Exhibitions
EXHIBITIONS
2025
CURRENT & UPCOMING
The exhibition's point of departure is the first photo/visualisation of a black hole created in 2019. As a result, the image of the black hole became an extraordinary visual analogy of a boundless universe. The strange phenomena that occur in space force us to have a deeper understanding of basic conceptions of time, information, causality, necessity, contingency, and determinism. With the exhibition “Domestic Astronomy” artists open up about their cosmologies by analyzing and interpreting the alluring phenomenon of the visuality of space using analogue photography, photo collage, point cloud aesthetics, photogrammetry and other 3D techniques.
Artists: Dalia Mikonytė, Adomas Žudys, Marija Jociūtė and Lina Simutytė
Opening: August 28, 5 PM
Live performances by Neda Rimaitė & Marija Jociūtė: August 28, 6 PM
Part of the LT.art Vienna 2026 festival
Past
We are creating a focused mentorship for emerging curators based in Vienna who have curiosity and some practical experience (from little to medium), but who seek a supportive, non-gatekept environment to grow. Two selected curators will take part in a four-month program consisting of workshops with four mentors, exchanges with other curators, visits to off-spaces, galleries, and artists’ studios, as well as a detailed, hands-on collaboration with the Improper Walls team to develop, plan, and realise a final exhibition, bringing the program to a full cycle of curatorial practice.
Neurotopias are the seventh edition of Improper Walls’ initiative to participate in the Mental Health Awareness Month with an annual exhibition and accompanying public program that uses artistic means to encourage open discussion about often stigmatized topics, their deeper context and socio-political repercussions. After discussing treatment gap, stigma, sexuality, education and neurodiversity, community care, and housing instability, this year we invited artists via an open call to reflect on what a truly accessible society would look like, materially, socially, infrastructurally, asking: What kind of economic system could accommodate people with different abilities and take into account more-than-human needs? How can we offer each other care without pathologizing the issues or denying their existence? What would our surroundings—our homes and cities—look like if we create them from feminist, disabled, and neurodiverse perspectives?
During the Summer, the Improper Walls team takes time to rest, which means that our space is temporary without a program. Because we believe that having access to space is an unequally distributed privilege, especially in the fields of culture and arts, we have decided to share ours.
Ctrl + Shift + Del is a command to delete. But what if it became a command to reset? The exhibition explores this question through speculative video games that reclaim digital spaces as sites of care, memory, and resistance. Three artistic positions offer distinct responses to overlapping crises—occupation, imperialist violence, capitalism, overtourism, climate collapse—not by escaping them, but by reprogramming their structures.
Endnotes. On Reading Anarchy is an exhibition, publication, and event project that departs from the legacy of the Free Thought Library (BLR: Вольная Думка), a self-organized anarchist space in Minsk, which ceased to exist after the crackdown on the social uprising of 2020 in Belarus.
bal’26 invites artists, researchers, and thinkers to explore the dynamic intersections of the Baltic States and the Balkans (the former Yugoslavia) through transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.
How would a truly accessible society look like? Through this open call, we invite artists to envision what an equitable and neurodiversity-affirming society could look like beyond the ‘possible’ and ‘realistic’ solutions limited by the current economic systems, and propose alternate realities that take into account the full spectrum of dis/abillities and needs.
Closer Still presents a new body of work by Brooklyn J. Pakathi, shaped around longing at its most vulnerable. The title speaks as both a command and a confession, holding together an urge to remain near and the uncertainty that such closeness entails.
The exhibition turns to that precarious interval where relation takes shape and where feeling acquires form through measure and clarity, it also composes nearness as a living practice and affirms that desire endures through the ways we look, the ways we wait, and the ways we remain.
The exhibition is both a slow, ritual-like gathering, meant to give respect and concern to the earth and all it bears, and a silent remembrance and awareness laboratory, where alchemical-like actions are penetrating the pulsating past through memory and tradition into the present concern of future forgetfulness.
What kinds of collective spaces allow us to approach histories of violence that refuse representation? Can an archive generate affective economies of shared grief? The Silence of the Volcano brings together a group of artists that through their practice respond to an archive rooted in experiences of migration, exile, clandestinity, political resistance, forced disappearance, and genocide during Guatemala’s counterinsurgent war (1954–1996)—one of the longest in Latin America.
The exhibition Fragile Foundations: Art, Mental Health, and Housing Precarity is a continuation of the series that has been organized annually since 2020 in relation to Mental Health Awareness Month. This year, the project focuses on the complexities of housing (in)stability with four artistic positions selected via open call. Through various media, the artists bring attention to the privatization of social housing and public spaces, the vulnerability and risks accompanying migrants moving to Vienna, as well as the expanded understanding of the topic beyond physical instability to the existential homelessness caused by displacement, war, and colonial violence. All selected works are reminders of our individual and collective power—a call to action—to take up space and organize against oppression.
The exhibition explores themes of family history, inherited narratives, and the complex "in-between" experiences of second-generation immigrants, particularly in relation to Palestine and Lebanon.
Leaving behind the outdated romanticizing of suffering and mental health issues in an artistic process, we continue with the Mental Health Awareness Month exhibition series to speak about the effects of housing (in)stability on a creative process.
Through this open call, we invite artists to explore the topic of home and housing and its relationship with their own practice, merging the practical and personal with political and public.
Matter, nature and life are a vast, interconnected web of existences—molecules, atoms, bodies, stars—constantly transforming and transmuting into each other. This exhibition, named using the words of Paul B. Preciado in “We Say Revolution”, invites viewers to embrace the multiplicity and fluidity of nature and resist rigid categorizations imposed by Western structures.
There is hardly a concept as unifying – or divisive – as language. Words are powerful tools, ones that build nations and crumble them to the ground, that shape our thoughts, stories and actions, that can stoke the fire of a revolutionary idea or fertilise the ground for violence and prejudice. Words give shape to our dreams and nightmares, our pasts and futures, our realities. But once meaning is imbued, can it be taken away? Can the politics of language change through loss of meaning, and what happens in this new (post)geography?
We are in need of new mythologies. In times of post-pandemic, war and climate catastrophe, new forms of narration based on tenderness and carrying, equality and intimacy are needed more than ever. We need to further develop storytelling of the unheard voices, addressing their neglected lives and experiences. Sci-fi digital mythology may navigate not only through the rapidly evolving technological landscape but also through changing social, political and ecological conditions. It invites us to imagine a new world in which we would actually like to spend our future.
Laurynas Skeisgiela's installation "Liump! Ultraviolet, Gobelin, and Wine" leads to an observation space, a session with overheard conversations and thousands of moths in the Krems an der Donau cityscape.
Artists: Huda Takriti, Marko Marković, Marija Šabanović, Apple Yi Jiang, Sophie Utikal, Ramiro Wong, Sara Ghalandari, Kids of the Diaspora, Eva Balayan, Zeynab Kirikou Gueye
From Reindorfgasse to Annagasse!
We are excited to announce a new collaboration with AG18 Gallery, in which we will extend our curated program and bring selected artworks to the "Spotlight" showroom.
"Without You, Everything Would Fall Apart" – a celebration of a decade of art, community, and connection at Improper Walls.
The exhibition, Outskirts of Care, presents two works—a participatory project, Fanonian Quilts, by artist and curator, Frida Robles and an interactive installation, Whispers of Living in a Collapsing World, by artist-theorist Nisrine Boukhari.
The exhibition soft stories ∷ divine alteration – the first solo show by Leilei Wu in Austria – discusses relationships between faith, technological imaginings, and the tragedy of eternal objectification.
Improper Walls is looking for participants for a co-creative project led by Frida Robles to bring to the forefront the relationship between racism and mental health—the corporeal and mental effects of discrimination—and to tap, however softly, into the power of togetherness.
The group exhibition Fever Dream explores all the ways in which the feelings of anxiety, disorientation, discomfort, and disbelief culminate in artistic projects by uncanny depictions of the everyday.
In the Frame of Sonic Territories in collaboration with Improper Walls, Lens Kühleitner will present a new video and sound work led by the question 'What happens to the things that get lost?'.
We are thrilled to be part of the third cycle of Über das Neue. Wiener Szenen und darüber hinaus at Belvedere 21 and to premiere The Myth of the Liminal Old-Growth, a mythical forest located in the virtual realm developed by Joanna Zabielska, enriched with sound composition by Zosia Hołubowska and physical installation created by Alma Bektas.
Stories with non-linear timelines, without people and without nations. Nonetheless uniting, destroying dams, and thus inhabiting different temporalities in the present time for better futures.
How many children spend their time and energy in school masking the symptoms of mental health issues, a temporary crisis they are going through or the effects of long-term stress from experiencing generational poverty, trauma, displacement, or prejudice toward their identities? After tackling the treatment gap, general stigma and the relationship between mental health and sexuality, this year, for Mental Health Awareness Month, we will explore education-related issues.
What explains these robots' perceived noncompliance to these principles? What are robots anyway? Are they machines without autonomy, merely a product of different cultures' impulses to find “safe” ways to play God? Are they replicas that fulfill a human fascination with an animated artificiality that emerges from our obsession with our self-image? Or are they simply an outcome of the human wish to be liberated from labor and engage in more pleasurable desires? In this exhibition, we ask these questions from a perspective that aims to facilitate our audience's encounters with artificial embodied agents in the context of autopoiesis.
2022
Collective listening & discussion
Society by definition is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. What if we were to broaden these boundaries to other species? Living in a capitalist economy, our culture is innately anthropocentric, constantly expanding our influence and power over the natural world, controlling the resources and deciding about the habitats of others.
What would we gain from another type of expansion? Expansion of perception, including other kingdoms of life into our society?
When perceiving the heterogeneous time in our contemporary view of nature, we might leave behind the utopian time and space and the conservative viewpoint. The change of perspective may not only deconstruct the dualism of human/non-human but furthermore explore a fresh look at the coexistence in the rather darker socially constructed co-habitat.
Room of Entities is a collective dream space where sounds, objects, performers and audience coexist in a timeless atmosphere. ROE invites you to enter an immersive sphere of sensation and rest.
Migratory Anthropocene is the follow-up event of the art residency and exhibition in Užice, Serbia which took place back in July. The event at Improper Walls will focus on the catalogue presentation and audiovisual reflection of the experiences of participating artists and curators. The catalogue is the collection of the research documentation including photography, video stills and texts collected during the residency. The topic of Migratory Anthropocene aimed to develop an idea and better understanding of the local conditions. Artists and curators were introduced to Užice’s migratory and ecological background, where nature itself was the centre and main focus of artistic research.
Improper Walls is pleased to announce Kliudžiau by Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė, her first solo project in Austria. The exhibition features new productions by the artist as well as works created in collaboration with photographer Pavle Nikolić, illustrator Rūta Vėbraitė and fashion designer and artist Karolina Janulevičiūtė.
Art proved to be an essential tool to draw attention to social and environmental issues throughout history. After speaking about the general shame surrounding the symptoms of mental disorders, for this year's Mental Health Awareness Month, we are using contemporary art to discuss the role of mental health within the context of sexual pleasure. With the persevering stigma and lack of sex education, we need every opportunity and medium to open up a discussion on these topics, particularly their interconnectedness.
As Valentina Amoroso wrote, at the beginning there is something that makes you uncomfortable, and then the search begins. Stories that tell of the human condition. Looking in everyday life for the mirrors that need to be broken and put back together, to question what has been imposed on us and what we have built, sometimes consciously and sometimes without realizing it.
On a junction of theory and art practice, through the means of photography and moving image, the project DEGREES (2021) dives into the framework of contemporary affect theory and approaches the question on personal, collective, and transitive levels. At every stage, the work is challenged to find artistic means of expression of the concept, which is considered to be undetectable directly. Past events can be conserved in the body and brain and repeated; they can be reactivated but not completed.
One million people work in "system-relevant" professions throughout Austria. 65% of them are women and most of them are migrants. These are professions with low pay and high psychological and physical stress. Whether elderly care, cashiers, child care, cleaning, or transportation, our system would collapse without these professions. Accordingly, there was much applause at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. However, their services are not recognized politically or socially, let alone fairly rewarded financially.
2021
The art exhibition and related events are dedicated to the distance between you and me (between us). A very contemporary collective experience of a shifted meaning of distance. Although the physical or measurable distance can be easily perceived, the mental one has twisted, stretched, and shrunk. The show is about communication by caring for each other at the times of collective unrest and uncertainty.
A game of words referring to the „permanent-temporary“ situation we are in and the way it has changed our perceptions and mindset.
Hospitable Utopia.vienna.ed is an adaptation of the group show produced in Užice, Serbia, during the kick-off residency program at the Reflektor gallery.
Nancie Naive and her life become a product offered to the public. In “I am Nancie”, she proposes a self-expansion, a reflection of a pop star in a camera lens.
For the mental health awareness month, Improper Walls, in collaboration with foundation Made of Millions, presents the international group exhibition “Shame Shouldn't be a Symptom”.
Asta Cink and Erika Farina expand their work and bring it to a new level by creating contact points between the textile surfaces and the analog images in a joint exhibition.
EMBRACE ME is a series of images that explore gender-non-conformity and queerness. It shows imaginative landscapes and hybrid representations of bodies through which stories of queer, non-binary, trans and other gender-non-conforming individuals are told.
How a globalized and mobile generation, travelling to different countries to gather experiences and inspiration, imagine the urban future?
BEYOND DYSTOPIA is an open discourse of hopeful and catastrophic futures. While this look into the future might serve as a motivation to change the ways we operate day to day, it also questions the dominant trends and creates strategies to move forward.
2020
International group exhibition White reflects Sunlight - Fuck you, Albedo! aims to shock and warn about the consequences of our behavior while asking questions and considering options to survive, even adapt at the same time.
What does identity mean when everything goes away? Can a modern person with a super-individual identity participate in a ritual that requires the abandonment of ego and identity for the sake of the environment, ritual, other people? What is the relationship between individuality and avoidance of environmental (and more) issues? How do modern people feel in nature? What is a modern person like and how does she feel in society?
Porn Film Festival Vienna was launched in 2018 and started its existence by posing an easy (yet strangely hard to answer) question: "What is porn?". 2020 sees the festival return with the challenging objective to showcase and celebrate the colorful diversity of porn and stimulate an open societal debate. The next issue will deal with the body and sexuality as a guiding principle: "WHAT IS SEX?" will be the central question of the festival and exhibition at Improper Walls. This question is the core of the theoretical confrontation.
As a part of 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄 & 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑 initiative, artists Joanna Zabielska, Cat Jimenez and Milos Vucicevic have been invited by Improper Walls curators to collaborate on an art show.
Proudly taking part in mental health awareness month campaign #NoOneToldMe Improper Walls presents group exhibition NO ONE TOLD ME, organized in collaboration with Made of Millions.
As art is an important tool to draw attention and communicate, we are happy to take this chance and focus on the treatment gap.
XX ART Flânerie is a forum for artistic projects of all branches of the Viennese art scene. It takes
place over eight days, from 10 - 18 July, in the 15th and 12th districts of Vienna. Galleries, cultural
institutions, project spaces, artists in their studios and at numerous other art locations open their doors
– all with their own character and programmes.
In her upcoming exhibition at Improper Walls, Anna Breit will show a selection of her new series, ”Teens (in their rooms)“. As part of her solo show, Anna would like to create a portrait of young people between the ages of 13 and 19.
In a collage of contemporary aesthetics and traditional values, new and old, Katharina Löffelmann tries to dismantle the main historical reasons why we function and communicate as we do in a family context.
Which circumstances and events have shaped the generations before us - and how do they still form the roles we expect ourselves to take on in today’s society.
2019
𝐎𝐅𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐊 is an annual exhibition project by DobraVaga Gallery in Ljubljana, bringing together local up-and-coming artists. Following exhibitions in Berlin and Budapest, they are presenting the third project edition in Vienna: Another Time and Place.
The exhibition is characterised by the return of the authors to the most basic perception of their environment, the awareness of the processes of remembering, and the search for those points in which perception and memory create new, virtual spaces. These offer the possibility for pausing and the idiosyncratic appropriation of a space and time that seems foreign to many.
Dalea Kovačec, Janja Kosi, Manuel Fabris, Monika Slemc, Neža Perovšek and Romana Pehar focus on their environment with a strong awareness of the fleeting nature of human perception and the fickleness of our memory, and with a pronounced ear for the peripheries that, as a rule, escape perception and reflection.
In this post digital age, in which we are living right now, the question arises how much we control new media or how much new media already controls us.
Improper Walls presents 𝔼ℂ𝕃𝔼ℂ𝕋𝕀ℂ! The Batz Collection, a taste from a broad and diverse range of artworks from our Guest Curator's, Katrin-Sophie Batz, private Collection.
𝔸𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤: BOICUT/ Clifton Childree/ Robbie Conal/ Deso - Broken Fingaz Crew/ Alexis Diaz/ FAILE/ Faith47/ Frau Isa / Ben Frost/ Vasilena Gankovska/ Alex Gingrow/ Lia Halloran/ H101/ hoxxoh (aka Douglas Hoekzema)/ Never2501/ Laurina Paperina/ Peter Phobia/ POSE/ Stylianos Schicho/ Stinkfish/ The Stencil Network/ Stephen Tompkins/ Coco Wasabi/ Scott Malcolm Wigglesworth/ Zose
This is an interactive social happening. 10,828* photos are stacked into a tower. At first, the expected exhibition of photographs is withheld from the viewer. During the opening evening, the artist lets the tower fall so that the images flood the gallery room with thousands of impressions. The flood of images represents the 2019 lifestyle, an overload of visuals from daily life, which is seen everyday on social media.
𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝐄 & 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑, a project by Flüchtlinge Willkommen Österreich x Improper Walls.
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"Established in 2019, the Improper Fine Art Print Fair is the largest and most celebrated art fair dedicated to the artistic medium of printmaking. Each year’s Fair presents an unrivaled opportunity to view and acquire outstanding works! "
-our mom, bragging about our greatness-
The artworks of the exhibition TIME FORMS are created in a certain space and time. Just like the surrounding environment moves forward and changes, so do they. They stay in correlation with time and space and reveal to the spectator of today meanings that were and will be hidden to the spectator of yesterday and tomorrow. In this way, artworks take on different time forms and lead us into a world of imagination of which nobody can tell how it will play out.
In this exhibition, Rosabel Rosalind Kurth-Sofer reworks specific historical instances of Jewish persecution into portraits that reclaim and celebrate the collective Jewish body. Therefore, Rosabel combines the biblical with the historical, in an attempt to express how history is so easily mythologized by conspiracy and lies, fueled by racism and discrimination.
The events are designed to show, how communicating with other cultures helps us understand the diversity of the world around us, change our knowledge and improve the techniques – adapt to the surroundings.
𝕎𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕚𝕖 𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕜𝕚𝕖 – a program of panel discussion, reading, performance, art exhibitions, artist talk and music act investigating the connection between communication and art in and around Reindorfgasse – in the up-and-coming 15. district of Vienna.
𝐍𝐎 𝐎𝐅𝐅𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄 𝐁𝐔𝐓 ... - a group show
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Politically correct behaviour is one of the most important norms in many European societies. To label certain behaviour and actions as correct facilitates the perception and recognition of wrong behaviour, which can often result in offending other social groups. At the same time, guidelines for correct behaviour reveal the variants and dangers of incorrect behaviour and action.
What to do when you, by accident, discover that you have royal ancestry? How do you react to famous emperors demanding to be recognized in your own personal history? Dutzi Ijsenhower, to whom it happened, channeled his feelings of royal grandeur, surprising entitlement and pure bafflement into the portrait series the Faux Kings – by becoming versions of his forbearers he created the ancestral portrait gallery of a Drag Queen.
The artist creates flags which reflect the very special and precious world that we live in, not representing any country in particular. It doesn’t matter if we are on a beach in San Francisco or in a small shed in the middle of the Lithuanian forest, all of our concerns and joys are similar; the daily taste of coffee is similar, and everything is interconnected into a single internet node.
"This is a story about two people photographing the same city.
Behind their pictures, an essence of singularity and singularity, that belies their apparent simplicity."
"You can cut all the flowers but can’t keep spring from coming." Pablo Neruda
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Fascinated by the irrational emotions nature evokes, Christa Gaigg and Evalie Wagner create projects that crosscut event, art and design.
In „Warum denkst du an meinen Penis?“ Riedler builds a place to discuss the private and the public using topics like living, work, entertainment, routines, sexuality, regression, self reflection and communication.
LlE TO ME BABY showcases 17 artworks by international artists. It differs in medium and approach to the exhibition’s main topic, which is an invitation to explore and question terms such as truth and reality, production of information, bias, trust, social media, utopias, faith (etc.). This can be through a social, personal, religious, cultural, political or physical approach.
It is where completely strangers can meet to escape from everyday life together. A space full of possibilities and atmosphere where unexpected and commonplace meet and mix.
Under Construction showcases an attempt to appropriate the centuries-old technique of etching and use it to create unique sculptures rather than just reproductions of an already existing image. The focus lies on the process itself: works change shape multiple times, involving unusual materials like concrete or the irretrievable editing of printing plates, so that no exact reproduction is possible.
To kick off a new year of audio visual art, sound:frame visits the Reindorfgasse with a collaborative exhibition from January 10 to 12. With „Translation of Complexity“ the exhibition addresses intertwined topics and disentangles complex narratives through art.
2018
Are you also getting a headache about what to buy for your dearests this year?
We think we can help! Or at least try.
We’ve invited a bunch of the finest, coolest (basically finoolstest) artists to this market!!
An illustrative study and window into the wonderful world of ‘Shibari’, Tied up with Sophia, is a body-positive, personal and thought-provoking collection of sensually soaked work.
In these series of works, Iranian artist Pourea Alimirzaee is focusing on the meaning of a self-portrait and how surroundings, experiences, and even objects impact individuals. The artist prefers to pursue the lighter sides of being, rather than the darker aspects o
The focus of the performative installation • adventure time no. 2 • lies on the relationship between the sweet and unpalatable and the question is asked if such an intimate space can operate within a gallery context.
The exhibition Poetic Imageries explores artist Hye Lee’s poetic visual language, presented in the forms of watercolours, written works, and ceramic sculptures.
Juan Manuel Blanes and Gustav Klimt marked a shift in art in their respective nations, having in common that through their art, both of them sought to portray the identity of their own country.
Contemporary Uruguayan visual artist Theic proposes an exchange between two cultures, connecting two cities through the stories, portraits, and philosophies.
"I wanted to show how sometimes one is lost
in the most interesting places because we built
up a shield which prevents us from taking it
all in.
Complexity and diversity are everywhere in nature
yet most of the time we don't see it anymore."
WTF by Improper Walls* presents a solo show by
Linda Steiner: A U F A U G E N H Ö H E
"The concept is really simple actually.
I want to paint people who are living on the street.
The societal gap between people is getting bigger and bigger, especially between income levels. The conversation between the rich and poor is almost nonexistent. (…)”
Spot the Dot & Ash Santos present the second Vienna edition of Rebel Against Skincancer. A group exhibition & party to raise awareness of skin cancer.
Alarm goes off at 8 am, a splash of cold water in the face to wake up.
Breakfast, subway, work. Colleagues, wife, kids, home. Need to sleep.
Loan, mortgage, debt delinquency, new smartphone. It was wise that I didn’t let them get a dog.
Eva Zar’s upcoming solo exhibition is dedicated to all the F E M M E S out there. Beauty and gender is beginning to be understood as amorphous and shifting. It’s important for us to recognize and celebrate beauty in all its variations.
By photographing people who are not considered a traditional beauty standard, Eva Zar is redefining beauty standards one photo at a time. Through photographing fabulous freaks, she creates her own strategy of survival — for herself, the subjects and the viewers.
Austrian artist David Leitner presents his solo show “thanks for following”.
“thanks for following” is inspired by the history of the self-portrait and the absurdity of today’s “selfie” culture.
Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2018
Selected artists will be informed by: February 2nd, 2018
Exhibition Opening: February 14th, 2018
Exhibition Duration: February 14th - March 2nd, 2018
CLITICAL TALK is meant to portray works of admiration. By women*, for women*.
2017
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Beuys on Sale is fresh, proactive, anti-autoritarian and art-market-free.
Beuys on Sale is the cool answer to the philistine, the vulgar and the lowbrow.
Beuys on Sale is not meant to stay.
Beuys on Sale is pan, omni & sapio-sexual.
Beuys on Sale is Rama Lama Ding Dong !
◆bring ARt to life <--> and life to ARt◆
Improper Walls and Artivive App want to showcase art in augmented reality (AR) with a tiny AR exhibition. Artivive is an easy to use tool for artists to create art in AR, with the simple goal of encouraging people to get out and experience art first hand in a new and interactive way.
"Time has always been one of the variables that define artistic perception, creation and appreciation. It is impossible to conceive art as separated from its time, and although this is something that appeals to all artists, I often find that I’m obsessed with the depiction of that time, with the dilemma of encapsulating its perception in a medium that is always insufficient for the fourth dimension."
Our new season starts on 15th of September during the Reindorfgassenfest 2017 with the group show and live performance by Ma.men!
Artshow Ritual by Dilen Tigreblu & Cripsta, an ephemeral 4-days painting ritual and exhibition of prints.
DEMYSTIFYING FEMININITY is the title of a 3-week long exhibition project which includes a group art show, discussions, artist talks, stand up comedy and workshops throughout the three weeks program.
Spot The Dot & Improper Walls present:
☆ REBEL AGAINST SKINCANCER ☆
A group exhibition and party for charity
This April Sweatermen characters make a come back at Improper Walls in Deadbeat Hero's solo show - #wearesweatermen.
‘A RIBBON AROUND A BOMB’ were the words André Breton chose to describe Frida Kahlo’s artworks during the time of her first solo show in New York in 1938. The title is both an ode to the father of surrealism and to Frida Kahlo but also a powerful metaphor which functions as a perfect reminder of how art was and can always be a limitless weapon of political and emotional impact.
BEAUTY – is a reflection on the unconscious consumption by Andrey Kasay. There were two essences which inspired this series of works.
2016
Under the title DISKOGRAFIE [discography] Illustrators Stefanie Hilgarth and Katharina Ralser are showing a broad scope of their latest works. From commissioned works for major cultural institutions and advertising clients to very private, personal works that are shown to the public for the first time.
A 4-days pop-up exhibition with the aim to raise awareness of avoidable food waste in our modern society and in our own environment and household. The project features a group of artists, that address this issue in their artwork which will be exhibited and presented to a broad audience. During the exhibition, additional installations, talks, and interactive learning elements will take the visitors on a journey that raises the awareness and – hopefully – kindles a change in their own habits.
The show is a personal interpretation of the cycling culture. The concept is free expression, a freewheel of thoughts, spinning in the environment which can be understood nothing but friendly and happy. Keeping the value of the artistic idea high, it is not about anything too direct, but more about the personal approach of each artist.
Rather than using paper or canvas, HNRX paints on walls in public spaces - materials with errors and irregularities, surfaces with character. Each artwork has its own individual story. In the exhibition #COMICSURREAL the whole gallery room becomes an artwork. He will paint on walls and furniture, realizing a full room painting concept. There will also be a live mural on Saturday, 10 September - everyone is welcome to enjoy, according to his idea that inspires his work: creating fun, joy and love, because the world is beautiful!
Known for his free-hand monochromatic sketching, the artist from São Paulo arrives in Vienna for his first international solo exhibition.
How many lines does it take to tell a story?
BIGTIME is the first solo exhibition of the Viennese artist Axel Schindler. His works deal in a humorous way with the consumer society and play with the viewer’s perception.
BIGTIME invites to discover the hidden side behind the obvious and the ugliness of the nice.
BIGTIME is a sum up of the extremities of subjects, objects and actions.
BIGTIME to be discovered.
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Contemporary Illustration stepped far beyond the random doodle you see and forget in a blink of the eye when browsing through your newspaper. It stepped far beyond the sole purpose of illustrating a subject matter for the sake of teaching, showing, or clarifying something to the viewer. Illustration today is no longer the tool to serve a purpose, it is the purpose. With these strong words we will hopefully initiate a broad view and discussion of contemporary illustration.
Your personality is based on DNA and develops following your basic patterns during childhood and teenage years. Disorders only occur in a few percent of the worldwide population. But who doesn’t know the feeling of “That’s me!” when reading about disorders? Who are you in this minute and who will you be in the next? We invited Lym Moreno and Markus Tozzer to exhibit at Improper Walls. The process of communicating and working together on this exhibition is the main inspiration. Being two individuals with very opposing personalities the artists decided to work on the complexity of these everyday issues. Lym and Tozzer are creating personas and characters, influenced by their personal experiences, music and observations.
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Improper Walls is turning 2!!!
In these years we`ve experienced so much, hosted amazing artists within our walls, had awesome parties, met cool people and made new friends.
TWO very Improper years have passed.
So it's time to celebrate our second anniversary. Come and drink champaign with us, listen to smooth beats and enjoy a retrospective of the most representative artworks by our favorite artists: nita., Rob Perez, Peter Phobia, Boicut,Martyna Wójcik-Śmierska, Münster Studio, Sens OC, Luis Pinto, diffuse, Lisk Feng, Riccardo Guasco & Ale Giorgini!
In 'KNOCKOUT' Peter Phobia presents a new series of works which deal with personal experiences, bananas, pop culture & life in general. Recorded thoughts are translated into a visual language, images are composed in order to create a dialoge with the viewer and to narrate a kind of abstract story about moments of everyday life. The works especially created for this exhibition will range from smaller drawings to large scale works on paper and 3D objects.
Placed side by side, complementing & contrasting
2 artists, 2 countries
1 show
Münster Studio & Martyna Wójcik-Śmierska
While using different techniques, Münster Studio & Martyna Wójcik-Śmierska come to a similar style of expression: the absence of outlines, minimal representation - and still details can be found, that add to another. They are complementing and contrasting each other - placed side by side in one exhibition.
2015
Improper Walls is glad to announce its first exhibition abroad in cooperation with Casa Nueve, in Puebla, Mexico. THERE ARE NO KANGAROOS IN AUSTRIA is a group show of six young and talented Austrian artists all living and working in Vienna, Austria`s capital city.
CHIDO adj. [col.] (Lat.Am.: Méx.) cool, nice
CHAFA adj. (Lat.Am.: Méx.) [col.] something of a low quality, fake
¡CHALE! (Lat.Am.: Méx.) [expression]" damn ! "; " oh my god "; or " yeah right "
With this solo show called THE SHAPE OF THINGS, BOICUT takes it upon himself to examine visions of the young and young-minded. It's important for the artist to give ones inner child a voice - if it were to fall silent, something would fade away.
FORTY POSTERS is an exhibition with forty representative posters to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Italian illustrator Riccardo Guasco.
SUGAR, SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE our new season exhibition party with the finest characters created by Deadbeat Hero (US), The Adhocrates collective (AT) and Marija Tiurina (UK).
2014
"The Girl Stories" - two dreamy illustrators, Frau Isa (AT) and Lisk Feng (CN) introduce their colorful, surreal and lovely world through "The Girl Stories".
THIS IS ME is a trip through Ale Giorgini's unique geometric world, starting with his "classic" movie posters, passing by "That's Amore" project and moving to his brand new art prints serie that has never been seen before called "In the Mood of Wood". You will have a funny walk through cult movies, couples in love and his imaginary world hiding in the woods.
THIS IS ME is also a brand new artbook that collects Ale's artworks from the last few years, commented by the artist himself.
Crazy Wild Creatures it’s a visual journey full of weird characters trying to define a surreal pop/cartoon universe made of funny wolfs, little friends, mysterious legends, cute buddies and hungry beasts.
AN OLD FLAME NEVER DIES The three artists Roman Achitz, Benjamin Hammerschick and Bernhard Weber grew up in the industrial-romantic town of Linz. In the so called steel-city their passion for representative arts, music and film found common confluence. Their love for obscure music genres, independent cinema, comics, Burroughs & Co marked their youth, during which they lived and found common phases of self-discovery, destruction and reassurance. Their common fields of interest built their foundation that was not bound to get wasted instantly. In spite of several years dominated by silence as everyone pursued his individual path, their paths are trespassing today evermore in the pursuit of their art.
This exhibition is an effort to depict their individual ways and at the same time to reveal some of their hidden analogies – for an old flame never dies!
lost in reverie. Constant interplay between daydream & night watch, surface & depth of flotation. Lost in reverie is a visual funambulation among kitch & melancholia – trying to hijack the visitor into a surreal forest, where creatures mutate & forgotten ancestors reveal on leaves.
As a gallery we are aiming towards urban art and illustration, with our kick-off group exhibition we are giving you a small introduction on the illustrative side. Three awesome artists Bene, Marija and Jasmin are hosted within our walls till 13th of June.