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.

Up-coming: Formless – All Work No Play

18 May 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

An event presented by the Visual Arts Platform at the Austrian Cultural Forum London.NINA HOECHTL, LUKE MCCREADIE & VALENTIN RUHRYThe project “All Work No Play” begins in May with Formless, an evening of events ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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News

Austrian architects at Baltic 39

Austrian architects Jabornegg & Palffy are responsible for the conversion of the six-storey Newcastle arts centre. It is their first British project, though they previously collaborated with Rachel Whiteread on Vienna's Judenplatz Holocaust memorial. Read a full article in the guardian here.

Open Call: Truth is concrete

A full grant programme invites 100 students, artists, activists and theorists from all over the world to attend the “Truth is concrete” marathon camp in Graz. Application deadline is 15/05/2012. Click here for more information.

summer academy traunkirchen

The Summer Academy in Traunkirchen is back for another creative session! This year's course instructors include artists Eva Schlegel, Xenia Hausner, Tone Fink, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Konrad Winter and the Zhou Brothers. To find out more and to register click here.