03/06/2026
🌳✨Home, 🌴home office, 🌳archive, 🌲🌴🌳research space, 🌳✨leisure area—all in one. The many sounds of a Spanish forest coming soon to Klagenfurt:
Paula Bruna Pérez
Jaleo Forestal
Opening, June 9, 2026, 6 pm
Exhibition, June 10 – July 31, 2026
Following the opening, please join us for our summer party!
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Tap, tap-tap, tap-tap, tap, tap, tap-tap… Only the unique fusion of stomping, clapping, and singing brings forth the typical rhythms of flamenco. This vocal-dance music, whose roots in southern Europe reach back throughout centuries and have branched out into a whole network of musical subgenres, is performed with instruments such as castanets, tambourines, and guitar. The lyrics often deal with unrequited love, jealousy, grief, and solitude. Feelings of oppression, desperation, animosity, and resilience in the face of adversity infuse many of the songs. Their quavering, impelling sound is owed to the interplay of rhythmic calls and responses. Improvisation plays a key role in this art form that is still celebrated in Andalusia as a folk tradition but in the meanwhile has also found its way into new musical genres and global pop culture. Thanks to the influences of Romani culture, Moorish-Arabic musical traditions, Sephardic Jewish heritage, and Andalusian-Spanish folk music, the historical legacy of cultural diversity thrives in flamenco to this day. It is this analogy between folkloric structures cultivated by humans over the centuries and natural growth processes that environmental scientist and artist Paula Bruna Pérez investigated for her exhibition "Jaleo Forestal" [Forest Fuss] at Kunstraum Lakeside.
Paula Bruna Pérez (b. 1978 in Spain) lives and works in Barcelona. | www.paulabruna.com
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This work was developed as part of the Tabacalera Residency Programme (Promoción del Arte, Ministry of Culture of Spain), funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. Hosted by