September 8 — 26, 2020 (Vienna)

curated_by is a long running initiative from Vienna’s gallery association and supported by the city of Vienna.  Over the previous years curated_by Gallery Festival has brought to Vienna a diverse mix of established and emerging curators & artists to Vienna’s commercial galleries.

This years curated_by is entitled ‘Hybrids’. Perhaps the best example of hybridity- so far is the interesting curatorial  tag-team efforts of curators, writers, artists and producers. For example the artists Sarah Lucas & Kris Lemsula’s , are co-curating “SEÑORA!” a group show of (female) artists and friends at Meyer Kainer or the artist Lili Reynaud-Dewar collaborating with (film producer) Olga Rozenblum, to curate “Propaganda Women” at Emanuel Layr featuring the life and work of Maïa Izzo-Foulquier, who also worked under the multiple identities of Thelma Hell & Zelda Weinen and  “Text exercises” presention of (UK artist /writer) Taylor Le Melle and organised with ICA curator Richard Birkett at Felix Gaudlitz– one of a newer group of galleries which have developed in Vienna in the last few years.,

As we continue this idea of curatorial hybrids is the perennial hybrid himself- Hans Ulrich Obrist collaborating with 95 yr old Austrian writer Friederike Mayröcker as his ‘Schutzgeister’ at the legendary Galerie nächst St. Stephan / Rosemarie Schwarzwälder . 

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(left) Taylor Le Melle at Felix Gaudlitz 

(Right) Maïa Izzo-Foulquier at Emanuel Layr