Willy Verginer - ALEXANDER WIERER & RASMUS RAMÖ STREITH_PROJECT

On 8 May, SKB ARTES opens two exhibitions of two positions on the South Tyrolean art scene. Both engaging and different from each other. Both exhibitions create stages: Willy Verginer, internationally known for his sculptural works, stages with theatrical force a reality that seems to be out of control. Alexander Wierer, winner of the 2024 Paris Residency Prize of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bolzano, together with Rasmus Ramö Streith, invites us to follow autobiographical traces of the interpersonal and what is apparently secondary, beyond the visible.

Opening
8.5.2025 7.00 p.m. Uhr SKB ARTES
8.5. - 5.7.2025
Tuesday - Friday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Opening
8.5.2025 7.00 p.m. Uhr SKB ARTES
8.5. Speakers
Alexander Zoeggeler president SKB
Stefan Pan president Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio
Lisa Trockner curator

In this five-room exhibition, Willy Verginer presents a comprehensive overview of his sculptural work of the last 10 years. With Growtesk, the sculptor offers a glimpse into a distorted world, where houses are turned upside down, the sky turns into columns, people sink roots, pigs hide in trees and gorillas dance on tables. Reinforced by brilliant monochromatic colour cuts in the wood, Verginer creates scenarios of bizarre growth, subversive actions, asphyxiating dystopias and mild shipwrecks. Far from the everyday, reality is reflected. An awakening poetry, disturbing, captivating and involving, runs through the exhibition. From room to room, new spheres of perception are revealed.

ALEXANDER WIERER & RASMUS RAMÖ STREITH_PROJECT
no, no flowers
winner Residence Cité Internationale des Arts Paris 2024, supported by the Fondation Cassa di Risparmio

Some encounters are like a reflection - deeply connected, disengaged from space and time. Alexander Wierer and Rasmus Ramö Streith first met in the summer of 2024, in Paris, during their stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts. At that time, the Olympic Games were taking place in Paris, turning the city into an isolated and guarded space. The July heat played its part, further paralysing people and children. Under these circumstances, a friendship was born. Shoe soles, leftover cakes and a cash machine intertwine in the exhibition no, no flowers into a tale. They tell of the traces of the path travelled, the celebrations celebrated and the receipt of a very deep friendship.