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Saturday, June 15

Galleries

Galerie Andreas Huber
Schleifmühlgasse 6-8 / +4315860237 / galerieandreashuber.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Galerie Andreas Huber specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Bank Austria Kunstforum
Freyung 8 / +4315373326 / bankaustria-kunstforum.at
Sat - Thu 10am to 8pm
Meret Oppenheim: Retrospective
Mar 21 - Jul 14, 2013
Curated by Heike Eipeldauer
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Charim Galerie
Dorotheergasse 12/1 / +4315120915 / charimgalerie.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
Daniel Pitin Traps
May 3 - Jul 13, 2013
Exhibition
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Christine König Galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1A / +4315857474 / christinekoeniggalerie.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Christine König Galerie specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
Window 24: SKIP ARNOLD
May 16 - Jun 22, 2013
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PIERRE BISMUTH Liquids and Gels
May 16 - Jun 22, 2013
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MONICA BONVICINI | CÄCILIA BROWN | GABRIELE EDLBAUER | JULIA HOHENWARTER is my territory curated by MONICA BONVICINI
Jun 28 - Jul 27, 2013 Reception: Thu Jun 27 6pm - 10pm
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Galerie Emanuel Layr
An der Hülben 2 / +4315245490 / emanuellayr.com
Tue - Fri 12pm to 6pm, Sat 12pm to 3pm
Galerie Emanuel Layr specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Kerstin Engholm Gallery
Schleifmühlgasse 3 / +4315857337 / kerstinengholm.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Kerstin Engholm Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Ernst Hilger Modern
Dorotheergasse 5 / +4315125315 / hilger.at
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 10am to 4pm
Galerie Hilger specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Gabriele Senn Galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1A / +4315852580 / galeriesenn.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Gabriele Senn Galerie specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman | Vienna
Seilerstätte 7 / +4315120840 / galeriethoman.com
WALTER PICHLER Zwei Tröge, Wasserrinnen
Apr 27 - Oct 5, 2013
With deep regret we are opening the first WALTER PICHLER exhibition without the artist himself who unfortunately passed last summer.
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MARIA BRUNNER Klar Schilf zum Geflecht
May 4 - Jun 29, 2013
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BRUNO GIRONCOLI
Jul 6 - Oct 5, 2013 Reception: Sat Jul 6 12pm - 4pm
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Georg Kargl Fine Arts
Schleifmühlgasse 5 / +4315854199 / www.georgkargl.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Galerie Georg Kargl specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
OTTO RETTER: Palindromikonen 2002 Palindromikonen 2002
Apr 20 - Jun 22, 2013
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Parallel zu Hans Peter Litschers „Operation Otto Retter“ beim donaufestival wird die Ausstellung „rats live on no evil star“ mit einer repräsentativen Auswahl von Otto Retters PALINDROM-IKONEN erstmals auch Einblick in Retters jüngste und letzte Schaffensphase als bildender Künstler gewähren.
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Georg Kargl BOX MANUEL KNAPP
May 17 - Jun 22, 2013
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Georg Kargl Fine Arts: MARCEL VAN EEDEN The Restaurant
May 17 - Jun 22, 2013
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Marcel van Eeden - The Restaurant

Marcel van Eeden wird demnächst in Wien seine nächste Einzelausstellung „The Restaurant“ bei Georg Karg Fine Arts in Wien am 16. Mai eröffnen.

Marcel van Eeden, 1965 in den Haag geboren zählt zu den wichtigsten internationalen Zeichnern der Gegenwart.
In seinen umfangreichen Bilderzyklen verbindet van Eeden reale und fiktive Biografien. Seit 1993 erstellt van Eeden mindestens eine, manchmal auch mehrere pro Tag, die er in zunehmend größere Serien einbindet. Auf Streifzügen durch Antiquariate, Archive, Bibliotheken und Flohmärkte sammelt der Künstler die Bildmotive, die ihm für seine Zeichnungen als Vorlage dienen. Dass die Zeitungen, Bücher und Fotos ausschließlich aus der Zeit vor seinem Geburtstag am 22. November 1965 entstanden sein müssen, weist auf die intensive Beschäftigung van Eedens mit dem Tod und dem ‘Nicht-Dasein’ hin - alles kreist um die Zeit, bevor er geboren wurde.

Für seine Bilderzyklen wählt er jedoch nie historisch bedeutsame Ereignisse, sondern alltägliche Orte oder banale Situationen. Es sind Landschaften, architektonische Ansichten, Menschen, einzelne Objekte, oft Ausschnitte und immer unbekannte vergessene Motive und Geschichten, die er auswählt und in ein immergleiches, kleines, kompaktes Format setzt. Auffallend ist dabei nicht nur die Virtuosität seiner schwarzweißen Graphitzeichnungen, in starken schwarz weiß Kontrasten, sondern seine lockere Art, mit historischen Motiven zu jonglieren, mysteriöse Figuren mit noch mysteriöseren Ereignissen zu verstricken und das Ganze in ein ästhetisch plausibles Gesamtkonzept einzubetten.

Seit seiner Teilnahme an der 4. Berlin Biennale (2006) ist Marcel van Eeden mit zahlreichen Ausstellungen international vertreten. So widmete ihm u.a. der Kunstverein St. Gallen, die Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, die Bawag Contemporary in Wien, das Haus am Waldsee in Berlin, das Kunstforum Baloise in Basel oder das Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle umfangreiche Einzelausstellungen. Seine Arbeiten waren darüber hinaus im Museum of Modern Art, NY, im Stedeliijk Museum Amsterdam, in der Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm in der Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover oder im Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kopenhagen zu sehen.
Galerie Gerersdorfer
Währinger Straße 12 / +4313108484 / gerersdorfer.at
Wed - Sun 11am to 8pm
Franz Blaas, Tone Fink, Michela Ghisetti, Alfons Pressnitz et. al PAPER WORK
Jun 6 - Jul 6, 2013
The exhibition shows works on and with paper in different techniques.
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Galerie Hubert Winter
Breite Gasse 17 / +4315240976 / galeriewinter.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
Ingo Nussbaumer
Apr 25 - Jun 15, 2013
Ingo Nussbaumer is not only proficient in absolute geometry, it is also color that appoints his artistical and theoretical work.
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Ingo Nussbaumer is not only proficient in absolute geometry, it is also color that appoints his artistical and theoretical work. There is no way of avoiding Goethe, who speaks in his theory of color about the aesthetic and moral effect of color. Colors are able to record and express the vaguest and the strongest movements of the soul and simultaneously they claim dedication to the depth and to the abundance of their character. Their area stays mysterious and unseizable.

Galerie Hubert Winter will present new works by the Viennese artist Ingo Nussbaumer: four paintings, four watercolors and a staggered object. The last one mentioned consists of seven panels. It is titled „Bild-Abnahme“ (picture-abatement)
and relates to Jaques-Luis David´s „Oath of the Horatii (Le Serment des Horaces)“ from 1784 (Louvre, Paris). This is the first part of a larger project that the artists calls „Die Befreiung der Horatier“ (The release of the Horatii)“. Ingo Nussbaumer focuses on the geometrical composition that was developed in the French Age of Enlightment and expresses the beginning to autonomy of geometry in paintings. (please compare to Hans Körner, Auf der Suche nach der ‚wahren Einheit‘. Ganzheitsvorstellungen in der französischen Malerei und Kunstliteratur. Munich 1988)
The watercolors are from the series „Kaspar Hauser’s Versuch die befohlene Tonlage zu torpedieren“(Kaspar Hausers´attempt to torpedo the ordered theme). It is the sentence that Kaspar Hauser was taught by the stranger who kept him „A söchtener Reuter möcht i wern, wie mein Voater gwen is“(I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was) that became for him a universal applicable explication, usable for various meanings. Ingo Nussbaumer modulates the theme figurative on the basis of a leading structure.
Krinzinger Projekte
Schottenfeldgasse 45 / +4315128142 / projekte.galerie-krinzinger.at
Wed - Fri 3pm to 7pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
Krinzinger Projekte specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Krinzinger
Seilerstätte 16 / +4315133006 / galerie-krinzinger.at
Tue - Fri 12pm to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Galerie Krinzinger specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Krobath | Wien
Eschenbachgasse 9 / +4315857470 / www.galeriekrobath.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Galerie Krobath specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Julian Opie
Jun 7 - Jul 27, 2013
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Julian Opie’s landscapes are illustrations of real-life locations, integrated into his works as moving or still elements. The reduction of the form is based in the abstraction of the 20th century, which he subjects to even greater changes with the help of computer technology. This approach can also be linked to the tradition of Japanese colour woodcuts from the first half of the 19th century, which have the same silhouette-like features found in Opie’s works. In his exhibition at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna in 2008, for example, Opie presented his animation Eight Views of Japan, which was reminiscent of landscape woodblock prints by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) whose works are part of the Collection of the British Museum and have influenced Opie’s approach to this field. Opie in fact travelled through the Japanese countryside to find inspiration for his works in which he has often integrated the commonly reproduced motif of Mount Fuji.

The current exhibition at the Krobath Gallery features Opie’s latest landscapes as stills or animations, which allude to the barely perceivable changes in a landscape. Here, the flatness of the environment reflects the green meadows stretching for kilometres and the serpentine grey roads, generating the sense of emptiness that can be felt in such environments.
The animated landscapes are hooked in endless loops, intensifying the feeling of monotony. In detailed takes, Opie examines computer-animated trees moving in subtle motion sequences on LCD screens. The portrait format of these works – entitled Apple Tree, Evening Sun and Shooting Star – symbolises the connection to the illustrated landscape, and the varying hues of sky blue contrast with the green fields in the landscape format paintings.
The works also display elements of 19th century landscape painting, which examine the immediacy of nature-related notions of the idyllic, depicting nature in its pristine form, untouched by human hand. Moreover, Opie’s landscapes are influenced by the work of Dutch painter Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, one of the most influential 17th Century landscape painters from Haarlem. His work relates especially to woodland scenes and the meticulous rendering of tree details, which is also found in Opie’s work. Hence, Opie draws on such art history traditions, yet deconstructs them using his trademark computer-aided style and scrutinises their very essence. Current tools like Google Maps and Google Earth as well as built-in computer games help to stimulate the creation of environments that synthesise painterly tradition with current forms of digital visualisation. Slow-motion helps to make the works oscillate between still and moving images, which often creates a trompe-l’œil effect that triggers a more thorough look at the works. Being calm and contemplative, these works may be said to convey the feelings of the beholder when viewing the landscape.

Walter Seidl
(English translation: Mandana Taban)
Galerie Lisa Ruyter
Kantgasse 3/20 / +4315056100 / galerielisaruyter.com
Mon - Fri 3pm to 7pm, Sat 2pm to 6pm
Galerie Lisa Ruyter specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Lukas Feichtner Gallery
Seilerstätte 19 / +4315120910 / feichtnergallery.com
Tue - Fri 10am to 6pm, Sat 10am to 4pm
Lukas Feichtner Gallery specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Martin Janda
Eschenbachgasse 11 / +4315857371 / martinjanda.at
Tue - Fri 1pm to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Galerie Martin Janda specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Nilbar Güres Nilbar Wien-NA
Jun 7 - 27, 2013
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Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna
Weihburggasse 26 / +4319042004 / galerie-mam.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art Vienna specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Meyer Kainer
Eschenbachgasse 9 / +4315857277 / meyerkainer.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Galerie Meyer Kainer specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
Marcin Maciejowski
Jun 7 - Jul 27, 2013
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Galerie Mezzanin
Getreidemarkt 14/Eschenbachgasse / +4315264356 / galeriemezzanin.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Galerie Mezzanin specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Momentum
Schleifmühlgasse 1 / +4312288893 / momentum.co.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 7pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Momentum specializes in photography. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder
Grünangergasse 1 / +4315121266 / schwarzwaelder.at
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 4pm
Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder specializes in modern and contemporary art.
Katharina Grosse Snakes lie between her and the store
May 3 - Jun 29, 2013
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Projektraum Viktor Bucher
Praterstrasse 13/1/2 / +4312126930 / projektraum.at
Tue - Fri 2pm to 7pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Projektraum Viktor Bucher specializes in contemporary art. Please contact the gallery for more information.
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Galerie Renner Prinz
Margaretenstraße 9 / +43 1 5812549 / rennerprinz.com
Galerie Renner Prinz specializes in contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Steinek
Eschenbachgasse 4 / +4315128759 / galerie.steinek.at
Tue - Fri 1pm to 6pm, Sat 11am to 3pm
Me And My Muses
Jun 6 - Jul 19, 2013
Robert Barry, Dorothy Iannone, Katarzyna Kozyra, Rong Rong, Jan Saudek, Michaela Spiegel, Jean Luc Vilmouth, Peter Weibel
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Galerie Suppan Contemporary
Habsburgergasse 5 / +435355352 / www.suppancontemporary.com
Tue - Sat 11am to 6pm
The Gallery is dedicated to contemporary art, promoting young and upcoming artists but also those that are internationally well recognized.
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Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky
Grünangergasse 6 / +4315137676 / www.hrobsky.at
Tue - Fri 1pm to 6pm, Sat 11am to 5pm
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky specializes in contemporary painting and sculpture. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Galerie Ulysses
Opernring 21 / +4315871226 / kunstnet.at/ulysses
Tue - Fri 12pm to 6pm, Sat 10am to 1pm
Galerie Ulysses specializes in modern and contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Museums

Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1 / +431534830 / albertina.at
Mon - Tue 10am to 6pm, Wed 10am to 9pm, Thu - Sun 10am to 6pm
Albertina presents exhibitions and collections of ancient to modern art. Please contact museum for more information.
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BAWAG Contemporary
Franz Josefs Kai 3 / +434359905919 / www.bawag-foundation.at
2pm to 8pm daily
BAWAG is a nonprofit exhibition space supporting contemporary artists. Please contact the gallery for more information.
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Brot Kunsthalle
Absberggasse 27, Stair 1 / +4315125315 / brotkunsthalle.com
Thu - Sat 12pm to 6pm
Brot Kunsthalle presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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Generali Foundation
Wiedner Hauptstraße 15 / +4315049880 / foundation.generali.at
Tue - Wed 11am to 6pm, Thu 11am to 8pm, Fri - Sun 11am to 6pm
The Generali Foundation presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Währinger Strasse 59, 2nd Staircase, first floor / +4314012141 / kunsthalleexnergasse.wuk.at
Tue - Fri 1pm to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm
Kunsthalle Exnergasse shows and produces exhibitions of contemporary art. Please contact gallery for more information.
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Kunsthalle Wien
Museumsplatz 1 / +431521890 / kunsthallewien.com
Fri - Wed 10am to 7pm, Thu 10am to 9pm
Kunsthalle Wien presents exhibitions and collections of contemporary art. Program highlights range from photography & video to new media.
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Leopold Museum
Museumsplatz 1 / +43152570 / leopoldmuseum.org
Mon 10am to 6pm, Wed 10am to 6pm, Thu 10am to 9pm, Fri - Sun 10am to 6pm
Leopold Museum presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
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MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst
Stubenring 5 / +431711360 / mak.at
Tue 10am to 10pm, Wed - Sun 10am to 6pm
The MAK is a museum and space of experimentation for applied arts at the interface of design, architecture, and contemporary art.
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Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (Mumok)
Museumsplatz 1 / +431525000 / mumok.at
Mon 2pm to 7pm, Tue - Wed 10am to 7pm, Thu 10am to 9pm, Fri - Sun 10am to 7pm
inprogress. Works from the mumok Collection
Feb 22, 2013 - Feb 23, 2014
The exhibition shows a comprehensive collection of classical modernism.
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Verena Dengler Fantastic Socialism
Feb 23 - Jun 23, 2013
Verena Dengler is a master of the pointed allusion. She unites pictures, sculptures, textiles and found materials into a poetic universe.
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Albert Oehlen
Jun 8 - Oct 20, 2013
This will be Oehlen’s first Austrian overview exhibition and present his paintings from the early 1980s up to the present day.
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Albert Oehlen is not only one of the most influential contemporary painters, he is also one of the most controversial. To no small extent, his project of up-dating painting is based on using the medium against not only its critics but also its naive defenders. He purposefully exposes painting to confrontations on a number of fronts: with its history, with its clichés and, equally, with its missed opportunities; with the supremacy of the advertising and pop industries and thus with the images that appear as the expression of the contemporary language of desire. This will be Oehlen’s first Austrian overview exhibition and present his paintings from the early 1980s up to the present day, including key works from the various work groups and creative periods.
The beginning of Oehlen's commitment to painting is based on confrontation: with limitations and, coupled with a measure of impertinence, with social and media-related norms and traditions. Oehlen concentrates on particular colours (mostly musty shades of brown), stale symbols (the mirror) and ideologically encumbered genres (the self-portrait). These are tactical measures designed to involve painting in embarrassing situations. It is as if Oehlen is permanently engaged in trying to turn the tables, and to blur the clean boundary lines between good and bad, traditional and progressive, critical and reactionary. In the 1990s and 2000s Oehlen continually produced new series of works in which he developed an almost unending arsenal of painterly signs and symbols: “post-non-representational” pictures which made the simultaneous presence of figurative, narrative, and abstract elements possible; computer generated images that were then overpainted in which Oehlen confronted painting with a world under the influence of digital technology; poster pictures inspired by computer games; and, finally, gray paintings whose surreal representational character is counteracted by a Gerhard Richterish blurring.
The Vienna exhibition is confrontational, setting one work group off against another, all of which are engaged in a perpetual “opposition of ideas” (Albert Oehlen). They suggestively impart a mutual charge, make commentaries, or interrogate one another. In addition, a new cycle of pictures will be on show which represents an accumulation of Oehlen’s creative work to date.

Curated by Achim Hochdörfer.

Simon Denny
Jul 5 - Oct 13, 2013
The Exhibition shows Simon Denny. He has acquired an international name for his media analytical works.
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Simon Denny (born in New Zealand in 1982) has acquired an international reputation for his media analytical works. Television programmes, internet networks and the means of communication itself are (re)processed in his art work. That may entail examining the aesthetic transformation of the television set and other telecommunication displays over the last decade, elucidating the errors or dropouts in the frictionless flow on mass media information, or dedicating himself to the forgotten history of radio, television and internet providers. His installations, objects and projects repeatedly bring into focus the confrontation resulting from the linkages between information, commerce, aesthetics, politics, communication and the promise of the new which all too quickly seems old.

From 5 July 2013 on, Denny, who studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, will be showing a media installation specially created for the mumok. It follows on from the large-scale installation Channel Document at the Art Basel which was awarded the Baloise Art Prize. The core of Channel Document consists of two parallel events which the artist links in an impressive way. On the one hand there is the threat to the existence of the New Zeeland television station TVNZ 7 which was dedicated to supporting non-commercial, digitally-broadcast programmes on current events. Denny presents these on historical displays. On the other hand there is the introduction of the new computer-readable passports presented by Denny on the latest flat screen monitors in the form of a documentary commissioned by him in the TVNZ 7 style.

Curated by Matthias Michalka.

and Materials and Money and Crisis
Oct 25, 2013 - Jan 26, 2014
This group exhibition shows experimental proposition about the matter of capital as it exists in the artwork.
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and Materials and Money and Crisis is a group exhibition that serves as an experimental proposition about the matter of capital as it exists in the artwork. Matter here has a double meaning. On the one hand flows of material and money can serve as subject matter for artwork. More importantly for this exhibition however, is the speculative question of what relationship the physical matter from which the artwork is built has to the dislocation of capital from production.

“Materials”, and “money”, and “crisis” are terms that demarcate a historical period in which financial systems have served to abstract notions of value. These terms function equally as key vectors in the work of the artists included in this exhibition for whom the question is not how to represent these conditions and their relations, but how the art work already exists within and through these processes.

The exhibition puts newly commissioned works alongside historical positions, offering up a variety of artistic ways of responding to the matter of capital. Curated by Richard Birkett, curator at Artists Space, New York, the project was developed out of a dialogue with New York based artist Sam Lewitt, and will feature new work by Lewitt, along with other artists including Gareth James, Henrik Olesen,
Pratchaya Phinthong, R.H. Quaytman and Cheyney Thompson.

These artists employ a range of media, often turning to technical supports and organizational systems as sites of production. They deal with the physical substructures of communication systems; questions of calculative schema; the signification of language in constructing value; new positions on appropriation; the intersection between institutional systems and the physical and sexual body; and the exchange of labour as material.

Curated by Richard Birkett.

Marge Monko Henkel Art.Award. Winner 2012
Oct 25, 2013 - Feb 2, 2014
In 2012 the Henkel Art.Award went to Estonia for the first time. Film and photo artist Marge Monko was awarded the prize and two exhibitions
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In 2012 the Henkel Art.Award. went to Estonia for the first time. Film and photo artist Marge Monko—born in 1976 in Talinn—was awarded the prize of 7,000 Euros and two exhibitions. From the 25 October 2012 she will be allowing us insight into her work. The historical change over from communism to capitalism and the associated transformation of social roles lies at the centre of her interest. The artist carefully researches the everyday history of work in its political context and subjects it to a critical and analytical examination from a woman’s perspective. In the process, the propaganda and pathos of communist ideology undergoes revision just as much as the belief in progress embedded in the capitalist striving for profit.

The erstwhile promises of communism and its industrial culture of happiness, satisfaction and self-determination are recognised as hollow gestures destined to decay. They now return in changed conditions and new manifestations, in career-oriented, neoliberal elites. Thus as early as 2009, in the video work Shaken Not Stirred, Monko engaged in sketching the ruptures in the life of her female protagonist who, although she conforms to the image of a successful business woman, is revealed as a failure in her private life and leads a deeply frustrating existence in surroundings which exhibit deeper fissures between the different social strata than ever before.

Curated by Rainer Fuchs.
Nitsch Foundation
Hegelgasse 5, 1010 Vienna / +4315135530 / nitsch-foundation.com
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm
The Nitsch Foundation was set up in 2009 with the aim of promoting the significance of the artist Hermann Nitsch.
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Secession
Friedrichstraße 12 / +4315875307 / secession.at
Tue - Sun 10am to 6pm
Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject
May 11 - Jun 16, 2013
Exhibition and performance parcours
A project by Wiener Festwochen, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Secession
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Unrest of Form. Imagining the Political Subject
Exhibition and performance parcours
A project by Wiener Festwochen, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Secession
In cooperation with Museumsquartier Wien
Curated by Karl Baratta, Stefanie Carp, Matthias Pees, Hedwig Saxenhuber, and Georg Schöllhammer.
Display: Johannes Posch

With: Thomas Arzt, Tarek Atoui, Neïl Beloufa, Banu Cennetoğlu and Yasemin Özcan, Keti Chukhrov, Tim Crouch, Carola Dertnig, Jimmie Durham, Barbara Ehnes, Gustav Ernst, Tim Etchells, Antonio Fian, Franzobel, Dora García, Rodrigo García, Thomas Glavinic, Gruppe P / Go Get ‘Em Tiger!, Dmitri Gutov, Hannah Hurtzig, Schorsch Kamerun, Hassan Khan, Sung Hwan Kim, Chris Kondek, Mapa Teatro, Rabih Mroué, Marina Naprushkina, Henrik Olesen, Boris Ondreička, Ontroerend Goed, Ewald Palmetshofer, Judith Nika Pfeiffer, Nuno Ramos, Raqs Media Collective, Milo Rau, Navin Rawanchaikul, Kathrin Röggla, Ferdinand Schmatz, Franz Schuh, Tino Sehgal, Akira Takayama, Miguel Ventura, Tris Vonna-Michell, Jeronimo Voss, Tanja Widmann u.a.

Since new protest movements have been cropping up worldwide, often quite unforeseen and bursting with inexhaustible energy, many people in the artistic-cultural sphere who feel solidarity with these movements are faced with a number of explosive questions: can contemporary art advance the resistance against fraudulent economic structures if it has itself a definite share in them? Or have the true potentials of art – i.e. the difficult, the nonconformist – already been liquidated behind the façades of its spaces still conceived as free? Must not the project of a political aesthetics transcending all activism suitable for media exploitation be considered aborted and suppressed? In our view, this historic aporia now needs to primed for artistic imaginations of a political subject embracing novel forms and formats.

Wiener Festwochen 2013 will dedicate the exhibition Unrest of Form to these forms and formats. For this group show, all Secession rooms and adjacent exhibition areas at both the Academy of Fine Arts and the MuseumsQuartier will be transformed into a parcours – a walking tour that explores the agora of the future at the interface between visual and performing arts. For the duration of the exhibition, this parcours will be enlivened on a temporary basis by artistic interventions, lectures, concerts and performances as well as by ten political speeches given by Austrian authors, who will address the present or future political situation through a fictitious identity – a language experiment – to thematise what is wrong in the public discourse or missing from it, and to try to pinpoint the blind spot of politics.
The Sammlung Essl Collection of Contemporary Art
An der Donau-Au 1 / +43224337050150 / sammlung-essl.at
Tue 10am to 6pm, Wed 10am to 9pm, Thu - Sun 10am to 6pm
The Sammlung Essl presents exhibitions and collections of modern and contemporary art. Please contact museum for more information.
TIM EITEL
Jun 5 - Aug 25, 2013
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WestLicht
Westbahnstraße 40 / +431522663660 / westlicht.com
Tue - Wed 2pm to 7pm, Thu 2pm to 9pm, Fri 2pm to 7pm, Sat - Sun 11am to 7pm
WestLicht specializes in photography. Please contact museum for more information.
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Auctions

im Kinsky Kunst Auktionen
Freyung 4 / +4315324200 / imkinsky.com
Mon - Thu 10am to 6pm, Fri 9am to 1pm
im Kinsky Kunst Auktionen specializes in sales of ancient to modern and contemporary art.
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Messe Wien, Hall A, Entrance A, Messeplatz / +431727200 / viennafair.at
VIENNAFAIR hosts emerging and contemporary galleries. Please visit website for more information.
VIENNAFAIR 2013
Oct 10 - 13, 2013
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