A solo exhibition featuring works by Rabbya Naseer will not be realized at Belvedere 21. The award of the Belvedere Art Award last year envisioned such an exhibition for the native Pakistani from March to June, but it now fails due to differing visions. According to the "Presse," Naseer proposed four concepts to the Belvedere but ultimately canceled because they were considered too elaborate in production or too pro-Palestinian by the Belvedere.

Naseer Cancellation for Belvedere 21 Exhibition

She is not an activist, but she cannot turn a blind eye to the events in Gaza, Naseer told the newspaper. Most recently, she proposed learning a dance and projecting this process in the exhibition space. This dance ("Dabke") is currently used as an articulation of Palestinian resistance. In the end, only a small, harmless retrospective was desired, which led her to cancel.

Belvedere director Stella Rollig told the "Presse" that she was surprised by the cancellation. Preparations had already been well advanced. However: "We do not want to present an exhibition in this disparate, painful situation that only expresses one side of the conflicting parties," she explained.

Naseer lives and works in Vienna and Lahore, and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, among other places. She is known for interdisciplinary, collaborative practice, which has been exhibited internationally.

(APA/Red)

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