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Garage Exchange: Untitled Energy

  • Mackey Apartments Garage Top 1137 S Cochran Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90019 United States (map)

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Anna Jermolaewa, Still from Chernobyl Safari, 2014/2021, video. Courtesy of the artist.

The MAK Center for Art and Architecture is pleased to announce the 25th iteration of Garage Exchange Vienna—Los Angeles: Untitled Energy, featuring Vienna-based artist Anna Jermolaewa and Los Angeles-based artist Sophie Friedman-Pappas at the Mackey Apartments Garage Top.

 

Anna Jermolaewa’s practice utilizes a wide variety of media including video, installation, painting, performance, photography, and sculpture to explore sociopolitical topics through a unique and poetic lens. Sophie Friedman-Pappas’ sculptures and works on paper interpret the material infrastructure of her environment, unveiling its underlying political construction. This exhibition highlights the artists’ practices that flourish with inspiration while exploring topics of oppression and historical unrest. 

 
 

Artists

ANNA JERMOLAEWA

Anna Jermolaewa (b. 1970, Leningrad) works primarily in the mediums of photography, video, and installation. Her main interest is the analysis of functional structures of society and social systems in everyday life. She continually focuses on the basic conditions of human existence and the nature of man, capturing the relationship between the individual and the masses, freedom and restriction, power and powerlessness. Jermolaewa graduated from the University of Vienna in 1998, and the Vienna Art Academy in 2002. Since 2019, she has been a Professor for Experimental Art at University of Art and Design Linz, Austria. Anna Jermolaewa represented Austria at Biennale Arte 2024, and has had solo exhibitions throughout the country. Her works are part of various collections including the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK—Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Museum Startgalerie Artothek, Tyrolean State Museum, and the Vehbi Koc Foundation.

SOPHIE FRIEDMAN-PAPPAS

Sophie Friedman-Pappas (b. 1995, New York, NY) divides her time between New York and Los Angeles sharing endless stories of utilitarian renovations, waste valorization, and the accidental undermining of these projects by their own patrons and designers. Friedman-Pappas has held solo and two-person exhibitions at MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; in lieu, Los Angeles, CA; and Alyssa Davis Gallery (organized by Octagon) and has participated in group exhibitions at Paul Soto, New York; François Ghebaly, Los Angeles; Soft Opening, London, among others.

ABOUT GARAGE EXCHANGE

Garage Exchange Vienna—Los Angeles seeks to foster relationships, conversations and collaborations in the arts between Los Angeles and Austria. In order to expand the cultural exchange at the core of the Artists and Architects-in-Residence program, the Austrian Federal Chancellery and the MAK Center invite Austrian and Vienna-based alumni residents to collaborate with L.A. artists and architects of their choosing at the Garage Top at the Mackey Apartments for the Garage Exchange Vienna-Los Angeles exhibition series.

 
 
 

 

Related Events

Opening Reception for Untitled Energy

Thursday, July 10, 2025
6:00 PM—8:00 PM

 
 

This exhibition is made possible with support from the Austrian Consulate General, Los Angeles.

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Garage Exchange: Untitled Energy is curated by MAK Center Exhibitions and Programs Manager, Seymour Polatin.

 
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