Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* • Kunsthalle Wien • Museumsquartier • 2021
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Curator • Anne Faucheret
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Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s works take the shape of multimedia installations mixing film, photography, objects, and text. She* looks closely at the fabrication of history, memory, and subjectivity—insisting on the unconscious at work in these processes. In the exhibition, the artist* (re)tells the stories of queerness as a survival strategy, of non-alignment as ethics (and not only as geopolitics), and of family as a space for chosen kinship. She* stages moments of subversion, crisis, and resistance, and in this way attempts to figure out h ow a contemporary subject can dig up and appropriate hidden histories in order to escape cultural, social, and psychological assignations. In a self-reflexive movement, Hoffner ex-Prvulovic * also questions the capacity of the art field itself to welcome, support, and stand for minorita rian alternatives and non-aligned thought.
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The invitation to the two artists Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s and Belinda Kazeem-Kamínski follows Kunsthalle Wien’s commitment to showing artists who question the legacies of imperialism, colonialism, and slavery and whose practices politically reframe racism and heteronormativity as political tools that were historically developed (and used still today) to subjugate and exploit certain territories and certain bodies. Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński tirelessly investigate racist regimes of looking and practices of Othering and deploy aesthetic strategies of resistance. At the same time, each artist speaks from a differently situated perspective that hinges on dissimilar experiences, resulting in two distinct practices.
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Twice postponed due to the pandemic, the final exhibitions by An a Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński are the outcome of an intensive dialogue and ongoing self-reflection. They include existing works reimagined and adapted for Kunsthalle Wien’s exhibition space as well as new works produced for the occasion.
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Link to exhibition's website
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/exhibition/ana-hoffner-ex-prvulovic-belinda-kazeem-kaminski
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Link to exhibition's booklet
https://kunsthallewien.at/assets/exhibitions/2021-10-ana-hoffner-ex-prvulovic-belinda-kazeem-kaminski/2021-KhW_Ana-Hoffner-ex-Prvulovic_EN-book_web.pdf
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Link to the catalogue
https://kunsthallewien.at/en/about/publications/publication-ana-hoffner-exprvulovic-contemporary-unconscious
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Image credits from left to right, from top to bottom
1 • Non-aligned Relatives, 2019. Simultaneous Contrast, 2018; The Queer Family Album, 2018; Disavowals or Cancelled Confessions, 2016; Double Still Lives, 2016; Speech Object #1 #2 #3 #4, 2018-2021.
2 • Exhibition view.
3 • Freud Film, 2017-2021.
4 • Духовна Деколонизација (Spiritual Decolonization) – Part I, 2021.
5 • Private View – Blue Blood, 2021.
6 • Private View – Modern Members, 2021.
7 • The Bacha Posh Project, 2016-2021.
8 • Active Intolerance, Part II, 2021.
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All works : Courtesy of the artist
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Photos : kunst-dokumentation.com / Manuel Carreon Lopez