Barbara Kapusta, born 1983, lives and works in Vienna. Her work is characterized by a long-standing
preoccupation with the relationship between the body and language, and between materiality, language and architecture. Her
textual works ground a very physical artistic practice that demonstrates that all things are endowed with agency, that all
things in the linguistic-physical world are relational and queer, diverse and vulnerable. In her recent immersive four-channel
sound installation The Fragiles Kapusta unfolds a science fiction narrative, reporting from an apocalyptic future telling
of the grim consequences and entanglements of past and present ideologies. But speaking from an imagined future also raises
the question of how we organize our community. How can we live together in the midst of disagreement, difference, and ambivalence?
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include Fragiles, Klosterruine Berlin (2023), WORDS DON’T GO
THERE, Kunstverein Braunschweig (2023), The Palace of Concrete Poetry, Writers’ House, Tbilisi, (2022); Let your () do the
talking, NAK Aachen (2022); Futures, Kunsthalle Bratislava (2022); Lo(l) – Embodied Language, Kunsthaus Hamburg (2022); Dissolving
Matter & Value, Lothringer 13, Munich (2021); Enjoy, museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna (2021); Europa
Antike Zukunft, Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Graz (2021); The Leaking Bodies Series, Gianni Manhattan Vienna (2020); Dangerous
Bodies, Kunstraum London (2019), Hysterical Mining, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2019), Empathic Creatures at Ashley Berlin (2018).
Artist
Lecture Series Vienna is artist run since 2010.
