Minna Kangasmaa | Anni Arffman | Sophie Dvořák | Simon Goritschnig | Alfred Graf | Veera Komulainen | Claudia-Maria Luenig | Christelle Mas | Wilhelm Scheruebl | Hannah Stippl |
Sophie Tiller
Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
17.1.–13.3.2025
The exhibition Parallel Fictions of Nature will show the works of Finnish and Austrian artists who will present the importing of nature into the exhibition space, materially and conceptually in establishing a discourse of ecological, economic and aesthetic value, but furthermore by building principles from new systems.
The artists have been selected to explore systems, values, the role of spe- cies, the examination of processes, traces and structures, various presenta- tions and pictorial studies of sediments and rock formations and the body as an absent system in its natural setting. The artists all work in various media and spatial settings, underlining their strong interest in micro and macro aspect of complex forms and mecha- nisms of nature.
For W. F. Schelling, a German philosopher and representative of Nature-phi- losophy (Naturphilosophie) attempted to comprehend nature in its totality and to outline its general theoretical structure, thus attempting to lay the foundations for the natural sciences. The process in nature underlines the development from simple, uncomplicated forms to more complex and complicated ones. Schelling ́s development scheme is that of Trias, which he complies with terms like matter, life (organic), spirit (consciousness), mecha- nisms and chemical states ... He himself denotes nature with the metaphor Causa sui, based on Spinoza. “She is the reason and consequence of her- self, production like product, subject like object.”
Based on this, the exhibition intends to create systems and fictions parallel to Nature, reach some completion yet reflect processes of transformation and the phenomena of time.
Curated by Claudia-Maria Luenig and Minna Kangasmaa