7 NOV OPENING ‘HUMAN ATTEMPTS’ GROUP EXHIBITION OPENING @ DAS WEISSE HAUS
UncategorizedGroup Exhibition
with Adina Camhy, Natalia del Mar Kašik & Antonia de la Luz Kašik, Liva Hage, Sophia Leitenmayer, Gwiyeon Han, Rubén Ezequiel Löwy, and Daphne von Schrader
Curated by Sooyeon An, Ilaria Cera, Sharrat Cherry, Sofía Enríquez González, Jess Łukawska, and Temitayo Olalekan
Mentorship, Supervision and Curatorial Direction: Anamarija Batista
Project Coordination: Elena Blum
Duration: 10.11.2026 – 06.02.2027
Location: DAS WEISSE HAUS, souterrain
Address: Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Opening: Saturday, November 07, 2026, 6 pm
in the framework of VIENNA ART WEEK 2026
Opening Program: 6:30 pm Welcoming words
7:30 pm String Quartet Performance directed by Liva Hage
with Saitenschneider Quartett (Selina Pilz, Fiore Despina Streit, Annika Toth, and Stefanie Toth)
String Quartet Performance explores the myth of the independent musical genius and the collaborative nature of music-making. Through this 20- to 30-minute piece, audiences are invited to reconsider how classical music is presented, interpreted, and experienced today.
About the Exhibition:
The group exhibition HUMAN ATTEMPTS stems from the need to explore the intuitive human action that stubbornly confronts the complexity of reality. Dogmatic categories and the distractions of contemporary life form a restrictive, near-suffocating framework. Against it, resilience and a shared fighting spirit propel us forward and, at times, push us beyond these constraints. Some attempts succeed, many falter, and most are left unfinished. The exhibition opens up a room for encounter, while highlighting the dynamics of these conditions.
HUMAN ATTEMPTS brings together eight artists whose work spans performance, installation, sculpture, and video. They gather around the questions: How do you keep trying when the ground keeps shifting? What do you hold on to? The artistic approaches react to these questions through irony, criticism, and a re-examination of the body’s boundaries. Improvisation, trial and error thus emerge as the tools through which human instinct constantly drives us forward.
IN(TER)DEPENDENCE*, the overreaching program topic of DAS WEISSE HAUS in 2026, is explored through reflections on humanity’s stubborn, perpetual, and combative survival. The exhibition encourages us to break out from automated ways of living and to enter a space of attention and shared risk. HUMAN ATTEMPTS is based on lived practice and mutual dependence – a method which is itself a series of ongoing attempts.
This exhibition presents the finalization of the intensive Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2026 residency program. It is realized in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and under the supervision of curator and researcher Anamarija Batista. Launched in 2015 by the Vienna-based association BLOCKFREI, Curators’ Agenda is an annual residency that offers international curators the opportunity to expand their curatorial knowledge and immerse themselves in the Viennese art scene over six to eight weeks. In January 2024, BLOCKFREI Collective (Nevena Janković, Eva Kovač, and Jana Dolečki) took over the direction of DAS WEISSE HAUS, integrating this residency project under its umbrella.
*IN(TER)DEPENDENCE is the overarching program topic for 2026 at DAS WEISSE HAUS. Through the featured artistic projects, the program explores how we relate to each other, depend on one another, disconnect, and coexist in an increasingly complex world.
Leadimage: Human Attempts, Group Exhibition by Curators’ Agenda: VIENNA 2026, DAS WEISSE HAUS, design by Sharrat Cherry & Sofía Enríquez González
