Mud-Group #3 at Donauinsel, Vienna

Mz* Baltazar’s Lab is proud to announce the first exhibition of our 2023 program focusing on collaborative artist projects between female* identified artists.

Céline Struger, Kristin Weissenberger & Patrícia J. Reis collaborated for the first time in a joint project on the intersection of ceramics and its cultural and feminist background. The artists coming from different backgrounds and practices aim to shed light on the emancipation history of female artists and their exploration of the relationship between ceramics, hacking and other fields of art.

The exhibition will feature the result of a collaboration that was initiated two years ago, highlighting their recent collaborative action at the Donauinsel in Vienna, in which they reclaim public space as a radical attitude towards sustainable and ethical hardware, autonomy, and a DIY approach to ceramic production. Visitors will witness the group's artwork, including their ceramics produced using traditional techniques, as well as the documentation of their action.

The collaboration journey began with their shared interest in ceramics and their exploration of traditional techniques to resist capitalist production methods. The group furthered their commitment to anti-capitalist practices by incorporating sustainable methods for producing ceramics. They continued their exploration of autonomy by reclaiming and hacking the city infrastructure and questioning the idea of public space and ownership.

The exhibition also aims to showcase feminist hacking as a strategy for emancipation in the art, science, and technology fields. This approach to new materialism promotes emancipation through the agency of materials, and visitors will be able to witness this in action throughout the exhibition.

* The exhibition is also the third season of the serie titled Mud-Group ( former Mud-Mother), a project initiated by Kristin Weissenberger that revolves around the group's collaborative and artistic process, using ceramics as their primary medium for exploration. The Mud-Group#3: Who Has Land to Make a Fire? is a project supported and co-financed by the Research PEEK Project Feminist Hacking: Building Circuits as an Artistic Practice, Financed by the FWF – Austrian Science Fund | PEEK (AR580) at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna conducted by Stefanie Wuschitz, Patrícia J. Reis and Taguhi Torosyan, who are co-curators in this exhibition.

Mz* Baltazar’s Lab 2023 program is supported by Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport (Kunst und Kultur) and the Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien.

“MUD-GROUP#3: Who Has Land to Make a Fire?”

Céline Struger, Kristin Weissenberger, Patricia Reis
at Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory

opening: 10.3.2023 19h–22h
finissage: 21.04.2023, 19h–22h
11.3 — 21.4.2023
opening hours: every Saturday from 12h - 17h

Mz. Baltazar’s Laboratory
Jägerstraße 52-54
1200 Wien

Mz*Baltazar’s  Lab aims at generating a culture of fearless making! An environment  that fosters creativity, activism and provocative thinking! We try to  build an accessible, inclusive, open, safer and radical space, from  which to evolve as people and as community. Open Source Technology is at  the root of our philosophy, it enables us to share and collaborate  without restrictions. We need this space to experiment with things as  gender, hardware or our selves.