Anna Franceschini at the Kunstverein Gartenhaus in Vienna

From September 4 to November 15, Kunstverein Gartenhaus presents "Nights Out", Anna Franceschini’s first institutional solo exhibition in Vienna, jointly curated by Attilia Fattori Franchini and Ilaria Gianni.

In her practice, Anna Franceschini explores the multiple ways of displaying commodities. Underlying her exploration of reality is cinema through its constituent elements: movement, light, framing, and editing. Kinetic sculptures, choreographed performances, “bachelor(ette) machines”—which inject femininity into the Duchampian idea of apparatus, and Xerox copies, are for the artist a “cinema by other means.” Franceschini’s work seeks to expand the concept of animation in sculptural terms. Reversing the ends of the discussion about “cinema as machine,” she redirects the gaze toward the hypothesis of a “machine as cinema.” By creating sculptures intended as moving images, she turns commodities into quasi-living beings and fabricates devices whose subjectivity is emphasized within a mise-en-scène.

The project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (13th edition, 2024), which aims to promote Italian contemporary art worldwide.