What's the funniest joke in the world?
Written for Mike Kelley & Marlie Mul
By LAURENZ and SHIMMER
Published by LAURENZ and SHIMMER, 2025
200 copies on Pergraphica Ivory Rough 90g/m2 with brown ink.
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The four of us—Aaron, Eloise, Jason, and Monika—share the feeling that there is never enough time for art. Making it, curating it, seeing it. Something always gets in the way: emails, installation, hosting press, scrubbing floors, preparing equipment. The whole carousel of tasks that swing us as far away from the artwork as possible.
So we decided to do the opposite: make time to talk about the work at length. And a text is what came of that. Most of the audience has understood our silence as reflection. A few thought it meant we had nothing to say: ‘I squeak—I don’t speak. Not responsible for the interpretation’, says The Banana Man.
We thank Verschiedene Bilder for giving our collaborative text “What’s the funniest joke in the world?”—written for Mike Kelley & Marlie Mul by Laurenz and Shimmer—a beautiful visual appearance.
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This project has been made possible with the generous support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
Insights of a Practice
Published by LAURENZ, 2025
100 copies
Insights of a Practice is a new format initiated by LAURENZ, which unfolded across March, April and May 2025. As a pilot, this project seeks to place a focus on the conversations surrounding artistic practice, using the visual language of the works on view as a key pillar to anchor these discussions. At its core, the format invites a richer understanding of the artists' processes, spatial decisions, and the active dialogue between the works, the artists, and the space itself. In three distinct encounters, each bridging two artistic practices, the artists were invited to select one work each to present in the exhibition space. At the opening of each encounter, a conversation took place in which the audience was invited to engage with the motivations and methods behind the creation of the works - encouraging a deeper understanding beyond what is immediately visible.
Insights of a Practice
Duration: 21 March - 17 May, 2025
Location: Linke Wienzeile 36/1c, 1060 Wien
All three conversations from 'Insights of a Practice' have been recorded, transcribed, and collected in a small publication, available for a small donation. With works and words by Igor Blomberg Tranæus, Jennifer Gelardo, Gianna Virginia Prein, Michael Reindel, Johanna Charlotte Trede, and Bartholomaeus Wächter.
Insights of a Practice
publication launch
Thursday, 31 July, 2025
18:00–21:00
Location: Linke Wienzeile 36/1c, 1060 Wien
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This project has been made possible with the generous support of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport (BMWKMS)
Grandmotherhood (uncountable) Бабинство (непреброимо), took place in 2022 in Shabla, Bulgaria, at Baba Vasa's Cellar–an artist-run space in the basement of Lazar Lyutakov's grandmother's house. For the 2022 project, we invited 14 artists and cultural practitioners to contribute to the show by sharing a recipe for a dish or drink that reminded them of their grandmother. The original recipes were displayed in the exhibition space. In addition, a version of the recipes was printed on A3 paper tablecloths, which were placed under each of the dishes we prepared for the opening for visitors to enjoy. By the end of the evening, the tablecloths were stained by food, greasy fingers and the raindrops that had fallen earlier in the evening.
The tablecloths were exhibited a few years later at the 1st edition of Het Zuid Manifest: I Love Carlos, an art festival in the Charlois district of Rotterdam, initiated and organised by Rib.
Het Zuid Manifest: I Love Carlos
28. – 30.03.2025
Printed on A4 paper and piled on the tables of Durum Time, the scanned documentation of the Bulgarian summer evening of 16 July 2022, with all 14 recipes, can be taken home by visitors of the festival.
The presented material contains the documentation of works by: Maziar Afrassiabi, Suzanne Bernhardt, Katya Buchatska, Niklas Heiss, Christine Hohenbüchler, Marine Kaiser, Mariana Lanari, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Vasilka Maneva, Bruno Mokross, Ivan Moudov, Ananya Tantuu, Takeshi Yoshida, Anna Zvyagintseva.
Full Program (EN)
Laurenz. July 2020 - June 2023
Published by LAURENZ
11 copies
This book is a documentation of all Laurenz projects from July 2020 to June 2023.
To all our dear friends!
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One copy is held at basis wien, Archiv und Dokumentationszentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst
https://www.basis-wien.at/de/objects/158423
a few sentences
2 copies
Printed on the occasion of the exhibition Chambre d'Ami⸱xes, September 21 - October 21, 2021
Chambre d'Ami⸱xes is a re-enactment of the seminal show from 1986, Chambres d'Amis. Fifty-one local and international artists were invited to re-enact the works of the fifty-one artists who participated in the original exhibition in Ghent, Belgium. Instead of presenting the contributions in fifty-eight private houses, as in the original exhibition, all fifty-one works are installed in one single private flat - a 35 m2 studio in the 6th district of Vienna. A room full of friends!
Each artist participating in the re-enactment has been given an artist name from the original 1986 list, based on their work. All artists had the freedom to choose whether and how to re-enact the artwork from the 1986 exhibition, or to use the assigned artist name as a starting point for a new approach.
Representing the original 1986 exhibition, Lawrence Weiner shows the work he exhibited in Ghent thirty-five years ago.