Extended Projects

Waff residency is a project started by Iris Fabre and Daniel Hüttler in 2019 with the mission of bringing two art scenes closer together. Over the years, many artistic projects have grown out of this effort.

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Artist Testimonials

• FEM Garage:

  27th to 29th of October 2021
  Garage Grande,
  Vienna, Austria

  " The curatorial project FEM GARAGE explores themes around femininity, sex and sexuality, doing and undoing gender. Through various formats and media, Highbrow Institute presents artistic works that aim to create space for renegotiating contradictory and multi-layered narratives and perspectives. In this context, a variety of stories by artists from around the world is on display. But why this project now? This interactive exhibition project seeks to reference current progresses and setbacks with a focus on international gender equality. Legislative changes in several continents regarding abortions and the resulting loss of women’s autonomy over their own bodies, combined with the rise of populist, misogynist trends on social media, as well as the increasing number of femicides worldwide, especially in Austria, make it urgent to engage with artists and their views on these issues. FEM GARAGE is used as an exhibition format to network and promote (mostly female) artists who deal with the politics of this topic through art. Highbrow Institute believes that creative activity reveals things that cannot be spoken about with mere words and tools of rationality."

• Start Up - End Down:

  17th of December 2021,
  Neuvitec95,
  Neuville sur Oise, France
  "START DOWN, END UP" is a multifaceted event organized by a collective of former and current students from ENSAPC. It featured exhibitions, performances, video screenings, and live events at Neuvitec95, a former business incubator and a key hub of the startup nation on the outskirts of Paris. A building of over 500 m2, fully reimagined by a non-exhaustive selection of artists from around the world."

• PORTAL

  1st to 27th of September 2024,
  Clubclub & Holešovická Šachta,
  Vienna, Austria & Prague, Czech Republic

  PORTAL was a twin apparition, an exercise in simultaneity that cuts across space, bridging two countries, two cities, two exhibition venues. Happening at once in Prague’s Holešovická šachta and Vienna’s Clubclub, the show(s) run(s) in an odd parallel – a unity which bears the marks of a possible past split, a unity which always remains incomplete, false. Passing through the portal, we thus encounter colours and shapes that feel both alike and different: an entanglement of agents which observe each other from afar, nervously awaiting coalescence

• Giddy Flames

  30th August to 22nd September 2024,
  Collegium Artisticum,
  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

  Giddy Flames seeks to be a spatial fantasy. In the absence of daylight, it unfolds an imagined collection of stories that seep out of infrastructure, storage spaces, and hijacked light systems. As characters, architectures, spatial cues, or interfaces, the works occupy and transform the extended exhibition space into a set of sceneries.