Image caption: HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM! installation view at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, 2022. Photo by Sean Fleming.
HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM!
About
Austrian artists Paul Renner and Richard Hoeck’s new exhibition, HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM!, presents art objects, nose-to-tail cooking, and a temporary social club. Together, they exclaim “HOUSTON, YOU HAVE A PROBLEM!”—both needling and raising a glass to our belovedly sprawling and unexpected city. Encompassing unconventional ideas about food, humor, performance art, and the social potential inherent in coming together for a meal, their work offers intimate and joyous experiences of art, eating, and community. This will be the first major solo presentation of the artists’ work in an American institution. In this strangely post-pandemic, yet perhaps mid-endemic moment, CAMH welcomes you to join us physically and metaphysically to directly engage the myriad ways artists can awaken the public, reinvigorate our social relations, and craft new futures for cultural institutions.
Organizers
HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM! is curated by Hesse McGraw, Executive Director. It is coordinated by Patricia Restrepo, Assistant Curator, and YET Torres, Public Programs and CAMHLAB Manager.
Support
HOUSTON, SIE HABEN EIN PROBLEM! was produced in collaboration with Phileas – A Fund for Contemporary Art. Exhibition support is provided by the Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria: Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport; and the Vorarlberg Cultural Service.
Additional support is provided by Sherry and Larry Davis, Leigh and Reggie Smith, and Highway Vodka.
Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston is funded in part by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.
