> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # When Does Fragility Become a Form of Power? - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/ag18-vienna-gallery/ - Published: 2026-03-02T05:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-31T09:59:19.000Z - Description: AG18 Gallery presents Will-o'-the-Wisp in Vienna. Seven European artists examine fragility and resilience as entangled conditions. Curated by Julia Harrauer - Author: Catapult Submissions Team - Tags: Exhibition **Will-o'-the-Wisp - AG18 Gallery** **Artists:** Julia Åberg, Maria Belova, Ester Gašparová, Maks Rz, Anna Taganzeva, Julia Woronowicz, Lorenzo Zerbini **Exhibition:** Will-o'-the-Wisp **Venue:** [ AG18 Gallery ](https://www.ag18gallery.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Vienna, Austria **Dates:** 27 January 2026 — 3 March 2026 **Address:** Annagasse 18, 1010 Vienna, Austria **Curation:** Julia Harrauer **Photography:** Daniel Prenleloup, Julia Harrauer, Lorenzo Zerbini, Maria Belova **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy AG18 Gallery **Contact:** [office@ag18gallery.com](mailto:office@ag18gallery.com) ## **AG18 Gallery Presents Will-o'-the-Wisp at Annagasse 18, Vienna** ### **Curatorial Text:** Will-o’-the-wisp refers to a soft, flickering light appearing in swamps or wetlands, historically interpreted as an illusion, omen, or wonder. Something not graspable, a brief moment, a light in the dark. The phenomenon is commonly explained by the escape of swamp gases such as methane or phosphine, which occur only under highly specific conditions. Although science has replaced many mythical readings, the unsettled feeling and fascination associated with the unknown persist. ![Julia Harrauer curates the show will o whisper at AG18 Gallery, Vienna Julia Åberg, Maria Belova, Ester Gašparová, Maks Rz, Anna Taganzeva, Julia Woronowicz, Lorenzo Zerbinil exhibition view installation](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/ag-18-gallery-current.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Julia Åberg, Ester Gašparová, Lorenzo Zerbini, Julia Woronowicz - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Julia Harrauer presents 7 artist at AG18 Gallery ViennaJulia Åberg, Maria Belova, Ester Gašparová, Maks Rz, Anna Taganzeva, Julia Woronowicz, Lorenzo Zerbini](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/julia-harrauer--exhibition.webp) ****AG18 Gallery**, Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Anna Taganzeva, Maria Belova, Julia Åberg** \- Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup Swamps and wetlands themselves embody this tension. Often framed as hostile or uninhabitable, a space of danger and disorientation, they shelter a complex and flourishing life that emerges at night. As one of the most thriving and important ecosystems, it serves a key role by filtering pollutants and toxins, regulating water levels. Within the exhibition, the will-o’-the-wisp becomes a metaphor for this concealed vitality, unfolding below the surface, pointing to hidden ecosystems that are usually overlooked. This creates an ambivalence between threat and shelter, fragility and resilience. In this context, nature and the environment emerge as a central symbolic field, seen both as a force that resists control and as something vulnerable that requires protection. Looking at what connects and distinguishes the artistic views, references extend across the framework, transgress boundaries, genres, and materials. ![Julia Woronowicz artworks , installation view ag 18 vienna](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Exhibition-view-Will-o-wisper---julia-harrauer.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Lorenzo Zerbini, Maria Belova, Anna Taganzeva / Julia Woronowicz, Wetlands, Oil on canvas, 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Lorenzo Zerbini, We meet at nightfall, Lamp metal skeleton, installation view curated by Julia harrauer for ag18 gallery vienna](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lorenzo-Zerbini--art.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp **\- Lorenzo Zerbini,** **We meet at nightfall*, Lamp metal skeleton, 2025 - Image courtesy of the gallery - Photography: Daniel Prenleloup While Ernst Cassirer describes a universal “symbolic universe,” Judith Butler understands symbolic reality as power-laden and produced through bodily practices. Meaning emerges through repetition, not essence, exposing how systems stabilize dominance. Read alongside Maureen Murdock’s inner journey, this shift enables a deconstruction of symbolic authority and its claim to universality. Through various artistic media such as painting, sculpture, collage, and installation, the participating artists examine how ideas of fragility and strength are culturally and historically produced through these symbolic forces. What counts as weak or strong, and how is this ambiguity grounded in our society? Symbols represent something else, explaining a person, object, or event used to define a quality or idea. Therefore, it is explored how fragility and strength do not stand in opposition but emerge as entangled conditions.7 ![Julia Aberg, Night out, Collage, 2025 curated by Julia harrauer for a18 gallery vienna, group show, installation view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Julia-Aberg--Night-out--Collage--2025---Image-courtesy-of-the-gallery-Photography-Daniel-Prenleloup.webp) ****Julia Aberg**, Night out, Collage, 2025 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography Daniel Prenleloup Clear lines are often associated with stability and power, while dense, organic, or ornamental forms are coded as decorative. In the exhibition, floral forms are released from their decorative function and become visible as carriers of complex meanings. Nature is not understood as a romanticized backdrop but as a charged space where power and resilience can be expressed. Strength does not always appear as visible dominance but can be something quiet and concealed, perceptible only at second glance, comparable to the will-o’-the-wisp itself. --- ## Notable Artworks and Installation views ![Lorenzo Zerbini and Lorenzo Zerbini, installation view, curtain and painting , ag 18 gallery curated by Julia harrauer](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lorenzo-Zerbini--artist.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - **Lorenzo Zerbini,** We meet at nightfall, Lamp metal skeleton, 2025 / ****Julia Woronowicz,** Daisy with a Girl, Oil on canvas 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Lorenzo Zerbini, We meet at nightfall, Lamp metal skeleton](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lorenzo-Zerbini--artworkwebp.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Lorenzo Zerbini,** We meet at nightfall, Lamp metal skeleton, 2025 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lorenzo-Zerbini-installation-view.webp) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Lorenzo-Zerbini--will-o-wisper--exhibition.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Lorenzo Zerbini, ****We meet at nightfall**, Lamp metal skeleton, 2025 / Julia Woronowicz, Daisy with a Girl, Oil on canvas, 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Maria Belova ag18 gallery vienna installment curated by Julia harrauer, etched metal construction mounted on wall ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Maria-Belovawebp.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - **Maria Belova**, The Forest, Etched Aluminium, 2025\. - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Maria Belova, The Forest, detail etched surface , curated by Julia harrauer](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Maria-Belova-artwork-detail.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Maria Belova**, The Forest, Etched Aluminium, 2025\. - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Maria Belova ![Maria Belova, artist , artwork called Just Your Chest / Just Your Right Hand / Just Your Left Hand / Just Your Right Shoulder / Just Your Left Shoulder, Aluminium, gauge, oil paint, silicone,](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Maria-Belova-installation-view.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Maria Belova**, Just Your Chest / Just Your Right Hand / Just Your Left Hand / Just Your Right Shoulder / Just Your Left Shoulder, Aluminium, gauge, oil paint, silicone, 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![Maria Belova, Observers, Etched Aluminuim , installation view AG18 Vienna Gallery](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Maria-Belova--installation--ag-18-gallery--vienna.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Maria Belova**, Observers, Etched Aluminuim, Electric, Motor, 2024 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Julia Harrauer ![AG18 Gallery presents Will-o'-the-Wisp in Vienna](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Ester-Ga--parov---1.webp) AG18 Gallery, Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Ester Gašparová, Rings of Ash Ceramic, Steel, 2025 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Lorenzo Zerbini ![Maks Rz, artist, back problems, heavy lifting, Oil on canvas, for AG18 gallery exhibiton view curated by Julia harrauer](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Maks-Rz.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - ****Maks Rz,** back problems, heavy lifting, Oil on canvas, 2025 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![AG18 Gallery presents Will-o'-the-Wisp in Vienna Julia harrauer](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Julia-Woronowicz.webp) ****AG18 Gallery,** Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Julia Woronowicz, Daisy Field 2 Oil on canvas, 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup ![AG18 Gallery presents Will-o'-the-Wisp in Vienna curated by Julia harrauer](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/03/Anna-Taganzeva-2.webp) ****AG18 Gallery**, Vienna - Will-o’-the-Wisp - Anna Taganzeva, Blooming wood, foam, 2026 - Image courtesy of the gallery Photography: Daniel Prenleloup --- [Artist in Focus](https://www.catapult-platform.art/artist/) ## P.Kim Kimtaegi: Between Mask and Body [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/p-kim-kimtaegi-between-mask-and-body/) [Interview](https://www.catapult-platform.art/interview/) ## Hugo Brazão: Sculpting Escapism in a World of Fabric, Fiction, and Form [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/hugo-brazao-artist/) [Exhibition](https://www.catapult-platform.art/exhibition/) ## Villa Bernasconi: Stitches – A Haunted House and Other Ghost Stories [Read More](https://www.catapult-platform.art/villa-bernasconi-stitches-haunted-house-ghost-stories/)