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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007The homage to Chen Zhen centers around Jue Chang, Dancing Body – Drumming Mind (Last Song) (2000), (see Chen Zhen / Kunsthalle Wien / part 1/2) a monumental percussion instrument: about a hundred chairs, stools, and beds fitted with animal hides constitute an enormous playing surface challenging visitors to act. Chen’s installations are poetical landscapes, [...]
Chen Zhen / Kunsthalle Wien / part 1/2
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Chen Zhen (1955–2000) numbers among the most prominent Chinese avant-garde artists, who, disillusioned by post-Maoist reform politics, left China in the mid-eighties. In 1986, he emigrated to Paris where his concept of “open sculpture” received international acclaim. Kunsthalle Wien now shows the first retrospective titled “Chen Zhen: The Body as Landscape”, encompassing all important periods [...]
Dream and Trauma / Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK / Preview
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007With the kind permission of Kunsthalle Wien and MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien we had a first look into the exhibition Dream and Trauma, days before the opening, while it was still in its installation phase. Dream and Trauma opens June 28, 2007 und runs through October 4, 2007. Dream and Trauma is [...]
Dana Charkasi / Plattform – Raum für Kunst, Vienna / Interview
Saturday, October 7th, 2006Interview with Dana Charkasi, owner and director of the young gallery Plattform – Raum für Kunst in Vienna Austria at Preview Berlin – The Emerging Art Fair. Charkasi talks about the gallery and its program and a mixed-media project by Susanne Schuda. Artists represented by the gallery are Ubermorgen.com [lizvlx / Hans Bernhard], Sara Glaxia, [...]
Nature Attitudes / Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary T-B A21 / part 2
Thursday, June 15th, 2006T-B A21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) is a new foundation for contemporary art. T-B A21 was founded by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Austria, in 2002. In its current exhibition (“Nature Attitudes“, April 5 until September 9, 2006) T-B A21 presents works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary collection by Haluk Akakçe, Kutluğ Ataman, John Bock, Olafur [...]
Nature Attitudes / Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary T-B A21 / part 1
Thursday, June 15th, 2006T-B A21 (Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary) is a new foundation for contemporary art. T-B A21 was founded by Francesca von Habsburg in Vienna, Austria, in 2002. “Its mission is to support through co-productions and unique commissions the creation of new works from artists that contribute important positions to the contemporary art practice” (PR T-B A21). In [...]
Summer of Love / Kunsthalle Wien
Friday, May 26th, 2006Summer of Love – Art of the Psychedelic Era is the Kunsthalle’s motto for the summer 2006, promising a plunge into the “flower power” of the 1960’s and early 70’s. Among the shown artists are Archigram, Richard Avedon, Thomas Bayrle, Cecil Beaton, Lynda Benglis, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hollein, Robert Indiana, John McCracken, Verner [...]
monochrom / Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner, part 3
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about monochrom’s first computer game “Soviet Unterzögersdorf“. The game was featured in BoingBoing and Edge (games magazine) chose the game as their “internet game of the month” of November 2005. Monochrom has been invited to present the game at the festival for art and digital culture, Transmediale 2006, in Berlin (project page). [...]
Architekturzentrum Wien / Interview with Marion Kuzmany
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006Interview with Marion Kuzmany, responsible for the excursions at the Az W. The Architekturzentrum Wien is a living exhibition space with changing exhibitions and the central aim to mediate architecture as a cultural discipline, as an everyday phenomenon and as a complex process. VTV is talking with Marion Kuzmany about the center’s activities and influence, [...]
monochrom / Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner, part 2
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Johannes Grenzfurthner talks about the different backgrounds of the monochrom team and “Brandmarker“, one of the projects monochrom got a lot of publicity for. The attempt to evaluate the actual power of brands by making Austrian people draw a total of twelve logos from memory led to some interesting conclusions, at the same time funny [...]
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