Statement:

What is happening in the local art scenes, in the studios and in the alternative exhibition spaces? And how can the variety of production and presentation of art in an exhibition be grasped?

The Belvedere 21 already addressed these questions in 2019 with the show About the New. Young scenes in Vienna and, in cooperation with numerous actors, implemented a dynamic format in shared curatorial authorship. In addition to 18 individual artistic positions, changing exhibitions could be seen in the exhibition of twelve Viennese project spaces, which were opened with midissages and accompanied by discursive events and performances.

About the new. Scenes in Vienna and beyond picks up this thread again in 2023 and further develops the original concept: In order to broaden the view of contemporary approaches, strategies and discourses, the Streifzug now also involves artists* and project spaces from other parts of Austria. By making the show more dynamic, which includes 44 artistic positions and 24 exhibitions in the exhibition curated by project spaces, the perspectives on what art can be today, on its themes, aesthetics, forms of expression and on how art is perceived, are multiplied.

This polyphonic tracing of the "new" - in all the ambivalence that this term and its function in contemporary art entail - does not claim the large overview for itself, but rather the image of a growing structure that has no beginning and no has an end and is in constant change.