Marko Marković | Kunsthalle Wien

In the meantime, midday comes around

10.11.2022 – 01.05.2023

Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz
Treitlstraße 2
1040 Wien

artists:
Arts of the Working Class • AUSLÄNDER • Marko Marković •bare minimum collective • Linda Bilda • Eva Egermann • Lamin Fofana • Adelita Husni-Bey • Problem Collective • Bassem Saad • Vina Yun in collaboration with Tine Fetz, Moshtari Hilal, Sunanda Mesquita and Patu

curated by
What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić und Sabina Sabolović)

Marković is part of the performativen group AUSLÄNDER.
artist: Kasho Chualan, Sofia Labropoulou, Marko Marković, Thomas Jirku

Ausländer is a group of individuals who first came together on May 1, 2018, in Vienna, and consider themselves stateless toward the system. Ausländer is involved in projects that take place in the underground scene and alternative venues as well as at festivals, galleries, museums, and academies. In cooperation with cultural and artistic institutions, Ausländer provides content that creates an open dialogue, allowing people’s voices and opinions from outside the institution to be heard.

Starting at 6 pm, you are welcome at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz for a gathering with Ausländer and HORIZONT Kollektiv.

“In the meantime, midday comes around” is a quote taken from a seminal sociological study on unemployment from the 1930s called Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal, or, in English, Marienthal: The Sociography of an Unemployed Community. The researchers Marie Jahoda, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, and Hans
Zeisel produced the book after several months of study of Marienthal, a district of the community Gramatneusiedl just outside Vienna. Almost all of Marienthal’s working population became unemployed when the textile factory at the center of the town shut down in the course of the post-1929 worldwide economic crisis.

programm for the opening
At 7 pm the exhibition is opening with a welcome by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić & Sabina Sabolović).
Followed by the performance Rebel and Organize by Ausländer, which presents a sociocultural critique on class, gender, and race privileges within a society.

Happening AUSLÄNDER "Rebelliert und Organisiert Euch"

How did it come about that we don’t work to live but rather live to work, and that we can scarcely imagine other forms of living? Taking inspiration from the famous Marienthal Study, In the meantime, midday comes around revolves around questions like these. The international group exhibition looks at the changes to the field of work in the last decades, made more visible by the Covid-19 pandemic, and considers the modalities of collective action and political imagination such global events carry to affect work.

To approach this set of issues, the artworks in the exhibition oscillate between several thematic zones: crisis and social collapse, alongside both historical and contemporary forms of workers’ collective action and organization, are discussed by Lamin Fofana, Adelita Husni-Bey, Problem Collective, and Bassem Saad. Arts of the Working Class and bare minimum collective deal with other ways of being together, such as social bonds and practices that challenge the centrality of labor and reclaim time as the foundation of freedom, while Vina Yun in collaboration with Tine Fetz, Moshtari Hilal, Sunanda Mesquita & Patu and Ausländer consider labor migration and its prospective planetary character. Moreover, the exhibition also takes a look at the specific conditions of artistic work and praxis — through the presentation of works by the late artist Linda Bilda (who died in 2019), and Eva Egermann’s take on them.

Exhibition Booklet Kunsthalle Wien

Marko Marković

Marko Marković shows in the exhibition his monumental sculpture Iron Waterfall , 2022. The sculpture consists of flexible strands of several thousand iron leaves that Marković hung together in a performative action and the sickle-shaped ends drop, linking to one another and suggesting the form of swastikas. The artist also makes reference to the Maeander of Greek antiquity, symbolising the origins of Western, Eurocentric culture.