> ## 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. # Exhibition "Oasis" At MQ Salon With Karina Mendreczky And Katalin Kortmann Járay - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/exhibition-oasis-at-mq-salon-with-karina-mendreczky-and-katalin-kortmann-jaray/ - Published: 2023-03-13T08:48:00.000Z - Updated: 2024-09-10T05:42:06.000Z - Description: Artist Duo Karina Mendreczky And Katalin Kortmann Járay present a strong Installation at MQ Salon curated by Verena Kaspar Eisert - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition ## **Oasis!** A Exhibition at MQ Salon with the Artist Duo Karina Mendreczky and Katlin Kortmann Jaray The powerful Artist Couple, [**Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky** ](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/)present with Oasis, a large scale Installation at [MQ Salon a powerful](https://www.mqw.at/institutionen/q21/programm/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-oasis?ref=now-i-am-in-your-head.ghost.io), strong installation with a unique storytelling curated by Verena Kaspar Eisert in Museums Quartier Vienna. [Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay: The Collaborative Brilliance Exploring the Boundaries of ArtKarina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay present an overview of their collaboration, featuring stunning installations in contemporary art.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-j-ray-artist-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/) Karina Mendreczky And Katalin Kortmann Járay 2024 - Read more ![female figures, mq salon vienna, unchies art club](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3c69f95301724e2a1007_who%20is%20karina%20mendreczky%2C%20artist.webp) ![mq salon, vienna, oasis installation sculptures](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3c2f27599c9e5e4b0105_fairytales%20mythology%20environmentalism%20.webp) ****Oasis** | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien ## "OASIS" AT MQ SALON, VIENNA: KARINA MENDRECZKY AND KATALIN KORTMANN JÁRAY REVEAL A SURREAL WORLD Environmental catastrophes and bleak prognoses for the future of life on earth – the climate crisis has become part of our everyday life and is determining our life reality to an ever-greater extent. Our emotional relationship to nature is thus often burdened with guilt, since we human beings are responsible for the destruction of our environment. ![who is karina mendreczky, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3c9ea6176063dc210353_museums%20quartier%20vienna%2C%20exhibition.webp) ![who is katalin kortmann járay, artist](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3ccaeae5f036785158ed_who%20is%20katalin%20kortmann%20ja%CC%81ray%2C%20artist%20.webp) ****MQ Salon Vienna Exhibition:** Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien Even if there is the will to bring about a sustainable society, the political and individual scope for action nonetheless has its limits. The oscillation between power and powerlessness that results from this is shaping philosophical, ethical-moral, and spiritual discourses and raises questions that occupy many individuals. ![who is verana kaspar-eisert, curator, mq salon](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3cf1eae5f001a0515d34_interconnectedness%20surrealism%20cabinet%20of%20curiosities.webp) ![art about art on environmental catastrophes climate crisis](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3d27f3549b482d1f1b1c_exhibition%20mq%20salon%2C%20munchies%20art%20club.webp) Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien In their artistic work, [**Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/) take up animist motifs and conceptual worlds. Animism is based on the belief that all elements in nature, both living creatures and inanimate objects have a spiritual essence. ![interconnectedness surrealism cabinet of curiosities](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3d56c87e61eacc49b0d0_oasis%20installation%20sculptures.webp) ![art installation on view museums quartier, vienna](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3d85a018fd6ef212a61e_katalin%20kortmann%20ja%CC%81ray%2C%20mq%20salon%20vienna.webp) Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien While animist thought has always been a central component of many indigenous religions. [****2024: Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay**](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/) present an overview of their collaboration, featuring stunning installations in contemporary art It is also currently being given new attention in Western societies: as a relationship to the world that emphasizes the mutual interdependency of all things, that regards the boundaries between species, between oneself and the world as fluid. ![fairytales mythology environmentalism ](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3db82947194e978a0b2f_oasis%20mq%20salon%20vienna%2C%20munchies%20art%20club.webp) ![karina mendreczky, mq salon vienna](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3ded019e052b864a0d93_on%20view%20at%20mq%20vienna%2C%20contemporary%20art.webp) Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien Since with the environmentally destructive lifestyles of the present, a relationship to the world that is based on differentiation, objectification, and hierarchization becomes questionable. Oasis is a subtly composed, extensive installation of sculptures, photographs, printed textiles, and drawings that is supplemented with a sound component. ![karina mendreczky, mq salon vienna](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3e15f4a7c658e92aab25_karina%20mendreczky%2C%20mq%20salon%20vienna.webp) ![katalin kortmann járay, mq salon vienna](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3e440f589184f5218933_female%20figures%2C%20mq%20salon%20vienna.webp) Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien In it, Mendreczky (\*1988 in Budapest, Hungary) and Kortmann Járay (\*1986 Budapest, Hungary) take up both spiritual narratives and personal family histories and translate them into unusual pictures and objects that seem alien and familiar to us at the same time. Besides set pieces from nature like shells and sand, the space is populated with hybrid creatures with human traits and plant characteristics or that represent a merging of animal and object. ![verana kaspar-eisert, mq salon vienna](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3e76d667a611dddca5ff_art%20on%20environmental%20catastrophes%20climate%20crisis.webp) Oasis | Installation view | Katalin Kortmann Járay and Karina Mendreczky | Credit: Rudolf Strobl, Mátyás Gyuricza and MQ Wien They are free interpretations of elements and motifs from old fairy tales and myths. There are also spiritual-religious symbols such as the pomegranate, date palms, or folded hands, as well as historical photographs from family albums in which a particular aura is inherent. ![oasis mq salon Vienna, munchies art club](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3ea64743d445bf5019f5_who%20is%20verana%20kaspar-eisert%2C%20artist%20.webp) ![exhibition mq salon, munchies art club](https://assets-global.website-files.com/5fa50f157f3d0938227083c2/640f3ed575ca7ac866d2845f_verana%20kaspar-eisert%2C%20mq%20salon%20vienna.webp) Karina Mendreczky And Katalin Kortmann presents Oasis at MQ Salon Vienna | Rudolf Strobl Female figures are positioned in various places in the space and sustain the mystical scenery. [Karina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay: The Collaborative Brilliance Exploring the Boundaries of ArtKarina Mendreczky and Katalin Kortmann Járay present an overview of their collaboration, featuring stunning installations in contemporary art.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/munchies-art-club-magazine.png)Munchies Art Club MagazineDominique Catherina Foertig![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-j-ray-artist-1.webp)](https://www.catapult-platform.art/karina-mendreczky-katalin-kortmann-jaray-promising-new-contemporary-artists/) Read more about the Artist Duo -> As a whole, the objects form a magical-seeming, fairytale-like arrangement, a sort of surreal cabinet of curiosities that evokes the interconnectedness of all beings. --- ## Sign up for Munchies Art Club Magazine We give artists the spotlight they deserve, celebrating contemporary art and emerging talent on Instagram Subscribe Email sent! 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