Artist Talk - Polyphonic Archive, Entangled Voices

Artist Talk with Daniel Hill, Eszter Katalin, Vinko Nino Jaeger and Christina Werner, moderated by Natascha Bobrowsky

Thursday, April 9, 2026, 18:00-19:00
Doors Open: 17:30

As part of the exhibition Polyphonic Archives, Entangled Voices and the VBKÖ Archive Residency Program, VBKÖ hosts an artist talk with Daniel Hill, Eszter Katalin, Vinko Nino Jaeger and Christina Werner, moderated by Natascha Bobrowsky.

Based on their shared research within the VBKÖ archive, the artists approach the archive as a contradictory structure shaped by power, memory, and exclusion. Their work addresses queer visibility, historical entanglements, and how to work with gaps, fragments, and uncertainty. The talk offers insight into their artistic processes and opens a conversation on the archive as a site of questioning, shifting, and reassembling.

*Natascha Bobrowsky is a historian specializing in women’s and gender history, 20th-century Austrian history, and legal history. She is currently a predoctoral assistant at the University of Vienna and is completing her dissertation on the criminal prosecution of female homosexuality in Austria during National Socialism.

*Eszter Katalin is an artist and filmmaker whose work engages with ethical representation in moving images, LGBTQ+ visibility, and the camera as an apparatus of power. In her documentary essay film Between Gap and Perpetration. Queer Networks in the VBKÖ, she addresses the entanglement of queerness and National Socialism.

*Christina Werner examines image politics and mechanisms of visual power. In When Shadows Begin to Whisper, she analyzes how ideological inscriptions manifest in artistic works and shape cultural memory.

*Vinko Nino Jaeger works across sculpture, photography, and writing. His practice explores queer lives and their entanglements with historical violence. Drawing from the VBKÖ archive, he reveals tensions between intimacy, complicity, and betrayal.

*Daniel Hill works across photography, video, and installation. In Nothing Is Connected to Everything, he approaches the archive as a structure of fragile relations where connections emerge, break, and reassemble. Queer histories often persist as fragments or absences, which he treats as charged spaces of relation, movement, and possibility.