“Dancing After Hours”

During one magical evening in October 2025, the exhibition of our Berlin-based gloomy movement in collaboration with Gesindel der Nacht transformed into an immersive experience of music, art and new media visuals.
My installation created especially for the premises of the cultural centre and club in Vienna, is inspired by the 1996 collection of short stories of the same name by American author Andre Dubus. The individual works bear the titles of the stories.

Dancing After Hours is a collection of twelve short stories in which Dubus explores everyday life, pain, love, loss and redemption.
The stories are mostly set in USA and deal with ordinary people struggling with emotional or moral crises.
The paintings and large-format drawings is thus a playful, dreamy, slightly kitschy, positively naive, morbid and gloomy invitation to lose oneself for a night in the aesthetics of ‘dark cuteness’ and openly indulge in escaping the currently unbearable reality and grey everyday life – without a guilty conscience and the demand for self-optimisation or self-control.

Some of you will encounter grim-looking, menacing labubus among the seemingly almost burning comic-like animal figures and the Czech Krampus. Animal depictions and mythological figures have always been regarded as timeless mirrors of society and human emotions.