Vik Bayer

𝑆𝑙𝑜-𝑀𝑜 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, Details, 2024 & 2025 1: collabo w/ @triedsomanytimes Photos 1,3,5: Flavio Palasciano

In the search for economic models that constitute an alternative to extractivist modes of production, I met farmers from a Sicilian consortium, which became vital to the video installation “Slo-Mo Visions of Refusal of Unfulfilled Promises.” An installation that is as much about the film as it is about its own conditions of possibility, such as the sun, time, and support structures in various forms. All of these elements became protagonists. Disrupted temporalities reflecting the crisis-worn reality, the sun permeating the green net, a transformed fossil fuel that carries the name (C2H4)n, or fragments of the script that fell out of the film and unfolded in space. Dramaturgical, conceptual & technical support @tyvek_lover Musical composition @lan.rex.1 Object collaboration & technical support @triedsomanytimes Sound Mixing and Mastering @connyfrischauf Narrator @roginemoradi Proof Reading @_jennnnnnnnnnifer Installation support @taromeissner @rabaxer , Nellis Kneisl Conceptual support Nora Schultz, Constanze Ruhm Technical support Simone Bader, Roland Kollnitz, Richard Hilbert Thanks @akbild for the support. Photos 1,5,8,9: @flavio_pesto Photos 2,3,4,6,7: @kunstdokumentationcom

Earlier this year, Giulia Colletti wrote a text about my work ‚Slo-Mo Visions of Refusal of Unfulfilled Promises‘. Thank you, @collettigiulia for your text „Not to Solve, but to Stay“ and for creating a contextual framework that further unfolds the space that my video installation opens up. Thanks to @akbild for the one-year scholarship, to @frederikesperling for the mentorship, and to @barbara.pflanzner for taking such good care of the program and publication in which the text was published.

High Mix Low Volume, 2025 High Mix Low Volume is composed of objects manufactured in the neighbourhoods’ tiny town factories (machi-kōba), objects from the exhibition space’s storage that were returned after de-installation, small things from capsule vending machines (gacha) and pencil drawings. Machi-kōba is a form of production that is still strongly present in Tokyo‘s neighbourhood of Arakawa, where the exhibition space (the architecture office of studio gross) is located. Machi-kōbas juxtapose the place of production with the home, often producing highly specialised items, as a supplier for large-scale industrial processing. The title and one of the drawings refer to the text „Technical Expertise and Communist Production“ by Nick Chavez. The work was part of the group show Kokone @studio_gross , hosted and facilitated by @dianabarbosagil - thank you! Photos by: @hal_xing

Agency for Material Transformation is a framework in which a set of tools and methods informed by, and in exchange with, a specific bioregion are applied sculpturally. In this case, the location was a recently bankrupt spinning mill in the textile region of Hof (Germany) and its surrounding bioregion. The latter also encompasses the infrastructural network whose repetitive processes shape and change the area over time. Through a concrete examination of work, materials, resources and value creation, the exhibition provides a speculative framework against the backdrop of material transformation in the region. Concept and realization: Vik Bayer and Michael Reindel Works in the exhibition: Vik Bayer, Michael Reindel, @karlazipfel , Hannelore Buchheit, @jonasaumueller , Weberei Georg Chr. Wirth GmbH & Co. KG, José Fernandez Commissioned by Verbindungslinien BBK Bayern, with funding from the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts. @bbk_bayern

Agency for Material Transformation 18.-25.10.2025 Opening: 17.10.2025, 4-10 PM Finissage: 26.10.2025, 11 AM-3 PM Canteen at Spinnerei Neuhof Dr.-Enders-Straße 59 95030 Hof Website Link in Bio: agencyformaterialtransformation.com ☆ ☆ ☆ Agency for Material Transformation is an exhibition and a discursive space that takes place in the canteen of a former spinning factory in Hof, Germany. The Agency, initiated by the artists Vik Bayer and Michael Reindel, takes the material change happening in the region as a starting point for artistic work. For years, the Franconian Forest has been in a process of dying due to extreme drought and the resulting expansion of the bark beetle. Two years ago, Amazon inaugurated a new fulfillment center, which has been operating continuously in three shifts ever since. Local environmentalists have made it their mission to save one of the oldest surviving species on Earth from extinction. Moving within this web of information and engaging with the people and the region’s environment, the exhibition responds artistically to these circumstances. The canteen of the spinning factory, which went bankrupt only a few months before the opening of the exhibition, becomes a space for infrastructural speculation: How else could we organize? What else could we produce? Thanks to @bbk_bayern , BBK Verbindungslinien and Bayrisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst for supporting and financing this project.

𝑆𝑙𝑜-𝑀𝑜 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, Boxes, 2024 & 2025 1,5: From the exhibition 𝑇𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠, Tiroler Kunstpavillon Innsbruck @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol 3,4: Photo: kunstdokumentation.com; At the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 6: Photo: Flavio Palasciano; At the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

𝑆𝑙𝑜-𝑀𝑜 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, Details, 2024 & 2025 1,2: Photo: kunstdokumentation.com; At the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna 3,4: At the exhibition 𝑇𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠, Tiroler Kunstpavillon Innsbruck @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol

𝑆𝑙𝑜-𝑀𝑜 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, Details, 2024 & 2025 1, 4, 5: From the exhibition 𝑇𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠, Tiroler Kunstpavillon Innsbruck @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol 2: Photo: kunstdokumentation.com

𝑆𝑙𝑜-𝑀𝑜 𝑉𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑈𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠, Details, 2024 & 2025 4: From the exhibition 𝑇𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑃ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑠, Tiroler Kunstpavillon Innsbruck @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol 1,2,3,5: Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

WE SHARE - Exhibition Announcement 💥KOKONE ＊ ここね💥 Japanese follows English 日本語の情報は下にあります Diana Barbosa Gil concludes her residency in Tokyo by inviting all the artists, some children of the neighborhood, local craftspeople, and others she encountered during her stay to participate in an exhibition. She transforms Studio GROSS into a space for exchange, where local craft, contemporary art, chance encounters, and trust come together to hopefully enrich us. The program features performances, objects, textile pieces, ceramics, walks to the residency, and select readings exploring themes of growth, women’s rights, rest, sleep, a city made by children from Arakawa, misunderstandings, and disasters. Anna-Sofie Lugmeier @applebacon1990 Diana Barbosa Gil @dianabarbosagil Kodomomura Hotstation @kodomomura_hot Lisa Gutscher @m__ulrike Madeleine Nostitz @nordpolottosiegfried Makiko Suzuki Michael Reindel @triedsomanytimes Vik Bayer @vikbayer Yeonwoo Chang @cedilleroni Opening Times 27.06 : 14:00-21:00 28.06: 14:00-18:00 29.06: 14:00-18:00 Opening Performance (Diana Barbosa Gil) 27.06: 19:30 Walks to the Austrian Artist Residency (Lisa Gutscher) Start: 116-0012 Tokyo, Arakawa-Ku, Higashi Ogu, 5-14-13, Studio GROSS Destination: 116-0012 Tokyo, Arakawa-Ku, Higashi Ogu, 6-30-3, Residency 28:06: 18:00 29:06: 18:00 ココネ
Diana Barbosa Gilは、東京でのレジデンシーを締めくくるにあたり、滞在中に出会ったアーティストたち、地域の子どもたち、地元の職人たち、そしてその他の参加者を招待し、展覧会を開催します。Studio GROSSは交流の場として変貌を遂げ、地元の工芸、現代美術、偶然の出会い、そして信頼が交差し、私たちを豊かにすることを目指します。
プログラムには、パフォーマンス、オブジェ、テキスタイル作品、陶芸、レジデンシーへの散歩、そして成長、女性の権利、休息、睡眠、荒川の子どもたちが作り上げた街、誤解、災害といったテーマを探る朗読が含まれています。 参加アーティスト： Anna-Sofie Lugmeier Diana Barbosa Gil 子ども村ホッとステーション Lisa Gutscher Madeleine Nostitz Makiko Suzuki Michael Reindel Vik Bayer Yeonwoo Chang 開館時間： 6月27日：14:00～21:00 6月28日：14:00～18:00 6月29日：14:00～18:00 オーペニングパフォーマンス (Diana Barbosa Gil)： 6月27日：19:30 オーストリア・アーティスト・レジデンシーへの散歩（Lisa Gutscherの作品）：
集合場所： 116-0012東京都荒川区東尾久5丁目14-13スタジオグロス 目的：１１６−００１２東京都荒川区東尾久6丁目30-3レジデンシー 6月28日：18:00 6月29日：18:00 The show is part of our continued partnership with the Federal Republic of Austria and the Austrian Cultural Forum, Tokyo. @kunstkulturministerium @austrocultjapan @artistsaway

One more week of ‘Tipping Point Phantoms’ at Kunstpavillon Innsbruck. The photos were taken during different times of day and seasons, which enter the exhibition space through the uncovered glass ceiling. The show is part of @kunstlerinnenvereinigung_tirol annual program ‘Chronopolitical Explorations’, curated by @bettina.siegele . I am showing my two-channel video installation ‘Slo-Mo Visions of Refusal of Unfulfilled Promises’ alongside an installation by @kaja_clara . Opening Hours: Wed-Fri 12.00 – 18.00
Sat 11.00 – 15.00 Photos 1,6-8: West. Fotostudio