ACUD Gallery
The neoliberal urge to curate a friendsgroup
March 01 – March 23, 2025
Sarah Albrecht, Oliver Bleckmann, Manuel Cornelius, Sophia Gatzkan, Jill Kiddon, Luka Naujoks and Johannes Thiel
The exhibition The Neoliberal Urge to Curate a Friendsgroup explores the neoliberal tendency to view social relationships as a strategic network - a curated portfolio of friendships, treated as a purpose-driven structure. In a culture dominated by self-promotion and social optimization, friendships are increasingly becoming a resource designed to yield personal benefits. Particularly in the art scene, many friendships have an 'instrumental' character - relationships are selected on the basis of aesthetics and value. Whether overtly conspicuous or demonstratively reserved, everyone operates within a system that follows the same rules and rewards the same behaviours.
Curated by Luka Naujoks & Johannes Thiel
Photo by Luka Naujoks
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Sarah Albrecht, Oliver Bleckmann, Manuel Cornelius, Sophia Gatzkan, Jill Kiddon, Luka Naujoks and Johannes Thiel
The exhibition The Neoliberal Urge to Curate a Friendsgroup explores the neoliberal tendency to view social relationships as a strategic network - a curated portfolio of friendships, treated as a purpose-driven structure. In a culture dominated by self-promotion and social optimization, friendships are increasingly becoming a resource designed to yield personal benefits. Particularly in the art scene, many friendships have an 'instrumental' character - relationships are selected on the basis of aesthetics and value. Whether overtly conspicuous or demonstratively reserved, everyone operates within a system that follows the same rules and rewards the same behaviours.
Curated by Luka Naujoks & Johannes Thiel
Photo by Luka Naujoks
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Sussudio
Raw upon Raw
November 6 - November 22, 2024
Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski
In RAW UPON RAW, artists Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski come together to explore the tension between transience and permanence. Their sculptural works evoke a deconstructed landscape frozen in time; a setting of fragmented bodies and concrete elements. Within these 'ruins' cruelty and tenderness coexist; from this duality emerge the sculptures delicately balanced between destruction and care.
Gatzkan's work merges found artifacts with casts of body parts to create ethereal, translucent figures that appear almost ghostly. Goscinski's concrete objects partly resemble fragments – broken, scratched, painted and seemingly randomly salvaged from rubble.
Together, the artists explore the intersection between the two 'raw materials', the human body and stone. The fragility of the living body stands in stark contrast to the cold solidification of the stone. The dichotomy comes into focus – the vulnerability of the body against the permanence of the architecture. RAW UPON RAW thus ultimately examines the inhumanity of the human condition, the suffering that comes with it, but also the resilience that can arise from it.
Press text by Sussudio
Photo by Flavio Palasciano
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Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski
In RAW UPON RAW, artists Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski come together to explore the tension between transience and permanence. Their sculptural works evoke a deconstructed landscape frozen in time; a setting of fragmented bodies and concrete elements. Within these 'ruins' cruelty and tenderness coexist; from this duality emerge the sculptures delicately balanced between destruction and care.
Gatzkan's work merges found artifacts with casts of body parts to create ethereal, translucent figures that appear almost ghostly. Goscinski's concrete objects partly resemble fragments – broken, scratched, painted and seemingly randomly salvaged from rubble.
Together, the artists explore the intersection between the two 'raw materials', the human body and stone. The fragility of the living body stands in stark contrast to the cold solidification of the stone. The dichotomy comes into focus – the vulnerability of the body against the permanence of the architecture. RAW UPON RAW thus ultimately examines the inhumanity of the human condition, the suffering that comes with it, but also the resilience that can arise from it.
Press text by Sussudio
Photo by Flavio Palasciano
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Clubclub Wien
Stray Affections
March 13 - March 17, 2024
Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer
The exhibition Stray Affections deals with the signs of power and powerlessness on the battlefield of today's bodies, which have long been neither natural nor artificial. Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer show mutated and tragic bodies that are in constant battle. Striving for high performance, your greatest enemy is the best version of yourself. It is the one that hunts you.
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Helena Müller
Photo by Kunstdokumentationcom
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Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer
The exhibition Stray Affections deals with the signs of power and powerlessness on the battlefield of today's bodies, which have long been neither natural nor artificial. Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer show mutated and tragic bodies that are in constant battle. Striving for high performance, your greatest enemy is the best version of yourself. It is the one that hunts you.
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Helena Müller
Photo by Kunstdokumentationcom
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Kunstverein Gastgarten
Memory of Matter
April 12 - April 21, 2024
Die Ausstellung Memory of Matter setzt sich mit der Organisation von synthetischem und organischem Material in Körpern auseinander und sucht nach Momenten, in denen weiche Materialien eine Form annehmen und so einen Zustand des Lebens definieren, als auch nach Momenten, in denen das Material im Körper neu organisiert wird und neue Möglichkeiten des Seins hervorbringt. Ebenso stellt die Ausstellung die Frage nach der Invertierung dieser Momente. Was ist also, wenn sich die Struktur eines Körpers auflöst und zu etwas Flüssigem wird?
Text by Heiko Lietz
Curated by Heiko Lietz
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Die Ausstellung Memory of Matter setzt sich mit der Organisation von synthetischem und organischem Material in Körpern auseinander und sucht nach Momenten, in denen weiche Materialien eine Form annehmen und so einen Zustand des Lebens definieren, als auch nach Momenten, in denen das Material im Körper neu organisiert wird und neue Möglichkeiten des Seins hervorbringt. Ebenso stellt die Ausstellung die Frage nach der Invertierung dieser Momente. Was ist also, wenn sich die Struktur eines Körpers auflöst und zu etwas Flüssigem wird?
Text by Heiko Lietz
Curated by Heiko Lietz
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Parallel Vienna
Clinical fatigue
Artist Statement at Parallen Vienna 2024
Bildrecht Young Artist Award
Clinical Fatigue is a project informed by the exhibition site of Otto Wagner Clinic which has a long and complex history. Here Sophia took an approach of an anthropological interest to draw lines between different historic events taking place at this site such as an euthanasia research of the 1940 and a forensic psychiatry department that was opened there shortly after. Clinical Fatigue exhibition contains three sculptural pieces that propose a subtle resemblance with elements of a medical furnishing where body fragments are there to appear as historical artefact of former corporeal presence. This body of work exposes the concealed horror within these walls.
Photo by Kaja Clare Joo
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Bildrecht Young Artist Award
Clinical Fatigue is a project informed by the exhibition site of Otto Wagner Clinic which has a long and complex history. Here Sophia took an approach of an anthropological interest to draw lines between different historic events taking place at this site such as an euthanasia research of the 1940 and a forensic psychiatry department that was opened there shortly after. Clinical Fatigue exhibition contains three sculptural pieces that propose a subtle resemblance with elements of a medical furnishing where body fragments are there to appear as historical artefact of former corporeal presence. This body of work exposes the concealed horror within these walls.
Photo by Kaja Clare Joo
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