Paulina Aumayr, Allen-Golder Carpenter, Thomas Supper: Systems of Subversion

The group exhibition Systems of Subversion at Galerie Kandlhofer in Vienna brings together three artistic positions that do not illustrate freedom, but practice it, as an attitude and a collective experience. Paulina Aumayr, Allen-Golder Carpenter, and Thomas Supper work at the thresholds of their respective media, questioning social, cultural, and material systems. They dissolve existing boundaries and transform structures from within rather than merely criticizing them.

Paulina Aumayr explores the intersections of body, violence, and female exhaustion in her paintings. Her works render structures of power palpable and translate feminist resistance into color and gesture. Allen-Golder Carpenter merges jazz, hip-hop, and visual media into a political language of freedom, cultural identity, and protest. Thomas Supper, in turn, examines processes of decay and transformation. His works subvert aesthetic and material systems, revealing how form and matter can dissolve and yet persist.

Systems of Subversion demonstrates how art can shift structures – how freedom can be understood as process, transgression as method, and subversion as shared practice. The exhibition becomes a space of transition, where sound, material, and body overlap to form a polyphony of resistance, movement, and transformation.

Text by Luisa Seipp