Main Projects / Activities

The main activities of hinterland are the creation and the curating of exhibitions the research in certain fields as well as the organisation of international cooperations in order to bring exhibitions to Austria or to show exhibitions abroad. In addition to that hinterland is organising events like artist talks, concerts, artist studio visits, workshops or lectures. Examples of succesfull projects are: 1) Where are We? Artists (most of them living in Austrian) are invited to work on their personal understanding of identity: their personal perception or their historical and/or image of a “national” identity. Artists: Azra Akšamija, Vooria Aria, Carla Degenhardt, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Clemens Krauss, Constantin Luser/Stefan Arztmann, Lisl Ponger, Frenzi Rigling, Gabriele Sturm, Niko Wahl, Nives Widauer/Ilma Rakus shown in Tehran (Iran) 2015, Vienna (Austria) 2015, Lahore (Pakistan) 2016, Islamabad (Pakistan) 2016 2) Being Kurdish "Being kurdish" was the title of a group exhibtion which gathered reflections on kurdish identity through art. The project brought together a huge variety of backgrounds of the artist as well as variety of media. The aim was to include artists from the different geographical regions of Kurdistan, artists with Kurdish roots who emigrated as well as artists with no Kurdish roots. All of them realized works of various media that reflect, deconstruct, study, try to understand or tell personal stories on the question "What does it meen to be Kurdish?". 3) Restrictions of the Earth Characteristics of life on earth transform completely and the sense of belonging is damaged or extinct due to the dynamism of people between geography and culture. The yearning for a world without restrictions has become a struggle for survival in the form of physical and bureaucratic boundaries. This “rootlessness” triggers creativity in the mould of resistance and expressive forms. How do distance and coordinates, memory and historical perception, identification and habits, yearnings and hope, encapsulate themselves within artistic expression? The exhibition ‘Restrictions of the Earth’ engages artists whom first hand have experienced the socio-dynamic shift. Artists: Osman Kader Ahmed, Vooria Aria, Khadija Baker, Adel Dauood, Niştiman Erdede, Murat Gök, Bahram Hajou, Fatoş Irwen, Azad Nanakeli, Şefik Özcan, Walid Siti