The Hamsterwheel project was born in Vienna, on the initiative of a group of friends: artists, critics, gallery owners, concerned about the ways in which contemporary art is distributed. In particular, it questions the validity of group exhibitions, which are often placed under the control of curators who try to orient the work of artists towards a single subject or theme to be illustrated, and thus renounce choices that are sometimes accused of being arbitrary by the public or the media.

The Hamsterwheel project brings together artists who have decided on the content of the exhibition and have chosen themselves by co-option. It is the artists' commitment that is privileged and takes precedence over the desire for thematic and conceptual coherence or the search for a univocal meaning.

A rare transgression, the meeting of extremely different artists and works that come together in an enigmatic way reveals indecipherable connections made in a jubilant way, where only curiosity, astonishment and the concern for difference count. 

Hamsterwheel first took place in Venice during the Biennale. After the presentation at the Jacobins, the exhibition will continue at the Centro de Arte Santa Monica in Barcelona. The list of artists and the scenography are adapted to each version of the exhibition. 

Artists :

Reinhard Bernsteiner, Songül Boyraz, Philippe Bradshaw, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Urs Fischer, Olivier Garbay, Gelitin, Douglas Gordon, Heiri Häfliger, Rachel Harrison, Sarah Lucas, Bernhard Martin, Mel O'Callaghan, Paola Pivi, Rudolf Polansky, Antonio Ortega, Ugo Rondinone, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Una Szeemann, Piotr Uklanski, Marc Vives Muñoz et david Bestué, Guarch, Franz West, Toby Ziegler

Videobox : 

John Bock, Marcus Coates, Fischli et Weiss, Gerog Herold, Christian Jankowski, Mark Leckey, Rubén Martìnez, Jonathan Monk, Antonio Ortega,  Rudolf Polansky, José Ruiz Gonzalez, Tamuna Sirbiladze, Annika Störm, Eric van Lieshout, Hans Weigand, Ralf Ziervogel, David Zink Yi, Thomas Zipp