Mind the Gap
Eröffnung: 26. Mai 2026, 18.00 Uhr; Finissage: 31. Mai 2026 Post City, Linz Bahnhofpl. 12, 4020 Linz
Die Abteilung Kunstgeschichte lädt zur Ausstellung.
“Mind the Gap” is a joint exhibition held in Linz and Vienna between May 26–31, 2026, organised by the Curatorial Practice course led by Attilia Fattori Franchini at Kunstuni Linz, with the active involvement of the participating students. The project creates a platform for encounter, exchange, and open dialogue between the art scenes of the two cities. Working across two locations at once, it invites visitors and participants to engage with shifting perspectives, networks, and forms of collaboration.
Linz and Vienna are close geographically, just over an hour apart by train, yet their art scenes often feel separated and surprisingly distant from each other. This asymmetry is noticeable but rarely discussed. It manifests itself in gestures, intonations, and expectations, in subtle forms of irony or distancing, in symbolic authority circulating in the realm of the unsaid. It exists in what is implied and not mentioned. These differences have been shaped by history, institutional structures, and the ways artistic identity is formed within academic environments, and they influence how artistic practices are perceived, described, and compared. Vienna, as the capital, offers a dense and substantial art infrastructure, while Linz operates within more limited resources and fewer exhibition spaces,yet offering a rather experimental setting. Such divisions shape perceptions and hierarchies, creating barriers to the scope of inter-city collaboration.
Mind the Gap brings young artists in both cities together to enter this unspoken space and to consider what it means to approach the gap, and whether it can be narrowed at all. The exhibition emerges as a wish to reflect on these conditions without fixing them into rigid positions, inviting participants to engage in dialogue and to think about different ways of existing together.
The exhibition is accompanied by an experimental publication also titled Mind the Gap. Imagined as a feverish dream between locations, a psychotic train ride, it includes writings and artworks by students. The publication will be present in both locations, and students will publicly read from it, creating time and space for sustained dialogue, collective reflection, and attentive listening.
The exhibition unfolds across both cities, opening with a vernissage at Post City in Linz on the 26th of May and concluding with a finissage in Vienna at Third Space on the 31st of May. This structure invites the movement of artworks, people, and critical ideas, allowing meanings to shift, misalign, and reappear differently as they travel between contexts. The exhibition is thus not understood as a singular event, but as a sequence of encounters shaped by location, time, and context.
DATES
Linz
Opening: May 26, 2026, 6 to 12 p.m.
Vienna
Third Space, Vienna Mariahilferstraße 74A, 1070 Vienna
Show: May 29 to 31, 2026, 12 to 6 p.m.
Finissage: May 31, 2026, 6 to 10 p.m.
Readings from 8 pm and Mind the Gap publication launch
