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The Secession Talks. Exhibitions in Conversation brings together the artists' talks on the exhibitions that took place at the Vienna Secession from 2011 to 2022. Beyond its significance as an archive, it constitutes a highly topical platform for knowledge, ideas, and concepts about art and the world. The conversations are always improvised and spontaneous, the interlocutors lead and seduce each other to formulate thoughts, daringly, playfully, seriously, convincingly, but for no one predictable-the best conditions for new connections of ideas, new contexts. Surprising insights into the process of making a work or an exhibition, into aesthetic decisions, biographical and political contexts.

My Body is a Battlefield offers a comprehensive insight into the work of the Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska, born in Crimea in 1988. Already in her early works she deals with patriarchal structures and the absence of female subjectivity in Ukrainian art. With the annexation of Crimea and the ensuing war, questions of identity and belonging and the themes of border and violence become leitmotifs of her artistic practice. Kulikovska's sculptures are exact copies of her body or individual body parts. Made of unusual materials such as ballistic soap, grease, or epoxy resin, the casts are subject to processes of aging and decay, are modified, transformed, and deconstructed. In her watercolors and drawings, created as series, for example on medical reports and authority forms, she designs bodies that resist the markings and boundaries of the paper as much as the bureaucratic constraints and gender fixations formulated there. Her ceramics-molds of severed limbs and replicas of bodily fluids-are forms of rage and despair in the face of the brutality and horrors of war.Kulikovska shows her body as a site of conflicting emotions and traumatic memories, as a contested arena of ideological attributions and warlike aggression; she asserts herself, drastically and dramatically, against gender and sexual norming, against violence and subjugation.The illustrated book was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Francisco Carolinum in Linz, the artist's first solo exhibition in the German-speaking world.

Self-staging, self-exposure, self-erasure - these are the themes that Michaela Moscouw (*1961) worked on uncompromisingly, excessively and memorably over three decades. Until the early 1980s, the Viennese artist painted abstract pictures, then she destroyed her entire oeuvre and filmed herself doing it. She thus changed medium and since then has exclusively used the means of photography. She obsessively pursued concepts and designs of an aestheticised body experience.For her self-stagings as a radical act and expression of personal emotionality, she acted like an actress rehearsing different roles, questioning gender-specific clichés and body images. She worked on the terrain of VALIE EXPORTS, Friederike Pezolds or Renate Bertlmanns.Today, Michaela Moscouw lives in seclusion in Vienna. Her works have been continuously destroyed, yet works by her have survived in public and private collections. The catalogue presents the preserved photographic work, from early large-format self-portraits in black and white to the colour images from the early 2000s.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Michaela Moscouw, Anwesend Abwesend, Francisco Carolinum, Linz from 10.02. - 14.05.2023

Mit einem Textbeitrag von Roland Schöny und einem Selbstgespräch der Künstlerin / Buchgestaltung: Ismini AdamiAus den Tiefen des Elektronischen kommen die Werke der in verschiedenen Medien arbeitenden Künstlerin Simone Carneiro. In ihrem Kern sind sie algorithmisch strukturiert und entfalten sich entlang der Koordinaten des Abstrakten. Der Zufall spielt eine wichtige Rolle, da der Prozess der Entstehung oft in Dimensionen des Unabsehbaren führt. Prozesse der Massenkommunikation im Internet schaffen die Rahmenbedingungen. Auf Grundlage der häufigsten Fragen, die von User:innen in die Echoräume des Internets ausgeschickt werden, setzt sie ein Spiel in Gang, in dem sprachlich determinierte Zeichenketten in bildliche Strukturen übersetzt werden.Simone Carneiro ist medienübergreifend aktiv, sie verknüpft verschiedene Arbeitsmethoden, Ausdrucksmittel und Technologien, Malerei, Collage, Video, Animation, Installation und audiovisuelle Performance, aber auch alte und neue Drucktechniken. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Wien.