Joy #2: Department Joy

Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer
Curator: Stella Rollig

Opening: July 17, 18.00 – 21.00
Midissage: August 21, 5.57 – 22:57
Finissage: September 5, 18.00 – 21.00

Stella Rollig curates the second of five projects at 17(Joy), featuring artists Jack Hauser and Sabina Holzer. Whereas Adelina Luft’s inaugural exhibition centered on breaking away from conventional institutional frameworks and embracing collective joy, this next chapter turns inward—highlighting collaborative constellations grounded primarily in friendship.

Joy #2: Department Joy delves deeper into the ephemeral nature of the overarching dramaturgy, experimenting with diverse durational formats and the notion of performative sculpture. The project unfolds across three announced events and a series of unannounced, spontaneous happenings and occurrences within a setting that oscillates between work and workshop. Throughout, Jack Hauser and Sabina Holzer will engage artistic friends and collaborators to take part in shaping the unfolding experience.

“A departure of actions, dreams, traces, and speculations. The clothes on view act as agents—time-space companions guiding us through a multi-perspective future. They support joyful, uncanny explorations of the fault lines between performing and exhibiting art. Live art, lines, letters, and light imprints play with the stars. How might a ‘community to come’ emerge?”
Jack Hauser & Sabina Holzer