Invisible Collection

© Knights of RGB / Teresa Novotny
Photo: Christine Miess
Photo: Christine Miess
Photo: Christine Miess

Invisible Collection

Audioperformance

Performed at:
2025 brut at Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Vienna

The interactive audio performance Invisible Collection uncovers artworks by women artists that have been misattributed to men in the course of history either mistakenly, accidentally or willingly. At the exhibition space at Vienna’s Exhibit Eschenbachgasse, Sööt/Zeyringer guide you through a collection of invisible artworks that begin to slowly take shape in the listener’s imagination. They propose visitors embody a sculpture, tune into a song or follow their own thoughts. Between past and present stories, fact and fiction, Tiina Sööt and Dorothea Zeyringer raise the question of how much stealing in art is okay? They gossip about personal experiences and encourage visitors to think about the history of art and how individual stories and societal narratives tend to get intertwined.

Based on their research, Sööt/Zeyringer draw attention to notorious cases such as the controversy surrounding Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s Fountain (misattributed to Marcel Duchamp for a long time) or Camille Claudel’s figurative sculptures (that were overshadowed by the work of her partner Auguste Rodin). Also featuring: Yoko Ono’s works (often eclipsed by John Lennon) and the groundbreaking abstract art of Hilma af Klint. With their usual wit, warmth and acuity Sööt/Zeyringer encourage listeners to find out, step by step, how we ourselves want to shape history.

Concept & research Sööt/Zeyringer Text & voice performance Tiina Sööt, Dorothea Zeyringer Recording, editing & sound design Matthias Peyker Visual artistic consulting, realisation & graphic design Daniela Grabosch Outside eye & assistant dramaturgy Nora Jacobs, Claudia Lomoschitz Video Kilian Immervoll Exhibition production Stefan Reiterer Production assistance Alisa Beck

A co-production by Sööt/Zeyringer with brut Wien and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Funded by the City of Vienna’s Department of Cultural Affairs (MA 7) and by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Civil Service and Sport