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A Fable for Tomorrow

Imran Channa & Kateryna Lysovenko

exhibition
10/11 – 28/12/2024

Wed-Fri 11am – 3pm, Sat 3 – 6 pm

Vienna Art Week Tour: Friday, November 15, 2024, 5 pm

Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna

The post-anthropocene landscape in the aftermath of the worst nuclear disaster  forms the central focus of the collaborative exhibition project “A Fable for Tomorrow”.  

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Vienna Art Week

Independent Art Spaces Tour 6

Fri 15/11/2024, 5:00 – 6:30pm

 

Independent art spaces and projects are important program partners of the VIENNA ART WEEK. 

Pia Wamsler (curator & art historian) walked the VIENNA ART WEEK group to philomena+, where all participants got an insight into philomena+’ programme and met the artists of the ongoing exhibition “A Fable for Tomorrow”: Imran Channa and Katheryna Lysovenko.

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Imran Channa

artist residency

01/10-17/11/2024


Imran Channa‘s work deals with the power and politics of storytelling and how the act of storytelling creates information and misinformation. He explores this theme through the lens of archives, architecture, artefacts, film and technology. In Vienna he presents the exhibition project A Fable for Tomorrow in collaboration with Kateryna Lysovenko.

 

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Sense of Touch

exhibition

21/09 – 28/09/2024 

 

Younes Ben Slimane, Ava Binta Giallo, Verena Schneider

A lump of clay, kneaded by human hands and molded into a cuboid, that is the oldest surviving brick. At 9,000 years old, it still bears witness to the human endeavors to utilize the elements found in nature for their own needs. The trio that came together for this exhibition created a multidisciplinary scenario for questioning the significance of human intervention in nature.

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philomena+ promotes the intersocietal and intercultural exchange between WANA (West Asia and North Africa) and Vienna, Austria. philomena+ curates exhibitions, public art projects, artist residencies, exchange programmes between art institutions in Austria and WANA, panel discussions, round tables and publication projects on pressing global issues. Rather than focusing on a type of art which centres around objects, philomena+ promotes art which focuses on individuals and life.

our mission

philomena+ aims to connect artists and architects from WANA with the local art community in Vienna, Austria.
It is a platform for artists, researchers and civil society for dialoguing, questioning, creating and building future collaborations.
In addition philomena+ seeks to work with artists and architects, who originate from WANA and have recently settled in Austria, offering a first point of contact and support to find their feet in the new environment.

our history

In 2016, motivated by an understanding that sees art as an outlet for different social groups and as a starting point for dialoging, art historians Christine Bruckbauer and Negar Hakim founded the philomena+ platform. “We see ourselves as cultural ambassadors who engage in an exchange of ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding.”

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