An exhibition by Kucsko with generative Sound installation by Karlheinz ESSL in Bank Austria Kunstforum - tresor.

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Audiointerview with Karlheinz Essl in German

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Audiointerview with Kucsko in German

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The vault of the Bank Austria Kunstforum is a room full of references and allusions, with its own history and charisma, a chamber of wonders, whose architecture, with its safe deposits boxes inseparably built-in as a part of the concrete, its impenetrable reinforced concrete walls, their double protective layers and its access control corridor, makes it “ready made”, just waiting to be filled as a vessel for ideas. Does that make it “art”?

Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles within her sociocultural environment of the 1970ies. By means of drawings and photography she develops surreal and subversive counter-concepts and demonstrates that humor and poetry can very well go along with feminist strategies.

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In cooperation with Verbund Collection, the Bank Austria Kunstforum has the first posthumous retrospective of Birgit Jürgenssen on display, with 250 works of art of different media. In drawings, watercolors, Polaroids, photograms, objects, performances and videos, Jürgenssen explores the scope of female identity constructions and the gender roles in her immediate sociocultural environment. more »

Wien Energie Fernwärme adds selected works by Erwin Wurm to its collection.
Erwin Wurm is one of the most important contemporary Austrian artists; his works have been exhibited in eminent international art fairs.

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The “one minute sculptures” he has been producing since the late 1990ies belong to his most famous works. These “sculptures” exist for a minute and are performed either by the spectators or the artist himself, involving elements and actions that are often comical: Balancing objects on their heads or having pens stuck between the toes, in postures impossible to maintain for a longer time. The classical properties of a sculpture are thus presented in a new, grotesque and parodic manner. These ephemeral episodes are documented by video and photography. more »

CastYourArt presents

Opening: Wednesday, 24 November 2010 | 6.00 - 10.00 pm
Exhibition: 25 Nov 2010 - 08 Jan 2011 | Mo-Fr 12.00 - 18.00 Uhr
Location: Gumpendorfer Straße 55, 1060 Wien/Vienna

Whenever the artist Clemens Hollerer leaves his house, his camera is always with him. He uses it as his sketchbook. By now he disposes of his own archive of photographs serving as sources for his works. Frequently he takes pictures of construction sites. Construction sites are places of transformation and photos are snapshots, freezing a moment in time when everything around stays in movement.
In his works Clemens Hollerer transfers the captured moments into new spaces and locations. In doing so he is not copying but rather reinterpreting and recreating within new surroundings. References to spaces, structures, surfaces, colors, to the simplicity of objects, as well as to construction and disassembly as expression of change distinguish his works. Predominantly, he uses wood as material because it is human, has life of its own; it is not perfect and at the same time strong and fragile. Because his works are often designed for the specific location where they are shown, in the majority of cases they are disassembled at the end of the exhibition. Assembly and disassembly are part of the construction site and part of his art. Only few works remain, often they are photos recording the works of art, in a moment of time. (wh/ca)

“The First Hit of PHANTOMAK: The Ear Problem. No Problem.”
Masquerade, demasquerade, illusion, delusion, covering, decovering, position, superposition, appearance, constellation. CastYourArt presents the first series of works of the PHANTOMAK project by TOMAK (painting, collage, grafic) and Alek Kawka (photography). Exhibition: September 14 until October 8, 2010 | Mo-Fr | 12p.m. – 5p.m. Opening: September 13 6p.m.

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PHANTOMAK:
For CastYourArt, TOMAK creates the sculpture series PHANTOMAK. 10 individual busts (PHANTOMAK, Hard Licker, Night Rider, …), TOMAK’s head, scanned in 3D, cut out by a milling robot of the Vienna University of Technology at the Institute of Art and Design, and processed by the artist. Objects at the limits of the possible. more »

CastYourArt presents

Artists: TOMAK and Alek Kawka.

Monday, September 13, 2010 the exhibition opening of “The First Hit of PHANTOMAK: The Ear Problem. No Problem.” takes place at CastYourArt Gumpendorfer Straße 55, Vienna. We are going to show artworks by TOMAK and photographs by Alek Kawka.

Twenty pictures, in which TOMAK dissects the project PHANTOMAK and literally shows us cutouts - heads, sculptures, identities, masquerade are the themes this pictures call into question. The artist Alek Kawka accompanies the project PHANTOMAK with her photography works.

Exhibition opening: Monday, September 13, 2010 at 6p.m., the artists will be present
Exhibition: September 14 until October 8, 2010 | Mo-Fr | 12p.m. – 5p.m.
Address: Gumpendorfer Str. 55, 1060 Vienna

Irene Andessner’s self-dramatizations are revivals of historical personalities that utilize memory as a source of reactivation.

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Irene Andessner began her career with painting. She first studied with Emilio Vedova, one of the most important Italian Informal painters, at the Academia di Belli Arti in Venice, and then with Max Weiler and Arnulf Rainer—also a representative of the Informal—at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Andessner encountered paintings by the Italian Renaissance painter, Sofonisba Anguissola, for the first time at an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The self-portraits fascinated her, more »

The artist is occupied not only with the creation of images, but also their demise. With a view on that which lies between, how can one capture and demonstrate this? The medium, not the object, is the focus of Edgar Lissel’s artistic challenge. His work experiments with unconventional mediums, investigating the process of producing images.

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Life comes into being and then passes away. What lies between expresses a need to be captured by the imagemaking process. People, in principle, are occupied with images, according to Lissel. The creation of images provides the possibility of visualizing oneself. Whoever leaves behind an image of oneself chronicles his/her existence, reflecting him/herself in this gesture. more »

In this hi-tech age, the relationship between artist and viewer is a complicated one. There has always been the tacit agreement of suspension of disbelief between them, that what is presented may be altered or manipulated, but that the intention of the artist is to reveal some kind of truth nonetheless. Digital technology provides the means to doctor photos in every context, be it in advertising, art, or even private use. We seem to have all come to the agreement that when it comes to visual media, there is always room for improvement.

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The artist Helmut Grill worked for many years in the field of photographic manipulation. In the early years, the necessary equipment for this venture would take up an entire room. Now, Photoshop is a standard application on every computer—almost no photo goes unretouched. Those with advanced skills in this craft are among the highest-paid in the media industry. But despite our awareness of this sophisticated process, we still engage in the game of believing what we see, or at least enjoying the challenge of thinking we can still determine what’s real or what’s not. more »