Curated by
Josef Strau & Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen
Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes
05.09. - 18.10.2025
Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Altroy, Mariia Andreeva, Ruth Angel Edwards, Ethan Assouline, Fabienne Audéoud, Perfect Blue, Merlin Carpenter, Juliet Carpenter, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Olivia Coeln, Courtesy, Keren Cytter, Albert Dietrich, Michaela Eichwald, Chloe Elgie, Elin, Marius Engh, Balearic Eric, Hélène Fauquet, Marie Yaël Fidesser, Zoë Field, Genoveva Filipovic, Stina Fors, Nik Geene, Evan Jose & Simon Glaser, Julia Haller, Hannah Hansel (Flower Crime), Katharina Hölzl, Christian Ingemann, Kristoffer Karlsen, Gretchen Lawrence, Paul Levack, Mel E. Logan, Mathieu Malouf, Chloée Maugile, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Bjarne Melgaard, Tomás Nervi, Laurids Oder, Marysia Paruzel, Evelyn Plaschg, Philipp Quehenberger, Isak Ree, Public Reptile, SALARY, Anne Schmidt, Sydney Schrader, Nora Schultz, Calle Segelberg, Heji Shin, Nino Stelzl, Josef Strau, Superskin, Dominik Szereday, Eirik Sæther, Stefan Tcherepnin, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Universal Studio, Angharad Williams, Wounder, Oren Yehoshua (DJ Yeriho), Morag Keil & Bedros Yeretzian, Nina Zeljkovic, Julia Znoj, Roger van Voorhees, Leonard van Vuuren and Bernadette Van Huy
Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 2025, Readymade, 120 x 90 x 30 cm (dimensions variable)
Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 1997, 10.5 x 10.2cm
Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 1997, 10.5 x 10.2cm
Bjarne Melgaard, Untitled, 1997, 10.5 x 10.2cm
Josef Strau, Heizkörperschmuck, 2025, Tin, magnets, stones, silver, Dimensions variable
Bernadette Van-Huy, Perm (#12), 2021, pencil and inkjet print on paper, 32,6 x 24 cm, framed
Michaela Eichwald, (Mme) Persévérance, 2023, Acrylic on polyurethane fabric, 135 x 90 x 3 cm
Calle Segelberg, Untitled, 2025, Egg-tempera, guache and acrylic on linen
Nora Schultz, To Tomorrow, 2025, b/w inkjet print on paper, 119.5 x 143 cm
Calle Segelberg, Untitled, 2025, Oil on linen, 96 x 65cm
Calle Segelberg. Untitled, 2025, Egg-tempera, guache and acrylic on linen, 95 x 65cm
Nina Zeljkovic, Berlin painting 2, 2025, Oil on canvas, 180 x 165 x 3,7 cm
Genoveva Filipovic, Chain, 2025, Photography, 70.7 x 50.7
Sydney Schrader, Emil, 2025, Steel, patina, 54 x 38 x 12 cm
Marysia Paruzel, Natalia, 2025, Silver gelatin print, 105x105cm
Mariia Andreeva, Positives (1), 2023, Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 41x 31 cm
Ruth Angel Edwards, What's not to like #3, 2025, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
Ruth Angel Edwards, What's not to like #1, 2025, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 92 x 73 cm
In their just initiated new collaborative curatorial enterprise Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau will show some friends in two very distinctively influential Viennese galleries. At Layr and at City. Leading out of broader and more general cultural stagnation, New Vienna Energy becomes attached with what was and what is known, with a the subject unknown and other usual reductions.
The complex artists list will connect the spirit of this particular general moment of the finally growing city with the international cultural phenomena of a still uncategorized change of artists self perceptions into artists self awareness. Because of phenomena like this one a place and a group can become an attractor. This long searched for but then just happens by chance. This is moment, this epoch, this attractor is until this day unnamed.
Imagining it as a convention of artists, underlined by including a third space to the two so explicitly distinguished gallery spaces. A studio used for live events and parties, music and reading, drinking and talking.
Dedicated to new conversations to the recent condition of artists, being here and now and how to make as much as possibly, making it a festival of events of celebrating the power of whatever subjectivities, celebrating the paradoxes, the contradictions and individualities from an a priori state of confusion and anxieties.
Very simple. Subjectivity means without seeking for permission and suggests not sharing it at all. Leaving the first and second space and moving on into a third one that hopefully wont be as revisionist and formal, in conditions that are more livable and less useless.
The complex artists list will connect the spirit of this particular general moment of the finally growing city with the international cultural phenomena of a still uncategorized change of artists self perceptions into artists self awareness. Because of phenomena like this one a place and a group can become an attractor. This long searched for but then just happens by chance. This is moment, this epoch, this attractor is until this day unnamed.
Imagining it as a convention of artists, underlined by including a third space to the two so explicitly distinguished gallery spaces. A studio used for live events and parties, music and reading, drinking and talking.
Dedicated to new conversations to the recent condition of artists, being here and now and how to make as much as possibly, making it a festival of events of celebrating the power of whatever subjectivities, celebrating the paradoxes, the contradictions and individualities from an a priori state of confusion and anxieties.
Very simple. Subjectivity means without seeking for permission and suggests not sharing it at all. Leaving the first and second space and moving on into a third one that hopefully wont be as revisionist and formal, in conditions that are more livable and less useless.
Merlin Carpenter, Birthday Card Against the Far Right In the Art World - Now Wash Your Hands, 2025, MDF, hinge, screws, laser print, glue, UV coating, mop, bucket, Dimensions variable
Albert Dietrich, Untitled, 2025, Lacquered wood, Wardrobe, 162 x 102.5 x 48 cm
Eirik Sæther, CAMALEONDA # 5, 2023, Glazed stoneware ceramics, stainless steel and nylon thread, 53 x 53 x 14 cm, 20 kilo, Unique piece
Julia Znoj, Untitled, 2025,bent steel, magnets, 30 x 35 x 230 cm
Laurids Oder, Untitled, 2025, Ink on Synthetic Rose, Flame, Marker on Overhead Transparency, Customized Infusion Set, Gas Cartridge, Customized Assembling Hardware, 70 x 20 x 7,5 (Rose) 17 x 7 x 4,5 (Gascartridge)
Evelyn Plaschg, Agitation 2, 2024, Oil on canvas, 120 x 90 cm
Stefan Tcherepnin, Veiled painting, 2023, faux fur over stretched canvas, 60 x 45 cm
Keren Cytter, Procrastinating, 2025, Colored pencils and pen on paper, 29.70 x 42 cm
Hélène Fauquet, Alien Chrome, 2025, Inkjet print, seashell, frame, 26 x 21 x 10.5cm
Ethan Assouline, réalité(vienne), 2025, cardboard, paint, steel, scotch, paper, screws, clock, aluminium, wood, color gel, pins, sewing thread, 44 x 38 x 14cm
Ethan Assouline, réalité(vienne), 2025, cardboard, paint, steel, scotch, paper, screws, clock, aluminium, wood, color gel, pins, sewing thread, 44 x 38 x 14cm
Hélène Fauquet, Xshelley , 2025, Inkjet print, seashell, frame, 26.5 x 21.5 x 10.5cm
Jonathan Meese, Untitled (Nugget), 1998, Cardboard, felt pen, feathers, approx. 46.5 x 27cm
Nicolas Ceccaldi, Gondola, 2025, Oil on canvas mounted on board, artist's frame, 80 x 106 x 8cm
Olivia Coeln, Untitled, 2025, pigment, pigment print, subframe, 75 x 110 cm
Heji Shin, Amazing Waves, 2024, Silver gelatin print on baryta paper, 130 x 95 cm
Paul Levack, Study for a Living Room Scene, 2025, Panorama, archival pigment print on baryta paper, mounted to board, Unique, 66.2 x 30.4 cm (framed)
Nik Geene, Blokeh, 2024, Glass, suction cups, paint, 100 x 200 cm
Bedros Yeretzian & Morag Keil, Life, 2023, enamel on paper, 152.4 × 152.4 cm
Tomás Nervi, The Standard I, 2017, Bent glass, wood, 68 x 59 x 25cm
Tomás Nervi, The Standard II, 2017, Bent glass, wood, 68 x 59 x 25cm
Zoë Field, Untitled, 2025, Silkscreen on paper, framed, 56 x 71.5 cm
Katharina Hölzl, Innengewinde (Threads), 2025, threads, plaster wall, 113 x 160 x 1.5cm
Gretchen Lawrence, Output, Unformed, 2024, Two channel sound, speakers, plastic boxes, Dimensions variable
Evan Jose, la via veneziana di Sargent, 2025, Oil on wood, 66.5 x 81 x 3 cm
Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Übers Need , 1999-2025, Analog b/w photography, 162.5 x 112.5 cm
Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Zu-Wohnung, 1994, Video, 8:30 min
Julia Haller, o.T., 2025, Pigmentdruck auf Leinwand / Pigment print on canvas, 75 x 75 cm
Marie Y. Fidesser, Untitled, 2024, Guache, ink, chalk, tape and instant prints on canvas, 45 x 51.5 cm
Marie Y. Fidesser, Stillife with Oyster, 2024, Oil and varnish on instant print, 20,3 cm x 15,3 cm
Bogdan Ablozhnyy, Duration simultaneity, 2025, Elastic bands one 90 and the other 105 cm
Nina Zeljkovic, Berlin painting 1, 2025, Oil on canvas, 200 x 130 x 4,6cm
Evan Jose & Simon Glaser, Fontana veneziana, 2025, Acrylic on cardboard with paper frame
Marius Engh, Phthalo Ruins (I), 2013, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
Birgit Megerle, Altglas II, 2012, oil on linen, 70 cm x 60 cm
Mathieu Malouf, Untitled (The Dream XX), 2025, dehydrated lion's mane mushrooms, urethane, silver mirroring process, transparent color coating on wood, 31 x 32.5 x 10cm