Lisl Ponger

Tausendundein Prozent

Opening: 14 January 2026, 6 pm

Exhibition: 15 January - 20 February

Lisl Ponger’s solo exhibition “Tausendundein Prozent” (A thousand and one percent) continues her decades-long research into the characters and motifs received from stories and hi/stories. The exhibition title, being a portmanteau of sorts, combines the “Thousand and One Nights” from the well-known collection of Central Asian and Near Eastern stories with a register of quantification, a numerically absurd amount. In such, she evokes the intertwining of capital and conquest, the imperialist process and its financial structures. The exhibition includes photographs and videos from the last two years, installed within a mise en scène composed of elements from these new pieces, so as to recall a stage or movie set.

The exhibition runs concurrently with Ponger’s work on view in “The World of Tomorrow Will Have Been Another Present” at MUMOK, Vienna until 17.05.2026. A major new publication “Semiotic Ghosts” has been recently published by Mandelbaum Verlag Edition Zyphius in collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum surveying Ponger’s practice, including twenty-five texts on her work.

28 January 2026, 6 pm

Book presentation at Charim Galerie

Lisl Ponger "Semiotic Ghosts" (Mandelbaum Verlag Edition Zyphius, November 2025)

Eds: Elisabeth Streit & Dietmar Schwärzler

Lisl Ponger and Elisabeth Streit, one of the publication’s editors from the Austrian Film Museum, will introduce Ponger's latest publication, talking us through the book and the exhibition at Charim Galerie. 

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Image: Lisl Ponger, El Tío or Where the Money Goes, 2025, analogue C-print, 151.2 x 127.2 cm