Christoph Weber & Nikolaus Eckhard | Gerry Ammann | Leopold Kessler

For the first event in this year’s Tuesday@Secession series, we cordially invite you to an evening of community in the Secession’s garden. Look forward to contributions by Christoph Weber & Nikolaus Eckhard, Gerry Ammann, and Leopold Kessler.

Christoph Weber & Nikolaus Eckhard

Greenwashed Concrete

In 2020, the global human-made mass exceeded the planet’s total living biomass; concrete constitutes almost half of it, making it a signal of the Capitalocene. Yet the construction industry advertises the claim that concrete is a natural, regional, and sustainable—in short, a green—engineering material.

In their lecture performance, Christoph Weber and Nikolaus Eckhard present the results of the interdisciplinary artistic research project Greenwashed Concrete, interweaving scientific facts with their sculptural practice with, through, and against concrete and pointing up the urgent need for a radical transformation of industrial building culture.

Gerry Ammann

Drawings in Space

Gerry Ammann presents a first-person history from his creative practice in which initial research ambitions led to unexpected yet substantial results. His lecture revolves around the work Portable Spaces, which grew out of the simple idea of combining paper and drawing. It represents Ammann’s investigation of the question of how the dematerialized and flat world of the digital age influences our perception of three dimensions.

Leopold Kessler

Endlessly Burning Light

Inspired by the North Korean painter Kang Hun Yong’s painting The Endlessly Burning Light of the Party Center, an automatic switch turning on the ceiling light was installed in the office of the Academy of Fine Arts’s vice-rector for infrastructure—across the street from the Secession.

Biography

Christoph Weber, b. Vienna, 1974, lives and works in Vienna. www.christophweber.org

Nikolaus Eckhard, b. Horn, 1987, lives and works in Vienna. www.nikolauseckhard.at

Gerry Ammann, b. Bregenz, 1962, was an unskilled laborer and tourist from 1980 until 1984. He studied fine arts from 1984 until 1990, graduating with a degree in sculpture. Ammann participated in the international Steirischer Herbst festival in 1988 and has had exhibitions at the ZKM, Karlsruhe; Kunstraum Engländerbau, Vaduz; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; the Vienna State Opera; and elsewhere. He has won numerous accolades and awards, including an Austrian State Scholarship (1994), the 13th Römerquelle Grafikpreis (1995), and a MAK Schindler Fellowship (1998). He currently lives and works in Vienna and Bregenz.

Leopold Kessler studied sculpture in Vienna. Much of his work consists in unannounced interventions in urban public spaces.

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Christian Lübbert