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Isa
Rosenberger . . . the vast land from which she comes Duration 2.6.–30.8.2020 Opening hours Tue – Sun, 10 am to 5 pm Guided tours German, English, Slowenian Free, on request: exhibitions@camera-austria.at +43 316 81555016 Curated by Reinhard Braun In her artistic practice, Isa Rosenberger turns her gaze again and again toward forgotten (or repressed) histories in order to open up a context for them in the present, and thus also to facilitate alternative readings of history. In the year 1934, at the Volksheim Ottakring in Vienna (today Adult Education Center Ottakring), a dance game by Gertrud Kraus was on show, entitled “Die Stadt wartet” (The City Waits) and based on Maxim Gorki’s fairy tale “Musik der Großstadt” (Music of the Big City). Kraus’s choreography reflected the path of a youth in the big city, as well as his fears and his fascination with life in the metropolis. Gertrud Kraus herself danced the role of this young man. However, as things presently stand, no photograph of this performance exists. Isa Rosenberger’s project is conceived as an attempt to approximate this void and historical gap. Rosenberger collaborates with the artist and dancer Loulou Omer, whose mother Zipora Lerman was a student of Gertrud Kraus in Tel Aviv. The exhibition is oriented to the idea of the “stage” as a performative space that may also be seen as a political and social trouble spot. In a “rendition” of sorts, the various components of the project at Camera Austria are staged with a spatial focus: photographs, videos, archival materials, workshop results, sketches, and performances. On the occasion of the exhibition an eponymous book will be published in Edition Camera Austria, comprising a text by Nora Sternfeld (ger./eng.). Edition Camera Austria, Graz 2020. 32 pages, 13 × 21 cm, numerous color illustrations. ISBN 978-3-902911-56-8 |
 Isa Rosenberger, Loulou Omer dances on the stage at the Adult Education Center Ottakring, 2019. Photo: Reinhard Mayr. |
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