The exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien focuses on the work of two women who resisted all attempts at appropriation - even by feminist theory. Both artists, each using her own means, developed an aesthetic of vehement self-exposure, which occasionally offended their contemporaries.
Performativity in the Works of Pawel Althamer, Tadeusz Kantor, Katarzyna Kozyra, Robert Kusmirowski and Artur Zmijewski
Tadeusz Kantor, who lived from 1915 to1990, was one of Poland's most important he painted, created, directed, mounted happenings and founded a key independent theater in Krakow. Along with his own works on paper, objects, photographs and films, The Impossible Theater brings us his descendents, artists of the younger generation, represented by installations, performances and projects. Like Kantor, they cast themselves in roles that call for mediation in the social world.
das beliebteste und das unbeliebteste Bild Österreichs ; [Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Wien, 22. 9. - 1. 11. 1998]
Anna Fliri, Christa Blümlinger, Diana Bulzan, Madeleine Freund, Sabine Folie
Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien
The catalogue is published on occasion of the exhibition 'The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines' at the Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.The exhibition contrasts the common practice of the permanent collection with a transhistorical model that allows the Academy's historical art collections - Gemäldegalerie, Kupferstichkabinett, and Glyptothek - to enter into conversation with contemporary works.Drawing on the richness of the collections, the exhibition picks out a selection of the many possible pictorial programs, typologies, and allegorical formulas that the collections provide to loosely interweave with other works from other periods.In-depth essays on the themes of the ship/the sea, the trompe l'oeil, visual cognition from 1500 to 1700, the frame, and subject constitutions in the context of social and technological changes over the centuries and their reflection in the pictorial image are interwoven with impressive exhibition views.English and German text.Published on occasion of the exhibition 'The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines', 8 Apr 2022 -29 Jan 2023, Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
