Durum Time
Laurenz
28. – 30.03.2025


Durum Time. Photo: Job Willems


Laurenz, Grandmotherhood (uncountable) Бабинство (непреброимо) documentation, 2022. Photo: Philip Graysc


Durum Time. Photo: Philip Graysc


Durum Time. Photo: Job Willems


Durum Time. Photo: Job Willems


Empty plates and rain at the exhibition in Baba Vasa’s home. Photo: Laurenz
In the restaurant Durum Time, Laurenz presented the adapted documentation of the project Grandmotherhood (uncountable) Бабинство (непреброимо), which took place in 2022 in Shabla, Bulgaria, at Baba Vasa's Cellar–an artist-run space in the basement of Lazar Lyutakov's grandmother's house. For the 2022 project, Laurenz invited 14 artists and cultural practitioners to contribute to the show by sharing a recipe for a dish or drink that reminded them of their grandmother. The original recipes were displayed in Laurenz's exhibition space. In addition, a version of the recipes was printed on A3 paper tablecloths, which were placed under each of the dishes we prepared for the opening for visitors to enjoy. By the end of the evening, the tablecloths were stained by food, greasy fingers and the raindrops that had fallen earlier in the evening.
Printed on A4 paper and piled on the tables of Durum Time, the scanned documentation of the Bulgarian summer evening of 16 July 2022, with all 14 recipes, can be taken home by visitors of the festival.
The presented material contains the documentation of works by Maziar Afrassiabi, Suzanne Bernhardt, Katya Buchatska, Niklas Heiss, Christine Hohenbüchler, Marine Kaiser, Mariana Lanari, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Vasilka Maneva, Bruno Mokross, Ivan Moudov, Ananya Tantuu, Takeshi Yoshida, Anna Zvyagintseva.
Laurenz is an art space in Vienna, founded in 2020 Aaron Amar Bhamra & Monika Georgieva. The projects they realize are often concerned with expanding the classical understanding of exhibition making and look for inspiration in different disciplines. Hosting and working with the existing conditions, often thematizing them and allowing them to take the main role rather than just being a context, is an important part of our collective practice and the way they communicate with artists and cultural practitioners. By focusing on a more discourse-based collective work, they seek to create new and nurture existing relationships within the cultural field.