{"id":37851,"date":"2026-02-27T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/events\/under-the-milky-way-abstraction-autonomy-and-post-vandalist-tendencies-in-contemporary-art\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:41:45","slug":"under-the-milky-way-abstraction-autonomy-and-post-vandalist-tendencies-in-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanpresents.net\/en\/events\/under-the-milky-way-abstraction-autonomy-and-post-vandalist-tendencies-in-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Milky Way. Abstraction, Autonomy, and Post-Vandalist Tendencies in Contemporary Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Group Exhibition | Curated by Larissa Kikol and Christoph Platz-Gallus.<\/h2>\n

The exhibition\u00a0Under the Milky Way<\/em>\u00a0brings together protagonists and collectives whose artistic practices might be associated with speculative post-vandalist tendencies in contemporary art\u2014grounded in resistance, self-empowerment, and autonomous abstraction. What began with forms of uprising in public space and unauthorized painting has evolved into a new artistic language spanning the canvas, urban materiality, and street-adjacent conceptual art.The exhibition presents a wide range of positions that map the heterogeneity within the scenes, yet they are all distinguished by their artistic independence beyond institutional\u2014and in part, legal\u2014structures. Some come from a background in graffiti writing, others from university studies in painting or sculpture, many from both. The art that emerges from these trajectories can be most aptly described by three terms: abstraction, autonomy, and\u2014depending on one\u2019s perspective\u2014post-vandalism.<\/p>\n

In such work one encounters raw ideas, political activism, irony, autonomous art, and approaches that are at once conceptual and anarchic. Often uninvited, an art of art takes shape\u2014sometimes declaring political stances, at other times claiming the freedom to do precisely what one wishes to do. Here, the outdoors has become a school, the urban underworld an atelier, and an unbounded anti-authoritarianism challenges the influence of both the academy and the market.<\/p>\n

A catalogue will be published in spring 2026 by DCV Verlag.<\/p>\n

Artists:<\/strong>
\nAmos Angeles, Alexandre Bavard, C\u00e4cilia Brown, Stephen Burke, Bus 126, Brad Downey and Akim, Hams, Antwan Horfee, Klub7, Daniel Laufer, Mischa Leinkauf, Martina Morger, Moses and Taps, Christoph and Sebastian M\u00fcgge, Patrick Niemann, Rocco and His Brothers, Veli Silver, Mathias Weinfurter, Angst Yok<\/p>\n

Tuesday-Saturday: 12:00\u201318:00
\nSundays and holidays: 11:00\u201318:00<\/p>\n

Picture: MOSES & TAPS\u2122,\u00a0Dortmund Borsigplatz<\/em>, 2015, Foto: Nils Mu\u0308ller, \u00a9 die Ku\u0308nstler<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Group Exhibition | Curated by Larissa Kikol and Christoph Platz-Gallus. The exhibition\u00a0Under the Milky Way\u00a0brings together protagonists and collectives whose artistic practices might be associated with speculative post-vandalist tendencies in contemporary art\u2014grounded in resistance, self-empowerment, and autonomous abstraction. What began with forms of uprising in public space and unauthorized painting has evolved into a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[3897,3901],"class_list":["post-37851","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-exhibition","mec_category-germany"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t