Raw upon raw
2024
Sussudio Wien
6.11.24 - 22.11.24
Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski
One evening in the middle of October I met Sofia and Sophia at zur Legende through our mutual friend Helmut. Inside it‘s filled with saturated maroon leather, brass details, and a bar with a tile countertop. Tapes play and add a layer of uneasy calm to the space. Rhythms drift between dusty high-hat patterns and handbellone shots, scoring the scene and fragmenting our conversation with shapes sounded in different places and times. We move from interior to exterior and back. We sit on tall, bruised stools that don‘t swivel enough to be circular. We look at each other‘s phones for artistic context, talk until our words get smeared and slurry. I smoke and watch my breath as it gets eaten by the air. My hands are cold and hurtaround the knuckles.
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Seth Weiner
Photography Flavio Palasciano
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Sophia Gatzkan and Sofia Goscinski
One evening in the middle of October I met Sofia and Sophia at zur Legende through our mutual friend Helmut. Inside it‘s filled with saturated maroon leather, brass details, and a bar with a tile countertop. Tapes play and add a layer of uneasy calm to the space. Rhythms drift between dusty high-hat patterns and handbellone shots, scoring the scene and fragmenting our conversation with shapes sounded in different places and times. We move from interior to exterior and back. We sit on tall, bruised stools that don‘t swivel enough to be circular. We look at each other‘s phones for artistic context, talk until our words get smeared and slurry. I smoke and watch my breath as it gets eaten by the air. My hands are cold and hurtaround the knuckles.
Excerpt from the exhibition text by Seth Weiner
Photography Flavio Palasciano
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Stray Affections
2024
Clubclub Wien
13.03.24 - 17.03.24
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
Photography 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
Photography Kunstdokumentationcom
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Clinical fatigue
2023
Parallel Vienna
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 Gatzkan took an approach of an anthropological interest to draw connections between different historic events takingplace at this site. Clinical Fatigue exhibition exposes the concealed horror within these walls.
Photo by Kaja Clare Joo
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 Gatzkan took an approach of an anthropological interest to draw connections between different historic events takingplace at this site. Clinical Fatigue exhibition exposes the concealed horror within these walls.
Photo by Kaja Clare Joo
Everyone can lace on space-age shoes
2023
Neue Galerie Graz
24.06.23 - 01.10.2023
Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer
Sophia Gatzkan und Moritz Führer gehen in ihrer Duo-Ausstellung Everyone can lace on space-age shoes der Frage nach, wo die Grenzen, die Mensch und Maschine bzw. Mensch und Tier voneinander trennen, verlaufen, und reflektieren, ob diese Grenzen überhaupt noch aufrechtzuerhalten sind.
Curated by Roman Grabner
Photo by Neue Galerie Graz
Sophia Gatzkan and Moritz Führer
Sophia Gatzkan und Moritz Führer gehen in ihrer Duo-Ausstellung Everyone can lace on space-age shoes der Frage nach, wo die Grenzen, die Mensch und Maschine bzw. Mensch und Tier voneinander trennen, verlaufen, und reflektieren, ob diese Grenzen überhaupt noch aufrechtzuerhalten sind.
Curated by Roman Grabner
Photo by Neue Galerie Graz