Exhibitions 2009

PUBLIC SPACE WITH A ROOF (PSWAR)
from Amsterdam with
PASSAGES THROUGH (THE UNFINISHED MONUMENT)

EXHIBITION PROLONGED!

Opening: November 17th, 2009, 7 pm
at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna/Austria

Duration: November 18th, 2009 - February 26th, 2010
Hours:   Monday - Friday: 10 am - 5 pm

As important as the artwork itself is the way of its presentation, is the argument of PSWAR,  Tamuna Chabashvili, Adi Hollander und Vesna Madzoski from Amsterdam . Hence, in their interdisciplinary work, they emphasize on the meaning and function of the art space itself. They focus on the mutual influence between the artwork and its space and the conditions of art perception in their artistic debate.

To devote space to the social and cultural parameters of architecture, arts and design, PSWAR create within their installation PASSAGES THROUGH (THE UNFINISHED MONUMENT) a symbiotic unit through the correlation of theory and practice as well as of historically significant and current art concepts.

We are very pleased to present the innovative work of Public Space With A Roof (PSWAR) for the first time in Austria . Not only does this work allow new interpretations of Kiesler’s œuvre, it is equally characteristic of contemporary working methods of the art of our time.

Brochure  here

Supported by:
FOTOLEUTNER Fachlabor
PKF Centurion
Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien
Gesellschaft der Freunde der bildenden Künste

Galaxies_The Space In Between
Frederick Kiesler as Painter

at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna/Austria

Opening: June 23rd, 2009, 7 pm
Duration: June 24th till October 30th, 2009
Hours:   Monday - Friday: 10 am - 5 pm

The Kiesler Foundation Vienna shows for the first time Kiesler’s 'Galaxy' paintings, of the 1950s and '60s which are indicating the evidence of the artist's visionary and spatially imagination as paintings as well as objects.

The title of the exhibition The Space In Between anticipates the extraordinary character of these early spatially expanding compositions, and focuses on the importance of space that is surrounded by painting but still remains untouched. Thus Kiesler calls those clusters “galaxies” due to the revaluation of the Space In-Between the single units.

Unlike his abstract expressionist friends and contemporaries Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, who were rather  concerned with the act of painting and the impact of colour, Kiesler focussed more on the experience of the space, and anticipated trends like artistic 'Environments', which later became common places of artistic activity.

Brochure  here

Instructions here

Lecture & Presentation

LEN PITKOWSKY ON FREDERICK KIESLER:
HIS MEDIUM WAS SPACE
at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna/Austria

duration: Mai 6th till May 29th, 2009
hours:  Monday - Friday: 10 am-5 pm 
Opening: Mai 5th, 2009, 7 pm 

Len Pitkowsky, Frederick Kiesler's dtudio assistant of many years, visits the Kiesler Foundation Vienna to supplement the facticity of the archive material with the comments of a contemporary in a series of interviews.

Brochure here

Instructions here

Supported by:

Österreichische Lotterien, Hannes Pflaum, Uniqa, Wittmann.

Krüger & Pardeller_Tensions
at the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna/Austria

duration: March 6th till April 24th, 2009
hours:  Monday - Friday: 10 am-5 pm

The most recent sculpture of Krüger & Pardeller could be characterized as an unstable equilibrium. This particular state is also pronounced in an installation-based series of images, in which the change of tension and relaxation is translated into a spatial dimension.

While earlier works of Krüger & Pardeller were dealing with functional procedures and the usability of objects, the exhibition Tensions in the Kiesler Foundation Vienna is focussed on the perception of a spatial moment, on the persistence of time.

With their work, Krüger & Pardeller are reminiscent of Kieslers studies on the overcoming of gravity, a constant in his production. The architect and artist referred in his work to a 'Construction system of tensions in free space', where he tried to prove the compatibility of divergent states like tension and relaxation, carried out mainly with the vanguard concept of a pending 'City in Space' (1926) and the utopian model 'Endless House' (1959).

Monika Pessler
Director of Kiesler Foundation Vienna

Supported by FOTOLEUTNER

Brochure download

Instructions here