Mobile Energy
Marina Abramović/Ulay, Luca Büchler, Nika Erjavec, Philipp Fleischmann, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Angelika Loderer, Mira Mann, OHO, and Josef Strau, curated by Hana O. O. Haas.
28/11/2025 — 17/01/2026
Opening: Friday, 28 November, from 18:00 onwards, with performances by Luca Büchler, Hannah Koselj Marušič, and Mira Mann at 19:30.
Mobile Energy centres on the fleeting, the unstable, and the nomadic, placing emphasis on immediacy and presence. It foregrounds works that are in flux—animated by light, by the materiality of the analogue film strip, by fungi or plants acting as co-creators, by way of intentionally rudimentary, chemically simple material experiments, by shifting modes of text production—written, overwritten, drawn, layered, discarded—or through the artists’ voices and bodies performing live and engaging with moments of transition as well as questions of self-determination, gender, and illness. Reflecting on processes of transformation and interdependence, Mobile Energy embraces drifts of thought, (spiritual) movements, subtle gravitations and magnetic attractions.
The work of a younger generation (Luca Büchler, Nika Erjavec, Philipp Fleischmann, Hannah Koselj Marušič, Angelika Loderer, Mira Mann) is placed here in conversation with the practice of Josef Strau, as well as artistic positions from the 1970s; Abramović/Ulay and the OHO Group. The latter embraced change as a guiding principle of life, discarding artistic conventions in favour of collectively, endurance, and personal transformation. For OHO, this transformation was collective, integrating bodily and spiritual work to cultivate self-understanding and a profound sense of the inhabited environment.
Often, great inspiration may descend into the most rudimentary artistic gestures and material experimentations. The artists working space, be it inside or outside, thus becomes a container for metaphysical descent: a site where thought emanates into matter not through deliberate conceptualization but through negation of intention, self-refusal and trust in the autonomous emergence of ideas. At its core of Mobile Energy therefore lies a commitment to incertitude—an acknowledgment that randomness and serendipity exert force over our lives equal to, and often greater than, intention. The exhibition proposes that meaning emerges not through control, but through attentive engagement with the unpredictable and the inconsistent: with movements, materials, and thoughts that refuse to settle.
The exhibition opens one day before the first Abramović/Ulay retrospective at Cukrarna Gallery in Ljubljana. While standing as an independent curatorial project, it also, albeit to a small extent, establishes a dialogue with their retrospective and contributes to an internationally anticipated cultural moment.
Curated by Hana O. O. Haas
Co-produced with the Ulay Foundation.
With the generous support of the Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport of the Republic of Austria, and the Austrian Cultural Forum Ljubljana.
Additionally, we are grateful to Casandra Hermann, Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana), Kontakt Collection (Vienna), LAYR (Vienna), SOPHIE TAPPEINER (Vienna) and Lombardi—Kargl (Vienna) for lending the works.
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