Galerie Martin Janda is part of curated by 2026 – LOVE, the gallery festival with international curators in Vienna. For this year’s edition, the gallery presents two exhibitions curated by Jan Mot: Ian Wilson. There is a discussion., a solo exhibition by Ian Wilson, and Her Voice, featuring works by Chantal Akerman and Manon de Boer. Both exhibitions run from September 11 until October 17, 2026.

There is a discussion is a work by Ian Wilson from 1972. It is defined by the artist as a ‘statement’ and takes the form of a typewritten or printed sheet of paper bearing the text ‘There is a discussion’ and Wilson’s signature. The work is an unlimited edition and was produced till shortly before he died in 2020. There is a discussion represents the quintessence of Wilson’s work.

After having worked as a painter in the tradition of abstract art, Wilson exchanged visual abstraction for the abstraction of language. In 1968 he started to define his conversations on the concept of time as his…