Exhibitions and visual arts archive

Deceitful Moon featuring Johannes Vogl

Deceitful Moon featuring Johannes Vogl

21 July – 31 August 2009 | Hayward Gallery
Opening 40 years after the Apollo 11 moon landings, the group exhibition Deceitful Moon does not mark the anniversary of this world-shaping event, but rather commemorates the longstanding doubt that it took place at all ...
Marlene Haring at EAST International

Marlene Haring at EAST International

11 July – 22 October 2009 | Norwich University College of the Arts
Austrian artist Marlene Haring will show her installation Because every hair is different at EAST International, part of Contemporary Art Norwich, a biennial celebration of international contemporary art in venues and city centre sites across ...
Limitations Permitted

Limitations Permitted. Manu Luksch and Neal White in collaboration with FLIX

21 – 28 June 2009 | Peckham Square
Peckham Space presents Limitations Permitted, which will take place in Peckham Square for one week in June. In keeping with our programme so far, this work engages new media to produce a site-specific installation that ...
Corinne Rusch thinking around

Corinne Rusch thinking around. Metaphors in nature

21 April – 26 June 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
A strange mix of stuffed animal hides and photographs create an unsettling atmosphere in thinking around – metaphors in nature by Corinne Rusch. In this new installation at the Austrian Cultural Forum London, Rusch ironically explores ...
Ursula Mayer: Art in the Auditorium

Ursula Mayer: Art in the Auditorium

5 April – 21 June 2009 | Whitechapel Gallery
The Art Deco splendour of Eltham Palace; the cool modernist interior of Erno and Ursula Goldfinger’s house; a salon ofSurrealist objects. These are the stage sets of Ursula Mayer’s films, explorations of ...
Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

Madness & Modernity: Mental illness and the visual arts in Vienna 1900

1 April – 28 June 2009 | Wellcome Collection
he free exhibition Madness & Modernity shows how psychiatry influenced early modernism in the visual arts and how modernism shaped the lives and images of mentally ill people. As well as original paintings, prints, drawings and ...

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.

Read more

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

Read more

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.

Read more

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.

Read more

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.