Ernte23
Anita Fuchs / Ralo Mayer / Anna Paul / Rita Süveges
The harvest takes place in a "poetry of vastness" (Edouard Glissant) on multiple levels: The disused oil mill in Neumarkt an der Raab offers four artists the space for works that deal with uses of livelihoods. Where once pumpkin seeds were roasted and pressed, nature and culture, production and extraction shake hands. A small economy associated with local farmers complements the site-specific exhibition.
Fungal structures expand into maps of infestation in Anita Fuchs' work. Dislocating scales the territory become fragile negotiating sites of demarcation. Revelations of an inner connectedness between the promises of medicine and the exploration of space present themselves as speculations about lifetime in Ralo Mayer's work. Rita Süvege's films and objects made of oil cans, motorcycle helmets, or intoxicating images of mines create reflections of a web of relationships between a sporting mania for speed and an ever-rotating spiral of the capitalocene. Anna Paul, on the other hand, illuminates everyday fields of negotiation and scatters seeds that sprout into worlds where productive creation between economic, aesthetic, and interpersonal relationships can be experienced.
Ralo Mayer, Food Speculations, 2020
Events:
Sunday June 4, 12 AM
Aussaat
Performance and walking tour with Anna Paul
Saturday August 5, 12 AM
Opening
Saturday August 12, from 11 AM
Kreislmarkt with artists and producers
Anita Fuchs, Ohne Titel, 2022
Kunsthalle Burgenland at Künstlerdorf Neumarkt
Kunsthalle Burgenland is an art gallery on the move. It uses the land and its places themselves as its exhibition space. 2023 the listed oil mill on the outskirts of the village is the starting point for the local and transdisciplinary project and the networking program into the local life and production of the country.
The mill itself dates from the end of the 19th century and was electrified early on, indicating the beginning of proto-industrial agriculture. It is two-axle, two-story, and contains a canola oil mill, datable to 1883, and a multi-part kernel oil mill. Both were made available for use by the surrounding villages in the early 20th century with electrification. In 1980, after its re-commissioning by the cultural association of St. Martin an der Raab (by Feri Zotter in 1976), the building was placed under monument protection by the Federal Monuments Office in Vienna, in particular because of its intact condition from the turn of the century in terms of public interest. "The plant is not only an interesting contemporary document from a technical-historical point of view, but also shows the centuries-old tradition of pumpkin seed oil production through its annual commissioning." (It has been idle since 2006 because it cannot compete with the other, more modern oil mills in the region. However, it can be put into operation at any time for demonstration purposes).