Radio ö1 – April 4th , 11pm
I’m a guest in the program “Sound Art: Kunst zum hören”, playing my 1-minute-piece (raw) and comment on other sounds.
Seoul Residency Scholarship BMKÖS
July – Sept 2024
NOT YET TITLED [ SELF PORTRAIT IN FRONT OF SCENE ]
solo exhibition
Foto Wien
Glasgalerie WEST
June 6-12, 2023
Takes
Juliane Bischoff
With Not Yet Titled [ Self-Portrait in front of Scene ] Hannahlisa Kunyik presents three photographs in a consecutive series. Two depict the protagonist, whom she herself embodies, in the picture, the third the now deserted scenery. The designed relationships between space, object and body are supplemented by a stack of posters for free take-away, which show the artist in close-up. The photographs were taken in the iconic architecture of Belvedere 21, the extended former Austrian pavilion at the 1958 World‘s Fair. The modernist building functions as a backdrop for a mise en scène in which the artist stages herself and by means of which she occupies the space. Every detail of the calculated set-up is precisely placed: a breakfast set with high-quality porcelain, a still life with fruit, an armchair and side table, designed by Karl Schwanzer, the architect of the pavilion, as well as a series of books (by or about the artist herself) – insignia of „good taste“ and a means of distinguishing a class that disproportionately reflects the audience of precisely these places of art.
The context takes on a meaningful significance here. The reference to a symbolic place by means of iconic architecture on the one hand and the seemingly linear sequence of the three images on the other, which appear as stills from an unspecified film. The artist performs in a self-confident pose, with her legs apart and facing the viewer head-on. The empty armchair that follows seems to start the loop from the beginning, meaningfully bridging the gaps between the images. Every detail is related to the previous image – the changes are left to speculation. The protagonist occupies the space completely, becoming the focus of an unknown situation. It seems to be less about a dialog with a counterpart, as the unoccupied armchair suggests, and more about a kind of announcement. Kunyik blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction. She plays with the expectations of an artist‘s performance, which go beyond the actual artistic work, but are often directly related to its evaluation. The sterile architectural backdrop is parodied by the artist using means of exaggeration. The protagonist‘s poses also seem to run counter to the strict architecture and create a tension between the organizing and disciplining spatial structure and the body that occupies it.
The production actually took place as part of Kunyik‘s contribution to the exhibition Über das Neue. Viennese Scenes and beyond in April 2023. The artist used the still empty building in advance for a performance that was staged solely for the camera. She realized the project with the photographer Carolina Frank, the artist Jennifer Gelardo (lightening) and was equipped with the clothes of the fashion designer Romana (Ferrari) Zöchling. Kunyik makes the exhibition space itself the subject of the work as part of the production conditions. At the same time, she makes humorous use of the self-portrait as a means of feminist appropriation by portraying herself in front of the scene. For the current exhibition, she takes a site-specific approach to the architecture and juxtaposes the staged and high-quality photographs with a series of posters that, as a take-away, turns the image into a mass-produced commodity and thus simultaneously „devalues“ it.
For Not Yet Titled [ Self-Portrait before Scene ], the preceding performance is just as central as the finished image itself, a linking of movement, image and space that is decisive for Kunyik‘s practice and which the artist describes as follows:
„My movement then looks something like this: from the situation, the place, the gesture, the word, the image or the material – into the room, onto the wall, in front of, then behind the camera, onto the computer, over the paper, into conversation and in a roundabout way … back again.“
The exhibition was funded by Kunstförderung Niederösterreich
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On the New. Viennese Scenes and Beyond
group exhibition at Belvedere 21
April 6th 2023
Ana Petrovic
Hannahlisa Kunyik The site-specific work that Hannahlisa Kunyik developed especially for this exhibition deals with the architectural space and levels of meaning in Karl Schwanzer’s Belvedere 21 pavilion. Her choice of performative and photographic approaches in this three-piece series, which she experimented with for several years, allowed Hannahlisa Kunyik to conceptually explore the space and inscribe herself into it. Using the building’s characteristic steel-and-glass façade, she presents herself in the exhibition hall in the sitting room suite that Schwanzer designed for this pavilion. Considering the architecture in the exhibition also suggests a fundamental examination of the local conditions, as it plays with the view through the windows and gives the illusion of a 360-degree glass façade in which viewers are made to feel they are part of the scene. The artist calls it a conceptual spatial installation.
The three photographs—a self-portrait (Self Portrait in Front of Scene), a breakfast scene at daylight (Scene I), and the artist waiting expectantly at dawn (Scene II)—have strong narrative elements. You might call them film stills, although there is no motion picture—just the rising tension before the plot twists. Kunyik references the aesthetics of fictional narration in the work of Stan Douglas and Dorit Margreiter.
The expressive portrait in bright pink determines the context of how viewers look at the photographs. The waiting figure in the mise-en-scène is no mere extra who passively endures the occurrences. The self-assured, critical gaze of the artist calls for a female perspective in a place that has been dominated by male worldviews and reproduced them for a long time, allowing herself to confidently make her mark there.
About “On the New” by Katharina Rustler – Der Standard
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really?
Performance
Kunstverein Ve.sch
in the series Speak Easy
curated by Jennifer Gelardo
.. Well, as I wrung the contents of this evening from my exhausted self over the last few days, like the last drops from a lemon, in order to give a little performance with an after-work drink, not least in the hope that the symbolic profit to be gained from it – provided I don‘t embarrass myself – that the symbolic profit to be gained from this would materialize at some point, it suddenly fell like scales from my eyes:
Here in my field, in the vineyards of the Viennese art scene, I am them.
I am that fire department. Je Suis la Feuerwehr! The fire department, C‘est moi.
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Styles of Documentation as Narratives of Truth
group exhibition with Jennifer Gelardo, Hannahlisa Kunyik, Bianca Petrina and Hiroshi Takizawa
Foto Wien
In this self-curated exhibition, the artists Jennifer Gelardo, Hannahlisa Kunyik, Bianca Pedrina, Hiroshi Takizawa present photographic works of artistic
documentation of architecture, landscapes as well as bodies in art and
social spaces.
Along the stairway from the D-Tram station to the former WU, the four
artists decided to work with the on-site (and somewhat neglected) billboards. On the surface of these approximately 60 sqm they have collaboratively developed a collage of four specific motifs or series: One series of gloved hands moving game figures; a motif of a human form engaged in personal hygiene; two close-ups of gaffa tape once found on South Korean construction panels; and a series of mountain motifs scanned from a book about the Austrian landscape.
In the site-specific installation, the artists incorporate the social and architectural space of the staircase of the building complex that is now occupied by the Atelierhaus WEST, the VHS continuing education center, and the residents of Althangrund. Deciding to formally commit to black-and-white images, they use reduction as a counter-strategy to the attention-grabbing advertising campaigns in public spaces, pursuing an interest in merging with their surroundings.
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NO RISK NO PAIN – NO LIFE NO GRIEF – NO JOY NO JOY – NO JOY NO JOY
FOX
Solo Exhibition
Opening on Dez 9th
Dez. 10th-23rd 2022
NO RISK NO PAIN – NO LIFE NO GRIEF – NO JOY NO JOY – NO JOY NO JOY is a shout-out, is a note-to-self, is a poem. After sliding from the face of the earth, situational solipsism serves as a conduit to pass through time and space. In between nonchalance and drama I make a montage of the lived material. My leg and the monstrous emerge as recurring themes in my work, all the while the image trembles in the wake of its de-valuation. Testing the words body horror and cyborg on their suitability for a daily use. I take back the video essay, the miniDV, the hand-held camera and the zoom. No risk no pain.
The exhibition at Contemporary Art Daily
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DANCE WHILE YOU CAN
Stiege 13
Solo Exhibition
June 25..- July 10
Mo-Fr
17-19h
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The Angst Die Scham and VAN
Hannahlisa Kunyik in Conversation with VAN Art Space
Tuesday 8.3. 22
18:00-20:00
Gauermanngasse
1010 Wien
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Paukhofstraße
Solo Exhibition
MUSA STARTGALERIE
Wien Museum Magazine / Angelika Seebacher
26/8-19/9 21
Where to enter. Where to tighten. How to proceed.
Cornelia Lein
“We met before, haven’t we?”
“No, I don’t think so.”
“At your house, don’t you remember?”
“No, I don’t.”
“As a matter of fact, I am there right now. “1
We come across a modernist-looking residential building. The windows are covered with bars[CL1]. Lined with trees to the left and right, a small pool surrounded by concrete slabs in front of it. Nothing to hear but wind, forest and wildlife. Light plays and reflective surfaces come into view. Lying in the meadow in the conversations of the days before. Encountering the place through the camera. The treetops. The soil. Wild vines conquering the façade. A collective survey that tentatively approaches the architecture through its textures, transparencies and structures. Strong contrasts of light and shadow set the tone. We encounter two lightly clad men in the outdoor space. Someone is tied to a tree with transparent foil. A woman in a silk robe picks up a yellow envelope and looks around. As if of its own accord, a grid slides in front of the veranda door. The isolated figures appearing in the deserted interior initially keep to themselves apart from illuminated bouquets of flowers and isolated props – they move anonymously through the room or remain in the scenery, apparently waiting. The pairs of eyes of three women in silk coats and evening dresses search around them, briefly returning their voyeuristic gaze. They all seem to be connected to the house from another time. The shots of chrome, teak and glass that follow the topography of the house are interspersed with hints of a metaphysical presence. Referring to David Lynch’s Lost Highway (1996)[3] and Dorit Margreiter’s 10104 Angelo View Drive (2004), the house here, as a hybrid between sophisticated Hollywood flair and phantasmatic suburban mystery, forms an ambiguous setting for the narrative of the latency of a place, of sexual hierarchies and of the conscious and unconscious relationship between subject, object and space. In the context of BDSM2, relationships are created in such a way that an unequal balance of power is deliberately established. Whether within the framework of a clearly defined game with strict rules or lived 24/7 – the roles are self-determined and form a form of living out parts that are suppressed in everyday life, such as pain and humiliation, in a pleasurable way. In addition to sexual preferences outside the norm, the English word kink also stands for a brief, tight twist caused by a doubling of something within oneself. The process of creating the film also moves in the field of tension between professional and private dynamics and hierarchies. How can collective processes be shaped in which roles are constantly shifting and redefined? Later, in the editing room, Kunyik approaches the images through color and rhythm. The different levels of staging come together in the exhibition space. We hear Mozart’s Requiem and are drawn back into the house. The pleasure in the textures, forms and identities reverberates. “Oh, I agree with you re [sic!] power: someone’s always taking the lead, but I think it gets real complicated once you’re more than surfacely … I forget the word … like enacting with someone. I guess it’s easier, I find it so, when on the surface there’s a split between top and bottom. […] But it’s a play. Oh well. I’m repeating myself. And you have to explain what you mean, ’cause maybe we’re thinking of different things.” 3
1 Lost Highway, David Lynch 1996
2 Bondage & Discipline – Dominance & Submission – Sadism & Masochism
3 I’m very into you – Correspondance 1995-1996, Kathy Acker | McKenzie Wark, p.83
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Paukhofstraße. The Movie
starring Kilian Immervoll, Daniel Mueller, Bianca Phos, Jennifer Katharina Gelardo, Aeneas-Augustin Kunyik, Rosa Eidelpes, Guillaume Freysmuth, Jenny Bladek und Anna Sophia Russmann.
Friendly supported by Lower Austria Film Funding, the department for Media Art of the BMKOES and the City of Vienna.
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Great Wall Something will be screened at dorftv.at
Crossing Europe – Special for the 10-years anniversary of Dorf TV
16.11. 2020
7pm
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Pferd Open Stage
print, installation, performance
9. 10. 2020
Not Yet Titled. Ivy on concrete, light on film, inkjet on newsprint on concrete, water on paper on concrete,
pferdopen special edition,
39.47 x 58.4
Not Yet Titled. Man in front of a tree, light on film, inkjet on newspaper on concrete, water on paper on concrete,
pferdopen special edition,
39.47 x 58.4
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The good news is:
you can watch Great Wall Something during the online Diagonale [until April 24 ] on Flimmit !
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Great Wall Something has been selected for Diagonale ’20
[ Cancellation of the festival due to the outburst of Covid 19 ]
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Making the Making of Truth
Vienna Art Week Open Studio Days
16.-17. November, 2-6pm (one hour longer than the official Vienna Art Week Open Studio Days)
B0schstraße 54, 1190 Vienna
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Open Residency Studio
During the 10th Anniversary of Gängeviertel
23-24 August, 4-7pm
25 August, 3-5pm
Valentinskamp 38D, 20355 Hamburg
1st Floor
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What keeps me alive
solo exhibition at
mom art space
Valentinskamp 34a
Hamburg
Opening:
1st August 2019
7pm
Exhibition Times:
2nd – 4th August
3-7pm
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Interview at Radio Fro
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Great Wall Something
at Crossing Europe Filmfestival in Linz
27 April 2019
6pm Ursulinensaal
with Hannahlisa Kunyik & Kilian Immervoll
friendly supported by the BKA-Art Section
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Great Wall Something
Soloexhibition at Vin Vin
and a collaboration with Kilian Immervoll
Bartensteingasse 14 – 1010 Vienna
Artist Talk with Diedrich Diederichsen: 20 March, 7 pm
For Jiankou, a section of the Great Wall near Beijing, the access is not permitted. However, this section of the wall is one of the most photographed touristic motifs of today’s China. It is framed by an impressive fraud industry that can lure even experienced travelers to remote places in order to demand to pay horrendous return costs. Anyone who manages to follow that route to Jiankou nevertheless, a trip that is recommended by some travel guides, will become a witness of one of the most breathtaking landscape interventions ever.
During her BKA-Residency in Shanghai in 2016 Hannahlisa Kunyik made a trip through China that also brought her to Jiankou Village. She created a series of works –– experiments and investigations, reflections on myths about borders and national sovereignty –– based on the fascination for the place, the landscape, and the sculpturality of the wall, its history [its creation, its decay, and reconstruction] as well as the bodily engagement that is required when walking the Great Wall. The core of the exhibition is the work Great Wall Something (2019), a film in collaboration with Kilian Immervoll.
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Vienna Art Week
Open Studio
Nov 20. – 27. th
11am – 9pm
Artist Tour
Nov 23rd
5pm
Curator Angela Stief introduces the following artists and their works:
Micha Wille, Daniela Zeilinger, Miae Son, Hannahlisa Kunyik, Nadine Lemke, Anastasiya Yarovenko, Alexandra Tatar, Veronika Eberhart, Dorothea Zeyringer, Katharina Aigner, Parastu Gharabaghi, und Daniela Grabosch.
Followed by some words of Rektorin Eva Blimmlinger.
Then: Drinks and music.
Traktorfabrik- Louis-Haflinger-Gasse 12 -1221 Wien
2. Stock
viennaartweek.at/de/program/
Art Start Scholarship by the Academy of Fine Arts & Vienna Art Week
Artist Tour FB Event
Creative Cluster Traktorfabrik FB Event
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Presentation at Jefftalksbacktoback
Sa, 11th August 2018
SALT Beyoğlu Istanbul
İSTİKLAL CADDESİ 136
6.30-7.30pm
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Opening Exhibition Traktorfabrik
21 June 6pm / Open Studios
Party: Sa 23.06. 6pm-2am
Luis Häfliger Gasse 12, 1210 Wien
Events at esel
In cooperation with the ArtStart Studio 2018 Programm of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and
Wir sind Wien Festival.
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4ever and space
The Kunsthalle Turnhalle curated and created by Hannahlisa Kunyik has invited four contemporary artistic positions, Jennifer Gelardo, Katharina Hoeglinger, Line Finderup Jensen and Thea Moeller, to position themselves and take stance on stage.
22nd & 23rd MAI 2018
Herklotzgasse 21, 1150 Wien
Mai 22nd 2018
5.3pm Open Doors
6pm: Artist Talk
7-10pm: Opening
Event at FB
4ever and space at pw-magazine weekly essentials
4ever and space at esel
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Three Places: Small Scale Of Cinematic Narration
Open Event of Kunsthalle Turnhalle
April 13th 2018
Herklotzgasse 21
1150 Vienna
Curated by:
Hannahlisa Kunyik
Recommended by WP-MAGAZINE
Esel
FB
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Open Studio Day at Red Gate Residency
February 25 2018, 3pm
Bei Gai Studios, Shangri-La Art Community
Feijacun Vilage, Laiguangyin Donglu, Chaoyang District
Beijing
We show raw and fresh material of our collaborative film in progress: “Not Yet Titled – Great Wall Something”. With Kilian Immervoll
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performance “warum erinnern?”
at the opening of Steine der Erinnerung
October 1st 2017
Westbahnstraße 56-58, 18.15
Interview with Veronika Fischer
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Erfahrungs- gegen Propduktionsästhetik. Ein Day Off in der Arena ästhetischer Grundsatzfragen.
Book Presentation and Lecture
May 19, 7pm at Depot
Breitegasse 3, 1070 Wien
Program Depot
SCHLAFZIMMERPRODCTION
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“Official Opening / Inauguration”
foundation
June 6 2017, 7pm
Hainburgerstrasse 47/1, 1030 Wien
PW review of the exhibition “Official Opening / Inauguration”
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Triple Chance
Group Exhibition at Nacht der Museen Frankfurt
May 06 2017, 7pm
Korrekt Gelände,
Mainzer LDStr. 229
Frankfurt am Main
Curated by Katharina Baumecker and Dominik Dresel
With Johannes Büttner, Andrea Farrenkopf, Philipp Grünewald, Julian Irlinger, Felix Krapp, Hannahlisa Kunyik, Lilly Lulay, Nadia Perlov, Malte Sänger, sssichtbeton, Swype Right, Rudi Weissbeck, Marcel Walldorf
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launch of this website
May 2017
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