Exhibitions and visual arts archive

Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization

Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalization

8 May – 4 July 2010 | Nottingham Contemporary
Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalisation shows the work of a group of international artists who use their creativity to represent globalisation, and its human consequences. Experimental mapping, film, games and photography expose the opaque processes ...
Otto Zitko and Louise Bourgeois

Otto Zitko and Louise Bourgeois. Me, Myself & I

24 April – 4 July 2010 | Arnolfini
"It is in the space between inner and outer worlds, which is also the space between people; the transitional space; that intimate relationships and creativity occur." D.W Winnicott Austrian artist, Otto Zitko's expansive ...
riPoste

riPoste

9 April – 20 June 2010 | The Bluecoat
riPoste (meaning reply or retort) is the first exhibition by POST – a collective of seven professional contemporary female artists who came together during Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture 2008. riPoste sees the seven Liverpool ...
Be Longing

Be Longing. An exhibition by Deniz Sözen featuring SuZan Dennis

16 March – 14 May 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Deniz Sözen’s practice investigates the concept of culture, subjectivity and the unresolved nature of belonging. Her work combines films, found objects, personal archives, and crafted artefacts. Through the multitude of symbols, subtitles and ...
Making a Living

Making a Living

13 March 2010, 2.00pm | Whitechapel Gallery
Following on from the original Making A Living event at the Austrian Cultural Forum London in September 2009, some of us have continued to meet to discuss action plans for sustaining a critical practice whilst ...
All that remains... the teenagers of socialism

All that remains... the teenagers of socialism

13 March – 9 April 2010 | Waterside Projects Space
Originally from Vienna, Austrian artist Gerda Leopold casts the analytic eye of the foreigner on post-‘89 Germany in order to investigate the relationship between history and its residue in the imaginary. Mauer is a ...

News

Austrian curator appointed at The Museum of Modern Art

Independent curator, author, and lecturer Sabine Breitwieser has been appointed Chief Curator of the Department of Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Ms. Breitwieser, who from 1988 to 2007 served as founding Director and Curator of the Generali Foundation, a public contemporary art museum in Vienna, will begin her new position at MoMA on October 4.

Franziska Ullmann and Peter Ebner at Venice Architecture Biennale

Under the title, “People meet in architecture” the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale will take place from 29th August to 21st November 2010. Among the 43 international architects, engineers and artists, invited by the Biennale’s new Director, Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, feature Austrian architects Franziska Ullmann and Peter Ebner.

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Rondo-Studios, Styria: Artist in Residence 2011

The Styrian Provincial Government is offering foreign scholarships to young free-lance artists in all fields from European and non-European countries for the year 2011. These scholarships will be awarded upon proposal by a jury. The deadline is May 31, 2010. More information is provided on www.kulturservice.steiermark.at

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Curator for 54th Venice Biennale 2011 appointed

Minister of Culture Claudia Schmied appointed Eva Schlegel as curator of Austria's contribution to the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

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New MUMOK Director appointed

On 22 March 2010 German art historian Karola Kraus was appointed as new director of the Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK) in Vienna. Incumbent Director Edelbert Köb will resign on 1 October 2010.

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Sculptor Bruno Gironcoli dies

Bruno Gironcoli was one of Austria's most important sculptors of recent times, best known as the creator of monumental, organic shapes and huge distorted replicas of domestic objects, covered in silver or gold paint.  He died in Vienna on 19 February 2010 at the age of 74.  Read the full obituary in the Independent by Marcus Williamson here.