VERNISSAGE

static performance 60'00", photo documentation

2024

"Hello. I'm very glad to see you. It truly matters to me that you are here. You can hug me, kiss me, or say everything you are thinking about. In return, I will wish you a pleasant evening."


The opening of an exhibition often carries a light festive mood, with guests, flowers, and glasses in hand.
The artist is thus expected to smile, congratulate the team, accept congratulations, wish everyone a pleasant evening, hug, and say, "Thank you for coming."
As part of the performance, the author preserves this familiar scheme but reduces it to a mechanical process with a minimal set of standard phrases, emphasizing through action that the exhibition — as a statement — exists independently of the artist, and that the opening format is merely a tribute to an established tradition.