PAT PAT PAT. A Romance with (Im)material

Artists: Veli Çatıkkaş, Ina Ebenberger, Helena Geisler, Gaia Gionti, Georg Juranek, Marek Kochanowicz, Jakob Kolb, Jung Min Lee, Hélène Padoux, Joanna Woś, Katja Pilipenko, Tallal Shammout, Ganica Stauz (Amar Priganica & Julius Pristauz), Lisa Claire Stolzenberger, Veronika Suschnig

PAT PAT PAT. A romance with (Im)material exposes the perspectives of young artists based in Vienna and Hamburg. Individual works as well as collaborative projects spanning the mediums of painting, installation, sculpture and 3d animation extensively explore dimensions of materiality and the duality of this expression with a material.

Like a romance, the relationship is shaped by emotions and affections. The exhibition shows a broad range of formats and stages of the relationship between artists and material: This can be a fascination and fragile infatuation in which the material helps to overcome one’s imagination. At the same time, an interdependence emerges where the artists do not just use a material, but rather integrate with it. The relationship can also adopt a brutal attitude, a processing of the material in order to reach the desired result. An end and a break-up appear. Besides, the autonomy and agency of the material may emerge, shaping itself, transforming, and obscuring the boundaries between human and non-human activity. Corresponding with digital formats, which regularly confront us as immaterial, the artistic works also investigate the links between material and immaterial.

PAT PAT PAT is a collaborative project from students of HFBK Hamburg and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. The project pursues an exchange practice both on a theoretical and artistic level on the subject of materiality, texture, and surface. The first exhibition " Finding comfort in materiality" was presented in April 2019 in Hamburg and  functioned as starting point and intensive exchange phase. The second exhibition, A Romance with (Im)material takes place in Vienna and expands to the sophisticated theme to question the relation between artists and material. A catalog for the exhibition in Hamburg will be presented in the exhibition in Vienna.

With the kind support of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the HFBK Hamburg and the Karl H. Ditze Foundation.