The Secession Talks

The Secession Talks is a collection of artist talks on exhibitions that took place at the Secession from 2011 to 2022. They contextualize the exhibition history of the Secession and allow for a new consideration and evaluation of the program. As a collection, these conversations between artists and well-known art critics, art historians, curators, and artist colleagues form a unique interface between artistic work and art education.



Sylvia Liska - President of the Friends of the Secession



Sylvia Liska, Foreword



2011

Inés Lombardi with Silvia Eiblmayr

Moritz Küng with Ferdinand Schmatz and Gabriele Mackert

Attila Csörgő with Christian Höller



2012

David Claerbout with Thomas D. Trummer

Liz Deschenes with Florian Pumhösl

Edgar Arceneaux, The Studio, the Social and the Ugly, the Practice of Edgar Arceneaux (Lecture)

Payam Sharifi / Slavs and Tatars, Reverse Joy (Lecture)

Yael Bartana with Juli Carson



2013

Robert Irwin with Jennifer Winkworth

Thomas Locher with Annette Südbeck

Ulla von Brandenburg with Markus Schinwald

Joseph Leo Koerner, The Viennese Interior (Lecture and Demonstration)

Hannes Böck with Volker Pantenburg



2014

Lisl Ponger with Yvette Mutumba

Heinrich Dunst with Antony Hudek

Diana Al-Hadid with Angela Stief

Chto Delat with Gerald Raunig

Asier Mendizabal, Hilary Lloyd, and Dustin Ericksen with Pablo Lafuente



2015

Vija Celmins with Robert Storr



2016

Lutz Bacher and Peter Currie, Show 'n Tell (Lecture)

Francis Alÿs with Catherine Lampert



2017

Svenja Deininger with Ulrich Loock

Jean-Luc Moulène with Corinne Diserens

Alex Da Corte with Kim Nguyen

Nicole Eisenman with Monika Baer

R. H. Quaytman with Joseph Leo Koerner



2018

Olga Chernysheva with Kathrin Rhomberg

Rudolf Polanszky with Andreas Reiter Raabe

Bouchra Khalili with Rike Frank

Anthony Huberman with Noit Banai, Sabeth Buchmann, and Eva Maria Stadler

Anthea Hamilton and Bakani Pick-Up with Carola Dertnig

Ed Ruscha with Kasper König



2019

Gerard Byrne with Willem de Rooij

Peter Doig with Matthew Higgs

Tillman Kaiser with Bob Nickas

Tala Madani with Mark Leckey



2020

John Akomfrah with Osei Bonsu

Edi Hila with Edi Muka

Lawrence Abu Hamdan with Lisa Stuckey



2021

Till Megerle with Ulla Rossek

Tess Jaray with Christian Siekmeier

Maria Hassabi with Andrea Lissoni

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster with Olga Neuwirth

Danh Vō with Manuela Ammer



2022

Nairy Baghramian with Florian Pumhösl