'Japan Unlimited' curated by Marcello Farabegoli at frei_raum Q21 exhibition space MuseumsQuartier Wien, 2019
'Pitch Invasion' installation by Aldo Giannotti and Pablo Chiereghin, curated by Marcello Farabegoli at Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna, 2017
Marcello Farabegoli Projects
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CURRENT & UPCOMING PROJECTS:
30th international LIGHT ART SYMPOSIUM organized by the KEPES SOCIETY at the Mome Moholy-Nagy University for Art and Design Budapest: Lecture by Marcello Farabegoli (as former physicist and curator) on 15 September 2023. For further information, click here
VIENNA ART WEEK 2023 - special project LAS MANUELAS by Oscar Cueto at Kunstraum Feller in Vienna: Opening 2 November and book presentation on 14 November. Curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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SOME MAIN PROJECTS:
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VIENNESE ACTIONISM – PATHS TO ACTION at SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF (Friedrichshof Collection) in Zurndorf (AT): From 25 May 2021 to 30 October 2022 with Günter Brus, Micha Hirt, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Karl Heinz Schlögelhofer, Alfons Schilling, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Monika Stanke-Uhlig. Curated by Marcello Farabegoli (Curator of the Sammlung Friedrichshof) and Antonio Rosa de Pauli (Junior curator of the Sammlung Friedrichshof). For further information, click here
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JAPAN UNLIMITED within the framework of 150 years of friendship Japan and Austria: frei_raum Q21 @ MuseumsQuartier Wien with Makoto Aida, Chim↑Pom, Gianmaria Gava, Edgar Honetschläger, Sachiko Kazama, Jake Knight, BuBu de la Madeleine & Yoshiko Shimada, Midori Mitamura, Yoshinori Niwa, Ryts Monet, Tomoko Sawada, Sputniko!, Ryudai Takano, Shinpei Takeda, Momoyo Torimitsu, Hana Usui, Tomoko Yoneda and Naoko Yoshimoto. Inaugurated on 25 September 2019 by Elisabeth Hajek (Artistic Director frei_raum Q21 exhibition space / MQ), Marcus Bergmann (Ambassador and Deputy Head of Section V for External Cultural Relations of the BMEIA - Austrian Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs ), Diethard Leopold (President of the Austrian-Japanese Society and collector), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator and co-producer with MQ of the exhibition). For further information, click here.
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DOMENICA with Pablo Chiereghin, Aldo Giannotti and Massimo Vitali at the Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna: inaugurated on 27 April 2017 by Giorgio Marrapodi (Italian ambassador), Stella Rollig (General director of Österreichische Galerie Belvedere), Ivica Vastić (Austrian football legend), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator and producer of the exhibition). In collaboration with Galerie Ernst Hilger Wien. For further information, click here.
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GEOMETRIES by Esther Stocker at the Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna: inaugurated on 31 March 2016 by Giorgio Marrapodi (Italian ambassador), Meinhard Rauchensteiner (adviser for science, art and culture of the president of Austria), Christoph Thun-Hohenstein (General director of MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator and producer of the exhibition). In collaboration with Galerie Krobath Wien. For further information, click here.
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FURTHER SELECTED PROJECTS:
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PARALLEL VIENNA 2023 – project statement AFTER PARTY by Paula Flores. For further information, click here.
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ELECTRIC SHADOWS by Hana Usui at Kunstraum Feller in Vienna: Midissage on 28 March with a speech by Chiara Giorgetti (artist and professor at Accademia di Belli Arti di Brera / Milan). Produced by Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here.
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Talk by Marcello Farabegoli for the Office Ukraine - Shelter for Ukrainian Artists at MuseumsQuartier Vienna: Get Together, Room D, 8 November 2022.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2022 – PARTY OF A LIFETIME by Paula Flores at Kunstraum Feller in Vienna: Talk on 21 November 2022 between the artist and Elisabeth von Samsonow (artist and professor at Academy of Fine Art Vienna) moderated by Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the exhibition). For further information, click here.
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IRON WATERFALL by Marko Marković at SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF STADTRAUM in Vienna: Talk on 5 October between the artist and Eva Badura-Triska (art historian and curator, formerly at mumok) moderated by Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the Friedrichshof Collection and the exhibition). For further information, click here.
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FOTO WIEN 2022 – A HUMAN DESERT MADE BY HUMANS - The Fukushima-cycle by the japanese artist Hana Usui at the Department of Asian Studies / Japanese Studies of the University of Vienna: Panel discussion on 18 March 2022 with Konrad Paul Liessmann (philosopher and university professor), Hana Usui (artist), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator) / moderated by Judith Brandner (journalist at ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) Initiated by Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here
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UNCURATED at Kunstraum Feller Vienna with works by Guadalupe Aldrete, Sophia Ausweger, Chiara Campanile, Pablo Chiereghin, Luca Faccio, Paula Flores, Ben G. Fodor, Gianmaria Gava, Olga Georgieva, Aldo Giannotti, Natalia Gurova, Daniel Hafner, Guido Kucsko, Mark Lemmert, Luigi Mainolfi, Torii Michiko, Otto Muehl, Yoshinori Niwa, Takashi Ohno, Sofia Cruz Rocha, Marthin Rozo, Gert Schwartz, Karim El Seroui, Ryn Shaparenko, Ushio Shinohara, Esther Stocker, Peter Stöckl, Hana Usui, and Federico Vecchi. Opening 11 March 2022. Produced by Marcello Farabegoli Projects at Kunstraum Feller Vienna. For further information, click here
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FEEL THE KANJI by Takashi Ohno: Opening 11 March 2022. Curated by Hana Usui and produced by Marcello Farabegoli Projects at Kunstraum Feller Vienna. For further information, click here
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2021 – special project WOASNET by Karim El Seroui at Creative Cluster in Vienna: Opening 12 November. Curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2021 – RIOT DESIGN 21/22 by Pablo Chiereghin at SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF STADTRAUM in Vienna: Opening and Talk with Lisa Ortner-Kreil (curator Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien), Pablo Chiereghin (artist) and Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the Sammlung Friedrichshof and the exhibition) 9 November. For further information, click here.
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BERLIN ART WEEK 2021: Talk (UN)FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IN JAPAN by Marcello Farabegoli at legendary Berlin's Club of polish failures: on 18 September 2021. For further information, click here.
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IN SEARCH OF THE LOST UNITY – Perspectives of Transformation by Guadalupe Aldrete, Sofia Cruz Rocha and Paula Flores at Meno Parkas Gallery in Kaunas (LT), 12-14 contemporary and Kunstverein fAN in Vienna. July - September 2021. Talks with Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein (Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), Rimantas Plungė (Gediminas Technical University) and Jose Manuel Springer (Escuela Nacional de Pintura Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda). Curated by Marcello Farabegoli and Ute Burkhardt-Bodenwinkler. For further information, click here.
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FUKUSHIMA - 10 YEARS LATER by Hana Usui at Red Carpet Showroom Karlsplatz in Vienna: commemoration on 11 March 2021 with Judith Brandner (publicist and journalist at ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Veronica Kaup-Hasler (executive city councillor for cultural affairs and science), Walter Seidl (curator), and the artist. By Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here.
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FOTO WIEN 2021 – DAS LICHT AM ENDE DES TUNNELS HAT EINE ANDERE FARBE by TIME GATES alias Ben G. Fodor & Dorothee Frank in the Public Space Vienna: ÖBB-Bigscreen at Vienna's main station, Red Carpet Showroom Schottentor, Infoscreens at Wiener Linien, and control boxes by Kulturformat. Opening ceremony on 4 March 2021 with Rainer Fuchs (chief curator and deputy director of mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), and the artists. By Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2020 – special project CASINO by Natalia Gurova at Red Carpet Showroom Altes Landgut in Vienna: Opening 17 November. Presented by Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here.
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PARALLEL VIENNA 2020 – project statement with Natalia Gurova, Paula Flores, and Hana Usui. For further information, click here.
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Exhibition at friend's by Anna Khodorkovskaya: CAUGHT IN OBLOMOV's DREAM at Marcello Farabegoli's home in Vienna: 'soft opening' on 19 April 2020. For further information, click here.
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Guest lectures 2020 on JAPAN UNLIMITED: Kunstuniversität Linz (14 January 2020), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (6 June 2020), University of Applied Arts Vienna (postponed because of Covid-19) , Tokyo University (1 December 2020), and Tokyo University of the Arts GEIDAI (2 December 2020).
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FOTO WIEN - Monat der Fotografie 2019: EAT ME by Ben G. Fodor at Studio Kucsko. Opening & premiere on 1 April 2019 with Ben G. Fodor (photography), Dorothee Frank (text), Christoph Dostal (recitation), and Matthias Loibner (music). Curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2018 – special project THURSDAY DEMONSTRATION – Portrait of a Movement by Luca Faccio at Verein 08: Opening and round table on 21 November with Frederick Baker (filmmaker), Luca Faccio (artist), Lucas Gehrmann (curator at Kunsthalle Wien), Helga Köcher (social sculptor) and moderator Dorothee Frank (journalist at Ö1 / ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). Curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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PARALLEL VIENNA 2018, section project statement. For further information, click here.
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TO LIFE by Hana Usui at Artcurial Austria: inaugurated on 18 September 2018 by Lucas Gehrman (curator Kunsthalle Wien), Caroline Messensee (director Artcurial Austria), and Liesa Takagi (art curator of the exhibition). A cooperation with Marcello Farabegoli Projects. For further information, click here.
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Artist talk with Soli Kiani at das weisse haus Vienna: 28 March 2018. For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2017 – special project CARMINE by Ben G. Fodor at Galerie Rudolph Leeb: Round table on 5 December 2017 with Georg Gottlob (professor of informatics at Oxford University & TU-Vienna), Gerfried Stocker (artistic director of Ars Electronica), Ben Fodor (artist), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the exhibition) / moderated by Dorothee Frank (journalist at Ö1 / ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). A project by Marcello Farabegoli Projects & ARCC.art. For further information, click here.
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PARALLEL VIENNA 2017 – project statement PARALLEL & CONCORDANT with Ben Gyula Fodor & Dorothee Frank, Clemens Fürtler & Michaela Seiser, Inge GRAF & Walter ZYX, Karin Pliem & Lucas Gehrmann, Eva Schlegel & Carl Pruscha, Rudi Stanzel & Andrea Schurian, Viktoria Tremmel & Kurt Kladler, Hana Usui & Marcello Farabegoli. Curated by Marcello Farabegoli and Lucas Gehrmann (curator Kunsthalle Wien). For further information, click here.
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Czech-Italian art symposium 2017 & exhibition GRAFT at Galerie Miroslava Kubika in Litomysl (CZ) with Alessandra Draghi, Chiara Giorgetti, Radim Langer, Virginia Dal Magro, Cristiano Rizzo, Vladimir Skrepl, and Viktorie Valocka. Curated by Richard Adam and Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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Bocconi Alumni Association at the Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna: round tabel about Art & Economy on 18 May 2017 with Heike Curtze (gallery owner Vienna), Sergio Giannella (Chapter Leader Vienna of Bocconi Alumni Association), Guido Kucsko (artist and lawyer), Rudolf Leeb (Co-founder ARCC.art), Caroline Messensee (director Artcurial Austria) / produced and moderated by Marcello Farabegoli (curator).
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2016 – special project THE BEAUTY OF INTELLECTUAL PROERTY by Guido Kucsko: Opening 15 November 2016. Curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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PARALLEL VIENNA 2016 – project statement BORDER CROSSING with Pablo Chiereghin, Guido Kucsko, Esther Stocker, and Hana Usui. Curated and produced by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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Czech-Austrian art symposium 2016 & exhibition at Galerie Miroslava Kubika in Litomysl (CZ) with Hana Garova, Daniel Hafner, Pablo Chiereghin, Anna Meyer, Ondrej Petrlik, Linus Riepler and Jakub Sykora. Curated by Richard Adam and Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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'IM KELLER' IM KELLER by Ulrich Seidl at GPLcontemporary in Vienna: inaugurated on 17 March 2016 by Georg Peithner-Lichtenfels (gallery owner), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the exhibition), in presence of Ulrich Seidl (film director). On 8 April: Intervention/action by Pablo Chiereghin (artist), Andrea Hubin (Kunsthalle Wien) & Karin Schneider (Museums of the City of Linz). For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2015 – special project PERPETUUM MOBILE at Kunst Haus Wien - Museum Hundertwasser in Vienna: curated by Marcello Farabegoli (independent curator) in the context of the project GARAGES curated with Ken Mapayo (Project Four) and Dominik Nostitz (Verein 08). For further information, click here.
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PREMIERENTAGE INNSBRUCK 2015: guided tours by Verena Konrad (director of the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut), Edelbert Köb (former director of mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien) and by Marcello Farabegoli (independent curator). For further information, click here. And for some pictures, click here.
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Marcello Farabegoli Projects @ VIENNAFAIR 2015: Astrid Köppe, Sissa Micheli, Takashi Ohno and Hana Usui. For further information, click here.
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BLACK RAIN by Hana Usui at Salon M in Vienna: inaugurated on 5 August 2015 by Peter Bogner (director of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation), Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the exhibition), with a performance by Aiko Kazuko Kurosaki (performer) in collaboration with Hana Usui (artist). On 28 August performance by Yukie Koji (contemporary dancer) and reading by Judith Brander ( publicist and journalist at Ö1 / ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). For further information, click here.
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Round table about HIROSHIMA AND THE ATOMIC BOMB at Bildraum 01 in Vienna: on 18 June 2015 with Georg Pöstinger (Minister for disarmament and non-proliferation – The Foreign Ministers of the Republic of Austria), Nadja Schmidt (Executive Director ICAN Austria – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons), Wolfgang Liebert (Head of the Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences at BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna), Marcello Farabegoli (curator) / moderated by Judith Brandner (publicist and journalist at Ö1 / ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). For further information, click here.
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DANCE OF DIPLOMACY - Transpositions by Sissa Micheli at the Italian embassy - Palais Metternich Vienna: inaugurated on 22 April 2015 by Giorgio Marrapodi (Italian ambassador), Manfred Matzka (Secretary General of the Federal Chancellor office representing Josef Ostermayer, Minister for Culture and Arts), Peter Bogner (director of the Friedrich Kiesler Foundation), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator and producer of the exhibition). In collaboration with Alessandro Casciaro Contemporary. For further information, click here.
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HEUTE NACHT by Luca Faccio at Bildraum 07 in Vienna: inaugurated on 3 February 2015 by Günter Schönberger (Bildrecht CEO), Lucas Gehrmann (curator at Kunsthalle Wien), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator of the exhibition). For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2014 – special project NO MORE FUKUSHIMAS and follow-up projects at Verein 08 and Grüne Galerie 1080 & 1040 in Vienna: The shows include works by casaluce/geiger & Hana Usui, Julius Deutschbauer & Gabriel Schöller, Luca Faccio, Olga Georgieva, Shinshu Hida, Edgar Honetschläger & Sylvia Eckermann, Sissa Micheli, Takashi Ohno, Atsuko Otsuka, Federico Vecchi, and Erwin Wurm. Round table about nuclear energy with Judith Brandner (publicist and journalist at Ö1 / ORF - Austrian Broadcasting Corporation), Lucas Gehrmann (curator at Kunsthalle Wien), Wolfgang Liebert (head of the Institute of Safety/Security and Risk Sciences at BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna), Patricia Lorenz (anti-nuclear campaigner GLOBAL 2000 – Friends of the Earth Austria), and Marcus Rennhofer (photovoltaic expert at AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology) / moderation by Tristan Jorde (actor). Produced and curated by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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Solo exhibition by Federico Vecchi at Bildraum 07 in Vienna: inaugurated on 9 September 2014 by Günter Schönberger (CEO of Bildrecht), Erwin Wurm (artist), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator). For further information, click here.
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SALOTTO VIENNA – Viennese Art Salon 2014, ex Pescheria - Salone degli Incanti in Trieste (IT): Presented by MAK – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art. Curated and produced by Jürgen F. Weishäupl, anc co-curated by Giovanni Damiani, Marcello Farabegoli & Giulio Polita.
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WIENER WERKE by Federico Vecchi at Im Ersten in Vienna: inaugurated on 31 March 2014 by Clara Bencivenga-Trillmich (director of the Italian culture institute of Vienna), Hermann Nitsch (artist), and Marcello Farabegoli (curator and producer of the exhibition). For further information, click here.
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Benefit event for EMERGENCY at Filmcasino in Vienna: Projection of the Oscar-nominated short movie OPEN HEART on 15 December 2013. Supported by, amongst many others, Marcello Farabegoli.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2013 – special project DER CLUB DER POLNISCHEN VERSAGER at Kunsthalle Wien Museumsquartier: Show on 19 November 2013 by Berlin's legendary Club der polnischen Versager (Club of Polish Failures). Curated and produced by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here.
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VIENNA ART WEEK 2012 – special project HANA USUI at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz: Presentation on 20 November 2012 of catalogue Hana Usui. Drawings on paper 2006–2012 by Eugenio d'Auria (Italian ambassador), and Monika Knofler (director of the Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna). Curated and produced by Marcello Farabegoli. For further information, click here .
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FURTHER ACTIVITIES:
From May 2020 to September 2023 curator at the Estate Otto Muehl and until 2022 also curator of the SAMMLUNG FRIEDRICHSHOF (Friedrichshof Collection) & STADTRAUM
Impresario for Austria of Berlin's legendary Club der polnischen Versager (club of polish failures)
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