MY GENERATION. Die Sammlung Jablonka Die Sammlung Jablonka ist eine der wichtigsten Sammlungen zur amerikanischen und deutschen Kunst der 1980er-Jahre, mit Arbeiten von Künstlerinnen und Künstlern, die Rafael Jablonka gefördert, bekannt gemacht und gesammelt hat. Die Sammlung umfasst Werke von Michael Heizer, Eric Fischl, Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Philip Taaffe, Roni Horn, Damien Hirst, Richard Avedon, Francesco Clemente, Richard Deacon, Andreas Slominski und anderen wichtigen Künstlern...

GERHARD RICHTER. Landscape Under the title "Landscape", the Bank Austria Kunstforum is bringing Gerhard Richter to Vienna with a landscape retrospective – the largest exhibition up to date devoted exclusively to Gerhard Richter's landscapes. The last major Gerhard Richter exhibition in Vienna took place in 2009 at the Albertina. The show was curated by Hubertus Butin (Berlin) and Lisa Ortner-Kreil from Bank Austria Kunstforum Vienna, in collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zürich. About 130...

GERHARD RICHTER. Landschaft Unter dem Titel „Landschaft“ bringt das Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien Gerhard Richter mit einer Landschaftsbild-Retrospektive nach Wien – die bisher größte Ausstellung, die ausschließlich Gerhard Richters Landschaften gewidmet ist. Die letzte große Gerhard Richter Ausstellung in Wien fand 2009 in der Albertina statt. Kuratiert wurde die Schau von Hubertus Butin (Berlin) und Lisa Ortner-Kreil, in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunsthaus Zürich. Etwa 130 Bilder, Zeichnungen,...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #8 Art Brut Early Austrian Feminist art production is associated with artists like VALIE EXPORT, and Kiki Kogelnik who - with their body related and performative art - built a counterpart to the strongly male dominated Viennese actionism. Putting a focus on patriarchal society and its constraints the so called Austrian feminist avant-garde was in search for new visual and gestural language and introduced therefor new ways of expression, themes as well...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #8 Art Brut In post-war Austria, Art Brut is especially associated with one place and one name: The former mental hospital Gugging and the psychiatrist Leo Navratil who worked there. He promoted artistic work as part of the therapy, and very soon outsider art -as an art that comes from the unconscious- became interesting, not only for collectors but also as a source of inspiration for other artists. Johann Hauser, Oswald Tschirtner and August Walla...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #7 Geometric Abstraction In Austria's post-war art of the 1960s and 1970s we can find constructivist, concrete and and also cinetic artworks. In spite of a rich tradition -the Vienna Group, the Viennese School of art history or the twelve-tone technique come to mind- geometric abstraction and concrete art received surprisingly little attention at first. In the opening exhibition "The Beginning. Art in Austria 1945 to 1980", ALBERTINAmodern exposes...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #6 Pop Art Pop Art as an art that mirrors modern absorbs the taste of the people. Flamboyant colors, hard outlines and flat depictions were popular, aesthetically reminding of advertisings and flashy neon signs in the big cities of the economically prospering 1960s. At first the eye-catching art promises lightness, easiness, consumption and entertainment. But particularly the works of Austrian Pop artists demonstrate their reservations about the...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #4 Abstract Art Among the contemporary art movements that developed after the Second World War in Austria, Vienna Actionism and its protagonists are the most prominent and most recognized internationally. Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Rudolf Schwarzkogler have to be mentioned in the first place, but at some points in their careers, Padhi Frieberger as well as Arnulf Rainer also made their contribution to Actionism. Vienna Actionism is...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #4 Abstract Art With their abstract works, Austrian artists in the post-war years managed to become part of the international avant-garde in a very short time, although the production of abstract artworks has its origins in quite diverse starting points. While the approach of artists like Josef Mikl, Otto Eder, Rudolf Hoflehner and Andreas Urteil is more focused on the human figure, painters like Wolfgang Hollegha or Max Weiler are more oriented...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #3 How the Artists Address the Nazi Era in their Work Very soon after the war and for the following decades, National Socialism and the atrocities of tyranny and war were frequent topics in the work of Austrian artists. Starting with the Fantastic Realists, among them particularly Wolfgang Hauser, then of course in Vienna Actionism and finally in sculpture, for example with Bruno Gironcoli and Walter Pichler. In the first opening exhibition „The...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #2 Fantastic Realism and Friedensreich Hundertwasser At the beginning of art in Austria after the Nazi tyranny and the war there was the „Vienna School of Phantastic Realism“, at first known under the term „Vienna Surrealism“. It included artists like Arik Brauer, Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden as the core members of the group. It will probably be surprising for some who know him, but Arnulf Rainer also produced some...

THE BEGINNING. Art in Austria, 1945-1980. #1 Overview "The Beginning. Art in Austria. 1945-1980" is the title of the opening exhibition at the new Museum ALBERTINAmodern which is dedicated to post war Austrian and international art. In its first exhibition the museum presents an overview over Austrian post war art of the first three decades, pointing out how the artists of this time dealt with the cruel history of national socialism and war-time and how art from Austria found its way back to...

BALKRISHNA DOSHI. Architecture for the People In his seven decade-long career, the Indian architect and urbanist Balkrishna Doshi (*1927 in Puna) especially cared about affordable housing, community spirit and natural construction. In 2018, he was the first Indian architect to receive the prestigious Pritzker prize for architecture. Until receiving this award, the revolutionary vanguardist architect Doshi had not enjoyed the recognition in the western world that he deserved - even though he...

NOW. COLLECTED #9 | #10. Im tresor des Bank Austria Kunstforum NOW. collected #9 | #10 bildet den Abschluss des Ausstellungsformats collected, das im tresor im Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien seit 2011 unter diversen thematischen Gesichtspunkten Werke aus der Bank Austria Kunstsammlung präsentiert. In den Ausstellungen wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie eine junge Auseinandersetzung mit dem fotografischen Medium im erweiterten Sinn gegenwärtig aussehen kann. Im Zuge der letzten Ausstellung wurden...