Kursalon
Vienna

From September 11 to 15, 2024, Vienna’s Kursalon hosted Particolare– a curated contemporary art salon presenting a selection of artworks and performances. The program constituted a bold exploration and a multifaceted look at temporality and movement through the creations of contemporary artists and performers.

An Ode to Time and Movement

What kind of time is Particolare concerned with? Mechanical, linear time, quantifiable with measuring instruments? Or quantum, malleable time, marked by relativity and the absence of any kind of linearity? Particolare in fact ventures into the twists and turns of both mechanical and quantum time, inviting spectators to reflect on the di erent perceptions of time that inhabit our reality.

The very title of the exhibition evokes the singularity and specificity of each instant, of each movement. Movement is not just an aesthetic element, but a living force integrated into the very substance of art.

From the fertile dialogue between measurement and creation come new perspectives on temporality, where movement becomes the guiding thread of a deeply immersive artistic experience.

The Particolare exhibition transports us to a world where time is reversible and elastic – where every moment is an opportunity for creation and discovery. It is in this dynamic that artists shape artistic time, where the course of our clocks’ second hand seems to constantly create new paths.

ARTISTS

Anna Abalikhina, Saâdane Afif, Francis Alÿs, Liza Bobkova, Alighiero Boetti, Dara Birnbaum, Pierre Bismuth, Erik Bulatov, Angela Bulloch, Daniel Canogar, Lou Cantor, Raphaël Dallaporta, Brian Dailey, Tacita Dean, Plamen Dejanoff, Wim Delvoye, Jimmie Durham, Franz Gertsch, Kevin Francis Gray, Richard Hoeck / John Miller, Anna Hulačová, On Kawara, Žilvinas Kempinas, Rashid Al Khalifa, Joseph Kosuth, Alicja Kwade, Libby Heaney, György Ligeti, Lucia di Luciano, Augustin Maurs, Eva & Franco Mattes, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Tatsuo Miyajima, Vera Molnár, Gianni Motti, Trine Lise Nedreaas, Anna Nezhnaya, Michel Parmentier, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Yelena Popova, Rob Pruitt, Liesl Raff, Tomás Saraceno, Arcangelo Sassolino, Erik Satie, Tristan Seewer, Kiki Smith, Blair Thurman, Miryana Todorova, Costas Varotsos, Kay Walkowiak

GALLERIES

Air de Paris, Anita Beckers, Christine König, Esther Schipper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Galerie Lange + Pult, Galerie Frey, Giorgio Persano, Jean-Kenta Gauthier, Larkin Erdmann Fine Art, Lisson Gallery

AI MEDIATION

On this edition, Particolare has teamed up with the Paris-based artist collective U2P050 known for their work with AI technologies in and around the exhibition space. The mediation was elaborated by AI agents in conversation with the audience – introducing a new form of participation and spectatorship, but also questioning the role of the curator.