Material Stories of Displacement brings together nineteen artists whose works confront displacement not only as a political reality, but as an intimate, lived condition. Displacement settles into the grain of everyday survival ~ into the textures we touch, the gaps in language, the things we carry with us and the things we are forced to leave behind.

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Marlene Heidinger (1996, Vienna) is a painter, curator, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. She pursued studies in painting and experimental animation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the École de Communication Visuelle in Paris. In June 2024, she earned her master’s degree in Curatorial Studies (“/ecm”) from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her master’s thesis, “When Artists Curate: From the Studio to the Exhibition Space,” explored curatorial strategies employed by artists, focusing on the use of the studio as an exhibition space. This work reflects her broader interest in curating as an extension of artistic practice.

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Having recently relocated to a larger space, Living Room now functions not only as an exhibition venue, but also as a home for artists’ studios ~~ a shared environment where works develop side by side and dialogue is built.

Our first group exhibition celebrates that spirit of proximity and exchange. Bringing together the approaches of Eirini Tiniakou, Nadja Geer, Maisie Maris, Daphnis Monastiriotis, Riccardo Vitali, Vasilis Zarifopoulos, Nikos Katsampanis, Auðunn Kvaran, and Nikoletta Georgakopoulou, the exhibition presents a variety of voices shaped within and beyond the studio walls.

Various processes meet in a shared space that equally emphasises process and outcome, and connection as much as individuality.

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