Piotr Urbaniec
Glaskörper / Vitreous Body (2024)
Courtesy of the artist
Piotr Urbaniec searches for connections between our visual perception and the weather. He finds them in the aqueous, in what flows out of our eyes or floats through our field of vision. The show begins with a studio visit during which the artist demonstrates prototypes and experiments. The audience is involved in an eye examination that gets out of hand and leads into a surreal and absurd space. The evening then takes an allegorical turn and tells of the eternal (futile) efforts to control the weather and nature while being subject to their whims.
Piotr Urbaniec (1992, Kraków, Poland) is an artist who makes art from almost nothing and works with ephemeral media and materials such as performance and weather. He had a first solo exhibition at the Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (2016), and has participated in the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2018), the Yixian International Photo Festival (2017), and the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (2018), among others. Urbaniec’s performances have been shown at the Frascati Theater, Amsterdam, and Komuna Warszawa. He lives in Amsterdam.
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
With the kind support of Dom Utopii – International Empathy Centre, Kraków, and the Polish Institute in Vienna
4.10., 5.10., 20:00
Double bill with
Bernadette Laimbauer
Forum Stadtpark (basement)
Stadtpark 1
8010 Graz ♿
18/14 euros
In German and English
Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ’24
With the kind support of Dom Utopii – International Empathy Centre, Kraków, and the Polish Institute in Vienna