MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien, Österreich, 13.12.2023–20.05.2024
Die Ausstellung HARD/SOFT. Textil und Keramik in der zeitgenössischen Kunst bringt zwei scheinbar gegensätzliche Materialien zusammen.
Während Textil mit Wärme und Flexibilität assoziiert wird, strahlt die aus weichem Ton oder Lehm geformte Keramik eine kühle Zerbrechlichkeit aus. Und doch zeichnen sich beide Medien durch eine erlebbare Formensprache aus, die zwischen hart, weich, sperrig und fließend changiert. Die Materialien, Formen und Bedeutungen der ausgewählten Objekte eröffnen ein breites Spektrum von Ambivalenzen, Unschärfen und Gleichzeitigkeiten.
Zu sehen sind Arbeiten von rund 40 österreichischen und internationalen Künstler*innen, die in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis auf handwerkliche Techniken wie Sticken, Knüpfen und Weben oder Formen, Kneten und Brennen zurückgreifen. Die Skulpturen, Installationen und malerischen Arbeiten, zu denen auch Stickbilder, Patchworks und [...]
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States, 11.11.2023–10.03.2024
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s offers a sweeping survey of experimental art made in six Central Eastern European nations during the 1960s to 1980s. Charting a generation of artists invested in experimentation, the Walker-organized exhibition features artworks rarely seen in the United States. Despite their geographical proximity, artists working during this time encountered different conditions for daily life and art-making, confronting varying degrees of control and pressure exerted by state authorities. Embracing conceptual or formal innovation and a spirit of adventurousness, Multiple Realities sheds light on ways that artists refused, circumvented, eluded, and subverted official systems, in the process creating works often riddled with wit, humor, or irony.
Drawing on visual art, performance, music, and material culture, Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, [...]
Plattform 6020, Fördergalerie der Stadt Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Österreich, 04.11.2023–05.01.2024
Die Galerie Plattform 6020 eröffnet am Freitag, den 3. November um 19.00 Uhr im Rahmen der diesjährigen „Premierentage 2023 – Wege zur Kunst“ die Ausstellung „Kunstankäufe der Stadt Innsbruck 2023“ mit Kunstwerken von 14 Tiroler Künstlerinnen und Künstlern und feiert zugleich ihr 5-jähriges Jubiläum am neuen Standort in der Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck.
Die Fördergalerie selbst besteht bereits seit 1991 und wechselte im November 2018 von der Galerie im Andechshof in die neue Stadtbibliothek. Seither konnten im neuen Galerieraum auf 100 m2 insgesamt 30 Ausstellungen mit 138 KünstlerInnen gezeigt werden. Das 5. Jahr feiern wir an diesem Abend bei angenehmer Atmosphäre mit jazzigen Klängen und guter Unterhaltung.
Ein weiterer Höhepunkt an diesem Abend ist die Überreichung des Josef-Franz-Würlinger-Preises für die qualitätvollste Ausstellung des Jahres in der [...]
SculptureCenter, New York, Vereinigte Staaten, 23.09.–11.12.2023
Generalization is the first survey of artist Tania Pérez Córdova (b. 1979, Mexico City) in a United States institution, featuring a selection of twenty-four works made over the past ten years, as well as objects specially commissioned for this occasion. The exhibition presents a reading of Pérez Córdova’s work through issues that her artistic endeavors have sought to address: the passage of time, the nature of materials, the gaze of the other, the imminence or possibility of an action, the way in which we assign value to objects, negative space, and more recently, the insufficiency of discourse. Generalization is the artist’s most significant and comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. to date, providing audiences with a first opportunity to survey the breadth and depth of the last decade of Pérez Córdova’s idiosyncratic and innovative works across media.
Primarily using materials that are historically [...]
Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, Ústí nad Labem, Tschechien, 14.09.–25.11.2023
The city of Ústí nad Labem is often viewed as having no significant influence on the development of contemporary art, but, closer examination many interesting connections that, at the very least, challenge this notion. Jan Merta, one of the key figures of contemporary Czech painting, was born in 1952, and his story illustrates how, both in the past and present, this city situated on the cultural periphery has provided important impulses for the artistic growth of undeniably creative personalities and has thus helped shape the greater art scene in general. The exhibition Lidová škola umění, which is being hosted by the Ústí nad Labem House of Arts, is based on memories from the artist’s adolescence, a period of time spanning from 1966 to 1972, during which he lived in the city, as well as from frequent visits with his parents, who lived here too until 1989, as Jan’s father, Hynek Merta, was as a pastor in the [...]
BRUTUS Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Niederlande, 02.09.–19.11.2023
Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck participates in the exhibition "Petromelancholia", at BRUTUS in Rotterdam. The thematic shown brings together 32 contemporary artists of different cultural backgrounds and generations.
The activity of Balteo-Yazbeck (Caracas 1972) is directly related to Venezuelan socio-political history in the global context of extractivism, specifically oil.
According to historian Sean Nesselrode Moncada: The ability of oil to serve as a connective tissue between business investment, government policy, military campaigns and artistic patronage forms the basis of much of the conceptual practice of this artist. In his readymade-performance piece, entitled "last barrel of oil, date postponed" made of sustainable wood, paper, ink, printed paper, financial markets and sales protocol, Balteo-Yazbeck prices a 3.5 centimeter miniature (multiple) piece to the fluctuating future value of oil on the New York [...]
