Felix Helmut Wagner: BIRTH - LIFE - DEATH
21.5.–18.6.2026
Felix Helmut Wagner
Felix Helmut Wagner’s solo exhibition Birth → Life → Death explores humanity’s attempt to reduce the complexity of the world into understandable models and systems. Through sculpture, installation, performance, humor, and absurdity, Wagner examines how perception is shaped by language, metaphors, and constructed ways of thinking. Central to the exhibition is the enigmatic character “O,” a disruptive figure that challenges rigid patterns of perception and invites viewers to question how meaning is created. Alongside works such as Introspection Machine and People look at melons. Melons don’t look at people., the exhibition expands into the performative realm with live performances at the opening and throughout the exhibition period.
The WAF Gallery (Wiener Art Foundation) is an artist-run space in Vienna, founded in 2019. It is dedicated to contemporary art, supporting experimental and time-based practices. The space offers a platform for exhibitions, performances, and discourse, while its adjacent project space, WAF-nextdoor, enables flexible, short-term formats responding to current artistic developments.