The curators of the exhibition Ink in Milk, Flóra Gadó and Judit Szalipszki, will give a guided tour of the exhibition from 5:30pm in English, which will be followed by a lecture performance by Gernot Wieland, one of the exhibiting artists, from 6:00pm.

Titled Cimabue's Way to Rome, the lecture performance features mythical figures and childhood heroes, fragments from the tale Town Musicians of Bremen, psychoanalytical sessions, and unfolds the history of poverty, as well as further political events. 

Gernot Wieland´s practice spans short films, drawings, installations, ceramics and lecture performances. His narratives are constructed through idiosyncratic and often absurd combinations of images and language, blending autobiographical and fictional elements into poetic, dreamlike spaces. Wieland constructs a deeply emotional and singular world where memories hover between truth and fiction. His first-person narratives weave together the personal with the political and slowly develop into a humorous analysis of social norms and repressive dynamics.

“...but then this Flemish guy who painted a child that came too close to the sun and fell into the sea. Everyone stands around, untouched, no one is capable of developing a feeling. In the exact middle of this painting there is an ass of a sheep and the face of this bored shepherd. This Flemish painter described my upbringing and my country in one single painting. Then our teacher urged us to also copy this picture, but I only made a potato print of the sheep's ass, and never again have I described my country better…”

Gernot Wieland (1968, Austria) His solo exhibitions include Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne, France; KH, Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, Germany; Argos, Brussels, Belgium; Belmacz Gallery, London, UK; Kindl – Centre of Contemporary Arts, Berlin, Germany; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland; Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Quartz Studio, Turin, Italy; Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Berlin, Germany; Maumaus/Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal and upcoming solo exhibitions at and The Pill Gallery, Paris, France and Landscape, Phileas, Vienna, Austria.

Group exhibitions at 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art; 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de America del Sur, Buenos Aires; 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo; Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles; Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin; Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz; Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei; Centre d ́art Pasquart, Biel; Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn; Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana; and Museo Berardo, Lisbon.