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.

Markus Proschek: Repetition Compulsion

Up-coming: Markus Proschek: Repetition Compulsion

17 October 2010, 7.00pm | 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 ...
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 ...
Andreas Heller: Blueprint for a Blackout

Andreas Heller: Blueprint for a Blackout. Private view and artist’s talk

27 January 2009, 6.30pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Andreas Heller will be joined by Visual Arts Platform curators Adriana Marques and Ewa Martischnig for a private view and an artist talk.  
Luisa Kasalicky: delay tactics of second rate quality

Luisa Kasalicky: delay tactics of second rate quality

25 November – 21 January 2009 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Luisa Kasalicky calls herself a painter, yet her works rarely conform to a two dimensional painting frame. Inspired by the complex and modular wall-sized collages of Frank Stella, Kasalicky began her painting practice by developing ...

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.