This comprehensive exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien offers an unparalleled look into Vienna's vibrant contemporary art landscape. It gathers over 130 pieces from 56 local artists, showcasing a diverse range of media including painting, sculpture, and video. Discover how Vienna continues to be a crucial hub for artistic innovation and expression.
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This exhibition presents the most extensive survey of Vienna's contemporary art scene by Kunsthalle Wien in over a decade, featuring over 130 artworks by 56 artists living and working in the city. Across all its spaces, the show highlights painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, performance, sound, film, and video, emphasizing Vienna as a dynamic production space.
Kunsthalle Wien presents 'Lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Contemporary Art from Vienna', the institution's most extensive survey of the Viennese contemporary art scene in over a decade. Spanning six months and across all of its spaces in the Museumsquartier and Karlsplatz, the exhibition brings together over 130 artworks by 56 artists who live and work in Vienna. The diverse range of media includes painting, sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, performance, sound, film, and video. The exhibition places emphasis on the city as a dynamic space of production where art is shaped by a critical approach to conservatism and a sense of its own agency. Building on a longstanding tradition initiated in 2000, this fifth edition of 'Lebt und arbeitet in Wien' celebrates Vienna’s lively artistic discourse and diverse community. Curated by Daniel Baumann, Michelle Cotton, and Monika Georgieva, the exhibition focuses on new and recent works, with 38 artists commissioned specifically for the show and numerous artworks presented in Vienna for the first time. The exhibition is accompanied by a new publication featuring commissioned texts on each artist and conversations between curators, artists, and critics, published in both German and English. A series of artist’s editions are also being produced to support Kunsthalle Wien’s program.
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