Uwe Bressnik artist
Stanisław Welbel curator

Uwe Bressnik Save the Vinyl (exhibition)

The exhibition by Uwe Bressnik accompanies the 67th Warsaw Autumn Festival of Contemporary Music. The main theme of this year’s festival is “permeation,” and while the Warsaw Autumn focuses mainly on the permeation of contemporary music by other musical genres and sound phenomena, the exhibition addresses the theme in the opposite way – it focuses on the permeation of music into visual arts. The artistic practice of the Austrian artist Uwe Bressnik perfectly illustrates this phenomenon. Uwe Bressnik creates works centered around the motif of the vinyl record, which, although silent, refer to the meanings and cultural codes associated with recording, playing, and collecting records. The paintings are created in a manner similar to phonographic publications, gaining catalog numbers and being “released” by the music label founded by the artist, Soul Source Records. The exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum will feature works in which various themes, mainly related to landscape, identity, history, and those directly referring to Western musical culture, will permeate and intertwine.

Uwe Bressnik – born in 1961 in Villach, Austria. He works in many media, combining visual art with music and other fields and phenomena such as popular and youth culture, sports, and literature. He engages in painting, graphics, photography, video, sculpture, creates spatial installations, and performances. He also performs as a musician, associated with the improvised music scene.

The exhibition will be open until 28 Septembr 2024

Organised by Austrian Cultural Forum