HANNES ZEBEDIN: CEASEFIRE |
Space Installation | 25.01.24 – 5.04.24 |
Curated by: Ana Papež, Nives Marvin | Herman Pečarič Gallery, Piran –
Opening: Thursday 25. 1. 2024 at 6 p.m. –
OGP Open Doors 2023 Public Call

Austrian artist Hannes Zebedin (1976, Lienz, Austria) studied economics and political science at the University of Vienna between 1998 and 2004. From 2003 to 2008, he also studied performative sculpture and installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He also studied, worked and lived in Brussels and Ciudad de Mexico. Since 2011, he has exhibited mainly at group exhibitions in Switzerland, Russia, Austria and Slovenia. In 2015, he returned to the way of life known to him from his childhood and youth – to life in the village. Today he lives and works in the village of Sela in the Karst region of Slovenia.
Zebedin contemplates on the complexity of the natural and social environment in which he lives and addresses it through various artistic strategies. As a critical and original author, he responds to the environmental crisis, reflects on the current chaotic global socio-political moment as a consequence of past misguided economic and political decisions, and at the same time places his own artistic practice in the context of the history of the avant-garde current of art. He fascinates and engages with a few central themes that often appear in contemporary art: critiques of capitalism, racism, colonialism and feminism; above all, he deals with the issue of poor pay and the underestimating attitude towards cultural workers, who cannot survive solely on their profession and art.
In a small personal exhibition at the Herman Pečarič Gallery, he will present himself with an artistic project that responds in an up-to-date and critical manner to the current pressing consequences of climate change. These are also drastically manifested in his living environment. The Ceasefire installation is related to and a reflection of the catastrophic fire that devastated the Karst region and other parts of Slovenian Littoral in the summer of 2022.