 Dear all, this month we have a very exciting program of events happening at our project space at 8B®1 (Weiglgasse 8/B1/R1 – 1150 Vienna). This week (Thursday, May 7 at 7pm) we are hosting the second iteration of Friendship Screenings, where we present a film by Christina Stuhlberger. Next week, starting on May 12, we kick off the festival and exhibition project Spring Stretch (12.–31.05) by Mai Ling. Below you can find more information on the respective projects and events. We are looking forward to seeing you! Wishing you all the best from the 15th district,  Friendship Screenings #2 {Screening & Artist Talk: 07.05.2026, 7pm} friendship screenings is a series of moving-image screenings hosting our friends (their friends, and their friends’ friends) and their practices. In its second episode, we are happy to revisit Christina Stuhlberger’s Catskin (2019) through the lens of her current research on documentary ethics and dialogic filmmaking as a site of tension between artistic, political, and personal integrity. Catskin (52 min, HD Video, 2019) was shot in the late 2010s, which already feels like another time, yet many of the questions raised in the film have only become more pressing in the years since. With the child at its center now grown up, Christina returns to the project in this artist talk and reopens it from within those changed conditions. Christina Stuhlberger is a documentary filmmaker based in Brussels and Vienna. Her work centres on portraiture exploring history and contemporary politics through lived experience. She obtained a BA and MA in Audiovisual Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), Ghent, Belgium. Christina is a founding member of elephy, a production company and distribution platform for film and media art in Brussels. Since 2020, Christina Stuhlberger is a doctoral student at KU Leuven where she holds a position as research assistant in the Intermedia research unit at LUCA School of Arts. Her artistic research project Double Voiced examines the documentary interview as a space of dialogue and encounter, in view of negotiating a more equal exchange in filmmaking and transposing ethical concerns into cinematic form. This event was made possible through the support of the City of Vienna | Stadt Wien Kultur.  Spring Stretch {Opening: 12.05.2026, 7pm} For Mai Ling’s third and final program in the series Becoming Stickiness: Protocols for Survival, the festival Spring Stretch dives into spring and its transformative and regenerative energy through an exhibition and a series of workshops, performances, talks, reading sessions, interventions, and gatherings. Extending Mai Ling’s rhizomatic relations of friendships, kinships, and alliances, it honours plural relations and practices of collective resilience and survival. The programme brings together works and practices that reflect on the complexities of language, memory, labor, and belongings that have been shaped by diasporic, migratory lived experiences and various means of knowledge transfer. Some works engage with traditional and indigenous techniques as well as mythology as a medium for storytelling, sharing, and dreaming. Others invite us to listen gently to the surrounding landscapes that nurture multispecies entanglement, collectively imagining agroecological futures. Further, the festival explores dispersed histories of displacement, marginalized ghostly matters, as well as in-between states of life and death, while attending to fragility, resilience, and transformation. It also touches upon representations of gendered and colonial violence, while calling for a collective effort to resist and stick together. Spring Stretch is accompanied by Mai Ling’s ever-transforming mobile kitchen, which acts as a platform for gatherings, imagining communal cooking, collective public eating, and cultural memories around them. Over the course of three weeks of May at 8B®1 in the 15th district, we will be learning from and with artists, researchers, practitioners, makers, writers, and community members whose practices embody and enact sprouting, rooting, and futuring, across generations and geographies. This project is made possible through SHIFT, a funding programme from the City of Vienna | Stadt Wien Kultur.
Image Credits (1) Still, Christina Stuhlberger, "Catskin" (2019). © Christina Stuhlberger  You have received this email because you have either shared your email with us or registered online for our newsletter. You can unsubscribe from this list here. If you have any questions or would like to simply reach out to us, you can write us at hello@kunstverein.at You can also find us on Instagram @kuntsverein kuntsverein – Kollektiv zur Produktion, Förderung und Vermittlung queerer und post*migrantischer Kunst & Kultur |
