How can different portraits be connected? How can they communicate with each other? Which positions reinforce each other in their attraction? And which contradict each other? Curated by Denise Wendel-Poray and Huber Klocker, the exhibition Elective Affinities poses these questions through a selection of portraits by a group of innovative, technically brilliant artists. The title is borrowed from Goethe?s 1809 novel, which also features a series of portraits?of individuals brought together through divergent forms of attraction. The question of determinacy and choice in the artistic process is a compelling one that the exhibition at Sammlung Friedrichshof explores.0Featured artists: Ellen Berkenblit, Lea Draeger, Sofia Goscinski, Sandro Kopp, Bjarne Melgaard, Bjorn Melhus, Jonathan Meese, Otto Muehl, Sabine Pigalle, Iris Schomaker, Spencer Sweeney, Erwin Wurm. 00Exhibition: Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Austria (06.05. - 25.11.2018).