Come Sing Along!
On Raising Our Voices

Alone in the shower, in the car with your children, or together with strangers in a stadium – people sing everywhere. Singing is not just a pastime, but also creates a sense of community, enables us to express our identity and becomes a means of accusation or resistance during protests. When you are not allowed to raise your voice freely or are not heard, singing can also be an act of self-assertion.

The exhibition addresses these issues with sound and video installations, sculptures, drawings and paintings by more than 20 contemporary artists, many of whom are presenting their works in Austria for the first time. It deals with national lied culture, folk singing and modern songs, mourning, resistance and the reinterpretation of old songs. Some of the artists featured in the exhibition harness the power of singing as a strategy for empowerment. They defend themselves against systematic oppression and disenfranchisement by giving minorities a voice. Others explore personal and intimate themes. When practising a song, performing a ballad or staging an opera, references are made to traditional choral forms as well as pop music. Several works newly created for the exhibition invite visitors to raise their voices as well. 

Curators: Hemma Schmutz, Klaus Speidel, Sarah Jonas
Exhibition Design: Jakob Neulinger

Artists

Sammy Baloji, Chto Delat, Michèle Pearson Clarke, Clément Cogitore, Ines Doujak, Noam Enbar, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mathilde ter Heijne, Dejan Kaludjerović, Mikhail Karikis und Uriel Orlow, Helmut und Johanna Kandl, Anton Kolig, Nengi Omuku, Christian Jankowski, Maria Lassnig und Hubert Sielecki, Rory Pilgrim, Ayumi Paul, Gerhard Rühm, Henk Schut, Bartolina Xixa, Bruce Yonemoto, Otto Zitko

Karaoke in the museum!

The installation The Day We Met by artist Christian Jankowski invites all visitors to pick up the microphone themselves. The karaoke room can be used during opening hours in the Lentos foyer.

Cooperation

In Cooperation with Anton Bruckner Year 2024

Exhibition booklet

The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition booklet in German and English with texts on all the works of art.