In his lecture, Michael Kienzer will talk about his work. We invited him to particularly focusing on his project “Ein Kunstraum für Weikendorf“, since the department of site-specific art is currently developing a project there: In 2007, Kienzer transformed the town’s old fire station in Weikendorf into an exhibition space for contemporary art. Since then, every year two artists have been asked to create an exhibition that is shown for several months. Kienzer selected the artists himself up until 2013, after which a jury consisting of local residents was formed. The jury now chooses two artists every year from a list of nominees compiled by the Public Art Lower Austria panel of experts twice every year.

Join us for a conversation with Swiss artist, author, and video essayist Ursula Biemann, whose visionary works focus on the planet’s changing climate and its ecological impact. Grounded in a research-based practice, Ursula Biemann’s videos and installations exhibited in Becoming Earth at MQ Freiraum consider the relationship between politics and the environment across local, global, and planetary contexts.

The Sámi people are Indigenous people living in North Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia. What does it mean to be a Sámi filmmaker? How the ongoing colonial reality affects Sámi storytelling and artistic freedom?