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galerie dana charkasi
Fleischmarkt 11
1O1O Wien
www.dana-charkasi.com
galerie nächst st. stephan
Grünangergasse 1/2
1O1O Wien
www.schwarzwaelder.at
layr wuestenhagen
An der Hülben 2
1O1O Wien
www.layrwuestenhagen.com
galerie grita insam
An der Hülben 3
1O1O Wien
www.galeriegritainsam.at
mario mauroner
Weihburggasse 26
1O1O Wien
www.galerie-mam.com
galerie krinzinger
Seilerstätte 16
1O1O Wien
www.galerie-krinzinger.at
lukas feichtner galerie
Seilerstätte 19
1O1O Wien
www.feichtnergallery.com
charim galerie wien
Dorotheergasse 12/1
1O1O Wien
www.charimgalerie.at
galerie ernst hilger
Dorotheergasse 5
1O1O Wien
www.hilger.at
galerie steinek
Eschenbachgasse 4
1O1O Wien
www.galerie.steinek.at
galerie meyer kainer
Eschenbachgasse 9
1O1O Wien
www.meyerkainer.com
krobath wien
Eschenbachgasse 9
1O1O Wien
www.galeriekrobath.at
galerie martin janda
Eschenbachgasse 11
1O1O Wien
www.martinjanda.at
galerie mezzanin
Getreidemarkt 14
1O1O Wien
www.galeriemezzanin.com
galerie andreas huber
Capistrangasse 3
1O6O Wien
www.galerieandreashuber.at
knoll galerie wien
Gumpendorfer Straße 18
1O6O Wien
www.knollgalerie.at
galerie georg kargl
Schleifmühlgasse 5 und 14
1O4O Wien
www.georgkargl.com
engholm galerie wien
Schleifmühlgasse 3
1O4O Wien
www.engholmengelhorn.com
christine könig galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1A
1O4O Wien
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
gabriele senn galerie
Schleifmühlgasse 1A
1O4O Wien
www.galeriesenn.at
  

Artists

Pawel Althamer, Luka Berchtold, Hannah Breitfuss, Matthias Böhler, Ida Divinzenz, Baptiste Elbaz, Roland Gaberz, Veronika Gahmel, Donat Grzechowiak, Johanna Guggenberger, Konrad Kager, Stefan Klampfer, Matthias Kendler, Tonio Kröner, Bettina Mangold, Andrea Maurer, Nanna Nordström, Andreas Nutz, Noële Ody, Lukas Oppenauer, Michel Pagel, Sabrina Peer, Heidi Rada, Eva Seiler, Dominika Soran, Stefan Stecher, Fabian Störk, K. Mario Strk, Klemens Waldhuber, Julian Wallrath

 

FILMIKI

Pawel Althamer’s concept provides for two parallel projects: The first project is being realized by selected students of Pawel Althamer (who currently holds the post of professor of object sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna) and further artists invited by these students.
This project deals with the questions of production and consumption of short films based on existing film works. The participating artists as well as visitors of the gallery will produce short films based on existing film works–video and super-8-film cameras, backdrop, stage design and props will be available in a room resembling a film set.Films produced in this framework will be shown in a screening room and will be exchanged on a weekly basis.

For the second project, Pawel Althamer produces his own work: Responding to the medieval “Griechenbeisl-Haus”, the building hosting Galerie Dana Charkasi, Althamer presents an installation in a room containing awkward corners and angles: a medieval children’s room including sculpture, readymade works as well as a super-8-film with Althamer reinterpreting scenes from Ridley Scott’s crusaders’ epic “Kingdom of Heaven”. Althamer, together with his wife and son, temporarily will “live” in this installation.

Pawel Althamer

 

Pawel Althamer

Pawel Althamer was born 1967 in Warsaw where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts under Grzegorz Kowalski.
In 2004 the Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht awarded him with the ”Vincent van Gogh Bi-annual Award for Contemporary Art in Europe”. Besides numerous public projects such as Brodno (2000) in Warsaw, Weronika (2001) in Amden und Unsichtbar (2002) in Berlin, Althamer presented numerous solo exhibitions i.a. at the Kunsthalle Basel (1997) and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2001). His latest projects and solo shows include: Au Centre Pompidou at Centre Pompidou (2006), Black Market at Neugerriemenschneider (2007) in Berlin, One of Many, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Pawel Althamer and others at the Viennese Secession (2009) and Frühling at Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel (2009). He has participated in numerous internationally renowned group shows such as documenta X (1997) in Kassel, Manifesta 3 (2000) in Ljubljana, 50th Venice Biennale (2003), the 4th Berlin Biennale (2006) and Skulptur Projekte Münster (2007).

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Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Dana Charkasi

Fleischmarkt 11, 1010 Vienna
www.dana-charkasi.com
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Artists

Martin Arnold
Runa Islam
Owen Land

 

Blinking

People tend to blink between 8 and 41 times per minute. This means that, during this time frame, a person is, on average, blind for about 6 seconds. Traditional motion pictures, too, flicker, projecting 24 frames per second, which are interrupted by 48 phases of complete darkness.
Sitting in the dark recesses of a movie theater, watching the images fluttering across the screen, the lid’s blinking reflex sets in, uniformly with about half of the audience, at the same points of the events depicted. The matter so projected is, therefore, not only collectively viewed but also collectively overlooked. The individuals attending the screening thus become an audience; not least through the social loop of the simultaneous act of repetitive blinking, constituting themselves, through their shared temporary blindness, as a group.
Can a history of seeing be told without taking cognizance of the history of overlooking? The exhibition gathers together artistic positions that display a common interest in recognition and the failure to recognize, in perception and the failure to perceive, appearance and disappearance, in a word – in blinking.

PaMartin Arnold

 

Martin Arnold

is one of the most esteemed experimental filmmakers. Arnold achieved international recognition especially with a series of 16 mm films including pièce touchée (1989), passage à l’acte (1993) and Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998). In recent years, he produced and directed film installations in digital formats, such as Deanimated – The Invisible Ghost (2002), Silent Winds (2005) or Coverversion (2008).
Arnold’s work was shown at international film festivals (including Cannes, Rotterdam, New York) and in renowned museums and cinematheques, such as Centre Pompidou, Cinematheque Royale, Brussels,Tate Modern, National Film Theatre London and MoMA.

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Martin Janda

Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna
www.martinjanda.at
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Artists

Lucas Ajemian
Mike Bouchet
Terry Fox
Alex Hubbard
Stuart Sherman
Misha Stroj
Lisa Williamson
Virginie Yassef

 

Auteur / Amateur

The artists in this exhibition have been chosen from two different time periods: the late sixties and seventies (i.e. the first years of video art) and today. In both cases, these are works that develop their “amateur” approach, understanding an amateur as one who appreciates art and who engages with a medium by his own means. The difference between the two generations of artists in this exhibition are their respective forms of “amateur authorship.” While contemporary artists can no longer hope to retrieve the “innocent” informality of the first generation of video artists, it is precisely their over-familiarity with digital technology which provides them with the means to develop their own forms of informed yet informal approaches to the very same medium.

Julien Bismuth

 

Julien Bismuth

Julien Bismuth (born 1973 in Paris) lives and works in New York. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at The Armory Show, NY; solo exhibitions at Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt; Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris; Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna; group exhibitions at David Zwirner, NY; Peter Blum Gallery, NY; La Ferme du Buisson, Paris. Performances at Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Wien project space. Forthcoming solo exhibitions at CRAC Alsace, Altkirch; Bloomberg SPACE, London; Kunstverein Bremen.

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Layr Wuestenhagen

An der Hülben 2, 1010 Vienna
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Artists

Jacques André
Danai Anesiadou
Cory Arcangel
Anetta Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová
Assaf Gruber
Guillaume Paris
Andreas Reiter Raabe
Thomas Stimm & Leopold Redl

 

A BAS LENINE, OU LA VIERGE A L'ECURIE (DOWN WITH LENIN, OR THE VIRGIN IN THE STABLES)

Taking its title from Luis Buñuel, the exhibition approaches the question of cinema from a critical and sometimes ironic perspective. Free of any fascination with the mass audience, it seeks to establish less evident relations between art and film, therefore limiting the number of works using moving image while including sculpture, photographs, performance etc. The chosen works, which are structured around two main axes – deconstruction of the cinematographic apparatus on the one hand (Jacques André, Anette Mona Chişa & Lucia Tkáčová, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Cory Arcangel) and appropriation on the other hand (Guillaume Paris, Assaf Gruber, Thomas Stimm & Leopold Redl, Danai Anesiadou) – attempt to translate cinema into forms and questions related to the visual arts. The sizeable category of artists who make films is thus deliberately ignored. Moreover, none of the artists chosen here seems to be exclusively or even particularly interested in the film medium. Thus, their relation to film that is suggested in this presentation is not automatically traceable in their other works. In some cases, even, that relation simply did not exist before it was deliberately induced by placing the works in the context of this exhibition. (Pierre Bismuth, 2010)

Pierre Bismuth

 

Pierre Bismuth

Pierre Bismuth, born in Paris in 1963, lives and works in Brussels.
In 2005 he was awarded the Oscar in the category “Best Original Screenplay” for the film “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.
Pierre Bismuth’s often humorous works dismantle modern (mass) culture and its products and destabilize pre-established codes of perception; he pushes the viewer to become critical even when presented with cultural objects whose meanings appear self-evident. Drawing from art history and cultural references–from fashion to cinema–Bismuth uses all art mediums available, from collages and installations to video and screenwriting.

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Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Christine König Galerie

Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1040 Vienna
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
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Artists

Marina Belova
Victoria Begalskaya
Dmitry Gutov
Dmitry Logutov
Vlad Mamyshev-Monroe
Georgy Ostretsov
PG
The Blue Noses
Gor Chachal
Ilya Chichkan

 

Parallel Cinema Video Remakes, Sequels and Prequels of the World Cinema

New technologies have enabled many people to succeed as artists, even those no good at actual painting or sculpting. In the beginning video artists followed the track of film industry pioneers in order to learn all elements of this profession. Often unaware of it, they re-discovered methods of early silent films: short format, high-motion shooting, double exposure etc. Video artists, often accidentally, started to compete with media reality by recasting the images of music video, popular TV series, advertisements, porno films or typical Hollywood blockbusters. Our exhibition project puts together the whole history of relationship between video and cinema from the re-invention of silent film techniques to remakes of cult movies.

Blue Noses

 

Blue Noses

The Russian art collective BLUE NOSES, consisting of Alexander Shaburov and Viacheslav Mizin, became internationally well-known for their provocative performances and sarcastic taboo breaking. Since 1999 they have deconstructed the clichés of media, art and politics by means of photography and video. In particular they love to attack persons with power, who, after being exposed to ridicule and degraded to masks, become glorious main characters besides the artists themselves.

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Knoll Galerie Wien

Gumpendorfer Straße 18, 1060 Vienna
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Artist

Béla Tarr

 

Sátántangó

Two dozen existentialistically portrayed desperados step out from the damp and dull horizon of the Hungarian Lowlands, similar to etched incunabulums. Their claim refers to the proverbial perseverance against oneself, against time and space. The protagonists’ usual daily routine plaintively concocts throughout six chapters full of tragedy and absurdity. With its seven hours run, Sátántangó is regarded as milestone of the film d’auteur.

The protagonists are the Halics, Horgos, Kráner and Schmidt families; Futaki, Kelemen Kerekes, Irimiás and Petrina, Estike, Sanyi, the doctor, the headmaster, the host, and a couple of policemen, whose fortunes László Krasznahorkai enmeshes in his same-titled novel. Béla Tarr's cinematic interpretation, as it were, visualizes the protagonists in an autistic way, whereby atmosphere and image composition are closely strung together. Cinematic concentration is created as connection of conceptual individualism with an exceptional melancholic-epical strength.

Josef Dabernig

 

Josef Dabernig

born 1956 in Kötschach-Mauthen, Austria. Visual artist, Short films since 1994. Lives in Vienna.
Solo exhibitions i.a. at: Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna (2007); Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (2006); National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest (2006); Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow (2005); Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig (2005); BAK - basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht (2003); Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2002).
Participation in Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (2000) and the Venice Biennials in 2001 and 2003.

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Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Andreas Huber

Capistrangasse 3, 1060 Vienna
www.galerieandreashuber.at
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Artists

Daniel Pitín
Tomáš Svoboda

 

Mrs. Roberts is gonna be late

Daniel Pitín (1977) is primarily a painter, and works with installations that he partly develops into film sets. His painting was originally influenced by an engagement with. Subsequently, it was film sets and the façade-like image of Berlin that led to his increasing preoccupation with architecture. The engagement with architecture in connection with the construction of the closed imagery of film using scenery links him with Tomáš Svoboda (1974). He is a conceptual artist who focuses on the fundamentals and conditions behind what we then see as film. This is where the artistic approaches overlap also with the works of VALIE EXPORT.

“In 'expanded cinema' - expanded arts - the film phenomenon is initially split up into its formal components, and then put back together again in a new way. The operations of the collective union which is film, such as the screen, the cinema theater, the projector, light and celluloid, are partially replaced by reality in order to install new signs of the real.” (VALIE EXPORT Expanded Cinema as Expanded Reality, 1991)

VALIE EXPORT

 

VALIE EXPORT

VALIE EXPORT’s artistic work comprises: video environments, digital photography, installations, body performances, feature and experimental films, documentaries, Expanded Cinema, conceptual photography, body-material interactions, persona performances, objects, sculptures, texts on contemporary art history and feminism.

VALIE EXPORT is one of the most important pioneers in conceptual media art, performance and film. Her works are in international collections like Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, MoMA, MOCA etc.

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Charim Galerie Wien

Dorotheergasse 12/1, 1010 Vienna
www.charimgalerie.at
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Artists

Yael Bartana
Guy Ben-Ner
Sanja Ivekovic
Anna Jermolaewa
Irina Korina
Oleg Kulik
Alicja Kwade
Aernout Mik
Hans Schabus
Jan Schumann
Dziga Vertov

 

Kino-eye moves time backwards (Dziga Vertov)

Based on a dialogue between her own video works and those of other artists, Anna Jermolaewa has arranged positions for the exhibition “curated by_”. Despite very different filmic approaches there are several cross links between these positions.
A subtle net is formed including e.g. Dziga Vertov with his strategy of the hidden camera in his work “Kinoglaz” or Jan Schumann who completely gives up control over the image in “REC”.
Stagings like the video “Stealing Beauty” by Guy Ben-Ner, in which he filmed his family illegally in various IKEA shops, the documentation of the performance of the “human dog” Oleg Kulik and the sculptural expansion of the cinematic medium in the space in Hans Schabus’ works are also represented in the exhibition, which Anna Jermolaewa describes as an ornament in which all aspects of video art–from political and media-reflective issues to those of the classical cinema–can be found from which the artist gets so much inspiration.

Anna Jermolaewa

 

Anna Jermolaewa

Anna Jermolaewa (born 1970 in St. Petersburg, Russia) is professor for media art at the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe and shows her photo and video works in international solo and group exhibitions. She won numerous prices (Preis der Stadt Wien 2009, Ursula Blickle Förderpreis 2002) and lives and works in Vienna. In her video works, Jermolaewa documents ordinary and familiar situations in a distant manner and with the help of montage techniques, and her sense of selecting the right moments and details reveals the absurdity and bizarreness of common situations.

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Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Engholm Galerie Wien

Schleifmühlgasse 3, 1040 Vienna
www.engholmengelhorn.com
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Artists

Tom Burr
Keren Cytter
Rachel Khedoori
David Lamelas
Josephine Meckseper
Neša Paripović
Jack Pierson
Michael Riedel
Aïda Ruilova
Ed Ruscha
Tom Simpson
Anders Smebye
Annika Ström
Hans Weigand/Heimo Zobernig

 

You`re scripted!

Aspects of performance and references to film in visual arts

The exhibition “You're scripted!” brings together a variety of works by international artists that all, in some way or another, relate to the topic of film without necessarily operating within the medium of film. The curator consciously looks for artistic approaches within the field of performance or that deal with references to film. The focus is on a very heterogeneous selection that overlaps in different ways with the field of film or that just slightly touches upon it.

Translation and crossover are interesting topics because they have also played an important role in art history, in particular since modernism. For certain developments in art, the experimental element within other media, especially those in which the artist is not primarily working, has been of essential importance.

Marko Lulić

 

Marko Lulić

born 1972 in Vienna, Austria; lives and works in Vienna.

Marko Lulic investigates the relationship between ideology and architecture. Being mainly an installation and video artist, he incorporates political ideas in his work. From the beginning of his career on he has been curating exhibitions as well, considering it an opportunity to broaden his artistic practice. Since 1998 he co-curated and curated several international exhibitions, such as Belgrade Art Inc., Secession, Vienna (2004); Zidovi na ulici / Walls in the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, in cooperation with Siemens Arts Program, Munich (2008) and curated Garage 98, Mackey Apartment House, MAK Center, Los Angeles (1998); Precise Models, Remont Gallery, Belgrade (2004); Sozialer Raum, Temporary Space, Vienna (2009); Bodies and Fractured Spaces, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (2009).

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Senn

Schleifmühlgasse 1A, 1010 Vienna
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Artists

Anja Kirschner
David Panos

 

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

The film installation “The Last Days of Jack Sheppard” is based on the inferred prison encounters between the 18th century criminal Jack Sheppard and Daniel Defoe, the ghostwriter of Sheppard's “autobiography“, set in the wake of the South Sea Bubble of 1720–Britain's first major financial crisis. Shortly after Sheppards death his biography became a model for Macheath in “The Beggar’s Opera” that, in turn, Bertold Brecht adapted in his “Threepenny Opera”.
A “critical costume drama” constructed from a patchwork of historical, literary, and popular sources, the film's fragmented narrative structure explores the connections between representation, speculation and the discourses of high and low culture that emerged in the early 18th century and remain relevant to the present day.

“The Last Days of Jack Sheppard” is presented within an installation fabricated from elements of the original set and a display of archival material including prints and popular cultural artifacts relating to Jack Sheppard. This laying bare of the film's structural elements plays on the notion of the “historical construct“ and provides clues to the interpretation of the many references contained within the film.

Ursula Mayer

 

Ursula Mayer

London-based artist Ursula Mayer works predominantly in film. In her most recent body of work she dismantles elements of cinematic narrative. Her films challenge the cinematic convention of temporal linearity and leading her to question of the production of imagery. Infused with references of the avant-garde her films explore the possibilities of performative and theatrical staging. 2007 she was awarded with the Otto Mauer Prize. Recent solo presentation were at the Frieze Art Fair, London; Kunstverein Hamburg, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Lentos, Museum of Modern Art, Linz; Participation in group exhibition are among others in the Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Basel Kunsthalle, PS1 New York, Tirana International Art Biennale, Estuaire Biennale, Nantes and Athens Biennale.

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Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Krobath Wien

Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
www.galeriekrobath.at
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Artists

Richard Artschwager
Rudolf Hausner
Ferdinand Kriwet
John Miller
Kenneth Noland
Albert Oehlen
Josephine Pryde
Christoph Steinmeyer
Lawrence Weiner
Christopher Williams

 

Filmschönheit

In 1995 Chris Williams and I, on the occasion of a joint exhibition at the Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, did a small event with free beer. Besides the Flicker Films by Tony Conrad and Peter Kubelka, amongst other things, a remote control, a fat glass slab, Mickey Rourke and the audience were involved. That worked out very well and therefore I asked Chris Williams not only to be part of our show but also included him in its planning.
In addition to him and me, Lawrence Weiner, Christoph Steinmeyer, Kenneth Noland, Rudolf Hausner, Josephine Pryde and John Miller are represented in the show. Except for the two late colleagues we have concerted the works in accordance with the underlying conception and partially produced new works explicitly for the show. As due to our profession all involved in the show deal with beauty and as the core theme of the actual project is film, we chose the tentative title Filmschönheit (Film Beauty). The title must not to be pronounced loudly and must not be printed. The exhibition avoids references to specific films, directors etc., but focuses on the particular question of how beauty gets in and out of film.

Albert Oehlen

 

Albert Oehlen

*1957 Krefeld
Exhibitions (selection) 2009 Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Tate Modern, London. Kunsthaus Graz. White Columns, New York. 2008 Tbilisi 4. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. Kunstmuseum Luzern. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin. 2007 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Gagosian Gallery, New York. 2006 Whitechapel Gallery, London. Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna. Luhring Augustine, New York. 2005 Museum of Contemporary Art – North Miami. Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg. Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel. Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich. 2004 Secession, Vienna. ICA, London. 2003 Biennale de Lyon. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. 2001 Art & Public, Geneva. 1999 Kunsthalle Basel.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Mezzanin

Getreidemarkt 14, 1010 Vienna
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Artists

Erik Aalto
Martin Murphy
J.D. Walsh

 

Lapsed Cinematic

These artists live in the wake of the lapsed cinematic. That is to say, simply, that the linear spectacle of classical, cinematic narrative has expired. Erik Aalto, Martin Murphy and J.D. Walsh, are unique in their endeavor to find new meaning in the syntax of installation and moving image, finding themselves at the forefront of both art and cinema in this “Lapsed Cinematic” moment. A characteristic that seems to separate them is their insistence on putting the viewer at the center of the experience. The artists are comfortable navigating this subjective hall of mirrors, created by the viewer’s projected desires. These artists are willing to validate this aspect of human nature, thus mining a new paradigm for the moving image. Aalto invites the viewer to enter his cryptic, yet pop-cultural schematic installation, which traces the interaction between three characters embodied in the abstract forms of a pyramid, circle and square. Murphy is concerned with culturally shared memory and epistemological perceptions of time, exemplified by his work in which one moment of an automobile accident is extruded into an endless moment. Walsh captures a “synaesthetic system between the sound and the image” as he is "tuning meaning" through his dexterous editing and collapsing of visuals, gesture and sound.

Tony Oursler

 

Tony Oursler

Tony Oursler, born 1957 in New York, lives and works in New York. 1979 California Institute for the Arts, B.F.A.; 1977 founds the punk band “Poetic” with friends Mike Kelley and John Miller. Solo exhibitions (selection): Kunstmuseum Bonn; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum, New York; Tate Liverpool; Konsthall Stockholm, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthaus Bregenz.
The video-sound and installation artist Tony Oursler is well-known for his video projections on plastic objects with theatrical monologues. His topics turn around psychological, spiritual and physical conditions of humans.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Steinek

Eschenbachgasse 4, 1010 Vienna
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Artists

Madeleine Berkhemer
Inci Eviner
Ana Rito

 

RTM – LIS – IST > VIE

The exhibition ”RTM – LIS – IST > VIE“, curated by Italian installation and video artist Fabrizio Plessi, is directed at presenting three female artists whose works reflect typical and common day gender-specific situations–oscillating between assimilation and formation of identity, wishing, dreaming and fantasizing.
Madeleine Berkhemer (*1973 in Rotterdam) explores taboos in her sculptures and performances, young Portuguese artist Ana Rito (*1978 in Lisbon), on the other hand, attempts in her ”Puppe Project“ to place into dialogue the modern day female image and the construction of the gaze, while media artist Inci Eviner (*1956 in Istanbul) shows diverse identities of women in her video installation which are geared to wall papers and Turkish tiles.

Fabrizio Plessi

 

Fabrizio Plessi

Fabrizio PLESSI was born in Reggio Emilia in 1940 and lives in Venice. He has dedicated his artistic live to the development of virtual imagination based on electronic technology and is known as the inventor of video sculpture thus opening up new trend-setting opportunities for contemporary art.

From 1990 to 2000 he held the chair in “Humanisierung der Technologie” [Humanization of Technology] at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Mario Mauroner

Weihburggasse 26, 1010 Vienna
www.galerie-mam.com
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Artists

Karthik Pandian
Mathias Poledna

 

KARTHIK PANDIAN / MATHIAS POLEDNA

For his contribution to curated by_vienna 2010, Mathias Poledna has invited Los Angeles-based artist Karthik Pandian to collaborate on an installation at Galerie Meyer Kainer. The artists will draw on their
shared background in moving image to create a work that addresses the temporal structure of filmic representation. The installation will occupy the main space of the gallery, engaging histories of architecture, exhibition design and commercial image production. The artists will produce a new 35mm film which will be transferred frame by frame to slide format. The concise event portrayed in the film will unfold over a period of several weeks with only a single image presented each day in consecutive order. This exhibition marks the first collaboration between the two artists who represent successive generations of image producers who work primarily in film. Mathias Poledna’s most recent solo exhibition was on view at Portikus, Frankfurt in early 2010. Karthik Pandian will show for the first time in Europe in the context of this exhibition; a solo presentation of his work will be on view at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis in the fall of 2010.

Mathias Poledna

 

Mathias Poledna

Since 2000, Mathias Poledna lives and works in L.A.
Reflecting on the collective memory of the mass media, Poledna is interested in the specific form of visualization of historical constellations in their political and pop cultural context. His recent works are specifically dealing with questions of the re-enactment of history. Actualité, Western Recording, Version und Crystal Palace are his best known film productions. In the last years, the MUMOK, Vienna (2003), the Witte de With CCA, Rotterdam (2006), the Hammer Museum, L.A. (2007), the New Museum, N.Y., (2008), the MOCA, Chicago (2009) and the Portikus in Frankfurt (2010) dedicated solo exhibitions to Mathias Poledna.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Meyer Kainer

Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Vienna
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Artists

Christoph Girardet
Matthias Müller
Harry Kramer
Wolfgang Ramsbott

 

Contre-jour

The presentation of works by Christoph Girardet/Matthias Müller and Harry Kramer/Wolfgang Ramsbott contrasts two pairs of artists whose collaborative approach has fused independent positions to create a synthesis.
Since 1999 Girardet/Müller have been arranging chains of found footage motifs from big screen images and interweaving these with passages of their own material. Their loops generate complex new interconnections of meaning while also conjuring up images from our memories.
These recent works are contrasted with Kramer/Ramsbott’s historical position from the early 1960s. Their films draw their power of suggestion and dynamics from hard images of light and shadow with the driving rhythm of jazz in the background.

Stephan Reusse

 

Stephan Reusse

Media artist; lives and works in Cologne. Studied at HBK Kassel/Freie Kunst under Harry Kramer (1980/86) and at CALARTS Los Angeles (1988/89); teached at the California State University Long Beach, Los Angeles (1999) and at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2000/06); exhibitions i.a. at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2009); “Transparency“, Prague/Czech Republic (2009); Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea (2008); Residenzgalerie Salzburg (2006); Kasseler Kunstverein (2004/2008); Kunsthal Rotterdam 2003; Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich (1998).

opening hours

Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Lukas Feichtner Galerie

Seilerstätte 19, 1010 Vienna
www.feichtnergallery.com
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Artists

Andreas Bunte
Rainer Kamlah
Aernout Mik
Erik Schmidt
Katharina Sieverding
Gregg Smith

 

I remain silent

The Berlin-based artist Erik Schmidt will display an array of cinematic works dealing with the different depiction and utilization of space.
Space as a category might be seen as an abstraction used as a seemingly unlimited parameter to interfere with biographic, architectural and social elements.
With the artist selection at Galerie Krinzinger Schmidt combines the different layers of space. The acting man is displayed in documentary images or strongly aesthetic fictional sequences, space is used as a surface on which the protagonists can move and unfurl.
Particularly the chosen image details affect the subjective perception, inner and outer vision alternate to shape the narrative progression.
Thus narration is developed through the format in particular the medium film is capable of generating: by fragmentary merging, replicating or superposing images.

Erik Schmidt

 

Erik Schmidt

Erik Schmidt, born in 1968 in Herford (Germany), lives and works in Berlin. While Schmidt’s painterly position is always geared to the material aspects of color and its structure, his cinematic works focus mainly on performative execution. In his earlier cinematic works Schmidt used the performative as an essential element, employing himself as the main protagonist.

Schmidt’s work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions including Galerie Krinzinger/Vienna, carlier|gebauer/Berlin, Praz-Delavallade/Paris, Galería Soledad Lorenzo/Madrid, Elizabeth Dee/New York, MARTa Herford, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kunstmuseum Bonn.

opening hours

Tue-Fri 12-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Krinzinger

Seilerstätte 16, 1010 Vienna
www.galerie-krinzinger.at
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Artists

Sonja Gangl
Nilbar Güres
Nicolas Jasmin
Ivan Moudov
Paul Pfeiffer
Renata Poljak
Nives Widauer

 

Physicality in Sports and at Work

The issue of physicality has been of central concern since the popularization of gender relations in many artworks and the advent of a heightened sense for visual representations of the body in public space. Despite a ubiquitous focus on various gender constellations, the functionality of the body in relation to physical activities has also been examined by artists and media theorists due to the onslaught of advertising which propagates and lives up to the notion of the “perfect body”.
The works in this exhibition play with the Freudian principle of pleasure and reality, focusing on bodily activities in the context of sports and everyday professional life, where pure pleasure can be reached only to a limited extent. That which usually seems pleasurable to look at actually entails extreme physical hardship and a constant fear of failure. The exhibition consists of video works in which bodies are forced to extremes in order to live up to the roles they have to fulfill in various social settings.

Walter Seidl

 

Walter Seidl

Walter Seidl was born in 1973 in Graz, Austria. He studied American Studies, Cultural Studies and Contemporary Cultural History (Ph.D.) at the Universities of Graz, New York, Paris and Seattle. He realized various art projects and exhibitions in Europe, USA and Japan. His writings are published regularly in Austrian and international art magazines. Since 2004 he supervises the Erste Group art collection. The artist, author and curator lives in Vienna.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Ernst Hilger

Dorotheergasse 5 , 1010 Vienna
www.hilger.at
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Artists

Isabelle Cornaro
Claudia Kugler
Alexandra Leykauf
Kathrin Sonntag

 

OFF

EK: For a forty-eighth of a second it is dark and for a forty-eighth of a second there is an image. This is an interesting kind of movement for the brain. (…) It “sees” the black continuously, whereas the same brain sees the “image” as continuous, even if it is also “flickering”. A polyphonic impression. […]
AK: The stimulant that causes the brain to dream is the rapid exchange?
EK: Which, however, in the case of a two-hour film produces a whole hour of darkness (the brain works autonomously) and a whole hour of images (the brain responds to stimulation).
AK: And that is better than reality?
EK: Much better.

(Alexander Kluge in conversation with Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel, in: Alexander Kluge, Cinema Stories, transl. Martin Brady and Helen Hughes, 2007)

Relying on a variety of media such as drawings, photographs, slide projections and video loops, the exhibiting artists examine the mechanisms of the cinematographic apparatus. By breaking down edited sequences, employing suggestive lighting and isolating individual, iconic pictorial motifs, they question methods of mise-en-scène and explore the aesthetics of film.

Nadim Vardag

 

Nadim Vardag

Nadim Vardag (born 1980 in Regensburg) lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and in Vienna. Nadim Vardag examines the construction of the mediated image in various media such as installations, drawings, films or video loops and questions the mechanisms of cinema and film production.
Amongst others he exhibited at Augarten Contemporary (2009), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2008), Kunstverein Braunschweig (2006), Georg Kargl Fine Arts (2006-2010) and Generali Foundation (2006). In 2009 he won the BC21 Belvedere Art Award.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Georg Kargl

Schleifmühlgasse 5, 1010 Vienna
www.georgkargl.com
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Artists

Ulf Aminde
Douglas Gordon
Marlene Haring
David Lamelas
Hito Steyerl
Arnold von Wedemeyer
Carey Young

 

Permanent Reception

The exhibition deals with questions of subjective and public perception in film and art. A range of works is presented from abstract gesture to documentary video that combines everything it can in an overall perception.
The reception area of a gallery represents the interface between clients and business, capital and oeuvre. The first contact. What the viewer should perceive is in most cases just the picture or the movie; but the surroundings and public acceptance of a work affect its meaning in individual perception.
The exhibition starts with the rectangle as an area that typically meets the eye in the cinema as the screen, as a first “reception area”. Successively the meaning of “reception”, in the sense of information processing in the expanded reality of the gallery, is explored by means of performance and film.

Clemens von Wedemeyer

 

Clemens von Wedemeyer

Clemens von Wedemeyer, born 1974 in Göttingen, Germany, studied fine arts at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (prof. Astrid Klein). He received numerous international awards including: Kunstpreis der Böttcherstrasse in Bremen (2005), the VG BILD-KUNST Award for experimental film, Munich Film Festival (2002), and the Marion Ermer Prize, Leipzig (2002). Clemens von Wedemeyer was featured in various solo exhibitions i.a. at PS1 MoMA, New York (2006), Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2006), CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2008), and the Barbican Arts Centre, London (2009). Von Wedemeyer also took part in the Moscow Biennale (2005), Berlin Biennale (2006), Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 and the Sydney Biennale (2008). He lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie nächst St. Stephan

Grünangergasse 1/2, 1010 Vienna
www.schwarzwaelder.at
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Artists

Catherine Borg
Ingo Giezendanner GRRRR
Manuel Knapp
Karina Nimmerfall
Amy Yoes

 

Drawn to Architecture

Under the curated by_vienna 2010 project Galerie Grita Insam is researching the juxtaposition of works with spatial and architectural structures and animated motion pictures, which is perfectly in line with the gallery’s program. In most of her works New York artist Amy Yoes is dealing exactly with these matters. Therefore we have invited her to select the artists for this group show in cooperation with the gallery and to curate the presentation in the gallery space. The result includes works that conceive architectural coherence as well as animated film and video. Most of the exhibits are created on site and reveal a rich variety of artistic concepts. Extensive wall drawings, sculptures, installations and monitors as well as projections will deliver a rich diversity of artistic media.

Amy Yoes

 

Amy Yoes

Amy Yoes is an artist working in a multi-faceted way alternately employing painting, photography, installation, video and sculpture. An interest in decorative language and architectural space permeates all of her work. She grew up in Houston, Texas, and spent many years in Chicago. After two years in San Francisco, she settled in New York City in 1998.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In the last few years she has been in shows at Art in General, NY; Dumbo Art Center, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY; Mildred’s Lane, Beach Lake, Pennsylvania; Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut; Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria; Hales Gallery, London, UK; and Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Tue-Fri 11am-6pm
Sat 11am-3pm

 

Galerie Grita Insam

An der Hülben 3 / Seilerstätte, 1010 Vienna
www.galeriegritainsam.at
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