Otto Kapfinger mit Martin Reinhart | Isa Schmidlehner

For the eighth 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 Otto Kapfinger with Martin Reinhart and Isa Schmidlehner.

Otto Kapfinger with Martin Reinhart

Presence of the Invisible

Intellectual conceptions of material form in architectures by Hoffmann, Wittgenstein, Frank

Defying the conventions of the history of the architectural arts, Otto Kapfinger’s lecture presents largely unknown insights into the intellectual, conceptual, and material-constructive foundations of three iconic early works of “modernism” in Austria.

Isa Schmidlehner

Anima

The three short films Bea, Doris, and Lisa (2013) reflect on the desire for better networking within a male-dominated discourse and were shot when the artist was making a fresh start in Berlin.

Biography

Otto Kapfinger, b. St. Pölten, 1949, was a member of the group Missing Link from 1970 until 1978 and has been a member of the Secession since 1978. He is an architecture scholar, exhibition curator, and writer.

Martin Reinhart, b. Vienna, 1967, is a filmmaker, media historian, and inventor. A noted pioneer of digital film, he has developed a data correlation system for objective world knowledge and is a coproducer of the documentary film Dreams Rewired.

Isa Schmidlehner (b. Vienna, 1971; has lived in Berlin since 2009) is a visual artist. She primarily devotes herself to painting, drawing, fashion, and video and also makes performances and installations in three dimensions.

In 2013, she started experimenting with animated film and performance and exploring novel materials such as copper and concrete as painting and support media.

Programmed by the board of the Secession
Curated by Christian Lübbert