Helene Thümmel

Kritik und Kontrolle (Critique and Control, 2024)

Courtesy of the artist

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Helene Thümmel’s installation combines a mental map of Austria with its physical topography. In the run-up to the country’s 2024 national elections, she has clipped recurring words and phrases reflecting the hottest topics and electoral issues from the Austrian press. These appear like tiny prayer flags or slogans displayed on pins, resembling place-names or labels of a landscape relief.

Thümmel’s topography is not limited to Austria, but includes places and geographical features beyond its borders, indicating the persistent ambitions and spheres of interest of the former empire. Her semantic map shows the struggles between right and left, revealing intensified battles over how to deal with cultural otherness, with other places and territories always on the horizon.

Helene Thümmel (1990, Graz) is an artist who works with video, object, text, and photography in her installations. She moves between analog and digital media and tries to understand broad contexts, dealing with concepts such as distance, space, and borders in a social and political context. Thümmel has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including in Vienna, Graz, Nova Gorica, Trbovlje, Brussels, and Rijeka. She also designs stages and costumes for theater and film productions. She lives in Graz.

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24

Education event
29.9., 10:00
Exhibition tour with Helene Thümmel

Mixed-media installation

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24

Education event
29.9., 10:00
Exhibition tour with Helene Thümmel

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