Under the Auspices
In ’Tellurian Skies’ with Ren Loren Britton, Kris Dittel, Felix Kalmenson and muSa mattiuzzi Curated by Andrei Siclodi
Kunstpavillon Tirol
Innsbruck, Austria
12 June – 6 Sept 2025 LINK
The concluding exhibition of the Büchsenhausen Fellowship Program for Art and Theory 2025 focuses on material forms of resistance in the face of the collapsing social fabric as we knew it. Between the poles of stellar skies and earthly materiality, the fellows Ren Loren Britton, Kris Dittel, Felix Kalmenson and muSa mattiuzzi explore the political and imaginative potential of coalitions between marginalized groups, the power of intimacy and desire as political potentials, contested flight and social spaces between technology and nature, and the garden as a trope of decolonial narratives and social transformation.
Under the Auspices, Installation View, 2025
J2-8243, 13min, Single-channel video with audio, steel.
A swallow built her nest under the eaves of a court of justice, and before her young ones could fly, a serpent slid out of his hole and ate them all up. When the poor bird returned to her nest and found it empty, she began to wail in a most pitiful way. However, a neighbor sought to comfort her by remarking that she was not the first bird who had lost her young. "True," she replied, "but it is not only my little ones whom I mourn, but the fact that I was wronged in the very place to which the injured fly for justice."
- Aesop Fables
Voice and description in negative capability by Kris Dittel
Sound design by Scott Harwood
Transcripts by Monica Maria Moraru
to eat under the open sky (November 29, 2024), C-prints, acrylic glass, steel, aluminum fittings.
to eat under the open sky (November 29, 2024), C-prints, acrylic glass, steel, aluminum fittings.
negative capability (with Kris Dittel), 38min, Single-channel video with audio, steel. Livestream of northern royal albatross at Pukekura/Taiaroa Head, New Zealand on Royal Cam.
chimeras (gargoyles for a house of abundance), Bronze, 3D printed PLA, C-prints, galvanized steel, aluminum fittings, found frames, acrylic glass.
chimeras (gargoyles for a house of abundance), Bronze, 3D printed PLA, C-prints, galvanized steel, aluminum fittings, found frames, acrylic glass.
chimeras (gargoyles for a house of abundance), Bronze, 3D printed PLA, C-prints, galvanized steel, aluminum fittings, found frames, acrylic glass.
Untitled, Lado Buchakuri-Andreev, Graphite on paper, (undated)
I met Lado at the corner store where I buy matsoni and he buys cigarettes. He invited me over to see his paintings. His house was filled with cut outs from magazines and newspapers, xeroxed letters from Ted Turner and Tarkovsky, and lots of imagery of the British Royal Family from whose lineage he partly descends, he said. “They keep the skies clear while I’m here, the British, as long as I stay here in Tbilisi”. I visited him periodically over the year, bringing him cigarettes and cola. The last time I saw him he gifted me this painting. He died on December 3rd, 2024.
