| MARKUS LÜPERTZ | METAMORPHOSES OF WORLD HISTORY
Based on a selection of various thematic groups from different phases of the artist’s career, the exhibition explores Markus Lüpertz’ fascinating production process.
The show also focuses on the artist’s monumental works on paper for the first time. These works not only fathom central subjects in Lüpertz’ development as an artist, but also radiate a particularly original... |
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| Jakob and Rudolf von Alt | BY ORDER OF THE EMPEROR
Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, who became Emperor Ferdinand I in 1835, commissioned the leading watercolourists of his day to create a “picture book” of the major towns and most scenic regions in the Austrian Empire and neighbouring lands. The project was carried out from 1833 until 1848 when, at the end of that Year of Revolution, Emperor Ferdinand was forced to abdicate.
The... |
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| Zampa di Leone | ZAMPISMUS SUBTROPICAL!
The gallery Trabant of African Maximalism presents Zampa di Leone exhibition and educational workshop under title: ZAMPISMUS SUBTROPICAL!
Zampa map of the Hamburg art scene during the Gängeviertel action and controversial Subvision festival; WHW curatorial collective, Rene Block and Mr. Koc from the recent Istanbul Biennial; Serbian and Croatian post YU mythology and partisans;... |
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| Cars. Warhol, Longo, Fleury, Szarek
CARS presents works from the Daimler Collection, by artists Andy Warhol, Robert Longo, Sylvie Fleury, and Vincent Szarek. Common to all of the works is their examination of the history, the types, or the design of the Mercedes-Benz car. The core of the exhibit are the thirty-five silkscreen paintings of Andy Warhol’s (1928-1987) series CARS, which employ eight selected types of... |
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| Gender Check
Femininity and Masculinity in Eastern European Art
'Gender Check' is the first comprehensive exhibition featuring art from Eastern Europe since the 1960s based on the theme of gender roles. 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the curator Bojana Pejić, along with a team of experts from 24 different countries, has put together a selection of over 400 works including... |
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| WITH YOUR EYES ONLY. Display Reductive Art
WITH YOUR EYES ONLY is an experimental project, which analyses the elements of perception in a collage of artistic interventions and objects. Within the frame of reductive art, levels of perception and the mechanisms of observation are questioned in a multidisciplinary, playful approach. Starting point are the phenomenological conditions of the artistic production like color, light,... |
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| BAMBOO, TIN AND CALLABASHES
A Different Kind of Toy. The Fritz Trupp Collection
In this exhibition, the Leopold Museum is showing over 250 items from the one-of-a-kind toy collection of Austrian ethnologist Dr. Fritz Trupp. The items come from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and they were created from everyday materials by children for their own use.
In many cultures it is uncommon to buy specially made toys.... |
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| Simon Pasieka | Green Horn
Since the mid 1990s, Simon Pasieka (* 1967 in Kleve/D, lives and works in Paris) has been developing a remarkably idiosyncratic oeuvre. It comprises paintings and large-format drawings using brush and black ink, in which he investigates the interweave of social conditioning as well as pursuing possibilities of viewing and experiencing the world differently. He works in a figurative and... |
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| WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? | A film by Oliver Ressler
118 min., 2009
“What is democracy?” is not one question, but is actually two questions. On the one hand, the question relates to conditions of the current, parliamentary representative democracies that are scrutinized critically
in this project. On the other hand, the question traces different approaches to what a more democratic system might look like and which... |
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| Ákos Birkás
„... i hope, that I am no more than at the beginning of this work...“1 answers Ákos Birkás in an interview with Edit Sasvári in 2006 in her statement, that his paintings aren’t just realistic artworks but real, thematic paintings. So she focuses on this very point in Birkás’ works which can be seen in his new paintings exhibited starting 17th of November 2009, in the Knoll... |
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| Claudia and Julia Muller | Human Zoo
The exhibition by Basel artists Claudia & Julia Müller (born 1964/1965) in the Galerie im Taxispalais will be the biggest institutional presentation of work by this unusual artist duo in Austria to date. The sisters have been working together since 1992 and are among the most important representatives of the current Swiss art scene.
Their work developed from drawing on paper, but... |
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| Bo Christian Larsson
“For earthly things were turned into watery, and the things, that before swam in the water, now went upon the ground.”
The work of the Swedish artist Bo Christian Larsson (born 1976) cen-tres around the inner visions of the individual and the dialogue taking place between the internal and external worlds. His drawings form the most important part of Larsson’s output, as the... |
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| Brus and Rainer | On The Horizon Of Senses, On The Horizon Of Things
The exhibition’s focus is on seventy joint works by the two artists dating from 2008/9.
At first, Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) approached the sheets in a painterly fashion, with Günter Brus (born 1938) subsequently introducing what can primarily be considered a literary discourse.
Joint products by these two artists were published as early as 1986, under the title Depth Obscured.... |
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| POST-ALTERNATIVE
The exhibition curated by Hubert Lobnig in the Kunstraum Niederoesterreich introduces the ironic term 'post-alternative' to address the alternative movement of the 1970s and 80s.
The exhibition pursues the question of what contents from this alternative scene are being addressed by artists today, reused, discussed, reflected upon or criticised; the somewhat pejorative term... |
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| Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina | In situ
Curator: Boris Manner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich have been desccribed recently as the soul of „Moscow Conceptualism“. But beyond that the two artists have developed a immense body of work. Moving from a naive artistic position – meaning a simple dialectial relation of the artist on one hand and the work / creation on the other – to a... |
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