Jatun Risba: not as it appears

not as it appears is a solo exhibition by transdisciplinary performance artist and researcher Jatun Risba (SLO), investigating the shifting relationships between body, environment and perception. The exhibition unfolds like a Via Sanitatis — a path of embodied research into health, neuroplasticity and multispecies reciprocity, rooted in ecological feminist practices, queer ecology and posthumanist thinking.

Through performance, photography, video and print, the exhibition invites audiences to reflect on what is seen, felt and known — beyond appearance.

The Intimacy of Otherness

At the heart of the exhibition is The Intimacy of Otherness — an extensive intermedial work created over three years (2023–2025). The performative lecture is based on Risba's personal experience of successfully self-healing from multiple sclerosis (2012–2019). Accompanying works lead through the spaces, forming the path that guides visitors through questions of identity, corporeality and transformation towards a more-than-human understanding of the self.

Dates

• Opening: Wednesday, 8 April, 19:00 (Performance teaser 20:00, 15 min, three repetitions)
• Exhibition: 9–20 April, daily 15:00–18:00 and by appointment
• Performances — The Intimacy of Otherness (60 min): 10.4., 12.4. & 18.4., 20:00 — Reservation required, max. 25 people
• Finissage: Monday, 20 April, 19:00 — Art & Science Conversation with the artist

Supported by: Funkhaus Wien, Slovenian Cultural Centre Vienna (SKICA), Italian Cultural Institute Vienna (IIC), Arion Creative, New Life Contract, Tip95, Science Meets Art, Shifei and Never At Home. Photography: Franco G. Livera.

About the Artist

Jatun Risba (they) is a Slovenian transdisciplinary and intermedial artist. Their work combines performance, conceptual art, relational art and practices of abjection, détournement and artistic interventions. Their practice promotes the reciprocal relationship between species through expansion and activation of sensory perception. They graduated from NABA in Milan and hold a Postgraduate Certificate in Art & Science from Central Saint Martins – UAL in London.