Vienna, Austria - With “At Arm’s Length” MUMOK will exhibit four works by the young Bulgarian artist Kamen Stoyanov: Videos, drawings and an installation reflecting the contemporary notion of culture, with all of its paradoxical aspects, will be presented in the museum lounge, in the passage-way between the actual exhibition spaces in the MUMOK and in display windows in the Babenberger underpass. Kamen Stoyanov, born in 1977 in Rousse, Bulgaria, investigates the unbounded commercialization of the cultural field and of the public sphere.

Seemingly secondary moments, inconspicuous persons, acts or places take on a special significance as they play an unconventional role with respect to the dominant economic order. The problems associated with migration, cultural translation between cultures and the construction of identity come to light in this field of forces.

Stoyanov’s video “Move Your Hands” (2007) which is shown in a showcase in the so-called Babenberger Passage, shows a Bulgarian woman playing a self-made folk music instrument in front of the Centre Pompidou in France. Her noisy fiddle along with her insistence on remaining in front of the pedestal of a sculpture coincides with the cleaning crew removing graffiti from the wall behind her.