nathalie koger

Was ausgestellt wird – What is exhibited

2008–2012 | 16 mm, 1:1,33, b/w, silent, 5', Loop
 | Digital version: 6' 15''
Texts: Sie steht nicht still and entrance

• Exhibition view
  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

  Exhibition view as part of
  The Collection
  21er Haus / Belvedere, Vienna

  Exhibition view as part of
  The Return of the Old Ghosts
  xhibit, Vienna

• "The hula-hoop dancer is a self-authorized sculptress of her own body. She keeps retracing the negative space (the outer space) of her own body’s shape by means of a circle." Nathalie Koger
  
  "Was ausgestellt wird" (What is exhibited) is a film by Nathalie Koger shot at the Gustinus Ambrosi Museum in Vienna in 2010, for which Koger developed a choreography for the protagonist, a hula hoop dancer. Exploring the exhibition room and Ambrosi’s ambiguous past, the result was a performance that both describes and charts space, setting out to reorder the exhibition room and museum rhetorics. Focusing on this situation, Koger intervenes in the representation of rigid role models, positioning, as a contrast, the dancing body of a spectator that is completely out of keeping with the usual behaviour of museum visitors. In this way, the artist adds a new narrative layer to the history of the museum, one that tells of appropriation and empowerment.
  Miriam Kathrein

  Exhibition view as part of
  the thesis / Nathalie Koger:
  Attitudes Form When How 2011
  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

  Exhibition view as part of
  the thesis / Nathalie Koger:
  Attitudes Form When How 2011
  Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

  Credits:
  Director, Edit: Nathalie Koger
  Circus Artist: Annabel Carberry
  Light: Mathias Windelberg and Nic Prokesch    
  Camera: Christoph Kolar
  Postproduction: Synchro, Film,
  Video & Audio GmbH
  Film Copy: Nathalie Koger,
  Piers Erbslöh/ filmkoop Vienna

  
  With kind support of Academy
  of Fine Arts Vienna
  Work now in collection 21er Haus /
  Belvedere, Vienna