Johannes Porsch — Tropology

Johannes Porsch — Tropology
May 9 – June 22, 2018

In his artistic practice, Johannes Porsch examines form and formats as post-media configurations. His investigations are predicated on concepts such as “relation,” “reciprocity,” and “processuality.” In installations and sculptural settings, spatial interventions, publications, and exhibition displays, he shifts meanings or exaggerates existing ambiguities to turn them into creative elements. In some cases historical and contemporary artistic positions are invoked via a specific field of reference that Porsch engages with in his art, his writing, and his curatorial practice.

Porsch integrates methodological reflections into his work, exploring imaging procedures or reproduction and representation processes that are inherent to the making of art. His self-reflexive approach allows him to define the work with form within his own work process in such a way that strategies of meaning production continually call into question how reality is produced. For Kunstraum Lakeside, Johannes Porsch is continuing research he published for the first time in 2017 under the title Tropology. Tropes are figures of speech used to describe things in nonliteral ways, for example through metaphors, and thus correspond with Porsch’s method of shifting and subverting meaning.

Johannes Porsch (b. 1970 in Austria) lives and works in Vienna.