PassageCukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana – curated by Vanessa Joan Müller
Dorit Margreiter Choy. Passage
Cukrarna Gallery
curated by Vanessa Joan Müller
Mai—October 2025
– Pavilion (2009), 35mm (transferred to video), b/w, silent, 8min
– passage (2024), mobile, glass, mirror, painted aluminum
– Bearing Masonry. Concrete Block (1923) (2019), 6 photograohs
– Silber (2024), 16mm (transferred to video), 4:3, color, silent, 6min
– B21 (Director´s Office) (2023), 16mm, 4:3, color, sound, 7min
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©Blaž Gutman/MGML
Cukrarna
Dorit Margreiter Choy’s exhibition Passage presents a selection of interrelated works – films, mobiles, and photographs – that examine architecture and space in terms of their inscriptions of power, economy, and gender roles.
Dorit Margreiter Choy is an Austrian artist whose work explores modern architecture, its ideological influence, and its connections to economics and gender roles. Through her films, photographs, and objects, she narrates the stories of places and landscapes in transformation, with humans playing an implicit role as architects of these changes. The works presented at Cukrarna Gallery, with their focus on local histories, find both conceptual and material resonance within the gallery’s environment.
The films shown in the exhibition explore topics such as a company building in Zlín, Czech Republic, a former silver mine in Schwaz, Tyrol, and the Austrian Pavilion, designed by Josef Hoffmann, in the Venice Biennale’s Giardini. Taking these material testimonies to global history, Margreiter Choy looks at the relationship between history and the present as well as between reality and representation. She transforms her visual material into micro-histories of extractivism, imperial symbolism, and global financial flows, embodied in architecture and landscapes. Her films thus offer focused perspectives on these remnants, highlighting their contradictions, consequences, and influence on the present.[…]
Text by Vanessa Joan Müller
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