10 June – 13 June 2021 Wandertag, Schleierpark, 10. Bezirk
Julischka Stengele’s main interest is in artistic forms that – in one way or another – require physical presence. The relationship between the body and its environment serves as the basis for her work. Most of her projects are experience-orientated and often created at and for a specific place or situation, taking different aspects (spatial, social, political, atmospheric …) into account.
For Wandertag, the artist creates a humorous tour through often overlooked corners of the 10th district around Schleierpark under the title “Sights – Views of Favorites”. Via sneaky paths past an allotment and to brown fields in the middle of the city, Stengele leads us to jewels in her neighborhood and focuses on the experience of the audience itself. Details such as the colorful pattern in the bricks of a fire wall, exciting contrasts between the industrial park and the allotment settlement, playful uses for the arrangement of park benches form the starting point for the artist’s fantastic reinterpretations, which manifest as erected information signs.
Wandertag project invites visitors to break out of their patterns of movement, change their usual pace of being in the city, and experience art and neighborhoods in a new way.
Each Wandertag leads to a location selected by the curator Nora Mayr and the artists Julischka Stengele, Lukas Thaler, Marianne Vlaschits and Anna Witt. Whether an industrial area, the shop window of a car dealer, a house facade or a public observatory – each location offers a new approach to the artistic practice of the invited artists as well as unusual views of Vienna.
