EXHIBITION PREVIEW from June 2017 Belvedere | 21er Haus | Winterpalais

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OVERVIEW

Erwin Wurm – Performative Sculptures 2 June - 10 September 2017 | 21er Haus

Specular Windows - Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 22 June - 29 October 2017 | 21er Haus

Linda Christanell – Picture Again 22 June - 10 September 2017 | 21er Haus

Klimt and Antiquity – Erotic Encounters 23 June - 8 October 2017 | Orangery

Maria Theresa and the Arts 30 June - 5 November 2017 | Lower Belvedere

John III Sobieski - A Polish King in Vienna 7 July - 1 November 2017 | Winterpalais

Instructions for Happiness 8 July - 5 November 2017 | 21er Haus

BC21 Art Award 2017 20 September - 29 October 2017 | 21er Haus

Duet with Artist – Participation as artistic principle 27 September 2017 - 4 February 2018 | 21er Haus

Vienna and Zagreb circa 1900 20 October 2017 - 18 February 2018 | Orangery

Aging Pride 17 November 2017 - 11 March 2018 | Lower Belvedere

Masterpieces in Focus: Rueland Frueauf the Elder and his Circle 23 November 2017 - 18 March 2018 | Upper Belvedere

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21ER HAUS

Erwin Wurm – Performative Sculptures 2 June to 10 September 2017 Curators: Severin Dünser, Alfred Weidinger

There’s no avoiding Erwin Wurm in 2017. Internationally represented in several major exhibitions, his works will most notably be shown alongside Brigitte Kowanz at the Austrian Pavilion of this year’s Art Biennial in Venice.

Starting in June, the 21er Haus will show his statues and performative sculptures. Erwin Wurm has been exploring the expressive possibilities of sculpture for more than 25 years. His diverse oeuvre is as profound as it can be ironic and encompasses almost all genres, extending the concept of sculpture by incorporating interactive, social, and temporal aspects. In his approach, even adhering to a series of instructions for action can become a sculpture. The radicalism of his venture to expand on conventional categorizations is reminiscent of Marcel Duchamp, who declared experimental, visual thinking as an artistic programme that enables new avenues for art to open up.

Around 1990, Wurm found a new form of expression with his Performative Sculptures – a new term that the artist claimed for himself. The solo exhibition at the 21er Haus comprises upwards of 40 performative sculptures and statues, including a series of new works which Wurm developed especially for the show. In his most recent work, he deals with extraordinary examples of architecture and objects of daily use. The starting point is represented by models and blocks of clay, which are usually processed by Wurm himself or other people whom he instructs. Tension arises in the dialogue between the original form of objects and the traces left by the performative interventions, turning the body into the material and the medium of action. In the exhibition, the works of clay are juxtaposed with castings made of bronze, aluminium, iron, or polyester resin.

Credit: Erwin Wurm, House Attack, Performance 2012, © Gerald Plattner

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21ER HAUS

Specular Windows - Reflections on the Self and the Wider World 22 June to 29 October 2017 Curators: Severin Dünser, Luisa Ziaja

Windows are openings that frame the exterior from within, while viewed from the outside, they reflect ourselves. This exhibition follows such inner and outer views and how they interact.

Specular Windows brings together around sixty contemporary works and a selection of historical pieces from the Belvedere collection, all of which revolve around experiences of self and world. The artworks deal with utopias and crises, the horror of the everyday, phenomena of the spiritual, the politicization of the body, as well as sociophysics and psychonautics, surreal worlds and individual mythologies. Drawing from the notion of art as a window to the world, this exhibition takes a look at the tension between the individual and society and reflects its effects on the body and mind.

With works by Marc Adrian, Martin Arnold, Vittorio Brodmann, Georg Chaimowicz, Adriana Czernin, Josef Dabernig, Gunter Damisch, VALIE EXPORT, Judith Fegerl, Michael Franz / Nadim Vardag, Padhi Frieberger, Bernhard Frue, Walter Gamerith, Bruno Gironcoli, Samara Golden, Judith Hopf, Alfred Hrdlicka, Iman Issa, Martha Jungwirth, Jesper Just, Tillman Kaiser, Johanna Kandl, Joseph Kosuth, Susanne Kriemann, Friedl Kubelka / Peter Weibel, Luiza Margan, Till Megerle, Henri Michaux, Muntean Rosenblum, Damian Ortega, Walter Pichler, Tobias Pils, Arnulf Rainer, Ugo Rondinone, Isa Rosenberger, Gerhard Rühm, Markus Schinwald, Toni Schmale, Anne Schneider, Richard Teschner, Simon Wachsmuth, Rudolf Wacker, Anna Witt

Credit: Isa Rosenberger, Espiral, 2010/2013 (Dancer: Amanda Piña, Set image: Reinhard Mayr), © Artothek des Bundes, Videostill: © Isa Rosenberger

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21ER HAUS

Linda Christanell – Picture Again 22 June to 10 September 2017 Curator: Harald Krejci

Artist and filmmaker Linda Christanell, born 1939, is considered one of the key figures of the Austrian feminist avant-garde. The 21er Haus is the first museum in Vienna to highlight her artistic cosmos in a solo exhibition.

Conceived as a retrospective installation, Picture Again features the artist’s work from the past 50 years and explains her pictorial world. The exhibition sets Christanell’s works in spatial relationships with each other. Individual objects such as hatpins, custom jewellery, postcards, and mirrors invariably serve as forms for photographs and films. Drawings, text, photography, film, sculpture, and found objects are woven into a poetic picture story.

A pioneer of feminist art, Linda Christanell has both individually and collectively provided socio-political stimuli. She worked in the fields of painting, object art, installation, performance, and photography before she turned to intensively engaging with the moving image. The focus of her cinematic work is the deconstruction of the traditional male gaze, and to challenge the functional mechanisms of the cinematic medium. The inspiration and thematic focus of her work is the female experience, societal attributions, corporeality, eroticism, and sexuality.

Credit: L.C., 1977, from the image folder of the performance Fingerfächer, 1977, © Archive Linda Christanell

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ORANGERY

Klimt and Antiquity – Erotic Encounters 23 June to 8 October 2017 Curator: Tobias Natter

This exhibition explores the fascinating dialogue between Gustav Klimt’s work and classical art. A selection of examples from the artist’s oeuvre illustrates a fundamental shift in his understanding of antiquity. Whereas his early work, influenced by Historicism, reveals an interest in the details of classical art, after 1900 he translated the spirit of antiquity into his own formal language. The exhibition illustrates this development through juxtaposing Klimt’s work with classical vase painting and casts of sculptures that inspired the artist.

Further highlights are Klimt’s illustrations for a new edition of Dialogues of the Courtesans by Lucian (c. 120–185 A.D.). Published in 1907, this erotic compilation represents a perfect pairing of Klimt’s risqué drawings with Josef Hoffmann’s Wiener Werkstätte design to create one of European Jugendstil’s most beautiful books. Select examples of Attic red-figure vase paintings offer a glimpse of the world in which the classical author Lucian set his Dialogues of the Courtesans. Although separated by more than two millennia, the interplay between classical vase painting and Klimt’s linear art reveals surprising correlations, unveiling new perspectives on how the artist appreciated antiquity.

The exhibition is a cooperation with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Credit: Gustav Klimt, Reinzeichnung zum Plakat der 1. Ausstellung der Secession, 1898, © Wien Museum

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LOWER BELVEDERE

Maria Theresa and the Arts 30 June to 5 November 2017 Curator: Georg Lechner

This is the first exhibition to investigate Maria Theresa’s relationship to the visual arts. Hence the show concentrates on those artistic genres that were of primary importance in her day. They include portraiture and portrait sculpture, which served the purpose of representing the imperial dynasty (with works by Martin van Meytens the Younger, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, and Jean-Etienne Liotard). Allegorical paintings and ceiling frescoes, impressive designs for which have survived (such as by Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Daniel Gran, and Gregorio Guglielmi), fulfilled a similar function. In addition, landscape painting was held in high esteem, with Johann Christian Brand having been exceptionally influential for future generations of artists.

As far as sculpture was concerned, the monarch placed her trust in two masters in particular: Balthasar Ferdinand Moll, who was, among other things, responsible for designing the magnificent sarcophaguses in the Capuchin Crypt, and Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Beyer and his collaborators will be represented in the exhibition with their works.

Finally, the focus will be on the Belvedere itself, for the decision to choose it as the home of the imperial gallery was still made during Maria Theresa’s reign. Numerous of the paintings exhibited then continue to be preserved in the Belvedere’s collection of Baroque art, where they create a direct link to the period in question.

Credit: Friedrich Heinrich Füger, Empress Maria Theresa with Her Children, 1776, © Belvedere, Vienna

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WINTERPALAIS

John III Sobieski - A Polish King in Vienna 7 July to 1 November 2017 Curator: Maike Hohn

The Polish King John III Sobieski (1629–1696) is inextricably linked with the history of Vienna: as commander-in-chief of the allied relief army, the Polish king freed the city from the Ottomans’ siege of several weeks in1683. With this victory, he went down in the annals of global history and the history of Austria.

This exhibition offers the first ever opportunity in the German-speaking region to discover and understand more about John Sobieski and his times. Paintings, precious objects, decorative art, militaria, and memorabilia present a complete and vivid picture of his life and work. The show will shed light on his origins and his career as the elected Polish king, his various roles as successful general and strategic statesman, as patron of the arts, and loving husband and father. Sobieski is a national hero in Poland to this day. The exhibition will not only examine his military achievements, most notably in the Battle of Vienna, but also his interest in art and science, revealing parallels with Prince Eugene who built the Winterpalais.

The exhibition is a coopartion between the Belvedere and the four important Polish residences – the Wawel Royal Castle in Kraków, the Royal Castle in Warsaw, the Museum of King John III’s Palace in Wilanów, and the Royal Łazienki Museum in Warsaw.

Credit: Daniel Schultz d.J., John III Sobieski (1629–1696), Polisch King, 1677–1680, © National Museum in Warsaw

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21ER HAUS

Instructions for Happiness 8 July to 5 November 2017 Curators: Severin Dünser, Olympia Tzorti

Instructions for happiness – an absurd promise? An exhibition at the 21er Haus sets out to explore this subjective, elusive feeling and scrutinizes conceptions of happiness.

Instructions for Happiness is dedicated to the personal pursuit of happiness. Using behavioural guidelines, the works of participating artists invite responses to simulated situations through the use of objects or by interacting with others – or simply provoke the processes of thought.

Arrangements that vary in form and content mirror the diversity of perspectives that the artists – as much as society in general – hold towards being happy. Just as with interpersonal relationships, immediate encounters or everyday situations, happiness may also hide in appreciating the beauty of the little things. The exhibition reflects art’s impact on society and seeks the boundaries of what it can do. Visitors are invited to explore ideas of happiness and to thereby also find their own answers.

Cnedits: Anna Witt, Sixty Minutes Smiling, 2014, Video still, Courtesy Anna Witt

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21ER HAUS

BC21 Art Award 2017 20 September to 29 Oktober 2017 Curator: Luisa Ziaja For the sixth time this year, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Belvedere will present the BostonConsulting & BelvedereContemporary Art Award 2017. The four nominated artists’ works will be on view during an exhibition at the 21er Haus from the 20th of September through the 29th of October. At the beginning of October, an international jury will decide who is to receive the award.

The art prize was founded in 2007 by the Boston Consulting Group and the Belvedere. It is dedicated to artists not older than 40 years of age who are living and working in Austria. The goal is to assist younger-generation artistic creators in gaining international recognition and developing networks, through the support of an exhibition and catalogue publication. Offering a prize of 20,000 euros, the award carries the highest value among prizes for contemporary art donated by the private sector in Austria.

In years past, the BC21 Art Award was given to Constantin Luser (2007), Nadim Vardag (2009), Lucie Stahl (2011), Anna Witt (2013) and Nilbar Güres (2015). Starting on the 20th of September the works of this year’s prize nominees will be on view during an exhibition at the 21er Haus.

Credits: 21er Haus, Photo: © Alfred Weidinger

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21ER HAUS

Duet with Artist – Participation as Artistic Principle 27 September 2017 to 4 February 2018 Curator: Axel Köhne

The audience and its role in the creation of a work of art lie at the centre of the 21er Haus exhibition Duet with Artist. Historical and contemporary positions show how artists activate others and call them to action.

To think of art as an essential part of life in which everyone can participate is not only fundamental to the understanding of art of the 20th and 21st centuries but is one of the fundamental democratic values of our society. Duet with Artist establishes the museum as a central place of participation and presents over 20 international artistic stances, which demand interaction, cooperation, and sometimes also collaboration.

The exhibition addresses the active participation of visitors and encourages a critical and creative attitude. In some situations, the viewers perform an artistic act or become an art object themselves. Thus, evoked ideas can become the work of art, as can the execution of instructions or the collaboration with others. The exhibition expands upon the institution of the museum by calling for social action and creating space for encounters.

A cooperation between the 21er Haus and the Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen, Germany.

Credit: Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2015 (MORGEN IST DIE FRAGE), 2015, Courtesy of the artist an neugerriemschneider, photo © Lisa Rastl

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ORANGERY

Vienna – Zagreb. The Challange of Modernity 20 October 2017 to 18 February 2018 Curators: Petra Vugrinec and Irena Kraševac

In the years around 1900, the multi-ethnic realm of the Habsburg Monarchy experienced a lively exchange of art and culture between Vienna, its center, and the main cities of the Crown lands such as Zagreb. For the development of Croatian art around the turn of the century, this exchange was very significant. In the exhibition, the connections and points of reference at the start of the twentieth century are presented by key works of Austrian and Croatian artists of that period.

Artists and architects who were trained in Vienna brought the new trends in art to Zagreb and, within 2 0 years, the overall character of cultural life at the time was fundamentally changed.

On show are works by Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Carl Moll, Vlaho Bukovac, Ivan Meštrović, Robert Auer, Tomislav Krizman as well as other protagonists of the Viennese and Modernism.

The exhibition is a cooperation with the Klovićevi dvori Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia.

Credit: Gustav Klimt, Friends (Sisters) 1907, © Klimt Foundation, Vienna

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LOWER BELVEDERE

Aging Pride 17 November 2017 to 11 March 2018 Curator: Sabine Fellner

With Aging Pride, the Belvedere has dedicated a comprehensive museum exhibition to the highly topical, socio-political subject of age. It is the first exhibition to contrast historical and contemporary artistic positions on the concept of age with regard to gender roles, the assignment of these roles, and inter-generational solidarity.

These days, the aging process is seen as a deficiency in the public eye. Terms such as ‘anti-aging’ give the impression that aging is something pathological. The prevailing cult of youth endeavours to hide the traces of aging. Aside from negative stereotypes, however, age also indicates power, experience, wisdom, contemplation, lust for life, and triumph over societal conventions. Aging is not only a biological process but a cultural construction, which emerging sciences such as cultural gerontology have dedicated themselves to investigating.

In this show, curator Sabine Fellner demonstrates how artists have succeeded in differently perceiving the possibilities and limitations of age while transcending exaltation and pessimism. In the presented works, artists illustrate how age in all of its facets can be thoughtfully integrated into our lives. In addition to numerous works from the Belvedere collection, the exhibition presents high-profile loans from national and international museums.

Including works by Tina Barney, Max Beckmann, Werner Berg, Herbert Boeckl, Louise Bourgeois, Aleah Chapin, Heinz Cibulka, John Coplans, Lovis Corinth, Tacita Dean, Otto Dix, Eric Fischl, Lucian Freud, Adolf Frohner, Lea Grundig, Alfred Hrdlicka, Alex Katz, Gustav Klimt, Herlinde Koelbl, Broncia Koller, Käthe Kollwitz, Oskar Kokoschka, Brigitte Kowanz, Friedl Kubelka, Maria Lassnig, Robert Mapplethorpe, Karl Mediz, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Marie Louise von Motesiczky, Ron Mueck, Roman Opałka, Pablo Picasso, Arnulf Rainer, Egon Schiele, Cindy Sherman, Joan Semmel, Kiki Smith, Annegret Soltau, Fiona Tan, Spencer Tunick, Bill Viola, Max Weiler and Jeff Wall

Credit: Joyce Tenneson, Christine Lee, 2002, © Joyce Tenneson

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UPPER BELVEDERE

Masterpieces in Focus: Rueland Frueauf the Elder and his Circle 23 November 2017 to 18 March 2018 Curator: Björn Blauensteiner

Rueland Frueauf the Elder, documented in Salzburg and Passau between 1470 and 1507, is one of the most significant Late Gothic painters in the German speaking area. His major work consists of eight large altar panels painted around 1490/91 for a Salzburg church. Having undergone comprehensive restoration during the past few years, they will be in the centre of a focus exhibition at the Upper Belvedere from 23 November 2017 to 18 March 2018.

Besides the œuvre of Frueauf the Elder, which is owned by the Belvedere almost in its entirety, the show will include selected works by artists from Frueauf’s circle, such as by the Master of Großgmain, and, thanks to a generous loan from Klosterneuburg Monastery, the work of Frueauf’s son, Rueland Frueauf the Younger. What will be the first juxtaposition of the father’s output with that of Frueauf the Younger will allow for an in-depth comparison of the two painters. The exhibition will provide impetus with a view to tackling numerous unsolved problems related to the Frueauf circle.

Additional insight will also be supplied by art technological analysis that has been carried out in the course of the restoration of the Salzburg altar panels. Further works of the Frueauf group still await examination. The findings of all of these analyses will be presented in the exhibition and will also be disclosed in a scientific catalogue accompanying the show, which will be the first monographic publication on Rueland Frueauf in more than seventy years.

Exhibitions in the series Masterpieces in Focus are made possible through the generous support of the Dorotheum.

Credit: Rueland Frueauf the Elder, Crucifixion, around 1490/9, Painting on spruce wood, © Belvedere, Vienna

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