LECTURES at the KIESLER FOUNDATION VIENNA

November 11, 2011:
Lecture Series part II
on the current exhibition LIFE-FORM in the ART FORMAT  

Jasper Sharp
Peggy & Kiesler: Art of This Century 1942-1947
(Lecture in English)
Friday, November 11, 2011, 5 pm 
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 1b, 1060 Vienna

Jasper Sharp
Jasper Sharp is the Adjunct Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art  at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. He completed undergraduate studies in Edinburgh and London, and is currently writing his PhD on the American modernist photographer and sculptor David Hare. He worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, between 1999 and 2005 where he was responsible for exhibitions, collection display and research, and contemporary projects including the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. After moving to Vienna in 2006, he worked as a curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
He has written catalogue essays and lectured on artists including Donald Judd, Lucian Freud, Robert Rauschenberg, Alberto Giacometti, David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Conrad Marca-Relli and William Baziotes. Major editorial projects include the landmark publication 'Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler: The Story of Art of This Century' and a début monograph of artist Arcangelo Sassolino for JRP|Ringier. Recent curatorial projects include the collateral exhibition 'John Gerrard: Animated Scene' at the 53rd Venice Biennale, a site-specific exhibitions in New York, London, Vienna and Dublin.

October 7, 2011:
Lecture Series part I
on the current exhibition LIFE-FORM in the ART FORMAT 

Karin Wimmer
Max Ernst und die surrealistische Szene in New York
Friday, October 7,2011, 6 pm
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilferstraße 1b, 1060 Vienna

SYMPOSIUM at the ARCHITEKTURZENTRUM WIEN

October 14 - 15, 2011
Symposium
Richard Buckminster Fuller
World Game

Friday, 14.10.2011, 5pm
Saturday, 15.10.2011, 2pm 
Architekturzentrum Wien, Podium 
Museumsplatz 1, in the MQ
A-1070 Wien 
   
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) was a visionary whose utopias have become reality today: a proponent of a networked world as opposed to a hierarchic one; an early endorser of the build it yourself culture; pioneer of the connection between man and environment. In the 1930s Buckminster Fuller began to experiment with new ways of depicting the planet. This culminated in the geodesic construction or the Dymaxion map, which enabled the 3D world to be presented in a 2D form with a minimum of distortion. This map enabled a better understanding of our 'home' while being a practical tool for illustrating distances and interrelationships on our planet plausibly and making them easier to understand. It also makes issues relating to the distribution of resources easier to address. This series of lectures and workshops engages critically with the so-called Dymaxion map — an arena for geomapping and games theory, a tool for conveying information on the givens and current state of our planet.

SERIES OF LECTURES at the KIESLER FOUNDATION VIENNA

FROM THE LOUVRE TO YOU: FREDERICK KIESLER´S TELEVISED ARCHITECTURE by LAURA McGUIRE

DATE: May 25, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

Laura McGuire will present in her lecture Kiesler's revealing vision of the 1920s and 1930s to replace architectural surface decoration with broadcast images and shows his designs as an interconnected system of nodes in a worldwide network of human communication.

HEIDULF GERNGROSS CHAMBER CONCERT

DATE: May 11, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

As part of the exhibition Post-suprematist data sheets in the Kiesler Foundation Vienna Heidulf Gerngross will talk about his current design production as well as the collages shown in the Kiesler Foundation but also about his utopistic designs of the 1960s.

FREDERICK KIESLER the endless house/STRUCTURAL DESIGN 3

DATE: May 18, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

A presentation of the Institute of Architecture of the University of Applied Arts in Vienna/ Structural Design, Professor Klaus Bollinger

Kiesler Lecture II

TONY FRETTON
Buildings and their territories

DATE: Friday, April 23, 2010

TIME: 7 p.m. 

PLACE: University of Technology Vienna, Karlsplatz 13, A-1040 Wien  Kuppelsaal, Stiege 1, 4. Stock

ORGANISED BY: Kiesler Foundation Vienna in cooperation with
University of Technology Vienna, Faculty of Architecture, Department for Concept and Design, Univ.Prof. Arch. DI András Pálffy.

British architect Tony Fretton, well known for his residential buildings and designs of public space and juror of Kiesler Prize Award 2010 will lecture at the Technical University on April 23 and talk about Buildings and their territories.

In 1990 Fretton attracted great interest with his Lisson Gallery in London. Since then he is internationally acclaimed being a designer of “sensitive art spaces using a combination of vernacular and minimalist approaches balancing new and age-old designs“.

Supported by:  

Kiesler Lecture

In 2008 the Kiesler Foundation Vienna has established the Kiesler-Lecture in relation to the renowned Kiesler-Prize and according to the history and actuality of the reception of Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965) and the architect’s extensive heritage. In cooperation with András Pálffy and his Department of Concept and Design at the Vienna University of Technology well known architects and artists are invited to Vienna to present their positions within contemporary architectural praxis and theory to the public.