Birds Strike
Michael Strasser

For his presentation in the Kunstfenster, Michael Strasser uses existing ceramic figures that he recycles, deconstructs and reassembles.

The deformed cockatoo on a plinth as a furniture quote refers to the addiction to ‘white gold’, which was also gallantly described as the ‘maladie de porcelaine’ in the 18th century. Porcelain was a precious and fragile commodity from the ‘Far East’ and its production was initially unknown in Europe. Much is still imported from China, and no longer just as a luxury item. But the price for this cheap consumption in Europe is paid by precarious labour in the so-called low-wage countries. The porcelain figure of the deformed bird is a reminder of the longing for an ultimately fragile luxury and of the destructive effect of excessive consumption, which only ever allows new desires to replace the fulfilment of wishes.

Events:

Sunday August 4
5 PM Opening
6 PM Concert in the Woods (Schloss Poppendorf)

Kunstfenster Gnas

The Kunstfenster Gnas is a tiny art space in a shop window, a cube of two by two meters and one meter deep. A clearly defined space in the town center, which can be visited at any time of the day or night and which is reopened every three months. A local revival that opposes the rampant business vacancy with the means of art.

Since August 2019, Michaela Leutzendorff-Pakesch has been curating exhibitions in the market town of Gnas that go far beyond the region in their ambition.