Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria, 08.05.–06.10.2024
Nilbar Güres, Ergen Odasi / Adolescent Room, 2014, textile colour, textile, pearls, embroidery on red fabric, Photo: Markus Wörgötter
On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein, the main shareholder of the Vienna Insurance Group, Unknown Familiars brings together all six collections of the Group, which encounter each other, their different focuses and histories of development, for the first time. It is in this regard that they are unknown familiars – related, though with never having met before. The collections now complement each other in a precise selection of works, the presentation of which occupies an entire floor of the Leopold Museum, comprising over two hundred works of various genres from different periods. Young, contemporary art meets the modernism of the interwar period; the avant-garde of the 1970s meets contemporary Austrian positions. Starting out from the collection of the Czech Kooperativa – represented with a selection of works from the period from 1900 to 1950 – a network of thematic and stylistic references [...]
Tangente – Festival for Contemporary Culture, St. Pölten, Austria, 01.05.–06.10.2024
Werner Feiersinger (Collaboration with Eva Grubinger), Two Friends, 2010, rafting boat, steel, concrete
For Tangente festival, Joanna Warsza, curator for fine arts, and Lorena Moreno Vera, associated curator for fine arts, are developing an exhibition in collaboration with the river. From 1 May to 6 October, the work of twentythree artists can be seen along the waters of St. Pölten.
You can see the locations of the artworks on Google Maps.
The existence of all living organisms depends on water. When we drink a glass of water, this water flows through us back into the world. With every sip, we enter into a cross-species exchange with various living beings, but also with meteorological, cultural, ecological and geophysical technologies. Our bodies are largely made up of water; it is both a source of life and a deadly element, bringing both salvation and danger. It can also mark a border or be a sign of pollution, a carrier of time, memory and change, of colonial exploitation or [...]
Stone Bell House, Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 26.04.–11.08.2024
Nilbar Güreş, LOVERS, 2011, needled fabrics, necklace, Photo: 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 a minority [...]
MAC VAL - Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 26.04.–22.09.2024
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 [...]
