Too much heat. What does heat mean in a time of intense crises? How can artistic practices reflect, transform, or resist its many forms—political, personal, social?

zu viel Hitze brings together artistic positions from Vienna and Berlin in a dialogue that spans painting, mixed media, and sound installation. The exhibition reflects on the symbolic and emotional temperature of our present: the friction of empowerment, the burn of resistance, the warmth of care, and the instability of these processes.

Balancing urgency with humour and poetic precision—sometimes ambiguity—the works negotiate contemporary tensions, from feminism and matriarchy to systems of power and ecological precarity. The title and the dialogue remain open, as heat appears throughout the space as a sensation, a struggle, and even as a promise.

Launched purposefully on March 8—International Women’s Day—the exhibition signals the beginning of a curatorial program that sees the gallery as a site for critical, feminist, and forward-looking conversations.