Luiza Crosman, To all contributory factors, 2019, Inkjet print on paper, on acetate, stickers, tin transfer, seals and plastic envelope; collage mounted in acrylic frame designed and made by the artist. Photo: Edouard Fraipont
FEBRUARY 20 - APRIL 20, 2025
TECHNOFLOWS: Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber
Open daily from 10am – 6pm
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street, New York
Head of Visual Art, Architecture & Design: Dr. Stephanie Buhmann
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York proudly presents “TECHNOFLOWS: Luiza Crosman and Christoph Weber”, an exhibition that delves into critical themes of climate governance, planetary forecasting, and resource extraction, framed through the lens of the technosphere. This concept refers to the interconnected system of technologies that operate almost autonomously, metabolizing energy and shaping the Earth as a geological force. By engaging with this idea, the exhibition examines how technological systems influence the environment and humanity’s shared future.
This artistic dialogue between São Paulo-based Brazilian artist Luiza Crosman (b. 1987) and Vienna-based Austrian artist Christoph Weber (b. 1974) features works addressing both the distributed nature of the climate emergency and more localized, specific issues. Crosman’s video piece Átropos Sky (2022) is a research-driven exploration of the sky as an interface for new forms of collectivity, emphasizing the roles of women as figures of foresight and future-telling. Weber’s work, Touch Fragments, Contact Print (Limestone Quarry of the Cement Industry) (2022), presents a life-size depiction of an extraction surface: a fractured limestone wall with two vertical boreholes, molded in translucent material and exposed on analog photographic paper.
A selection of new works further investigates the intersections of computation, extraction, architecture, and planetary structures, highlighting “climate dignity” as a critical issue that transcends territorial and geopolitical boundaries. By situating the dialogue within the interdependency of local human gestures, the global technosphere, and planetary metabolic systems, the exhibition challenges the notion of a singular narrative, offering a nuanced perspective on the flows of technology and its impacts.
This exhibition is part of the series “IMAGINE CLIMATE DIGNITY: Artistic Collaborations”, a joint initiative by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Künstlerhaus Association Vienna.
Christoph Weber, BIND, 2023, Concrete from a landfill, wood tar, beeswax, colophony, paraffin wax. Photo: Markus Wörgötter
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Luiza Crosman. Based in São Paulo, Luiza Crosman is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. Through research-based practice and studio work, she constructs actionable and imaginative frameworks to explore the interplay between forms of human organization, the role of technology and infrastructure in geopolitics, and planetary systems. Her speculations take shape in videos, drawings, installations, and programmatic propositions for education. By creating performative narratives that merge scientific research and fiction, she interrogates the roles of natural and artificial agencies across scales—from human subjectivity to planetary futures.
Crosman has exhibited and developed projects with the Asian Cultural Center, La Casa Encendida, Casa do Povo, aarea, the 33rd São Paulo Biennial, WIELS, CAC Vilnius, SMoMA, among others. Her recent writings have been featured in Pivô , Passepartout Journal , TANK , Strelka Mag , and Arts of the Working Class . She was a fellow at The Terraforming program at the Strelka Institute (2020) and REALTY at Sommerakademie Paul Klee (2017–2019). Her educational background includes a degree in graphic design, an MA in Arts and Culture from UERI (Rio de Janeiro, 2014), and a post-master’s in Performativity Studies from a.pass (Brussels, 2017). From 2014 to 2017, she was part of the directorial team of the exhibition space Casamata in Rio de Janeiro. Currently, she serves on the board of the platform Weird Economies.
Christoph Weber. Based in Vienna, Christoph Weber is a conceptual visual artist whose practice centers on materiality and methodological inquiry. His work reflects on the politics of human and non-human interactions through sculptural material transformations and research-driven explorations within a socio-ecological framework. Weber creates settings for situated perception, navigating historical and speculative future contexts. While he employs a range of materials and sculptural techniques, concrete—second only to water as the most widely used substance on Earth—has become a focal medium for Weber. Through this material, he critically examines the state of global communities in nuanced ways, addressing its inherent contradictions. Concrete, a symbol of modernist utopian ideals and occasional emancipation, is also a destructive, greenwashed material that encapsulates tensions within human societies, the technosphere, and planetary futures.
Weber has exhibited and developed projects with institutions including the Museum Marta Herford (Germany), the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (Switzerland), the Vienna Biennale for Change at MAK Museum, the Neue Galerie at the Museum Joanneum (Graz), and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY). He has also presented numerous solo exhibitions with international galleries in Europe and the United States. Weber’s educational background includes a postgraduate Meisterschüler degree in Fine Arts from the HGB Leipzig (2005), postcolonial and conceptual studies with Renée Green at the Academy in Vienna, and a guest semester in Georg Herold’s sculpture class in Düsseldorf (2003). He has completed two residencies at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York (2003 and 2010). Weber has conceived and directed artistic research projects that interrogate the geopolitical role of concrete and its devastating environmental impacts. His recent project Reverse Imagining Vienna was featured as the Climate Biennale exhibition of the Angewandte Interdisziplinäre Lab (AIL) in May 2024. His research exposition Greenwashed Concrete was published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Artistic Research.
Photo 1, 3: Edouard Fraipont, Photo 2: Felipe Bernandt, works by Luiza Crosman | Photo 4, 5: Studio Christoph Weber, Photo 6: Markus Wörgötter, works by Christoph Weber
AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK
Dr. Susanne Keppler-Schlesinger: Director at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is an Austrian career diplomat and has been working in the field of multilateral and bilateral diplomacy for 30 years. Her previous assignments include positions in Vienna, Paris and New York. She also served as Dep. Director of the Vienna School for International Studies/Diplomatische Akademie Wien. She holds a PhD in Musicology, French language and literature from the University of Vienna and a diploma as a concert pianist from the Vienna Conservatory of Music.
Dr. Stephanie Buhmann: Head of Visual Art, Architecture & Design at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York is a historian of art, architecture and design. She has written extensively on visual art and her essays have appeared in a variety of books, international art magazines, and newspapers. Besides curating dozens of exhibitions, she has conducted over ninety published interviews with contemporary artists. In 2013 she conceived of an ongoing Studio Conversations series, focused on women of different generations working in diverse media. Her latest monograph Frederick Kiesler: Galaxies was published in 2023 (The Green Box, Berlin). She was a contributing author and co-editor of Roma Artist Ceija Stojka: What Should I Be Afraid of?, a publication released by Hirmer Publishers and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in January 2024.