Marina Faust, Philipp Fleischmann

For the first event of the Tuesday@Secession series we cordially invite you to an evening together in the garden of the Secession from 8 p.m. to midnight. There will be contributions by Marina Faust as well as Philipp Fleischmann.

9 p.m. – Marina Faust

In Marina Faust’s video Switch Walk, the artist brings her most recent work Ambulants to life. Vintage chandeliers are stripped from their original ‘social’ and physical position and lifted to eye level. Hanging as new constellations within metal frames on wheels they are pushed through the gallery. Crystals strike crystal and audibly question seemingly established conventions. From Baroque to Biedermeier to Modernism, historic periods merge, conservative rules are ignored and subverted.

Marina Faust is an artist and photographer who lives and works in Vienna and Paris. With a background in documentary photography, her artistic practice has moved on to collages, sculpture, filmmaking and disciplines of transcending photography. She collaborated with Martin Margiela for almost 20 years and is an active contributor for the French art Magazine Frog. Recent solo exhibitions include venues such as Gianni Manhattan, Vienna; Museum der Moderne Salzburg; Galerie Xippas, Geneva; Le Consortium, Dijon. She was on display with group exhibitions at mumok, Vienna; Belvedere21, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien and Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid.

10 p.m. – Philipp Fleischmann

In the early 1960s, the experimental film movement “Structural Film” moved away from the relevance of a plot and instead focused on the shape, materials and the projection of the film itself. As one of its most important representatives, Paul Sharits made Axiomatic Granularity (1973, color, 20 minutes) and Color Sound Frames (1974, color, 26 minutes), which will be reactivated as part of a screening by Philipp Fleischmann in the garden of the Secession.

Philipp Fleischmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. He primarily works with the medium of analog film. For his projects, he often develops site-specific cameras that allow him to reflect on the physical and cultural dimensions of institutional spaces. Since 2014, he has served as the artistic director of the School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film in Vienna. He has had exhibitions and screenings at venues including the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, 16th Lyon Biennale, Macro Museum Rome, Berlinale Forum Expanded, Austrian Filmmuseum, Toronto International Film Festival, mumok kino and Anthology Film Archives, NYC.

Tuesday@Secession takes place in the garden at the rondeau behind the Secession.