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2010 Herbert Boeckl. Retrospective This exhibition of Herbert Boeckl's work surveys fifty years of modern art production. Despite the historical vicissitudes of two world wars, the artist – a native Carinthian resident in Vienna – maintained throughout decades a continuous development of his project of a modern movement drawing on the Central European and Mediterranean tradition. Several periods of work span a rich spectrum, from the Vienna Secession artists' use of line, through the 1920s reception of the work of Paul Cézanne and the expressive realism of the 1930s, right up to his post-war planes of colour inspired by cubism. With the early Carinthian landscapes, the drawings and paintings of the Anatomy series (1931), and the major cycles from the post-1945 period, the exhibition shows many highlights from this extremely complex œuvre, linking the ideals of the classical modern movement in the era of Egon Schiele and early Oskar Kokoschka right through the international crisis of the avant-garde in the 1930s and '40s with the beginning of "globalised" production in the 1960s. As professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (1935-64) and an influential personality in the art world of the Federal State (1934-38) and the early Second Republic (after 1945), Boeckl – one of the few officially recognised and valued modern Austrian painters – always provided a link between the Austrian art world and international developments. With his mural in the Church of Maria Saal (1929), the great altar triptych (1934-44) and the frescos in the Benedictine Abbey of Seckau (1952-60), Boeckl also made important contributions to modern sacred art 2009 Contemporary Photography. New Austrian Positions The exhibition is contemporary is focussing on photography in Austria, presenting photo artists who are either native to Carinthia or already represented in the Museum collection, as well as on young Austrian photo artists. It gives an insight into current positions and works by graduates of the photography classes at the Vienna Adacemy of Fine Arts and the University of Applied Arts. Thematically arranged the works of the younger generation is placed in a context-related dialogue with photographs by establishe artists. The themes range from socio-political questions and critical perception of the immediate living environment to new approaches to landscape and portraits. Here the focus is on photography as image, and its surface structure between fiction and reality. Film, video and cartoon animation - closely connected twith the photographic image - are represented as well as are interdisciplinary approaches in combination with photography like installative staging, sculpture and room installation as a common trend to many works. Overall, the exhibition shows the wide range of themes, motifs and technical possibilities available in contemporary photography. On Normality. Art from Serbia 1989-2001 Curator: Dejan Sretenović in cooperation with MoCAB Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad opening: Thursday, July 2, 7 p.m. The exhibition is based on the show On Normality that was showcased in 2005 in the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade. That show is generally regarded as cultural-political milestone in Serbia after the era of Milošević . After the last "Yugoslaw Documenta" in Sarajevo in the summer 1989 and the breakup of Yugoslavia, it represents a first display of ambitious contemporary art on an institutionalised level. It entails a first comprehensive combination of critical artistic positions. which emerged during the Milošević-regime and reflect this era, referring directly or indirectly to political events. In this way, the show achieves that artistic reflection and intellectual processing of a decade marked by wars, ethnic cleansings and general decay that is essential for a socio-political return to so-called normality. The exhibition in MMKK dicusses the immediate past of an European neighbour in view of its artistic production, and thematizes the role and the possibilities of free artistic articulation in hostile ideological surroundings. The attention is drawn towards structures within which political and artistic aspects interfere, and in which remarkable artistic positions reflect collective and personal attitudes and appearances. ARTISTS: Milan Aleksić, Association Apsolutno, Biljana Đurđević, Uroš Đurić, Adrian Kovacs, Zoran Marinković, Goranka Matić, Era Milivojević, Zoran Naskovski, Vladimir Nikolić, Tanja Ostojič, Neša Paripović, Vesna Pavlović, Bálint Szombathy, Talent, Zoran Todorović, Dragoljub Raša Todosijević, Milica Tomić Peter Zimmermann. All You Need With the advent of new image technologies, the so-called New Media, political, social and artistic paradigms were re-negotiated with reference to visual systems. In his creative work since the mid-1980s, Peter Zimmermann (b 1956) has dealt systematically with the topical question of a satisfactory construction for contemporary art. In the works shown here, covering a period of some twenty years, two reflexive strategies become apparent: the early works (mid-1980s – early 1990s) are based primarily on the concept of covering and simulation, whereas his many "blob paintings" (mid-1990s onwards) derive from a mediatisation of the themes. The focus is on cognitive knowledge of the cultural definitive power of visual pictorial methods. Zimmermann uses various simulative techniques (covering, sampling, remixing) to practise an aesthetic of illusion. The materiality and sensuousness of the symbols are revealed as elements of resistance to semiological legibility, and the images appear as seductively shining events in which the instant of contingency presents itself as a paradigm of the Modern Movement. 2008 Arnulf Rainer. Retrospective. Painting in order to end all painting With almost 100 works, this retrospective gives a representative cross-section of the œuvre of Arnulf Rainer, one of the internationally most significant and radical artists of the modern period. The exhibition begins with the earliest, gesturally abstract "centralisations", shown by the artist in the Klagenfurt Künstlerhaus in 1951. In the mid-1950s, Rainer began his series of "overpaintings", executed on works by friends and on historical prints. His treatment of photographs represents a second basic form of reworking. At the end of the 1970s, there followed the death masks, finger-paintings, Cross paintings and tondi. Rainer kept returning to the themes of death and religion, presented in a dynamic interweaving of form and content. His art initiated a prominent and radical confrontation with Austrian tradition and the European/American discourse on the modern period. K08 - emanzipation-confrontation - temporary art in Carinthia after 1945 With a survey of the development of art from 1945 to the present, the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia is the heart of this major exhibition. The turn to abstract painting is documented with works by Hans Bischoffshausen, Johann Fruhmann, Wolfgang Hollegha, Arnulf Rainer, Hans Staudacher, and others. In addition, the path from figuration to the abstract language of forms is traced with a number of graphic works. Examples of sculptures from Fritz Wotruba’s master class, such as works by Otto Eder, Anton Marcolin, and Hanak’s student Othmar Jaindl, demonstrate the rise of sculpture to an internationally acclaimed avant-garde. This leads into the presentation of the Carinthian artists like Hans Bischoffshausen, Kiki Kogelnik and Maria Lassnig, who sought a confrontation with the international avant-garde after World War II and settled in Vienna, Paris, or New York. When Bruno Gironcoli from Carinthia took over the master class for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, this marked the beginning of a new era, which was accompanied by the inclusion of new materials and an expansion and transformation of the concept of sculpture. This development is represented with individual positions from Carinthia. Painting from the 1980s and 90s is presented with works by Giselbert Hoke, Gustav Januš, Kurt Kappa Kocherscheidt, Peter Krawagna, Valentin Oman, Wolfgang Walkensteiner, Reimo Wukounig, and others. This is followed by a contemporary section, leading from the essential trends of the 90s up to the present. Artists such as Ernst Logar, Claus Prokop, Heiko Bressnik and Birgit Pleschberger exemplify the interweaving of sculpture and painting with photography, film, and installation. Textile materials are increasingly used in the area of sculpture as a means of expression in more recent object art, presented through works by artists such as Gudrun Kampl, Barbara Bernsteiner, and Edith Payer. The castle chapel forms the framework for the installation “The Last Support” by the artist Johannes Domenig. MMKK Inter-Nationals The game of football, which dates back to the ancient world, points to a specific cultural tradition. Football has since become an international cultural asset; footballers such as David Beckham, Diego Maradona, Ronaldinho and of course Zinedine Zidane have risen to the status of superstars, idolised as artists in the field. The boundaries and taboos once evoked have vanished, and football has now assumed a place in the art of Post-Modernism. Under the title "MMKK International Match", the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art presents a series of high-ranking international, national and regional artists. In painting, installations, photos, films and staged productions, they reflect the phenomenon of football – witty, critical, ingenious, and of course playful. works by Stephan Balkenhol (GER), Stefan Banz (SUI), Werner Büttner (GER), Josef Dabernig (AUT), Stephen Dean (FRA), Manfred Erjautz (AUT), Werner Feiersinger (AUT), Thomas Grünfeld (GER), G.R.A.M. (AUT), Julie Henry (GBR), Gudrun Kampl (AUT), Cornelius Kolig (AUT), Markus Krön (AUT), Maria Lassnig (AUT), Olaf Nicolai (GER), Gabriel Orozco (MEX), Simon Patterson (GRB), Roman Signer (SUI) abstract Deliberately running contrary to the general focus on "new figurative" painting, the MMKK is compiling a historical thread of artistic abstraction in the 21st century. The exhibition will include 25 internationally distinguished artistic positions of the second and third post-1945 generations. The artists work at the boundary lines in the Modern Movement, exploring abstraction from new angles and without pathos. In abstract conception – in painting, sculpture and room installations – many of them have recourse to the visual repertoire of historical models, reflecting the ideas of the Classical Modern and its influence on the 20th and 21st centuries. Conventional attributions are made manifest, and the artist's position and artistic concept are critically questioned, together with conditions of reception and the production process itself. In particular, the position of the artist as author or creator is condensed and endowed with meaning far beyond the post-modern gesture of the quotation. All the works stand out by virtue of their unpretentious openness to abstract imagery. Intrinsic elements such as form, surface, colour, light, materiality and space function as symbols with implied significance and a challenge to come to grips with the content. Revealed here are contemporary cultural representational strategies which bring up to date the central themes of modern aesthetic discourse. 2007 Hans Staudacher. A retrospective On the occasion of the 85th birthday of Hans Staudacher, the MMKK is presenting a comprehensive exhibition of works. Staudacher, who enjoys a worldwide reputation, is regarded as the principal Austrian representative of the "lyric informel " style. A native of Villach, he moved to Vienna in 1950, where he still lives. During the period 1954-1962 he was frequent visitor to Paris, the centre of "art informel". Since the early 1950s, Staudacher has created abstract works with lyrical, gestural imagery; there emerges an open yet precise structuring which he consistently takes up and varies. The exhibition offers an overview of Staudacher's Oeuvre, including a considerable numer of works shown in public for the first time. Frammenti dell'Arte Povera In cooperation with the renowned private collector from Cologne, Reiner Speck, the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia presents for the first time Mario Merz (1925 – 2003) and Jannis Kounellis (born in 1936), two leading proponents of ‘Arte Povera’ (poor art). The presentation of this art movement, which was developed in Italy in the 60s, not only brings the art up to date and refreshes our memories, but, above all, also questions its validity. Blickwechsel No. 3 aus der Sammlung, Kunstankäufe 05/06 In the exhibition blickwechsel No.3 the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia presents at regular intervals the newly purchased art works of the provincial collection. The focus is mainly on new art trends by young Carinthian artists which together provide an impressive and comprehensive overview of the regional art scene. Donald Baechler, sculpture and painting; Blickwechsel No. 3 aus der Sammlung, Kunstankäufe 05/06 Donald Baechler, sculpture and painting For the first time in Europe the Museum of Modern Art Carinthia features a comprehensive exhibition by the renowned American artist Donald Baechler. In his work Baechler, born in 1956, concentrates on a few symbolic motifs which he selects from varying contexts and interprets in his unique way. The openness of his objects relates well to modern times and makes engaging with his art an interesting experience. 2006 Giselbert Hoke - NADA The Museum of Modern Art in Carinthia is presenting almost 100 paintings made by Giselbert Hoke in the exhibition NADA. Hoke, who was born in Bohemia and is nearly 80 years old, became famous overnight in 1956 for the frescoes he produced in the hall of the railway station in Klagenfurt - for which he became, initially, rejected. He has been living permanently in Carinthia since 1961. At the centre of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Carinthia, there are 22 recent large-format works on canvas which, with a few exceptions, have never been presented in public. They are, as Hoke himself says, "completely non-representational, abstract, and unnamed, the subject of which is the picture itself ..." They represent an unprecedented quality in the artist's work, and surprise those who know his work, while still carrying the artist's unmistakable trademark. Small-format paintings, partly - although merely coded - graphic paintings on paper, which were created in the last few years or earlier, complete them and illustrate Hoke's method of work. They originate from the subject areas of figure and landscape, and illustrate his path to abstraction. Curator of the exhibition and editor of the richly illustrated book which will be published on the occasion of the exhibition is Wieland Schmied. facing 1200°, Glasskulpturen der Berengo Collection, Venezia The tradition of Murano art glass and modernity: a dream made true by Adriano Berengo through the Berengo Collection, which celebrates its fifteenth anniversary this year. The collection i the result of the magical encounter of several artists from all over the world with glass. This age-old material, for its brighness, fluidity and transparency, perfectly suits contemporary art needs and utopian ideals. The artist's poetic intuition, combined with the Murano glass masters's know-how, is the alchemy which brings into being over 300 stunning sculptures which will be displayed for the first time ever at the Museum of Modern Art in Klagenfurt. artists: Henrik Allert, Elvira Bach, Luigi Benzoni, Ernst Billgren, Sergio Bovenga, Martin Bradley, Dusciana Bravura, Mark Brusse, Pino Castagna, James Coignard, Reinhoud D'Haese, Erik Dietmann, Paul Flora, Gerda Gruber, Adi Holzer, Ursula Huber, Marya Kazoun, Christoph Kiefhaber, Koji Kinutani, Kiki Kogelnik, Riccardo Licata, Bengt Lindström, Roberto Matta, Aldo Mondino, Irene Naef, Teruo Onuma, Irene Rezzonico, Juan Ripollés, Sandro Sergi, Shozo Shimamoto, Lolita Timofeeva, Imai Toshimitsu, Hannes Van Es, Jan Van Oost, Michel Van Overbeeke, Koen Vanmechelen, Claude Venard, Silvio Vigliaturo, Luciano Zarotti, Robert Zeppel-Sperl, Tatiana Zhurkov BIS HEUTE - Zwei Jahrhunderte moderner Kunst in Kärnten UP TO NOW - two hundred years of modern art in Carinthia Maria Lassnig - body awareness painting Maria Lassnig is considered to be one of the most important and signigicant contemporary artists of international renown. The exhibition, based on the holdings of the Essl Collection, comprises works from the mid-60s until 2003. The exhibition focuses on paintings, this selection is supplemented by the presentation of films and sculptures. In a significant collection between reality and fiction, Maria Lassnig produces striking and sensitive symbols which mark her artist position. 2005 Johann Fruhmann - a retrospective On the 20th anniversary of Johann Fruhmann's death the MMKK shows a retrospective on this Carinthian artist, who used to be quite reknowed in his lifetime, for the past few years wrongfully having fallen in oblivion though. colour.spaces Georg Herold Interior View - Künstler erforschen die Sprache der Architektur
16.03.2005 - 29.05.2005:
2004 blickwechsel aus der sammlung n°1 Eremiten-Kosmopoliten
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Sammlung Liaunig - 13 Kärntner Positionen nach 1945 2003
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