curated by Josef Strau & Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen

Telepathy Curating presents: Teases and Synthesis; Empty Threats, Vienna Love and Anxiety Reality Paradoxes

Ethan Assouline
Bogdan Ablohznyy
Mariia Andreeva
Fabienne Audéoud
Perfect Blue
Keren Cytter
Merlin Carpenter
Nicolas Ceccaldi
Olivia Coeln
Courtesy
Juliet Carpenter
Albert Dietrich
Ruth Angel Edwards
Marius Engh
Chloe Elgie
Michaela Eichwald
Elin
Zoë Field
Genoveva Filipovic
Marie Yael Fidesser
Hélène Fauquet
Evan Jose & Simon Glaser
Nik Geene
Julia Haller
Katharina Hölzl
Hannah Hansel (Flower Crime)
Christian Ingemann
Kristoffer Karlsen
Gretchen Lawrence
Paul Levack
Mel E. Logan
Birgit Megerle
Bjarne Melgaard
Mathieu Malouf
Jonathan Meese
Tomás Nervi
Laurids Oder
Marysia Paruzel
Evelyn Plaschg
Philipp Quehenberger
Isak Ree
Public Reptile
Sydney Schrader
Calle Segelberg
Eirik Sæther
Heji Shin
Nora Schultz
Anne Schmidt
SALARY
Superskin
Universal Studio
Josef Strau
Nino Stelzl
Stefan Tcherepnin
Octavian Trauttmansdorff
Bernadette van-Huy
Leonard van Vuuren
Angharad Williams
Wounder
Morag Keil & Bedros Yeretzian
Oren Yehoshua (DJ Yeriho)
Julia Znoj
Nina Zeljkovic

In their just initiated new collaborative curatorial enterprise Kristoffer Cezinando Karlsen and Josef Strau will show some friends in two very distinctively influential Viennese galleries. At Layr and at City. Leading out of broader and more general cultural stagnation, New Vienna Energy becomes attached with what was and what is known, with a the subject unknown and other usual reductions.

The complex artists list will connect the spirit of this particular general moment of the finally growing city with the international cultural phenomena of a still uncategorized change of artists self perceptions into artists self awareness. Because of phenomena like this one a place and a group can become an attractor. This long searched for but then just happens by chance. This is moment, this epoch, this attractor is until this day unnamed.

Imagining it as a convention of artists, underlined by including a third space to the two so explicitly distinguished gallery spaces. A studio used for live events and parties, music and reading, drinking and talking.

Dedicated to new conversations to the recent condition of artists, being here and now and how to make as much as possibly, making it a festival of events of celebrating the power of whatever subjectivities, celebrating the paradoxes, the contradictions and individualities from an a priori state of confusion and anxieties.

Very simple. Subjectivity means without seeking for permission and suggests not sharing it at all. Leaving the first and second space and moving on into a third one that hopefully