Anthea Hamilton, Hauptraum Anne Speier, Galerie James Richards & Leslie Thornton, Grafisches Kabinett Press Conference: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 A.M
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2018 PREVIEW EXHIBITION PROGRAMME February 9 – April 22, 2018 Rudolf Polanszky, Hauptraum February 9 – April 1, 2018 Haris Epaminonda, Grafisches Kabinett Press conference: Thursday, February 8, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, February 8, 2018, 7 p.m. April 13 – June 17, 2018 Bouchra Khalili, Galerie April 13 – June 3, 2018 Elaine Reichek, Grafisches Kabinett Press conference: Thursday, April 12, 2018, 11 a.m. Opening: Thursday, April 12, 2018, 7 p.m. June 29 – September 2, 2018 Group exhibition curated by Anthony Huberman Hauptraum, Gallery, Grafisches Kabinett Press conference: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7 p.m. September 14 – November 4, 2018 Anthea Hamilton, Hauptraum Anne Speier, Galerie James Richards & Leslie Thornton, Grafisches Kabinett Press conference: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. November 16, 2018 – January 20, 2019 Ed Ruscha, Hauptraum Philipp Timischl, Galerie Kris Lemsalu, Grafisches Kabinett Press conference: Thursday, November 15, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, November 15, 2018, 7 p.m. Permanent presentation: Gustav Klimt – The Beethoven Frieze (1902) Changes brought about by Renovation Work in 2017/2018 The Secession will remain open to visitors and continue to present exhibitions during the renovations. However, for technical reasons, selected areas will be closed intermittently. June 29 – September 2, 2018 Other Mechanisms Group exhibition curated by Anthony Huberman Press conference: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, June 28, 2018, 7 p.m. Lutz Bacher, Menu, 2002, mixed media Collection of Robin Wright In the summer of 2018, the curator Anthony Huberman will propose a group exhibition that will take up all three of the building’s exhibition areas. Titled Other Mechanisms, Huberman’s exhibition for the Secession considers the way artists work with and within mechanisms. Broadly defined, a mechanism refers to machines, tools, or devices, but also to the more abstract system of standards, protocols, or parameters that structure much of today’s economic and political administration and management. The works in the exhibition reflect on the way machines are not only physical objects but have become infrastructural, a part of the technological present that is more difficult to shut down or turn off. The exhibition examines how art might contest a world that values efficiency and productivity by including works that test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs from their inputs. Building on Mechanisms, presented at the Wattis Institute in San Francisco (October 2017–February 2018), Huberman’s show at the Secession will elaborate on his curatorial research and develop it in new directions. While aspects of both exhibitions will overlap, the display at the Secession will involve a range of new perspectives, additional artists, and a consideration of the local Viennese context. Huberman has been director and chief curator of the Wattis Institute, San Francisco, since 2013. In 2010, he established the Artist’s Institute, in New York, where he developed a model for longer-term seasons dedicated to the work of individual artists. Huberman’s previous appointments included stints at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, SculptureCenter, New York, and MoMA PS1, New York. Anthony Huberman, born in 1975 in Geneva, lives and works in San Francisco. Invited by the board of the Secession Curator: Anthony Huberman Project management: Jeanette Pacher September 14 – November 4, 2018 Anthea Hamilton Press conference: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. Anthea Hamilton, Reimagines Kettle’s Yard, 2016, exhibition view The Hepworth Wakefield. Courtesy the artist, Kettle’s Yard and The Hepworth Wakefield, Photo: Stuart Whipps The British artist Anthea Hamilton’s interdisciplinary interest in performance is evident in her three- dimensional arrangements, theatrical ensembles whose tableau-like quality makes them reminiscent of stage sceneries or film sets. Her sculptures, idiosyncratic constructions precariously balanced between emergence and collapse, function like props for stories that remain to be told. The work of the artist, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2016, grows out of wide-ranging research, whether she explores strands in cultural history such as the roots of 1970s disco, art-historical references like Art Nouveau, Italian furniture design or ancient Japanese theatre, documentary photography or lichen. Each subject is studied closely and used as a lens through which to understand the world. Asked about her sources of inspiration, Hamilton has frequently mentioned the French writer Antonin Artaud and his idea of a “physical knowledge of images.” It is this bodily response to an idea or an image that she wants us to experience when we encounter her work and its use of unexpected materials, scale and humour; like the off-kilter proportions of the various elements, they attest to the fine sense of humour that sustains her art. Many of her installations incorporate objects that caught her attention because of their tactile qualities or fascinating oddness. Other works grow out of autobiographical references and allusions to Hamilton’s own body; cut-outs of her legs have come to be regarded as a leitmotif in her oeuvre. Anthea Hamilton, born in 1978 in London, lives and works in London. The exhibition program is conceived by the board of the Secession. Curator: Jeanette Pacher Exhibition cooperation: The exhibition of Anthea Hamilton is being produced in cooperation with Phileas – A Fund for Contemporary Art. September 14 – November 4, 2018 Anne Speier Press conference: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. Anne Speier, Runner being ahead of her time, 2015, Courtesy the artist and Meyer Kainer Vienna Anne Speier makes art in two dimensions, working in painting, photography, collage, analog printing techniques, and digital image editing, but she also creates installations and sculptures, often revisiting characters from her pictures and transferring them into three-dimensional space. Speier’s representational and figurative visual idiom grows out of experimental interactions between different media such as photography, painting, and various printing techniques. The specific characteristics and material requirements of the techniques she employs leave traces that are no less integral to her compositions than their subjects proper. Blending painting, photography, printing, and cutout techniques, the artist furnishes multilayered stages on which social roles are enacted. The protagonists of Speier’s visual worlds are often female, androgynous, or sexless. Their appearance is mutable, varying between bulkily amorphous figures and comedic illustrations whom she lends individual personalities by endowing them with characteristic facial expressions or unusual gestures. Anne Speier, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1977, studied at Frankfurt’s Städelschule. She currently lives in Vienna, where she teaches in the Object Sculpture Studio at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. The exhibition program is conceived by the board of the Secession. Curator: Bettina Spörr September 14 – November 4, 2018 James Richards & Leslie Thornton Press conference: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, September 13, 2018, 6:30 p.m. James Richards and Leslie Thornton, Crossing, video still, digital video, 19 min. 12 sec., 2016. Courtesy die Künstlerin and Rodeo, London Belonging to two distinct artist generations and contexts, James Richards and Leslie Thornton developed their first collaborative project Crossings in 2016. This video installation materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists, both enabled and limited by exchanging footage via online sharing platforms. Thornton, a media artist who herself was influenced by Paul Sharits, Yvonne Rainer, and Joan Jonas often deploys projections complicated by ample sound-image interactions. Likewise, musical composition is key to Richard’s practice. Both artists’ work is motivated by their understanding of cinema and video as original languages and forms of thinking. The work’s title evokes the artists’ mode of working together, traversing their practices and sharing their views. Equally, it alludes to CROSSROADS (1976), a short film by Bruce Conner that reworks footage of the U.S. 1946 nuclear tests in the Bikini Atoll. Conner confronts the viewer with slow-motion imagery which is at times out of sync with a soundtrack composed by experimental music pioneers. Similarly, the strictly organized frame of Richard and Thornton’s video allows the artists to juxtapose, modulate, and iterate recurring image fragments and sonic impulses. Assembled from both found material and original footage from their own extensive archives, Crossings moves through multiple stages and eventually morphs into an audiovisual note on artistic production and collaboration. (Text: Christoph Chwatal) Leslie Thornton born in 1951 in Knoxville (Tennessee), lives and works in New York. James Richards (born 1983) is a British artist who lives in Berlin and London. The exhibition program is conceived by the board of the Secession. Curator: Annette Südbeck November 16, 2018 – January 20, 2019 Ed Ruscha Press conference: Thursday, November 15, 2018, 10 a.m. Opening: Thursday, November