Céline Condorelli: "To supply with the moveable parts of necessity and delight"

Lecture in the course of the Vienna Art Week 2014
(ATTENTION: wrong date in the printed program of the Vienna Art Week!)

Wednesday, Wednesday 19, 2014 at 7 p.m.
Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Mariahilfer Straße 1b, 1060 Vienna
In English 

"My work is concerned with how our encounter with the material world comes through counting on it, and the fact that all human action takes place amidts countless structures of support mostly taken for granted, that therefore appear almost invisible. I have explored this interest in different ways through numerous projects, trying to re-imagine a variety of possible relations between context, exhibition, work, and the public. I am looking again to Kiesler's work to remind me how everything depends on their spatial relationships, and the need to re-invent physical frameworks and ideological scaffoldings.
This is, I think, the crucial perceptual and behavioral leap: to presume to live as one wishes and imagines."
(Céline Condorelli)

Profile:
Céline Condorelli, born 1974, works in the area where architecture and art meet. She develops critical models for the exhibition business and examines scenes of discourse as well as alternative forms of community. She is the author and publisher of “Support Structures,” which appeared in 2009. Céline Condorelli lives and works in London.

 

Exhibition Talk with Ruth Hanisch
In the course of the Vienna Art Week 2013

(ATTENTION: Replacement for talk with curator Laura McGuire!)

Friday, November 22, 2013 at 5 p.m.
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna

The architectural historian Ruth Hanisch, Dortmund, talks with Gerd Zillner, archivist of the Kiesler Foundation Vienna, about the various fates of Austrian architects and designers in exile starting with Paul T. Frankl and Frederick Kiesler.

Profile Ruth Hanisch
Studies of art history in Vienna. Participation in various exhibitions, incl. “Visionäre und Vertriebene. Österreichische Wurzeln in der modernen, amerikanischen Architektur“, Kunsthalle Wien, 1995. 2003 doctorate at the University of Vienna. Assistant at the institute gta at ETH Zurich, research assistant at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and at the TU Dortmund. Participation in the publication of the collected writings of Camilla Sittes at the TU Vienna. Since 2010 freelance work. Teaching positions, publications and lectures on the history and theory of architecture and urban development, incl. Felix Augenfeld, Josef Frank, Josef August Lux, Camillo Sitte, and Otto Wagner. Research on architecture and fashion and on the relationship between modernism and traditionalism in the architecture of German-speaking countries in the 20th century. Lives and workes in Dortmund. 

 

 

Herbert Molderings:
Marcel Duchamp at the Age of 85
An Icon of Conceptual Photography

LECTURE - BOOK PRESENTATION - BOOK SIGNING
Friday, September 20, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Kiesler Foundation Vienna, Mariahilfer Strasse 1b, 1060 Vienna

In 1945 Marcel Duchamp published a photographic self-portrait in the American magazine “View”, which depicts him according to the caption “at the age of 85”. As it was claimed by Duchamp as his own portrait, it also found its way into his catalogue of works – which erroneously described it as the image of an anonymous man with resemblance to Duchamp. A typescript from the archive of the Kiesler Foundation Vienna, in which Kiesler describes in detail how he assisted Duchamp with his photographic self-stylization in the January of 1945 , sheds new light on the genesis of Duchamp’s masterstroke.

In his lecture and his new book* “Marcel Duchamp at the Age of 85. An Icon of Conceptual Photography”, the well-known Duchamp expert and art historian Herbert Molderings interprets Duchamp’s self-portrait as icon of an innovative, conceptual use of photography: Photography not as the documentation of a past moment, but as artistic update of possibilities.

* Herbert Molderings, Marcel Duchamp at the Age of 85. An Icon of Conceptual Photography
Foreword by Dieter Bogner. In cooperation with the Kiesler Foundation Vienna
Published by Walther König, Cologne, Summer 2013 (German/English,
144 pages with 20 colour illustrations)

 

 

Kiesler Lecture III

ANDREA ZITTEL: HOW TO LIVE?

on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 at 7 p.m. 
MAK Lecture Hall, Weiskirchnerstraße 3, 1010 Vienna

A cooperation of MAK and Kiesler Foundation Vienna

FREE ENTRANCE!

Supported by:
bm: ukk, bm: wf, Stadt Wien/Kultur, Gesellschaft der Freunde der bildenden Künste, bogner-cc, Hannes Pflaum, UNIQA, PKF - Österreicher/Staribacher Wirtschaftsprüfungs GmbH 

For the first time the American artist ANDREA ZITTEL, laureate of the Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2012, will give a lecture to an Austrian audience on her comprehensive work. Her "Social Sculptures" cross the boundaries between art, architecture, design and technology.

"Perhaps what inspires me most about Frederick Kiesler is how his brain worked. He was interested in things like matter, interacting forces, human need, continuous motion and elastic spaces. He felt that every object in the universe should be considered in relation to its environment, and he described this as an exchange of interacting forces, which he called co-reality and the science of relationships." (Andrea Zittel, New York 2012)

The Kiesler Prize jury 2012: There is a strong tension in her work between the inside and outside, between order and freedom, the necessity of socializing and the need for retreat as well as the desire for collaboration and solitary reflection.

A new solo exhibition of Andrea Zittel titled "How To Live?" is on view at
Gallery Massimo de Carlo in Milan. More information here!