Exhibitions and visual arts : Visual Arts Platform

About Visual Arts Platform

The Visual Arts Platform is hosted by the Austrian Cultural Forum London and presents emerging artists from, or working in Austria, through exhibitions, residencies and artist's talks. Curated by Eva Martischnig and Adriana Marques, who are based in Graz and London, this programme explores local, regional and global contexts of contemporary art by generating new links between Austria and the UK.

Joe Watling & Roswitha Weingrill

Joe Watling & Roswitha Weingrill

24 May – 8 July 2011 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Exhibition continues until Friday 8 July 2011. The second duo show from the Visual Arts Platform, where Austrian artists are brought together with emerging UK artists, presents Joe Watling (who lives and works in London ...
Miriam Bajtala and Blue Curry

Miriam Bajtala and Blue Curry

18 March – 29 April 2011 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Exhibition continues until Friday 6 May 2011 The Visual Arts Platform expands its programme from solo shows of Austrian artists to collaborative duo shows between Austrian and UK based artists. The first such show brings ...
Special Reception for the Frieze Art Fair

Special Reception for the Frieze Art Fair

16 October 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
On the occassion of the Frieze Art Fair the Visual Arts Platform will host a launch party and another opportunity to see the exhibition Repetition Compulsion by Markus Proschek. For more information about the Frieze ...
Markus Proschek: Repetition Compulsion

Markus Proschek: Repetition Compulsion

5 October – 17 December 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
The works of Markus Proschek use history as a reference system. Taking the austere visual material of artworks and architecture from the Austrian Nazi period, Proschek mingles these with material from other historical contexts. The ...
Lick Our Souls: Blended Bodies and Golden Loopholes

Lick Our Souls: Blended Bodies and Golden Loopholes. Elke Auer & Esther Straganz

2 June – 30 July 2010 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Elke Auer and Esther Straganz use found objects, poems and quotidian materials to create installations, performances and wearable sculptures exploring the micro-politics of gender, sex and sexuality. For "Lick Our Souls" at the Visual Arts ...
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 ...

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