BACK TO NATURE May 16.-22 and May 25, 2024
Fotocredit: photo courtesy of Rica Fuentes Martinez and Art Collection Schlichtner
Vernissage: Thursday May 16, 2024 17-22:00 - Rooming Inn, Wiedner Hauptstraße 54/3rd floor, 1040 Vienna
Finissage: Wednesdy May 22, 2024 17-22:00 - Rooming Inn, Wiedner Hauptstraße 54/3rd floor, 1040 Vienna
Opening hours: Monday-Friday 17-20:00, Saturday and Sunday 14-20:00.
Exhibition Vienna Woods: Saturday May 25, 2024, meeting point 13:45 Jubiläumswarte, 1160 Wien (bus 52B or 46B+walk). The exhibition takes place near the Jubiläumswarte/ 1160 Wien in the forest.
The idea of showing an exhibition in a White Cube and then also in a forest gives the opportunity to tell different stories about the works on display. More than 20 artists are there. Once in the city of Vienna, once in the Vienna Woods.
Brian O'Doherty wrote the famous essay "Inside the White Cube : The Ideology of the Gallery Space“" in 1976, in which he described the magic of an enclosed, white-painted art space and compared it to a cathedral. Although he also criticized the White Cube, he saw no alternative to it. His comments were certainly influenced by the site specificity of Minimal Art of the 1960s, which saw the art space as part of the work of art (Judd, Serra, Andre). At this time there were also numerous famous land art projects and works in public spaces that also made the place part of the work of art (Heizer, Smithson, Morris). And performance pioneers like Valie Export, Marina Abramović and Ana Mendieta chose specific locations for their performances. Happenings, activist and political art take up space and location.
These two exhibitions are an examination of the concepts of place and nature, even if the artists are completely free to choose which works and media they show.
With BACK TO NATURE we want to focus on a shared experience, an experience that gains energy and excitement through the prospect of another, completely different exhibition than usual. White Cube versus forest. What will that be like?
Bernhard, Trudi Bloom, David Blumenkind, Christian Eisenberger, Rica Fuentes Martínez, Freakygreenfish, Karl Kilian, June Kitho, Stefanie Koscher, Jakob Liu Wächter, Susan Lisbin, Nikola Milojcevic, Alan Neider, Ol'ga Paštéková, Alexandar Peev, Anna Pelz, Ola Plankenauer, Gert Resinger, Alfred Rottensteiner, Joseph Sakoilsky, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Clemens Stecher, Annette Tesarek, Norbert Unfug/Sebastian Pirch/Dominik Gruenbuehel, Felix Helmut Wagner, Julia Zöhrer, interventions by Anton Herzl, Martin Krammer, Malgorzata Oliwa
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