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Save the date 📌@elisa_andessner is coming to @ok_linz this fall.

For decades, Elisa Andessner's artistic practice has explored the body, space, and social attribution. Moving across performance, video, photography, and drawing, she creates works in which the body becomes medium, material, and site of political and personal experience.

BODY COUNTS. Körperzählungen brings together key bodies of work from across her practice, revealing the throughline in her artistic questions. At its center is the body as a carrier of memory, resistance, and self-empowerment.

Not a classic retrospective, but a layered path through the core themes of a consistent and current body of work.

Curated by @sandrakratochwill

📅 17.10.26 – 20.02.27
🎉 Opening: Fri, 16.10.26, 18:00
📍 OK Linz

Registration for the opening is required via email with the password "Elisa Andessner", by 14.10.26, to anmeldung@ooelkg.at. by @ok_linz

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👀Good news! We're happy to announce that Pleas of Resistance by @carlosalejandromotta has been extended until 10th January, 2027 - more time to see the exhibition (again)!

Pleas of Resistance is the first major European museum exhibition devoted to a body of work that unfolds through the exploration of different fields and media. Featuring over twenty-five years of artistic practice, the exhibition combines early photographic self-portraits with more recent video performances and installations presented in four intersectional chapters. These address pre-Hispanic homoeroticism, the politics of care as spaces for queer liberation, acts of self-determination beyond the human, as well as storytelling around silenced histories as modes of knowledge sharing mutual sustenance and rebellion.

Permeating the totality of the artist’s work is a firm commitment to minority communities of dissident identities and their struggles against erasure and epistemicide. Often engaging in artistic collaborations, @carlosalejandromotta realises the potential for social change through fabulation and performative rewritings of history, consistently eroding official narratives in a journey that is always blasphemous, bodily and political.

Curated by @agustin.perezrubio & @susannewatzenboeck
An exhibition by @macba_barcelona, realized in collaboration with @ok_linz.

Photo: Carlos Motta, Untitled Self-Portrait, 1998, Private Collection by @ok_linz

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A sneak peek at the exhibition setup... it won't be long now, and we'll be opening “Body Counts. Körperzählungen” next Friday at 6:00 p.m.🍸Can we count you in? Send us an email via Anmeldung@ooelkg.at to be part of the opening (free entry).

BODY COUNTS. Körperzählungen brings together key bodies of work from across @elisa_andessner’s practice, revealing the throughline in her artistic questions. At the center: the body as a carrier of memory, resistance, and self-empowerment.

Curated by @sandrakratochwill

@elisa_andessner

📍@ok_linz
📅 Fri, 16.10.26, 18:00 by @ok_linz

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Jjagɨyɨ: Air of Life (2023) — a three-channel video installation and wooden sculptures by @carlosalejandromotta with Elio Miraña, ELO, Gil Farekatde Maribba, Higinio Bautista, Kiyedekago, Rosita, and Yoí nanegü. The work confronts the colonial legacy of Capuchin Mission boarding schools in the Colombian Amazon: the suppression of Indigenous languages, the deliberate truncation of cultural knowledge, the forced institutionalisation of Christianity. The Murui word jjagɨyɨ names an origin story shared by eight ethnic groups — "the people of the centre of the world." This installation breathes it back into the present. 🌿

Six wooden shaman sculptures — Tiger, Anteater, Eagle, Boa, Heron, Dolphin — guard the periphery of the space. Created with Maguta artisan Higinio Bautista in Tabatinga, Brazil, they depict figures who transform into animals to protect their people. Across three screens, the collaborators speak. Of what the Capuchin monks imposed. Of what survived anyway — through dance, song, craft, and the stubborn persistence of language. "Many things can be lost," says Elio Miraña, "but if we lose our language, we lose everything." 🦅

photo: (1) Carlos Motta, Jjagɨyɨ Air of Life, Carlos Motta with Elio Miraña, ELO, Gil Farekatde, Maribba, Higinio Bautista, Kiyedekago, Rosita, and Yoí nanegü, Jjagɨyɨ: Air of Life (2023), 3-Kanal-Videoinstallation, Farbe, Ton
42 Minuten 51 Sekunden, Filmstill, Courtesy P.P.O.W Gallery, New York
(2-3) Exhibition Shot by Manuel Carreon Lopez, OK Linz, 2026

Curated by @agustin.perezrubio & @susannewatzenboeck

An exhibition by @macba_barcelona, realized in collaboration with @ok_linz.
📍 OK Linz

🗓️ 28.03.2026 – 13.09.2026 by @ok_linz

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October at OK Linz: late nights, a new exhibition and plenty of space to get creative. 🍂

There’s a lot happening this month – from the Long Night of Museums to the opening of @Elisa_Andessner’s new exhibition and a special program for young visitors during Children’s Culture Week.

🌙 LONG NIGHT OF MUSEUMS
Sat, Oct 3 · 6:00 PM–12:00 AM

One ticket, all museums in Austria, one long night: explore @ok_linz, @fc_linz and @schlossmuseum_linz until midnight. At OK Linz, spotlight tours through Carlos Motta’s “Pleas of Resistance” take place at 7:30 PM and 8:30 PM.

Tickets for the ORF Long Night of Museums are available at our venues.
➡️ Full program: langenacht.orf.at

✨ OPENING: ELISA ANDESSNER
Fri, Oct 16 · 6:00 PM

We’re opening “BODY COUNTS. Körperzählungen”, a new exhibition by @Elisa_Andessner. Moving between performance, video, photography and drawing, Andessner has been exploring the body, space and social attributions for decades.

The exhibition brings together central groups of works from different phases of her practice, focusing on the body as a carrier of memory, resistance and self-empowerment.

“BODY COUNTS. Körperzählungen”
📅 Oct 17, 2026–Feb 21, 2027
Curated by Sandra Kratochwill

🎨 CHILDREN’S CULTURE WEEK: BODY ART LAB
Oct 17–25

During Children’s Culture Week, our Family Space becomes a Body Art Lab. Children aged 4 and up can draw, create and experiment through playful exercises and creative activities.

Participation is free of charge.

Sat, Oct 17 · 2:00–5:00 PM
Sun, Oct 18 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM & 2:00–5:00 PM
Sat, Oct 24 · 2:00–5:00 PM
Sun, Oct 25 · 2:00–5:00 PM

And throughout October, Carlos Motta’s “Pleas of Resistance” remains on view at OK Linz.

📍 OK Linz
🕙 Tue–Sun & public holidays · 10:00 AM–6:00 PM by @ok_linz

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🍸Can we count you in? Send us an email via Anmeldung@ooelkg.at to be part of the opening (free entry).

BODY COUNTS. Körperzählungen brings together key bodies of work from across @elisa_andessner’s practice, revealing the throughline in her artistic questions. At the center: the body as a carrier of memory, resistance, and self-empowerment.

Curated by @sandrakratochwill

@elisa_andessner

📍@ok_linz
📅 Fri, 16.10.26, 18:00 taken in Ok Platz by @ok_linz

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Small hands, big ideas. 🎨

As part of Children’s Culture Week 2026, the Family Space at OK Linz becomes a Body Art Lab – a place to draw, create, experiment and simply try things out.

Through playful exercises and creative activities, children can explore perception, creativity and different ways of working with the body and art. No previous experience is needed – curiosity is enough. ✨

👧 Ages 4 and up
🎟️ Participation is free of charge.

Dates:
Sat, Oct 17 · 2:00–5:00 PM
Sun, Oct 18 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM & 2:00–5:00 PM
Sat, Oct 24 · 2:00–5:00 PM
Sun, Oct 25 · 2:00–5:00 PM

📍 Family Space, OK Linz

Children’s Culture Week has been bringing together cultural institutions across Linz since 2013, with a wide-ranging program for toddlers, children, teenagers and families.

➡️ Find the full Children’s Culture Week program at kinderkulturwoche.linz.at by @ok_linz

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I was interviewed by austrian fashion icon @brigitte.r.winkler for my first catalogue — not an everyday occurrence.
Grateful for this lovely conversation and for strolling through the exhibition! 💜🐌 taken in Offenes Kulturhaus Oberösterreich by @ok_linz

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"I don't want to die looking like a human being when I leave this world"

⚠️ Content warning: this work contains depictions of needles, hooks, and blood.

When I Leave This World (2022) by @carlosalejandromotta centers the life and practice of performance and body-modification artist Tiamat Legion Medusa @dragonladymedusa - adopting the names of mythological monsters and the pronouns it/its, Medusa simultaneously transitioned from male to female and from human to reptile, with the ultimate goal of transforming into a dragon. In the first video, two assistants pierce Medusa's body with hooks, threading ropes through them until the body is lifted and slowly rotating in space. @carlosalejandromotta joins in Shibari rope bondage, hanging upright with arms outstretched — as if on a crucifix. Two traditions of suspension, one transgressive tableau. ⛓️

In the second video, Medusa speaks. It recounts childhood experiences of abandonment and assault that gave rise to the desire to change species entirely. "I don't want to die looking like a human being when I leave this world," Medusa says — describing its physical metamorphosis as a protest at humanity. The body is not a given. It is a site of radical refusal.

The two-channel installation pushes @carlosalejandromotta's ongoing investigation into queer counter-histories beyond the archival past — toward a potential posthuman future. If political discourse dehumanizes those the state would imprison or destroy, Medusa's monstrous metamorphosis rejects humanization as the goal entirely. Alterity not as a path to acceptance, but as an end in itself. 🐉

photo: Manuel Carreon Lopez

Curated by @agustin.perezrubio & @susannewatzenboeck
An exhibition by @macba_barcelona, realized in collaboration with @ok_linz.

📍 OK Linz
🗓️ 28.03.2026 – 13.09.2026 by @ok_linz

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Artist Feature: Peter Fellner | Part 3/3

Wir haben erfahren, wie GLUMPERT entstanden ist, und wo es als Nächstes zu sehen ist.

Exhibition: OK Linz
Curator: Sandra Kratochwill @sandrakratochwill
Shoe Collaboration: Matthias Winkler @matthias___winkler
Snail Performance: Nora Jacobs @jacobs_nora by @ok_linz

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Artist Feature: Peter Fellner | Part 2/3

Wir haben erfahren, wie GLUMPERT entstanden ist, und wo es als Nächstes zu sehen ist. @pinakothekdermoderne

Exhibition: OK Linz
Curator: Sandra Kratochwill @sandrakratochwill
Shoe Collaboration: Matthias Winkler @matthias___winkler
Snail Performance: Nora Jacobs @jacobs_nora by @ok_linz

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@queerartspacesvienna and @ok_linz invite you to a free guided tour in the exhibition „pleas of resistance“ by @carlosalejandromotta on

Saturday, 17th October 2026

Departure:
Wien Hbf 11:28 - 12:43 Linz Hbf
RJX 19976

Return:
Linz Hbf 16:32 - 18:03 Wien Hbf
IC 741

Get your ticket fast at ÖBB-Sparschiene it costs 9,90 each way at the moment

Firm commitments by DM would be appreciated !!!

We look forward to a nice cultural trip together!!!

„Pleas of Resistance“ is the first major European museum exhibition dedicated to the transdisciplinary work of Carlos Motta (Bogotá, 1978). Featuring over twenty-five years of artistic practice, the exhibition combines early photographic self-portraits with more recent video performances and installations presented in four intersectional chapters. These address pre-Hispanic homoeroticism, the politics of care as spaces for queer liberation, acts of self-determination beyond the human, as well as storytelling around silenced histories as modes of know- ledge sharing mutual sustenance and rebellion.

Image: Carlos Motta, Untitled Self-Portrait, 1998, Private Collection / courtesy of OK Linz by @ok_linz

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