iKunst Haus Wien – Museum HundertwasserLandstraße
More. Renata Poljak
Solo show in the Project Room Garage on the sea as a link between islands, migration and ecological crisis. It opens the Aqua cycle on water in motion.
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Preview: written before the show opened
A neon sculpture reading more, more, more anchors the room. In Croatian, more means the sea and also a burden. Poljak's great-grandfather left the island of Brač for Chile during a drought, and her great-grandmother stayed, waiting for a husband who never came back.
Three films sit around that story. Partenza (2016) sets early-twentieth-century islanders leaving by sea beside today's migrants and refugees. Yet Another Departure (2018) goes underwater to the Yugoslav Army command ship Vis, scuttled in 2016 as a dive site, and follows a woman who has lived through five regimes watching the sea. Porvenir (2020) travels to the Tierra del Fuego settlement founded by Croatian emigrants. You finish in a sheltered corner with four photo collages from the Partenza series.
It is a one-artist show in the Project Room Garage, opening curator Başak Şenova's Aqua cycle on water. Admission is €16, €7 for students under 26 and ages 11 to 18. Poljak and Şenova discuss the show on 1 March 2027.
Look for
The neon more, more, more
At the centre of the show, a neon sculpture whose title puns on the Croatian words for sea and burden and the English more.
The sunken ship Vis
In Yet Another Departure, the camera finds the former Yugoslav Army command ship Vis on the seabed, scuttled in 2016 to become a tourist dive site.
Partenza (2016)
The film sets the early-twentieth-century departures of Croatian islanders beside the sea crossings of today's migrants and refugees.
Porvenir (2020)
The film travels to Porvenir, the Chilean settlement on Tierra del Fuego founded by Croatian immigrants in the early twentieth century.
The Partenza collages
In a sheltered corner, four photographic collages from the Partenza series re-enact the film's story of leaving and waiting.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
With kids
Under-11s get in free, and a family ticket for two adults and up to four children is €27.
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Image credits
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- More. Renata PoljakRenata Poljak, Partenza, 2016, film still. Courtesy the artist. © Renata Poljak
- 20 Years of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK: A City Full of Posters© Graphic Design: SIRENE Studio
- ANNEA LOCKWOOD: A SOUND MAP OF THE DANUBE© Nicole Tavenner
- VALLY WIESELTHIER: Ceramic Sculptor© MAK
- Kunst Haus Wien – Museum HundertwasserC.Stadler/Bwag, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- MAK – Museum of Applied ArtsGugerell / Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Dom Museum WienBauer Alfons / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Haus der MusikClemens Pfeiffer, Wikimedia Commons