Singerstraße 27
Walter or You jerk you didn’t call me up
Kai Althoff, Larry Clark, Lili Dujourie, William Gaucher, Brook Hsu, Sergej Jensen, Oscar Kargruber, Felix Krapp-Raczek, Silke Otto-Knapp, Trevor Shimizu, Kazuyuki Takezaki, Vunkwan Tam, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Franz West
Display by Anna Hostek and Bartholomaeus Wächter // Curated by Lou von der Heyde for curated by 2026: LOVE
September 11 – October 17, 2026
Opening Weekend September 11–13, 2026
Friday, 11: 12–9 pm
Saturday, 12: 11 am–6 pm
Sunday, 13: 11 am–6 pm
Events
Friday, September 11, 2026
12:00 p.m. “Café Love – Call Me” by Béatrice Steimer and Nik Geene, Café Korb, Brandstätte 7/9, 1010 Vienna
Saturday, September 12, 2026
CANCELLED – “Café Love – Call Me” by Béatrice
1:00 p.m. Artist and curators-led tour with Inga Charlotte Thiele
Sunday, September 13, 2026
5:00 p.m. “Once, everything was love” with Shitela Maria Biallas Abdel Ghani, Hotel Orient, Tiefer Graben 30, 1010 Vienna
Friday, September 18, 2026
4:00 p.m. Guided Tour
Saturday, September 26, 2026
1:00 p.m. Guided Tour
Friday, October 9, 2026
4:00 p.m. Guided Tour
Lili Dujourie, Sonnet, 1974
© Lili Dujourie. Courtesy of the artist and argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels.
Brook Hsu, Study of Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas, 2024
© Brook Hsu. Courtesy of the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin and Munich. Photo: Jason Mandella.
Vunkwan Tam, Galliard, 2025
© Vunkwan Tam. Courtesy of the artist and Empty Gallery, Hong Kong.
(EN)
Excerpt from “Walter or You jerk you didn’t call me up”
[…]
So sentimental. I went to the window. It was raining outside. Or it had been raining for some time and I hadn’t noticed. The city lay behind the glass, blurred, unreal. Walter stepped beside me.
WALTER And?
I covered the microphone with my hand.
I What do you mean, ‘and’?
WALTER Is everything all right now?
I No.
He nodded. For a moment we were all reflected in the window, Walter, you and I; not Jerk, though I could hear his voice. I put my hand to the glass. It was cold.
JERK What are you doing?
I saw our reflections, the pictures, the dark city, or the other way round. In the glass everything lay on top of everything else.
I I’m trying to find something out.
JERK What?
I thought of Althoff’s picture. Of the many stories, the explanations. You’ll never understand it. And: How lovely it would be if you could.
I Whether one can love someone without understanding them.
There was a pause. I looked at you. You looked back. Walter raised his eyebrows.
JERK And?
I Don’t know.
(DE)
Ausschnitt aus „Walter or You jerk you didn’t call me up“
[…]
So sentimental. Ich ging zum Fenster. Draußen regnete es. Oder es regnete schon länger und ich hatte es nicht bemerkt. Die Stadt lag hinter dem Glas, verschwommen, unwirklich. Walter trat neben mich.
WALTER Und?
Ich hielt die Hand über das Mikrofon.
ICH Was und?
WALTER Ist jetzt alles gut?
ICH Nein.
Er nickte. Für einen Augenblick spiegelten wir uns alle im Fenster, Walter, du und ich; Jerk nicht, obwohl ich seine Stimme hörte. Ich legte die Hand an die Scheibe. Sie war kalt.
JERK Was machst du?
Ich sah unsere Spiegelungen, die Bilder, die dunkle Stadt, oder umgekehrt. Im Glas lag alles übereinander.
ICH Ich versuche, etwas herauszufinden.
JERK Was?
Ich dachte an Althoffs Bild. An die vielen Geschichten, die Erklärungen. Ihr werdet das nie verstehen. Und: Wie schön wäre es, wenn ihr es könntet.
ICH Ob man jemanden lieben kann, ohne ihn zu verstehen.
Es entstand eine Pause. Ich sah dich an. Du sahst zurück. Walter hob die Augenbrauen.
JERK Und?
ICH Weiß nicht.