Nilbar Güres, Ergen Odasi / Adolescent Room, 2014, Textilfarbe, Textil, Perlen, Stickerei auf rotem Stoff, Foto: Markus Wörgötter

Unknown Familiars versammelt anlässlich des 200-jährigen Jubiläums des Wiener Städtischen Versicherungsvereins, Hauptaktionär der Vienna Insurance Group, alle sechs Sammlungen der Unternehmensgruppe, die sich mit ihren unterschiedlichen Schwerpunkten und Entwicklungsgeschichten zum ersten Mal begegnen. Es handelt sich insofern um unknown familiars – um Verwandte, die einander bislang noch nicht kannten. Die Sammlungen ergänzen sich nun in einer präzisen Auswahl von Werken, deren Präsentation eine gesamte Etage des Leopold Museum bespielt und über zweihundert Arbeiten verschiedener Genres aus unterschiedlichen Perioden umfasst. Junge zeitgenössische Kunst trifft auf die Moderne der Zwischenkriegszeit, die Avantgarde der 1970er-Jahre auf Positionen der österreichischen Gegenwart. Ausgehend von der Sammlung der tschechischen Kooperativa, die mit einer Auswahl an Werken aus dem Zeitraum von 1900 bis 1950 [...]

Werner Feiersinger (Kollaboration mit Eva Grubinger), Two Friends, 2010, Rafting Boot, Stahl, Beton

Von 1. Mai bis 6. Oktober 2024 sind entlang der Gewässer St. Pöltens 23 künstlerische Positionen nationaler und internationaler Kunstschaffender zu erleben, die aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven in einen Dialog mit dem Wasser treten. 

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Die Existenz aller lebenden Organismen hängt vom Wasser ab. Wenn wir ein Glas Wasser trinken, fließt dieses Wasser durch uns zurück in die Welt. Mit jedem Schluck treten wir in einen artenübergreifenden Austausch mit verschiedenen Lebewesen, aber auch mit meteorologischen, kulturellen, ökologischen und geophysikalischen Technologien. Unser Körper besteht zum größten Teil aus Wasser; es ist Lebensquelle und tödliches Element zugleich, bringt Rettung und Gefahr. Es kann auch eine Grenze markieren oder ein Zeichen für [...]

Nilbar Güreş, LOVERS, 2011, genähte Textilien, Halskette, Foto: Stephan Baumann

Deutsche Telekom is the donor of an extensive collection of Eastern European art created over the last two decades. The collection was founded in 2010 and is based in Bonn. The GHMP has also managed to assemble a rather large collection of contemporary art from the 1990s to the present day over the past ten years. Contrary to the initial proposal by Nathalie Hoyos and Rainald Schumacher, the curators of the collection, to exhibit a selection from this remarkable collection, we have decided after mutual discussions to opt for a more active collaboration between our institutions. In the forthcoming project, we present a comparison of the two collecting approaches and attempt to confront the artists and their themes from our side and theirs. We also turn our attention to what both institutions reflect or pursue in their collecting strategies.

Deutsche Telekom works with the entire Eastern European area, while Czech artists are only [...]

Alessandro Balteo-Yazbeck in collaboration with Media Farzin, Mobile for the Hotel Ávila, 1939-1942 and The Larger Picture, 1939-1942. From the series 'Modern Entanglements, U.S. Interventions', 2006-2009, 2 C-prints, mock construction plan of Calder's mobile (print on paper), wall label with narrative text

Exploratory and forward-looking, the programme of temporary exhibitions continues to focus on the processes by which contemporary identities and bodies are constructed, in an attempt to reflect on reality and, ultimately, to propose new scenarios and new ways of inhabiting the world. It is in this context that MAC VAL is hosting the fourth episode of the ‘Humain Autonome’ touring project, curated by Marianne Derrien, Sarah Ihler-Meyer and Salim Santa Lucia.
Car, crate, sleeper, tank, jalopy, banger, wheels – the automobile is a paradoxical object. While some adore it, others condemn it. It is, at the very least, an ambiguous symbol, the cause and symptom of many of the crises we are going through (economic, societal, climatic, philosophical). Facilitating the movement of bodies and goods, exploration but also conquest, an instrument both of freedom and control, its use has shaped landscapes, bodies and minds. As the focus of many economic [...]

Július Koller, U.F.O.-nautická Kultúrna Situácia 1.,2.,3. (U.F.O.), 2002, Farbfotografien

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is a survey of experimental art made by almost 100 artists from six Central-Eastern European nations, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. The exhibition traces how a generation of artists with distinct experiences of locally specific state-sanctioned control embraced experimentation and interdisciplinary practices to confront at times harsh conditions of everyday life, while circumventing and eluding the very systems that sought to surveil and silence them.

The exhibition features rarely seen and newly reconstructed works. It draws on the visual arts, performance, music, and material culture to demonstrate the conceptual and formal innovation practiced by Eastern Bloc artists of the era, who were daily forced to negotiate and adapt their artistic practices within societies that enforced restrictions on how art could [...]

Asier Mendizabal

It comes as a surprise to the non-Portuguese speaker that the word normally used for chain is corrente, current. There is something counter-intuitive in this idea of displacement which, in turn, denotes a displacement in language itself. It is surprising that an image that evokes subjection, that even symbolizes generic concepts such as oppression or slavery and that makes one imagine the impediment to something or someone moving, would share its name with that which flows, with that which runs. And it denotes a displacement of language itself, as I say, because it is easy to reconstruct, backwards, the chain of phonemes that in their progressive transformation (sound shift, linguists call it) form its etymology up to the Latin currere and, from there to the voice*kurs in Pre-Indo-European, both naming the simple act of running. The displacement of the sounds made into words along languages and times, takes us, reversing the [...]