Momentum Gallery

Momentum Gallery is an ephemeral gallery by AP KunstArt Fund, a platform of artistic exchange and multidimensional inspirations. It’s a space-time where artists and audiences of various backgrounds and languages meet each other. One-evening program of Momentum Gallery might include music, performance, video screenings and literary presentations of international artists.

Event held in OFF Theater will be filled with eclectic portion of art. The evening will start with Yara Mekawei’s 658 „listen to the Holy text”. Egyptian musician is specialized in electronic music performances and currently stays in Vienna as artist in residence of Bundeskanzleramt and KulturKontakt Austria. Video-art sequence of Momentum starts with Juan Valente (Argentinian performer and visual artist) and Bianca Phos (Viennese visual artist) works. Video part will be followed with screening of Beata Malinowska-Petelenz (Polish architect and painter) works. Final part will belong to Franciszek Araszkiewicz (electronics governed by brainwaves, electromagnetic fields) and Michael Fischer (feedback saxophone, violin). This Polish-Austrian duo performs together since 2016 as Fluctuations.

AP KunstArt is a young polish art foundation. The principal aim of AP KunstArt Fund consists in supporting the development of contemporary art, in particular contemporary music, literature and interdisciplinary forms. Within the scope of Fund’s operational field lies also supporting and promoting the Polish artists abroad and connecting international artists together as well as research related to cultural semantics of memory and space.

Programme:
Yara Mekawei, 658 „listen to the Holy text”, electronic music performance.
Juan Valente, fotón, digital video, synth - electronic images.
Bianca Phos, electron avalanche HD video, color, silent; Contemplation club loop, color, silent.
Beata Malinowska-Petelenz, works, screening during Fluctuations set
Franciszek Araszkiewicz & Michael Fischer, Fluctuations: Void Fields music performance for brainwaves, electronics and feedback saxophone.

Free entry.
Duration: app. 1,5h-2h

Organized with:
KulturKontakt Austria Bundeskanzleramt Österreich
Media Support:
Polnisches Institut Wien