Happiness
can be understood as a basic human need. And the exhibition is all
about the personal pursuit for happiness. But instructions for
happiness?
As
happiness is quite an individual matter, instructions for happiness
are of course a pretty absurd promise. Regardless of whether
happiness is sought after in the interpersonal, the immediate or the
everyday respectively the beauty of the small things in life – the
exhibition tries to question the notions of happiness.
Selected
artists were invited to contribute a work, that also includes a
manual: A work that – based on an instruction – invites to do
something, for instance use an object, react to a situation, interact
with others under certain rules, perform something for others or
oneself or simply initiates a thought process. The form of the work
(as well as the instruction) could take any possible shape –
resulting in artworks that are as diverse and formally divergent as
the technical possibilities. But the seemingly chaotic diversity also
reflects a plurality of perspectives on happiness that the artist (as
well as society) share.
Aside
from the question of happiness in the context of today’s Athens,
the exhibition also tries to reflect upon art’s possibilities of
immediate effects on society. Thus the boarders of the power of the
aesthetic field can be questioned in the show on one side, while
tracing the notions of happiness on the other side through
experiencing the works in order to maybe also find answers for
oneself.
Untitled (Life without tragedy Series), 2015
Featuring
works by Anna Sophie Berger, Liudvikas Buklys, Heinrich Dunst, Simon
Dybbroe Møller, Christian Falsnaes, Benjamin Hirte, Barbara Kapusta,
Stelios Karamanolis, Alexandra Kostakis, Adriana Lara, Lara Nasser,
Rallou Panagiotou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Angelo Plessas, Maruša
Sagadin, Hans Schabus, Björn Segschneider, Socratis Socratous, Misha
Stroj, Stefania Strouza, Jannis Varelas, Kostis Velonis and Salvatore
Viviano; curated by Severin Dünser and Olympia Tzortzi
Opening
Tuesday, 20.12.2016, 8pm
21.12.
– 30.12.2016, 12pm – 8pm
Lekka
23 – 25 & Perikleous 34, Athens
Kindly
supported by The Federal Chancellery of Austria, NON SPACES and KUP
