Art news from ‘Vienna’

MAM Gallery, Vienna: Post Natura

Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art VIENNA Artist: Javier PÉREZ Title: Post Natura Dates: 16.03.2012 – 18.05.2012 You are invited to the opening of  Javier PÉREZ "Post Natura" on Thursday, March 15th from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art VIENNA Weihburggasse 26 1010 Wien Austria www.galerie-mam.com  

The Bank Austria Art Prize @ Gala in “Theater in der Josefstadt”

Gala in "Theater in der Josefstadt": Bank Austria awards most lucrative Art Prize in Austria                   Bank Austria Art Prize with a total prize pool of EUR 218,000 awarded for the second time this year High-calibre jury chose the winners from no less than 333 candidates Prize-winners in the four [...]

Hilger Contemporary, Vienna: Spatial Transformation

Babak Golkar, Parergon: Great Mosque Samara (detail), 2011 Babak Golkar: spatial transformation 13.03.-17.04.2012 Babak Golkar is a multidisciplinary artist. In Spatial Transformation the artist explores the interdependence between forms and concepts. Babak Golkar received a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. He has exhibited in Vienna, Kuwait, [...]

Secession, Vienna: MICHAEL SNOW – Recent Works

Paris de jugement Le and / or State of the Arts, 2003, Color photograph on cloth, 183 x 193 x 8 cm MICHAEL SNOW Recent Works February 23 – April 15, 2012 In Recent Works, his first solo show in Austria, Canadian artist Michael Snow shows photographic works and film installations from the past ten [...]

Secession Gallery, Vienna: RUDOLF STINGEL

Rudolf Stingel, Untitled (1631), Untitled (After Sam), Installation view RUDOLF STINGEL February 23 – April 15, 2012 With his art, Rudolf Stingel has made a considerable contribution to breaking up the aura of the white cube. For many years, he has been questioning the definition of the panel painting and, going beyond its limits, he [...]

Bogna Burska at Reality Manifestos in Vienna

Bogna Burska at Reality Manifestos in Vienna Agnieszka Le Nart Vienna,  18.01.2012 – 03.03.2012 The Polish artist presents video works that expose society's struggle for power and the social stratus by joining together unrelated images from film to create new meanings in opposition mainstream projections of reality The group show is based on Can Dialectics [...]

Open Systems, Vienna: Forays. Systems of Self-Interest – Mechanisms of Looting

Forays. Systems of Self-Interest – Mechanisms of Looting 9 March – 7 April 2012 Opening: 8 March, 19:00 pm Project curator: Sabine Winkler Participating artists: Lara Baladi Jan Peter Hammer Maryam Jafri Lina Khatib Candida TV/D Media Joanne Richardson and David Rych The project deals with different systems of exploitation and its consequences. Within the [...]

KUNSTHALLE Wien: Skinny Sunrise

Urs Fischer, Dr. Random, 2003 © Urs Fischer Courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles HQ, London. Photo: Andy Keate Urs Fischer Skinny Sunrise KUNSTHALLE wien, hall 2, February 17th – May 28th, 2012 Urs Fischer’s multimedia art, which is deeply rooted in sculpture despite the artist’s training as a photographer, unfolds grand gestures with [...]

Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna: Ezara Spangl

Ezara Spangl recent Paintings openning 01/12/2012 19:00 01/13/2012 through 02/25/2012 in space II Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Sonnenfelsgasse 6, 1010 Vienna www.peithner-lichtenfels.at

Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna: Photos

Dirk Brömmel Photos openning 01/12/2012 19:00 01/13/2012 through 02/25/2012 in space I Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels Sonnenfelsgasse 6, 1010 Vienna www.peithner-lichtenfels.at

Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Vienna: The Boywitch And The Wolfs

Paul DeFlorian The Boywitch And The Wolfs 01/13/2012 through 02/25/2012 in space III Gallery Peithner-Lichtenfels, Sonnenfelsgasse 6, 1010 Vienna www.peithner-lichtenfels.at

Call for entries: STRABAG ARTAWARD INTERNATIONAL

INVITATION FOR ONLINE APPLICATION: 16 Jan – 26 Feb 2012 www.strabag-kunstforum.at (artaward) Participating countries 2012 – 2014: Austria, Poland, Romania, Russia STRABAG SE is one of the leading construction groups in Europe. Operating from its core markets of Austria and Germany, the company is also active through numerous subsidiaries in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as [...]

Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna: Brown Box And The Broken Theater

Jannis Varelas Brown Box And The Broken Theater 08 February -09 March 2012 Opening Wednesday February 8, 7-9 pm, at Krinzinger Gallery, Vienna. Jannis Varelas was born in Athens, Greece in 1977 and now he lives and works in Athens and Vienna. Galerie Krinzinger Seilerstätte 16 1010 VIENNA AUSTRIA www.galerie-krinzinger.at

Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna: Looking Through

W-89-08-01, Düsseldorf, 1989, © Jörg Sasse JÖRG SASSE Looking Through February 10 – March 24, 2012 "Art is unpredictable. It emerges or disappears in a process that is nonlinear and influenced by continuous feedback from chaotic or random events. No positing, no method, no conception is going to change that. Access to art holds promises [...]

Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna: Herbert Brandl retrospective

Herbert Brandl vor seinem Gemälde Ohne Titel, 2008 © Montage von Loys Egg unter Verwendung einer Fotografie von Manfred Rahs, 2011 Herbert Brandl 26.01.2012 – 15.04.2012 In the spring of 2012 the Kunstforum is presenting the first major retrospective devoted to Herbert Brandl. It will include around 60 of his works produced since the early1980s [...]

Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna: Sabertoothhyenatigerdog

HERBERT BRANDL Säbelzahnhyänentigerhund February 10 – March 24, 2012 Herbert Brandl, whose solo exhibition can be seen in the Bank Austria Kunstforum until April 14, 2012, will be showing a large red canvas in the Login together with a crouched animal (a unique bronze cast) with the title “Säbelzahnhyänentigerhund” (Sabertoothhyenatigerdog), which is being exhibited for [...]

Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna: Third Room: LOVE architecture

MARGHERITA SPILUTTINI Third Room: LOVE architecture Duration: 25. 01. – 10. 03. 2012 From the gallery’s CONVERSATION series: Dietmar Steiner, Az W in talk with Margherita Spiluttini and Mark Jenewein, LOVE architecture Saturday, Jan 28, 2012, 12 pm

OPEN SPACE, OPEN SYSTEMS, Vienna: It’s in the ‘can’

It’s in the ‘can’ 25th January – 25th February 2012 OPENING: 24th January, 7 PM – 9.30 PM PROJECT CURATOR: GUlsen Bal Participating artists: Heba Amin Yane Calovski Sanja IvekoviC Christine Schörkhuber Kamen Stoyanov In articulation of the creative process and what formulates the creative strategies and the creative moment of thinking differently; the editorial [...]

Hilger Contemporary, Vienna: Oh boy, oh boy

Daniele Buetti, oh boy oh boy I, 2008 , acrylic glas mosaic, ed of 2+1ap 180 x 145 cm 19.01. – 09.03.2012 Daniele Buetti: Oh boy, oh boy Daniele Buetti’s images first strike the viewer as colorful, bright, and playfully burlesque. They seem like shiny high-tech hybrids of ancient mosaics, stained-glass windows, and puzzles, in [...]

Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna: Nouveau Régime, Ancien Régime

1985 , Radierung 60 x 100 cm Alfred Hrdlicka political works Nouveau Régime, Ancien Régime 19.01. – 03.03.2012 Galerie Ernst Hilger Dorotheergasse 5 1010 Vienna www.hilger.at