Lutz Bacher: More Than This
Exploring Conceptual Art and Identity at Secession
Discover a compelling range of photography, sculpture, video, and installation works spanning Lutz Bacher's career.
The exhibition 'Lutz Bacher: More Than This' at Secession offers an in-depth look into the prolific conceptual artist's diverse practice. Visitors can engage with works across photography, sculpture, video, and immersive installations. This presentation delves into her explorations of identity, power, and the interplay of public and private life through appropriated imagery and found objects.
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Exhibition summary
This exhibition showcases the diverse conceptual work of US-American artist Lutz Bacher, spanning photography, sculpture, video, and installation. It explores themes of identity, power, and the intersection of public and private life through found objects and appropriated imagery.
Curatorial context
Lutz Bacher's exhibition 'More Than This' at the Secession presents a body of work created over her more than 40-year career, resisting easy categorization. The artist, who used a male pseudonym throughout her career, worked conceptually across various media. Her practice involved utilizing culturally resonant images and objects, such as paparazzi photos transformed through repetition, found items integrated as readymades, and everyday materials like balls and sand. The exhibition highlights series like 'Jokes' (1987–88), which juxtaposes enlarged photos of public figures with acerbic one-liners, and 'Closed Circuit' (1997–2000), a video documenting her gallerist's final year. In the main gallery, 'More Than This' (2016) features large, dust-covered industrial plastic pipe fittings scattered on the floor and a fragmented frieze of black and white paintings depicting stylized bare branches, both bearing signs of wear. These elements are presented alongside subtle environmental interventions: ambient bird sounds and a slowly shifting light that alter the perception of the space. The exhibition in the frieze room continues with the video work 'I’m Yours' (2015), capturing a man playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a piano in a busy train station, engrossed in his performance regardless of his surroundings.
Admission and ticket notes
Information and tickets for the exhibition can be found via the provided link. General opening hours are Tuesday-Sunday, 10 AM to 6 PM. "heute geöffnet" indicates the exhibition was open on the day the page was accessed, but no specific ticket prices or booking requirements are detailed on this page, directing visitors to a separate ticketing link for more information.
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Venue
Secession
Current status
Open now
Exhibition schedule
From Feb 12, 2016
Artist line / attribution
Lutz Bacher (1942–2019) was an American conceptual artist whose work spanned photography, sculpture, video, and installation.
Vienna
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