitions in Austria and abroad, and received national awards and scholarships. Her works...
Published 02/09/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Patricia L. Boyd and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on December 12, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: Patricia L. BoydCeiling Analysis18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023 Ceiling Analysis is Patricia L. Boyd’s first institutional solo exhibition in Austria, consisting of two newly commissioned works. Its centrepiece is a large sculpture...
Published 01/26/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on November 18, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: Jean-Frédéric Schnyder18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023 In his exhibition at the Secession, the Swiss artist Jean-Frédéric Schnyder shows a cross-section of his painting from almost forty years (1983–2021). In his typical manner,...
Published 01/12/23
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between Kodwo Eshun from The Otolith Group and the artist Oliver Ressler. It was recorded on November 16, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: The Otolith GroupWhat the Owl Knows18.11.2022 – 5.2.2023 The Secession is delighted to announce What the Owl Knows, the solo exhibition of The Otolith Group named after the new moving image work directed by the...
Published 12/22/22
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the member Edek Bartz and the board member Axel Stockburger. It was recorded on October 25, 2022   Edek Bartz is an Austrian musician, DJ, concert promoter, curator, author, and lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Spanning more than 25 years, he recorded, produced or toured with artists such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Frank Sinatra,...
Published 11/30/22
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist B. Ingrid Olson and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on June 30, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: B. Ingrid OlsonElastic XJune 29 – September 4, 2022 B. Ingrid Olson’s art undertakes an insistent exploration of the question of what it means to see and to be seen. Her sculptural and photographic works are studies of the body...
Published 11/12/22
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Siggi Hofer and the curator Bettina Spörr. It was recorded on May 31, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: Siggi HoferStill LifeMarch 4 – June 12, 2022 In Still Life, Siggi Hofer has conceived an immersive installation in dialogue with the Secession’s characteristic architecture: we enter a large tableau composed of numerous and diverse...
Published 11/12/22
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist collective DIS and the curator Jeanette Pacher. It was recorded on March 5, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: DISHow To Become A FossilMarch 4 – June 12, 2022 DIS is a collaborative project based in New York and consisting of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, working together as an artistic and curatorial collective...
Published 11/12/22
Secession Podcast: Artists is a series of conversations featuring artists exhibiting at the Secession. This episode is a conversation between the artist Dineo Seshee Bopape and the curator Annette Südbeck. It was recorded on March 4, 2022 in the context of the exhibition: Dineo Seshee BopapeLerato le le golo (...la go hloka bo kantle)March 4 – June 12, 2022 Dineo Seshee Bopape was born in 1981 (1974 in the Ethiopian calendar), the year of the golden rooster, on a Sunday. If she were Ghanaian,...
Published 11/12/22