Tipping Point Phantoms
Vik Bayer, Kaja Clara Joo
Tipping Point Phantoms
Vik Bayer und Kaja Clara Joo
curatorial support: Bettina Siegele
The duo show Tipping Point Phantoms by artists Vik Bayer & Kaja Clara Joo creates a narrative juxtaposition about capital and the use of resources in the face of ecological tipping points. The two artists’ different and contrasting approaches to the topic of sustainability enter into an exciting dialogue for the exhibition in the Kunstpavillon, seeking for a subtle way of storytelling that raises awareness for the multiple crises of our present as well as the interdependence of technology, nature and society, yet without staging the imminent catastrophe. Tipping Point Phantoms is part of the annual programme Chronopolitical Explorations curated by Bettina Siegele.
Vik Bayer lives, films, edits, writes, builds, and reads. They believe in collaboration as a mode of production, one that translates into sculptural installations, films, reading groups, teaching projects, and books. Their work primarily focuses on forms of agriculture that carry the potential to challenge the dominant extractivist economy. Vik is also interested in how the crises haunting the present are affecting ways of storytelling. Both of these interests led to an extensive exchange with Sicilian farmers who cultivate a solidarity-based economy in response to the growing struggles caused by the climate crises and the fictions of the free market. This exchange materialized in the video installation Slo-mo visions of refusal of unfulfilled promises, which was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize and the Appreciation Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where they graduated in 2024.
Kaja Clara Joo: In the expansive, transdisciplinary works by the austrian- korean artist Kaja Clara Joo (*1991) physical as well as narrative boundaries are explored. Cultural, social and political patterns of behaviour and human intervention in the resources and environment around us are a central concern of her artistic practice. Joo often works site- and space-specifically, creating meticulously staged sculptures that span the artist’s intended narrative across the space. She graduated with honours in Fine Arts from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2024. Her solo presentations include Sotheby’s Art Quaterly, the MQ Artbox, Bildraum 07, Periscope Salzburg, Gallery Monitor/Czech Republic, SPARK Art Fair and dialogue exhibitions at the SWAB Art Fair Barcelona, among others. She has won several scholarships and residencies, including the Lee Ungno Museum Residency in South Korea in 2024. www.kajajoo.com
OPENING
Thursday 13.02.2025, 19.00
Welcoming: Angelika Wischermann (board member Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol)
Introduction: Bettina Siegele
EXHIBITION DATES
14.02. – 17.05.2025
Weiteres Rahmen- und Vermittlungsprogramm | Additional outreach programme:
22.02.2025 at 11.30am exhibition tour Art & Coffee
19.03.2025 at 5.30pm guided tour with Cornelia Reinisch-Hofmann
25.04.2025 at 7pm Vik Bayer in cooperation with Klimakultur Tirol
09.05.2025 at 7pm Artist Talk with Vik Bayer and Kaja Clara Joo
