Art and Culinary Delights at the Curators’ Dinner at Bergson

At the Curators’ Dinner at Bergson, art and cuisine come together! During a guided tour, the curators of the Bergson Gallery will provide you with in-depth insights into the conceptual foundations of the current exhibitions, highlighting specific aspects of the artists’ practices. You’ll also learn fascinating background information about the artworks and their creative process. Following the one-hour guided tour, we’ll serve you an autumnal three-course meal by Chef Alexander Högner at the Zeitlang restaurant, and we look forward to lively conversations.

The group exhibition SUPERMARK€T – Art. Power. Capital. explores how autonomous art can be in an era in which visibility, social media, and economic mechanisms shape the art world. Young artists born in the 1990s and 2000s explore themes such as consumption, attention, social norms, and the rules of the art market. The often surprising works of the younger generation are juxtaposed with established artistic positions, such as those of Alexandra Bircken, Ayzit Bostan, and Peter Kogler. As internationally renowned artists and professors, they have been shaping the next generation of artists for years while simultaneously broadening the perspective on the exhibition’s central theme. The exhibition stages the art space as a sales floor, a warehouse, and a stage for self-promotion, transforming it into a hybrid between a gallery and a consumer landscape.

At the heart of the exhibition * * *I’LL SEE IT THROUGH THE CHERRY PIE* * * by Luisa Baldhuber and Stefan Holzmair is the question of how reality is constructed in a world where images circulate constantly and lose their supposed unambiguity. In the exhibited works * *, we encounter reality as a fluid interplay between construction and projection.

In his collages and sculptures, Stefan Holzmair intervenes in existing orders. Through fragmentation and decontextualization, he transforms visual content and spatial structures familiar to us into phantasmatic images in which reality and identity appear as an unstable construct riddled with fractures.

Luisa Baldhuber’s pictorial spaces, filtered through dichroic glass (a material that displays different colors depending on the angle of light or the viewer’s perspective), are based on personal cell phone photographs and navigate the realm between the digital image world, spatial construction, and inner places of longing. Iridescent reflections and superimpositions open up visual dreamscapes in which perception becomes fluid and questions arise about the relationship between the inner and the outer, as well as between humans and the environment.

Doors Open/Start: 6:45 pm Exclusive Gallery Tour | Meeting Point: Foyer

7:45 pm End of the tour | Transition to dinner

8:00 pm Dinner begins

9:30 pm Dinner ends | Wrap-up

€85.00 per person ( includes curator-led tour, three-course meal, a glass of Crémant, and water)