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Silent Syntax – The Action of Abstraction

Stuart Veech

Curated by Anne Avramut

The exhibition “Silent Syntax” marks the culmination of the curatorial cycle “Beyond Existence”. If the earlier exhibitions mapped tensions between subjectivity and external world, language and power, myth and transformation, “Silent Syntax” retracts from these thematic surfaces into the conditions of form themselves—toward the unspoken structures that make experience possible.

Abstraction is not offered as an aesthetic category but as an operative mode of human action, a way of structuring the world prior to meaning. Traditionally, abstraction has been tethered to the contemplative, immaterial sphere—as if its distance from figuration marked a withdrawal from the world. In “Silent Syntax”, this configuration is displaced: abstraction becomes the condition of world-formation itself. What had been treated as conceptual distance or speculative reduction reappears as spatial logic – abstraction not so much as removal, but as a form-producing operation embedded in perception.

A. Avramut

Galerie Michael Bella – Vienna

June 10 – July 24, 2025

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Grenzgänger: Artists Vadim Kosmatschof, Elena Koneff, Stuart Veech

An exhibition curated by Angela Stief (Director Albertina Modern – Vienna)

June 1 – September 28, 2025

“The artistic life and work of the Veech-Kosmatschof-Koneff family is characterized by crossing borders between tradition and innovation, between cultures and languages, between media and materials – always connected with exploring the limits of what is possible. In addition to the willingness to take risks and the courage to change, the unifying force is the dedication to art, the creation of creative freedom and, last but not least, a place that unites all of this: the Studio X2732 hall, which was designed and built by the architect duo Mascha Veech-Kosmatschof and Stuart Veech (Veech x Veech) and completed in 2024. Production, presentation and an intensive artistic exchange take place here. The building is a resonating space for visual art, architecture, design and a dialog open to the world.”

Angela Stief

Link: https://privateviews.artlogic.net/2/2ef8ad652e56169e5ee759/