Franz West, Kasseler Rippchen, 1996, Foto: Stefan Altenburger Photography, Zürich, © Franz West, Courtesy Ursula Hauser Collection, Switzerland
The exhibition “Where is my Eight?” by Franz West will be held at mumok. He is regarded as one of Austria’s most important representatives in the international art world. In 2011 he was honored with the award of a Golden Lion for his Lifetime Achievements at the Biennale di Venezia. Back in 1996 the mumok organized Franz West’s first comprehensive retrospective. Once again it will host an exhibition dedicated to the work of the artist who died in 2012 after initiating and co-developing it with great enthusiasm.
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The Dan Flavin – Lights exhibition is the first representative overview of Flavin’s light works to be shown in mumok, Austria.
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Anne Hardy, Incidence, 2009, Courtesy Maureen Paley, London
The exhibition by Anne Hardy will be held in The Vienna Secession. Anne Hardy’s large-format photographs are polyvalent images of artificial spaces created for the sole purpose of their photographic documentation. In painstaking work that often takes months, the artist builds highly detailed life-sized “stage sets” in her studio using found objects, things bought in second-hand stores, leftovers, and refuse scavenged from the street. Hardy then takes a single picture of each set in order to define its depiction, exercising tight control in particular over our perspective on these fictional spaces.
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Liquified©Bart Hess
The exhibition “TECHNOSENSUAL: where fashion meets technology” presents electronic textiles and wearable technologies created by international haute tech couture designers. The exhibition will open at freiraum quartier21 INTERNATIONAL with a performance by Bart Hess to kick off the “MQ Summer of Fashion“.
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Claes Oldenburg (* 1929, Stockholm, Sweden) has not only been a major artist in Pop Art, Performance Art and Installation Art but, in partnership with Coosje van Bruggen, also a strong influence on art in public spaces with his monumental Large Scale Projects in numerous major cities worldwide. With his humorous and profound depictions of everyday objects he is one of the most important and admired artists since the late 1950s. One central point of reference in Oldenburg’s oeuvre is the industrially produced object—the object as a commodity which, in ever-new metamorphoses of media and form, becomes a conveyor of culture and a symbol of the imagination, desires, and obsessions of the modern world.
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