/Secession Podcast Members: Helmut and Johanna Kandl in conversation with Kathrin Becker
This episode of Secession Podcast: Members features artists Helmut und Johanna Kandl in conversation with Kathrin Becker, director of the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Johanna Kandl became a member of the Secession in 1984 and served on its board from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2006 to 2007.
The podcast was recorded at the Secession on October 11, 2024.
HELMUT & JOHANNA KANDL
Married since 1997 and work together, mainly on participative and research projects. Live and work in Vienna and Berlin.
Helmut Kandl (née Schäffer)
Born in 1953 in Laa an der Thaya. He pursues a concept of culture and art that is open to the applied, ranging from the creation of cultural mediation institutions (GALERIE BRÜNNERSTRASSE, “FLUSS - NÖ Fotoinitiative”, Kunsthalle Krems) to residential projects at Amtsstraße 28 and his preoccupation with cooking. In the field of research and documentation, he primarily uses the media of photography and video, often incorporating archives and private photography.
Johanna Kandl
Born in Vienna. Works in the field of research and documentation in the media of painting and video. In recent years she has focussed on historical and contemporary painting materials and their socio-economic context, studying conservation and technology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Akademija Likovna Umetnosti Beograd, professorship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna 2005 -2013.
Member of the board of the Secession from 1999 to 2003 and from 2006 to 2007.
Some exhibitions
(hk Helmut Kandl, Jk Johanna Kandl, hjk helmut & Johanna Kandl, P Personale)
1996 Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, Antagonism, (hk); 1999 Wiener Secession (jk, p), 2003 Kunstverein Basel Painting on the Move, (jk); 2007 Hayward Gallery, London, The painting of Modern Life, (jk); 2010 Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier, Aires de jeux, champs de tensions: figures de la photographie urbaine en Europe depuis 1970, (hk), 2017, Deichtorhallen Hamburg Wunder, 2010 (hjk), Albertina Vienna (Austria. Photography 1970-2000, (hk); 2019 Belvedere Vienna Womit gemalt wird und warum, (jk,p), 2021 Kunsthaus Graz, Palette, (hjk, P); NÖ Landesgalerie, Krems, Viva Archiva, (hjk, P) Berlin, After the butcher, Was sind alle Kornblumen..., 2023 (hjk, P)
Art in public space
2024 Ringturmverhüllung Mit den besten Zutaten, (jk, P); Willi-Resetarits-Hof, Vienna, mural Be a Mensch (jk, P)
Kathrin Becker has been working as Artistic Director of the KINDL - Centre for Contemporary Art since February 2020. Until 2019, she was head of the Video Forum of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and its managing director and curator. She studied art history and Slavic studies at Ruhr University Bochum and Leningrad State University. Her curatorial work focuses on intercultural and transnational issues, the role of the visual arts in society and the complex of exclusion and inclusion in contemporary cultures.
Secession Podcast: Members is a series of conversations featuring members of the Secession.
The Dorotheum is the exclusive sponsor of the Secession Podcast.
Programmed by the board of the Secession.
Jingle: Hui Ye with an excerpt from Combat of dreams for string quartet and audio feed (2016, Christine Lavant Quartett) by Alexander J. Eberhard
Audio Editor: Paul Macheck
Executive Producer: Bettina Spörr
Photo: © h+j Kandl
