Press release: “Toilets in modern water closets rise up from the floor like water lilies. The architect does all he can to make the body forget how paltry it is, and to make man ignore what happens to his intestinal wastes after the water from the tank flushes them down the drain. Even though the
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Fernanda Gomes at Secession, Vienna
Press release: Since the 1980s, Fernanda Gomes has used ordinary and affordable materials to make objects and bricolages (always untitled) whose formal idiom recalls Arte Povera, minimalism, and Brazilian Constructivism. Her exhibitions often consist of an abundance of objects scattered across the floor and walls, gathered in clusters or rhythmically organized arrangements. Leftovers and lost,
kennardphillips at EXILE, Vienna
Press release: With the exhibition Americas Greatest Hits the London-based artist duo kennardphillipps are responding to the rise of right-wing populism, not just in Austria but around the globe. The fragility of democracy and the dangerous undercurrents of current political speech and institutional violence stand at the center of this exhibition produced specifically for, and
Jose Dávila at Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna
Press release: “I’m very interested in the notion that there is poetry embedded in science, because science is trying to answer fundamental questions.” Jose Dávila One could say that humans have tipped the world out of balance voluntarily; joint effort is constantly in demand in order to reestablish and maintain the fragile balance of our
Jasmina Cibic at Significant Other, Vienna
Press release: The legal decorator, the Rose Garden as a battlefield and the looming extinction of the Hitler bug. ‘I don’t want you to be surprised when you see that we redecorated.’ says lawyer Johnnie Cochran to his infamous client O.J. Simpson before a scheduled house visit by the jury in a double homicide trial
Kate Newby at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Press release: Kunsthalle Wien presents Kate Newby’s first institutional solo exhibition in Austria. The artist’s works are created in response to specific environments and relate to the site and time of their presentation. They bring the outside world into the exhibition space, transcend the spatial limits of the exhibition room, invite viewers to discover what
Albert Mertz at Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Press release: Croy Nielsen is pleased to present the second solo show of Albert Mertz (DK, 1920 – 1990) at the gallery. The main-feature of the exhibition is the spatial installation Dekonstruktion af maleriets møblement (Deconstruction of the furnishing of painting), which Mertz realized for the first time in 1974 at Den Frie Udstillingsbygning in Copenhagen. It
Jean-Luc Moulène at Secession, Vienna
Press release: What goes beyond the exhibition as an artwork is the program as an artwork. (Jean-Luc Moulène) For over thirty years, in an oeuvre that is broadly diversified in both subject and mediums employed, Jean-Luc Moulène has been exploring the nature of artistic work and what it means. He works with a variety of
Francis Alÿs at Secession, Vienna
Press release: Francis Alÿs is known for his discreet performative solo actions as well as for coordinating large-scale collective allegorical events. In Le temps du sommeil, the centerpiece of this exhibition, he presents a work whose subtlety and inscrutable quality make it a paradigmatic example of his oeuvre at large. Le temps du sommeil (1996–)
Sarah Morris at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Press release: Strange Magic is a film about the empire of LVMH, a world leader of the luxury industry. The film was commissioned on the occasion of the opening of the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, and also deals with this private museum in the Bois Boulogne designed by Frank Gehry. In Strange Magic fashion,
Plamen Dejanoff at 21er Haus, Vienna
Press Release: Foundation Requirements Elements from the spheres of art, consumerism, and everyday life have figured equally in the post-conceptual artistic practice of Plamen Dejanoff (b. in Sofia in 1970, lives and works in Vienna). Such methods as branding, image transfer, and reference to his own content as well as that of others are further
Cao Fei at Secession, Vienna
Press release: Cao Fei is one of the most outstanding Chinese artists today. Her artistic approach is characterized by a high degree of innovation and her love of experimentation, and her work reflects this in its variety. She produces multimedia installations, videos, and large-format photography. In her most encompassing work to date, RMB City (2008–2011),
Tony Conrad at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Press release: For his exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz Tony Conrad will further develop his ongoing concerns with a variety of power structures – here in particular those surrounding notions of confinement, and transparency – both in terms of social constructs and those imposed by the various media he employs. Among the works in this
Liz Deschenes at Secession, Vienna
Liz Deschenes’s photographic oeuvre deals with the conditions of photography and its components, with perception and the correlation to other artistic media, and with the architecture within which her works are shown. Her works allow a self-referential look at the medium, liberated of its functions, taking its own conditions as its theme. For some years
Stephen Prina at Secession, Vienna
The work of American artist, musician, and composer Stephen Prina is characterized by his appropriation of works by other artists, which he then places in new contexts. This is also the approach taken in his new project As He Remembered It, developed specially for the Hauptraum at the Secession, and in the four new works in
Manfred Pernice at Secession, Vienna
Berlin-based German artist Manfred Pernice developed the sculpturama show especially for the Hauptraum at the Secession. His sculptural works are built or assembled out of simple, sometime painted or sprayed materials including cardboard, chipboard, concrete, and metal, supplemented with text, maps or photographs. Starting from his observations of the urban environment, he highlights its failings
Lara Almarcegui at Secession, Vienna
In her projects, the Spanish-born artist Lara Almarcegui, who lives in Rotterdam, examines processes of urban transformation brought on by political, social, and economic change. Since the mid-1990s, she has studied urban features that are not usually the focus of attention: wastelands, construction materials, invisible elements. In her first solo show in Austria, Lara Almarcegui