EXHIBITIONS 2015 Belvedere and Winter Palace Schedule Upper and Lower Belvedere The Perfect Tourist Takes the Perfect Picture Belvedere Gardens 15 June 2014 to 15 June 2015 Jeff Koons - Hulk Upper Belvedere, Sala terrena 4 September 2014 to 4 October 2015 Masterpieces in Focus Josef Dobrowsky Perception and Colour Upper Belvedere 17 September 2014 to 18 January 2015 Hagenbund A European Network of Modernism (1900 to 1938) Lower Belvedere 11 October 2014 to 1 February 2015 LOOKING AT MONET The Great Impressionist and His Influence on Austrian Art Orangery 24 October 2014 to 8 February 2015 Belvedere Christmas tree 2014 Merry HanuKwanzMas! By Verena Dengler Upper Belvedere, Sala terrena 29 November 2014 to 19 January 2015 Jasper Johns: Regrets Upper Belvedere 13 January to 26 April 2015 EUROPE IN VIENNA The Congress of Vienna 1814/15 Lower Belvedere and Orangery 20 February to 21 June 2015 CURRENTLY RESTORED Fragment of the Lenten Veil by Thomas of Villach Medieval Treasury Study Collection in the Palace Stables 6 March to 25 May 2015 Masterpieces in Focus: Friedrich Loos An Artist‘s Life between Vienna, Rome and the North Upper Belvedere 27 March to 12 July 2015 Franz West - Room in Vienna Belvedere Gardens Since April 2015 Ernesto Neto - O tempo lento do corpo que é pele Upper Belvedere, Marble Hall 23 June to 31 August 2015 Klimt and the Ringstrasse A Showcase of Grandeur Lower Belvedere 3 July to 11 October 2015 The Ploner Collection Orangerie 8 July to 27 September 2015 A Hommage to Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller On the 150th anniversary of his death Upper Belvedere 17 July to 26 October 2015 More than ZERO Hans BISCHOFFSHAUSEN Orangery 8 October 2015 to 14 February 2016 The Women of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka Lower Belvedere 22 October 2015 to 28 February 2016 Masterpieces in Focus Gerhart Frankl - Restless Upper Belvedere 18 November 2015 to 3 April 2016 Belvedere Christmas Tree 2015 Manfred Erjautz - Under the Weight of Light Upper Belvedere 28 November 2015 to 2 February 2016 Winter Palace Martin van Meytens the Younger Winter Palace 18 October 2014 to 15 February 2015 Vienna for Art’s Sake! Contemporary Art Show Winter Palace 27 February to 31 May 2015 Rembrandt - Titian - Bellotto Spirit and Splendour of the Dresden Picture Gallery Winter Palace 11 June to 8 November 2015 OLAFUR ELIASSON BAROQUE BAROQUE Winter Palace 21 November 2015 to 6 March 2016 A cooperation between Belvedere, TBA21 and The Juan & Patricia Vergez Collection Upper and Lower Belvedere The Perfect Tourist Takes the Perfect Picture Belvedere Gardens 15 June 2014 to 15 June 2015 With his art installation The Perfect Tourist, Hubertus von Hohenlohe invites both Viennese citizens and tourists to capture the magic of Belvedere Palace in a perfect photograph. Frequently tourists concentrate on collecting photographs or on handling digital devices, while reality moves out of focus. However, those unaware of their surroundings will not be capable of reproducing the spirit of a particular place in a photograph. This is why the one-year project The Perfect Tourist offers visitors to the Belvedere Gardens an opportunity to immortalise themselves in the Baroque ambience of the Lower and the Upper Belvedere with the aid of a specially designed mirror. Once the perfect picture has been taken, the perfect tourist can put the camera away and enjoy the beauty and power of the moment. A mirror measuring approximately 2 by 2.5 metres is positioned in the Belvedere Gardens halfway between the Upper and the Lower Belvedere in such a way that from a given mark and thanks to the principle of reflection both the Upper and the Lower Belvedere plus the spectator can be captured in a photograph. The installation thus meets the desire of tourists for a perfect photographic documentation of their the installation also addresses such notions as reflection and self-reflection and representation and self- representation century-old fundamental points of reference of artistic ambition. The photographer, help people take the perfect photograph at impressive places around the globe year after year, at the Belvedere Gardens. The next stops will be Sydney (Sydney Opera House) and Berlin (Brandenburg Gate). Jeff Koons - Hulk Upper Belvedere, Sala terrena 4 September 2014 to 4 October 2015 The Sala terrena in the Upper Belvedere is joined by another titan: Hulk (Friensds) by artist Jeff Koons will be supporting the four atlantes with his steel power. The stainless steel sculptures by US-artist Jeff Koons became popular in the art market not only for obtaining gigantic prices at auctions but also for the playfulness and lightness of these bronce giants, which became indispensable from the current art discourse. - rigid material. Their highly polished surfaces give them a sublime charisma, allowing also Hulk (Friends) to be integrated in the Sala terrena. From September, the action figure together with its comic-like friends will join the row of giants, enchanting visitors with its radiating power. Masterpieces in Focus Josef Dobrowsky Perception and Colour Upper Belvedere 17 September 2014 to 18 January 2015 In autumn 2014, the Belvedere will highlight the oeuvre of the Austrian painter Josef Dobrowsky (1889 1964), one of the most important Austrian artists of the interwar years and a trailblazer of Modernist painting in Austria, within the framework of the exhibition series Masterpieces in Focus. Appreciated by experts, his works have remained practically unknown to the general public. Born in Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in 1889, Dobrowsky moved to Vienna at the age of eleven, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1906 on under Christian Griepenkerl and Rudolf Bacher and joined the Vienna Secession influence, but are also indebted to Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, and Albin Egger-Lienz. Starting around 1920, Dobrowsky took an interest in Dutch painting, especially in the work of Pieter Breughel the Elder, which is reflected in the warm, dark, and earthy colours of his works from this period. The characteristic employment of colour and light contrasts lends a melancholic atmosphere to his pictures, particularly to became more expressive, and he took to using brighter and more brilliant colours. During this phase, besides painting landscapes, he also increasingly devoted himself to portraiture and still life. Between 1946 and 1963 he taught the master class for painting at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, where, among others, Alfred Hrdlicka, Josef Mikl, and Wolfgang Hollegha numbered among his students. When Dobrowsky died in 1964, he left a comprehensive oeuvre, for which he had received numerous awards, such as the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1962. Masterpieces in Focus: Josef Dobrowsky - Perception and Colour will present the entire spectrum of this artist, who has so far received only insufficient recognition. Besides oil paintings, the exhibition will include drawings and outstanding watercolours. The exhibitions held within the series Masterpieces in Focus are realized with the kind support of the Dorotheum. Hagenbund A European Network of Modernism (1900 to 1938) Lower Belvedere 11 October 2014 to 1 February 2015 The Vienna artist association Hagenbund had a major impact both on the local and Central European art scene between the years 1900 and 1938. It brought together various styles and advanced as early as 1907 to become a leading association for modern art, soon moving beyond Secessionism to represent current trends ranging from Expressionism to New Objectivity. This artist association and its members established themselves through inclusive exhibition policies. Indeed, there was a group show featuring Hungarian, Polish, Czech, and German artists as early as 1907. The Hagenbund therefore represented an after 1918, it was the Hagenbund that provided innovative impulses. It was thanks to the Hagenbund that many fundamental exhibitions of modern art were staged one of the most unrecognized phenomena in Austrian art history. Hagenbund - A European Network of Modernism (1900 to 1938) aims to present this European network and its activities in an innovative way and to provide new perspectives on the development of Austrian modernism, especially between the two world wars. The show is not dedicated to the battle of the isms or classifying art according to formal criteria but addresses the influences and interactions between artists in Vienna, Prague, Munich, Budapest, Lemberg (Lviv), Bratislava, Cracow, and Trieste. This network analysis will for the first time be used as an art-historical tool to explore over nine historic exhibitions staged by the Hagenbund, thus conveying to the viewer this reevaluation of artistic developments in the interwar period. Furthermore, the show presents the interim findings of the two-year Belvedere research project, sponsored by the Österreichische Nationalbank, on the topic of European Network Hagenbund - 1900 to 1938. LOOKING AT MONET The Great Impressionist and His Influence on Austrian Art Orangery 24 October 2014 to 8 February 2015 From 24 October 2014 to 8 February 2015, the exhibition Looking at Monet in the Orangery of the Lower Belvedere will present icons of Impressionism within a survey unique across Europe, as well as their multiple impacts on domestic art production. Thanks to first-rate loans from around the globe, the exhibition will assemble key works by Claude Monet, some of which have never been on view in Austria. Eighteen years after its legendary Monet exhibition in 1996, the Belvedere will again be featuring the maste on Monet as a source of inspiration for contemporary artists who came to emulate his motifs and brushwork. Selected works by this pioneer of modernism will enter into a dialogue with those by Austrian reproduced in magazines and books and displayed in Vienna in exhibitions at the Künstlerhaus, the Secession, and the legendary Miethke Gallery. The large-scale exhibition The Development of Impressionism in Painting and Sculpture of 1903 at the Vienna Secession can be said to have been the most impressive among these shows.