the bush (detail), Alevtina Lyapunova, 2025 - © Courtesy of the artist
Patrícia Peixoto and Alevtina Lyapunova
Duo Exhibition featuring participants of the QMA Artist Collective 2026 project
Curated by Avelīna Armanda Krastiņa, SPOT Exchange Award 2026 recipient
Opening: Wednesday, December 09, 2026, 6 pm
Duration: 10.12.2026 – 30.01.2027
Opening hours: Tu/Wed/Fr 1 – 6 pm, Thu 1 – 8 pm, Sat 11 – 2 pm and by appointment
Location: DAS WEISSE HAUS, first floor
Address: Hegelgasse 14, 1010 Vienna, Austria
Pre-Opening Event for two- and four-legged guests
Wednesday, December 09, 2026, 4 - 6 pm
Grätzloase Honey in front of DAS WEISSE HAUS
We warmly invite you and your four-legged companions to the Pre-Opening at our Grätzloase Honey. Enjoy hot chocolate and Puppuccinos. Drinks are available in exchange for a voluntary donation, with all proceeds going to TierQuarTier Wien.
About the Exhibition:
How might we rethink our relationships with other living beings we share the world with? We are coexisting in a world that is shaped by deeply entrenched hierarchies imposed through human-centered perspectives. Such hierarchies often prevent us from acknowledging the positions and viewpoints of other species. These established structures also influence how we interact and associate with various nonhuman animals. Yet, despite the unequal dynamics, human and animal lives remain deeply intertwined. But what might become possible if we began to question our own position within these relationships?
The exhibition I Didn’t See You There explores interspecies relationships through questions of power, representation, care, and dependence by bringing together works by artists Alevtina Lyapunova and Patrícia Peixoto.
Lyapunova’s artistic practice revisits encounters between human and nonhuman bodies through imaginative compositions that question established roles and open up new ways of relating to one another, while occasionally incorporating elements of play. Peixoto explores how nonhuman lives are perceived, represented, and valued. She draws attention to what remains invisible within familiar cultural imagery, and to the hierarchies that determine whose presence is recognized and whose is overlooked. Their works enter into a dialogue, creating connections among artists and viewers that expose the tensions between human and nonhuman animals: playfulness and care on one side, control and subjugation on the other.
I Didn’t See You There is conceived as an interconnected environment that challenges conventional ways of sensing and experiencing. It invites visitors to reconsider their own standpoints and bodily situatedness that shape their everyday encounters with other forms of life.
SPOT Exchange is a collaborative initiative by the Art Academy of Latvia and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, together with Zuzeum Art Center and DAS WEISSE HAUS. The program supports the professional development of emerging artists and curators through international exchange, mentorship, and connections between academic and professional artistic contexts. From the beginning of July until the end of December 2026, STUDIO DAS WEISSE HAUS had the pleasure of welcoming Latvian curator Avelīna Armanda Krastiņa as Curator-in-Residency. Her stay marked the second edition of the SPOT Exchange Award. The award includes a six-month residency in Vienna, offering the awardee dedicated resources, a vibrant and supportive creative environment, and meaningful engagement with a wide artistic network.
To broaden the exchange and build lasting connections, Krastiņa and DAS WEISSE HAUS collaborated with the Vienna-based initiative QUESTION ME & ANSWER. Through this collaboration, an exhibition was developed, curated by Krastiņa and featuring works by Patrícia Peixoto and Alevtina Lyapunova, two artists in the QMA Artist Collective 2026.