(Re)connect to the Public Sphere
11. bis 30. Mai 2018 ZETA Hekla Center, Abdyl Frashëri Street, P.31, A/4, Tirana, Albania
Hubert Lobnig, Lehrender der Experimentellen Gestaltung, beteiligt sich an der Gruppenausstellung.
A group exhibition examining “public space” from a perspective of five contemporary artistic positions from Austria: Iris ANDRASCHEK & Hubert LOBNIG, GELITIN, Werner REITERER, Anna MEYER, and Franz KAPFER
Hubert Lobnig’s idea for an exhibition on the topic of public space is based on the observation that the relationship of Albanian society towards its capital city’s public sphere has changed fundamentally since 1992, when Lobnig visited Tirana for the first time and made a series of photographs. These photographs now serve as a historical introduction to the show at ZETA, thus creating a bridge with current understanding of Tirana’s public space. Meanwhile, Lobnig has carried out numerous temporary and permanent projects, as well as site-specific works, in collaboration with Iris Andraschek: one of them – the installation Where Do The Borders Go, a staged border transgression at its very location, questioning nation-state administrative demarcation policies – is now presented in the form of a drawing and photographic documentation, as a work of art itself.
HUBERT LOBNIG
*1962 in Völkermarkt; lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria; studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
