HETEROTOPIA POST APOCALYPTICA at PARALLEL Vienna 2025

HETEROTOPIA POST APOCALYPTICA at PARALLEL Vienna 2025, September 10-14, 2025. Pavillon 13, 1st floor, room 122, Otto Wagner Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Vienna.

featured artists: Oskerhase&Funkyfiona / Felice Gotthardt / Martin Krammer / Julia Zöhrer / Die Aschenbrecher

interventions by: Ana Vollwesen / Olga Pastekova / Oleg Ustinov / Norbert Unfug / Oksana Zmiyevska

performance by: Alexander Zaloopin

curated by: Art Collection Schlichtner

Doomsday scenarios and crises are back in vogue. Time as a limiting factor, unresolved past events, and personal distress give rise to speculation about uncertain future events. But how do we imagine the world after the apocalypse, and what perspective would visual art cast on the times before and after? Will there be a final work of art that conclusively summarizes humanity and the world before its demise? Or will art reflect the otherworld? We imagine a new world within the world, a place for the affirmation of differences, as a refuge from authoritarianism and repression, for experiences outside the familiar routine, where everything can be different, intense and disturbing, incompatible with the familiar, open to dialogue, where utopias become conceivable, a place of reflection called heterotopia.