Open Call

for collaboration at

Royal College of Art degree show 2020, London

I do not want to end up screaming for attention, by piling up stuff that looks like contemporary art.

So lets do something more meaningful together. Work that matters!

WHY?

While studying my MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art in London, I witnessed the degree show 2019. The exhibition had the effect of a museum shop to me. At first sight, it looked great. However, when you came a bit closer, artworks were squeezed next to one another. Rooms were so crowded that each work became lost in the shuffle. Every artist wanted attention, but no artwork had actually air to breath or space to unfold.

At the end of 2019, due to personal reasons, I had to go back to Vienna and continue my course from abroad. I was not able to be physically present at my RCA studio most of the time so I started to think about the nature of space and the ego-production taking place in art universities. This led me to investigate how I could make the most of my studio space without actually being there.

I decided to dedicate my studio to all sculpture students. My aim was not to support one individual student, but to offer the highly- coveted space to the whole community.

With this in mind, I encouraged collaborative work taking place in the space. However, I was happy about anything happening in the space for which I pay my fees.

So my studio turned into an project space:

After writing my dissertation on artistic strategies that dealt with the withdrawal of commercial and capitalistic structures from the art market, I found myself working on a project that looked at the narcissism of two structural egos. The structure of the artist’s ego and that of the art institution, especially the concept and power of art universities.

Questions I was looking at were:

The career promises within art education, power relations within the institution, access to education, and the indoctrinated mindset being propagated within the private art education system. These become intrinsically tied to the reputation of an institution when that institution is predominantly concerned with the commercial success of its graduates.

SO- HOW SHOULD MY DEGREE SHOW LOOK LIKE?

2020:

I do not want to end up screaming for attention, by piling up stuff that looks like contemporary art.

So lets do something more meaningful together. Work that matters!